Animals in Mount Kenya: One of Kenya’s most adventurous national parks that is home to the 2nd highest mountain in Africa and highest in Kenya, Mt. Kenya standing at 5,199 meters. It is the highlight of the national park among attractions like the animal life, bird life and the rich flora.
The varied habitats in Mount Kenya National Park which include the different vegetation zones on the mountain, the water catchments and the dense lush forest that surrounds the national park provide homes to hundreds of different animal and bird species.
Animals in Mount Kenya National Park
African Elephants, Cape Buffalos, Giant Forest hogs, water bucks, leopards, lions (rarely sighted), bongo antelopes. Suni antelope, zebras (including albino zebras), bush bucks, genet cat, black fronted duikers, rock and tree hyrax. Spotted hyenas, skyes’ monkeys, colobus monkey species including the black and white colobus monkey, cape clawless otter. Chameleons, elands, white tailed mongoose, mole rats among many others.
Endangered species in Mount Kenya: Black rhinos, skinks, sunni buck and Mt. Kenya mole shrew.
Birds in Mount Kenya National Park
The national park is home to over 130 different bird species including some mountain endemic species.
Some of the notable birds include:
Abyssinian ground thrush, crowned crane, verreaux’s eagle, African crowned eagle, cape eagle owl, long tailed widow bird. Purple-throated cuckoo-shrike, Kenrick’s starling, Abyssinian owl, sharpe’s longclaw, scarlet-tufted sunbird. Olive Ibis, lammergeier, Ayres’s hawk eagle, Jackson’s widow bird, Abbott’s starling, lesser kestrel, African grass owl among other species.
