Today enjoy outstanding birding around Lake Baringo, a freshwater lake fed by several rivers but with no obvious outlet as its waters seep through the faulted volcanic bedrock. It is a critical habitat for over 470 species of birds, including many migratory waterbirds.
The lake provides excellent opportunities for foraging and feeding and is home to a significant number of waders such as saddle-billed storks, herons, egrets, plovers, comorants, swamp-hens and sandpipers. You can see the enchanting African fish eagle feeding in the lake and there is a goliath heronry located on a rocky islet known as Gibraltar. The lake is also home to many crocodiles and hippos.
An early morning boat ride on the lake will reveal various nocturnal species such as African scops-owls, white-faced scops owls, giant eagle owls, grayish eagle-owls, pearl-spotted owlets, three-banded coursers, slender-tailed nightjars and spotted stone curlews.
The West Bay region is good for sighting Lichtenstein's sandgrouse, gonolek, black-headed lapwing, boubous, babblers, warblers and many other species. The imposing basalt cliffs are the habitat of Vereaux's eagle, brown-tailed rock-chat, cliff chat, Hemprich's hornbill, Jacksons hornbill, grey hornbill, African rock martin, Lanner falcon, mottled swift, common kesterl, Jacobin cuckoo, fan-tailed raven and other raptors.