4248 Tawny eagle awaits its turn on a kill

4249 Marabou often rest in this position

4250 dark chanting goshawk is a very common raptor throughout dry or arid areas of Kenya

4251 The year round resident Egyptian goose grazes on land and in water

4262 A marabou manages to land on top of an acacia

4253 A speckled mousebird with its amazingly long tail

4254 The superb starling is widespread in semi arid grassland and open woodland in most of Northern East Africa

4255 Hildebrandt's starling is endemic to Central and Southern Kenya and Northen Tanzania. Note the red eye

4256 Ruppell's griffon has more striking markings, and a lighter eye and bill than the white-backed vulture

4257 This scraggy looking specimen is a male Northern wheatear. A winter visitor from Palearctic regions

4258 White-bellied bustards favour open dry grassland, with some tree and bush cover. This is a male

4259 The three-banded plover - one white and two black bands, has a very distinctive red ring around its eyes

4260 The nubian woodpecker. The female, shown here has less red on the head than the male

4261 The aptly named little bee-eater is only six inches long. Common along the rivers and streams in the Mara

4262 Grey flight feathers show this is a female Bataleur. A type of short-tailed eagle which rocks from side to side in flight

4263 The woodland kingfisher is often found far from water. it hunts insects, lizards and frogs from a perch in a tree

4264 The graceful soaring flight of a lappet-faced vulture

4265 The Striped kingfisher eats mostly grasshoppers but also other insects rodents and snakes. It swoops from a perch

4266 Not often seen steppe eagle. The gape extends to the rear edge of dark eye

4267 White-backed vulture landing on a carcass. Note dark eye and dark bill

4268 Lappet-faced vulture. The biggest and strongest able to tear open a carcass

4269 Ruppell's long-tailed starling. Has a white eye. Pretty common in wooded areas

4270 Immature grey-headed kingfisher. The beak will turn red. Another insect eater

4271 Immature white-headed vulture. Widespread but quite scarce large birds