eBird & Macaulay Library · East Africa

Kenya

Bird photos, sound recordings and videos from Kenya in eBird's Macaulay Library, week by week.

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East Africa eBird country archives

Kenya, week of 1 Nov 2026

25 Oct to 1 Nov 2026 · the latest week

The archive gained 2,270 photos, sounds and videos from Kenya in the week, 47% of East Africa's total. Of the 2,270 items added, 688 were photographed or recorded in the 30 days before.

Net change in media

+2,270

Week before: +2,741

Photos

+2,220

Week before: +2,701

Sounds

+46

Week before: +29

Videos

Week before: +11

New species

Week before: 0

Who added the most (9)

New sound recordings from Kenya, by person

#	Contributor	Sounds added
1	Suzanne Holmberg6 species	+24
2	Dickens Ally4 species	+5
3	Yash Gharat3 species	+5
4	Mathenge Muhoya4 species	+4
5	Abigail Church2 species	+2

A name opens that person's newest uploads on eBird.

1–5 of 9 recordists

New species (3)

First photo, sound or video from Kenya

Species	Media added
Little SwiftApus affinis	+76 photos, 1 sound
Spotted FlycatcherMuscicapa striata	+1818 photos
Epauletted Fruit BatsEpomophorus	+11 photo

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

Week by week (9)

Net change for Kenya in each week on record

Week of	Media	Photos	Sounds	Videos
Showing	+2,270	+2,220	+46	+4
	+2,741	+2,701	+29	+11
	+3,481	+3,433	+41	+7
	+2,879	+2,699	+176	+4
	+3,262	+3,200	+56	+6
	+3,773	+3,459	+304	+10
	+1,137	+894	+234	+9
	+1,655	+1,368	+282	+5

1–8 of 9 weeks

All time

Everything in the archive from Kenya up to 1 Nov 2026. These figures stay the same whichever week is chosen above.

Media in the archive

423,235

#1 of 9 in East Africa

Photos

407,070

96.2% of the archive

Sound recordings

13,377

29.0% of East Africa's sounds

Videos

2,788

0.7% of the archive

Species with media

1,425

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.

Media archive over time

Cumulative catalog metadata by observation year

Kenya

Earliest dated record from 1916. Busiest completed year: 2024 (71,829 media).

Top sound recordists of all time (20)

Most sound recordings from Kenya in the archive

#	Contributor	Sounds
1	Jennifer F. M. Horne274 species	1,435
2	Myles E. W. North299 species	870
3	James Bradley289 species	757
4	Peter Boesman259 species	666
5	Peter Steward266 species	453

A name opens that person's newest sound recordings on eBird.

1–5 of 20 recordists

eBird & Macaulay Library · collected 1 Nov 2026 · 423,235 media from Kenya

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