GBIF · Country catalogue

Kenya

Biodiversity occurrence records, collection methods, and contributing datasets.

East Africa GBIF country catalogues

Occurrence records

6,207,139

Published records, not wildlife abundance

Species represented

38,637

Distinct species keys in this country

Datasets

1,745

Contributing source datasets

Publishers

445

Institutions publishing these records

Country biodiversity & collection breakdown

Taxonomic groups, collection methods, and sources for Kenya.

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Kenya

1649–2026

Catalogue facets, collection methods, and major dataset sources for snapshot 2026-10-01-api.

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Occurrences

6,207,139

+4,279 (0.1% this month)

Datasets

1,745

+5 new this month

Publishers

445

Species Keys

38,637

+99 new this month

Primary Contributing Datasets

1,745 individual dataset archives contribute to Kenya's GBIF occurrence catalogue. The top 3 datasets account for 76.0% of all recorded observations.

Top Sources

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#1EOD – eBird Observation DatasetBird Surveys

Cornell Lab of OrnithologyUUID: 4fa7b334…049e

3,331,671

53.7% share

GBIF

#2Kenya Bird Map (Full protocol and Adhoc records)Bird Surveys

FitzPatrick Institute of African OrnithologyUUID: 1cd0cb6d…96b3

1,188,696

19.2% share

GBIF

#3iNaturalist Research-grade ObservationsCitizen Science

iNaturalist.orgUUID: 50c9509d…f4a7

197,946

3.2% share

GBIF

#4Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - Herbarium SpecimensHerbarium & Botany

Royal Botanic Gardens, KewUUID: cd6e21c8…69e5

111,707

1.8% share

GBIF

#5Kenya Bird Map Occurrence DataBird Surveys

Kenya Wildlife ServiceUUID: d1e8a7af…4711

89,632

1.4% share

GBIF

#6International Barcode of Life project (iBOL)Genomics & Barcoding

The International Barcode of Life ConsortiumUUID: 040c5662…d14c

78,940

1.3% share

GBIF

#7Dakatcha Woodland Biodiversity AssessmentField Research

A Rocha KenyaUUID: 16ac65ab…4205

73,045

1.2% share

GBIF

#8Microbial Community Database (MiCoDa). A curated global 16S rRNA gene amplicon dataset from all environmentsCitizen Science

German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-LeipzigUUID: 6d504df4…a4eb

71,877

1.2% share

GBIF

#9Observation.org, Nature data from around the WorldField Research

Observation.orgUUID: 8a863029…1165

60,595

1.0% share

GBIF

#10A Bird Atlas of KenyaBird Surveys

A Rocha KenyaUUID: 00327ee4…c249

39,941

0.6% share

GBIF

Snapshot 2026-10-01-api · source data through 2026-10-01T08:10:08.032646Z