East Africa · Weekly highlights
Week of 30 Aug 2026
Baseline publication snapshot collected on 30 Aug 2026.
New media by country
Media modality split
Featured bird additions
Curated avian media records added to the regional archive this snapshot week
Secretarybird
Sagittarius serpentarius
Common Ostrich
Struthio camelus
Shoebill
Balaeniceps rex
Gray Crowned-Crane
Balearica regulorum
Media cataloged via eBird checklists. Birders in East Africa document incidental biodiversity (invertebrates, flora, herpetofauna) alongside bird observations, which Cornell indexes in the Macaulay Library.
Where the week's media landed
Every monitored country, its share of the week's net additions, and the modality split behind it.
National catalog additions (9)
| Country | Net added | Total media |
|---|---|---|
| KenyaKE | 0 | 400,510 |
| TanzaniaTZ | 0 | 279,318 |
| UgandaUG | 0 | 194,986 |
| EthiopiaET | 0 | 108,797 |
| RwandaRW | 0 | 38,040 |
| DRCCD | 0 | 5,117 |
| SomaliaSO | 0 | 4,743 |
| BurundiBI | 0 | 2,220 |
| South SudanSS | 0 | 157 |
This is the baseline snapshot, so no country shows a weekly change.
Avian bioacoustics · new sounds and recordists
New audio recordings and active contributors documented across East Africa this week
Weekly audio contributors (16)
| Field recordist / contributor | Added this week |
|---|---|
| Martin Tlustos | +22 |
| Alain Jacot | +16 |
| Reuben Shallom | +12 |
| Fikret AtaÅŸalan | +11 |
| James Apolloh ~Freelance Tour Guide | +9 |
| Allison Miller | +6 |
| Avith Kyaruzi | +6 |
| EMMANUEL GESURA | +3 |
| Joe Ndekia | Nungunungu Expeditions | +2 |
| Karen Carbiener | +2 |
| Pascal Munyemana | +2 |
| Akshita Rabdiya | +1 |
| Anonymous | +1 |
| Daniel S. | +1 |
| Edward Allen | +1 |
| Rotem Avisar | +1 |
Recordings added is a set difference of catalogue ids; the week's headline figure is a net change, and the two can differ when recordings leave the catalogue.
Snapshot ebird-sync-20260830 · published 30 Aug 2026
Prior: baseline · Macaulay Library