Xeno-canto · East Africa
Kenya
Wildlife sound recordings from Kenya on Xeno-canto, week by week.
Updated every SundayCounts recordings, not animals
Kenya, week of 1 Nov 2026
25 Oct to 1 Nov 2026 · the latest week
The archive gained 4 recordings from Kenya in the week, 8% of East Africa's total.
Net change in recordings
+4
Week before: 0
New species
0
First recording from Kenya
Unidentified sounds
-1
Week before: -2
Who added the most (2+)
New recordings from Kenya, by recordist
| Contributor | Sounds added |
|---|---|
| Oliver Fowler3 species | +3 |
| Feras1 species | +1 |
A name opens that recordist's sounds on Xeno-canto.
Week by week (11)
Net change for Kenya in each week on record
| Week of | Recordings | New species |
|---|---|---|
| Showing | +4 | 0 |
| 0 | — | |
| +2 | 0 | |
| +16 | 0 | |
| +1 | 0 | |
| +49 | +1 | |
| +89 | +1 | |
| +33 | 0 |
1–8 of 11 weeks
All time
Everything in the archive from Kenya up to 1 Nov 2026. These figures stay the same whichever week is chosen above.
Recordings in the archive
9,267
#1 of 9 in East Africa
Species
769
Across all wildlife groups
Unidentified sounds
38
Share of East Africa
32.9%
Of 28,193 recordings
Cumulative archive growth
Field dates from 2000 onward.
Top recordists of all time (10)
Most recordings from Kenya in the archive
| Contributor | Sounds |
|---|---|
| Isaac Kilusu298 species | 1,637 |
| Louis A. Hansen75 species | 1,349 |
| James Bradley427 species | 1,248 |
| Rory Nefdt262 species | 689 |
| Peter Boesman259 species | 684 |
A name opens that recordist's sounds on Xeno-canto.
1–5 of 10 recordists
Sound recordings by group
Distribution across cataloged wildlife groups.
- bats640.7%
- birds9,06997.9%
- frogs40.0%
- grasshoppers20.0%
- land mammals820.9%
- soundscapes00.0%
- unknown460.5%
Top places (5)
Places in Kenya with the most recordings
Xeno-canto · collected 1 Nov 2026 · 9,267 recordings from Kenya
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