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How wild is it?

Ol Pejeta Conservancy has some of the highest game densities in East Africa so, in terms of wildlife, Ol Pejeta is as wild as it gets. It is one of the easiest places in East Africa to see the Big Five – you may even see all five on one day.

However, Mount Kenya Wildlife Estate is separated from Ol Pejeta by an animal-proof fence, creating a secure environment for visitors lloking for a place to stay in Nanyuki. Plains game will roam free inside MKWE while predators and large game stay the other side. Larger animals often seen within MKWE include Grevy’s and Burchell’s zebra; Beisa oryx; bushbuck; dik dik; duiker; caracal; mongoose (slender and white tailed); Thomson’s gazelle; wart hog; impala; plus a huge variety of other small game and birdlife.

Impala 230
Plains zebra 22
Warthog 130
Grevy’s zebra 13
Steinbok 6
Bushbuck 6
Beisa oryx 11-12
Dik dik 4
Duiker 4
Thomson’s gazelle 31
Caracal 1
Mongoose (slender & white tailed) 15-20
Vervet monkey 25
Cape hare 10+

Over 125 species of bird have been spotted at MKWE.

Abdim’s stork

African scimitarbill

African hoopoe

African dusky flycatcher

African harrier-hawk

African hawk-eagle

African paradise flycatcher

Amethyst sunbird

Arrow marked babbler

African barn owl

Baglafecht weaver

Barn swallow

Black bellied bustard

Black chested snake eagle

Black cuckoo shrike

Black headed heron

Black headed oriole

Black lored babbler 

Black shouldered kite

Blackcap

Blacksmith plover

Black-winged stilt

Blue eared starling

Blue naped mousebird

Bronze mannikin

Bronze sunbird

Brown parrot (flocks)

Brown woodland warbler

Buff bellied warbler

Cardinal quelia

Cardinal woodpecker

Chestnut sparrow

Chestnut weaver

Chin spot batis

Common fiscal shrike

Common rock thrush

Common scimitarbill

Common waxbill

Crested francolin

Crowned plover

Crowned hornbill

D’Arnaud’s barbet

Egyptian goose

Emerald spotted wood dove

Ethiopian swallow

Eurasian blackcap

Eurasian hobby

European bee-eater

European roller

Fischer’s sparrow lark

Fork tailed drongo

Gabar goshawk

Golden breasted bunting

Grassland pipit

Green sandpiper

 

Great egret

Great white pelican

Greater honeyguide

Greater sparrow hawk

Grey backed camaroptera

Grey crowned crane

Grey capped social weaver

Grey headed bush shrike 

Grey headed silverbill 

Grey headed sparrow

Grey heron

Hadada Ibis

Hammerkop

Helmeted guinea fowl

House martin

Hunter’s sunird

Jackson’s widowbird

Kori bustard

Lesser grey shrike

Lesser kestrel

Lesser striped swallow

Lilac breasted roller

Little Bee eater

Little egret

Little swift

Long tailed cormorant 

Marico sunbird

Martial eagle

Montane nightjar

Namaqua dove

Northern anteater chat

Northern brownbul

Northern wheatear

Nubian wood pecker

Pale flycatcher

Pallid harrier

Pied crow

Pied wheatear

Pied wagtail

Pin tailed whydah 

Plain backed pipit

Plain martin

Purple grenadier

Red billed quelea

Red billed fire finch

Red billed oxpecker

Red billed teal

Red collared widow bird

Red faced (Eastern) crombec

Red fronted barbet

Red cheeked cordon bleu 

Red fronted tinker bird

Red tailed shrike

Ring necked dove

Rufous chatterers

 

Rufous sparrow

Sacred ibis

Scarlet chested sunbird

Scaly throated honeyguide

Secretary Bird

Silverird

Shelley’s francolin

Shikra

Slate coloured Boubou

Southern black flycatcher

Southern grosbeak canary

Speckled pigeon

Speke’s weaver

Spoonbill

Spotted eagle owl

Spotted flycatcher

Spotted thick knee

Streak seedeater

Sulphur breasted bush shrike

Superb starling

Tawny flanked prinia

Tawny Eagle

Three-banded plover

Variable sunbird

Verreaux’s eagle owl

Violet backed starling

Vitteline masked weaver

Vulturine guinea fowl

Wattled starling

White bellied go away bird

White bellied tit

White bellied bustard

White browed robin chat

White browed scrub robin

White browed coucal

Yellow bellied eremola

Yellow billed stork

Yellow billed duck

Yellow bishop

Yellow breasted apalis

Yellow fronted canary

Yellow neck spurfowl

Yellow rumped seedeater

Yellow spotted petronia

Yellow vented bulbul

Yellow white eye

What could be better than gathering some cold drinks, stepping out of the house, jumping into the car and minutes later be watching a pride of lions setting out to hunt as the sun begins to sink over the Aberdares? Or just grab your binoculars and enjoy the amazing birdlife from the comfort of your verandah.

  • Concessionary rates to visit Ol Pejeta Conservancy
  • Animal-proof fence
  • Harmless plains game within
  • Abundance of bird and wildlife
  • Rare-breed programme to improve wildlife stocks in Ol Pejeta