Birds · East Africa

eBird & Macaulay Library

Bird photos, sound recordings and videos added to eBird's Macaulay Library across East Africa, week by week.

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East Africa eBird country archives

East Africa, week of 1 Nov 2026

25 Oct to 1 Nov 2026 · the latest week

The archive gained 4,788 photos, sounds and videos across East Africa in the week. Kenya added the most, 2,270. Of the 4,788 items added, 2,295 were photographed or recorded in the 30 days before.

Net change in media

+4,788

Week before: +5,873

Photos

+4,228

Week before: +5,265

Sounds

+527

Week before: +563

Videos

+33

Week before: +45

New species

Week before: +6

Who added the most (37)

People who added the most new sound recordings

#	Contributor	Countries	Sounds added
1	Martin Tlustos16 species	TZ	+54
2	David Moyer32 species	TZ	+46
3	ITWITAHO Ennice34 species	RW	+44
4	Esther IRADUKUNDA30 species	RW	+42
5	Andrew Spencer25 species	TZ	+38

37 people added sound recordings this week; the top 30 are listed. A name opens that person's newest uploads on eBird.

1–5 of 30 recordists

New species (7)

First photo, sound or video from a country

Species	New for	Media added
Spotted FlycatcherMuscicapa striata	Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania	+3030 photos
Little SwiftApus affinis	Kenya, Tanzania	+87 photos, 1 sound
Hadada Ibis (Eastern)Bostrychia hagedash erlangeri/nilotica	Tanzania	+11 sound
Lemon Dove (Lemon)Aplopelia larvata larvata/bronzina	Tanzania	+11 sound
Lesser Black-backed Gull (fuscus)Larus fuscus fuscus	Rwanda	+22 photos

The archive held nothing of these from that country before this week. Subspecies and hybrids are listed as their own entries. A name opens the newest media from there on eBird.

1–5 of 7 species

Where the week's media came from

25 Oct to 1 Nov 2026

Additions by country

KE +2,270UG +1,037TZ +1,027RW +308ET +146

Country breakdown

KEKenya+46 sounds+2,270 media
UGUganda+34 sounds+1,037 media
TZTanzania+234 sounds+1,027 media
RWRwanda+198 sounds+308 media
ETEthiopia+15 sounds+146 media

Week by week (9)

Net change for East Africa in each week on record

Week of	Media	Photos	Sounds	Videos
Showing	+4,788	+4,228	+527	+33
	+5,873	+5,265	+563	+45
	+7,031	+6,522	+495	+14
	+5,862	+5,426	+429	+7
	+6,405	+5,994	+371	+40
	+5,630	+5,075	+542	+13
	+2,719	+2,373	+337	+9
	+3,793	+3,377	+396	+20

1–8 of 9 weeks

All time

Everything in the archive for East Africa up to 1 Nov 2026. These figures stay the same whichever week is chosen above.

Media in the archive

1,080,282

Photos, sounds and videos

Photos

1,024,069

94.8% of the archive

Sound recordings

46,067

4.3% of the archive

Videos

10,146

0.9% of the archive

Species with media

2,142

Birds and bats

Species counts on this page include subspecies, forms, hybrids and unidentified entries such as "gull sp." as separate entries, so they are higher than the true number of species. We are correcting this.

Country coverage across East Africa. Sorted by media (high to low).