By 4 pm when it’s time to exit the park, we have seen four of the big eagles: Long crested, Bateleur, Martial and the most powerful of all, ‘the leopard of the skies’ that is the Crowned Eagle by the abandoned Verreaux’s Eagle Owl nest, occupied by a pair of White-backed Vultures in the late afternoon.
White-backed Vultures are classified as Critically Endangered in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, and Nairobi National Park is a good place to see them.
“Nairobi National Park has the largest number of bird species in Kenya and greatest variety of mammals for its size as well.
It testifies to the uniqueness of Nairobi National Park and Kenya as a whole.”
For Pete Steward, a scientist at CIFOR-ICRAF (World Agroforestry), the event was a pilot study to see how it can be developed into a big day in collaboration with Friends of Nairobi National Park and the Kenya Wildlife Service.
