Wildlife at Maasai Mara Nature Reserve and Lake Navaisha, Kenya. All the photographs are captured with my Canon 6D and Tamron 200-600mm lens. I hope that you like this format and help you use it as a checklist to identify the wildlife much more easily
Note that The descriptions of the wildlife below are referenced from Wikipedia. Please be advised this might not be the full list of wildlife at the nature reserve. For a full list, please visit the Mara Conversancy
Maasai Mara Nature Reserve
The Big 5 Game of Africa
The Big Five game animals of Africa are the lion, leopard, rhinoceros (both south-central black and southern white species), elephant, and Cape buffalo. The term was coined by big-game hunters and referred to the five most difficult animals in Africa to hunt on foot.
Lion
Leopard
Rhinoceros
The black rhinoceros or hook-lipped rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) is a species of rhinoceros, native to eastern and southern Africa including Angola, Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Eswatini, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
Elephant
The African elephant (Loxodonta) is a genus comprising two living elephant species, the African bush elephant (L. africana) and the smaller African forest elephant (L. cyclotis).
Buffalo
The African buffalo or Cape buffalo (Syncerus caffer) is a large sub-Saharan African bovine.
THE GREAT MIGRATION
THE MAMMAL LIST
Warthog
The Warthog, Phacochoerus is a genus in the family Suidae, commonly known as warthogs (pronounced wart-hog). It is the sole genus of subfamily Phacochoerinae. These pigs live in open and semiopen habitats, even in quite arid regions, in sub-Saharan Africa.
Giraffe
Hippopotamus
The hippopotamus (/ˌhɪpəˈpɒtəməs/ HIP-ə-POT-ə-məs; Hippopotamus amphibius), also called the hippo, common hippopotamus or river hippopotamus, is a large, mostly herbivorous, semiaquatic mammal and ungulate native to sub-Saharan Africa.
Antelope
Kirk’s dik-dik (Madoqua kirkii) is a small antelope native to Eastern Africa and one of four species of dik-dik antelope.[2] It is believed to have six subspecies and possibly a seventh existing in southwest Africa.[3] Dik-diks are herbivores, typically of a fawn color that aids in camouflaging themselves in savannah habitats
Gazelle
Thomson’s gazelle (Eudorcas thomsonii) is one of the best-known gazelles. It is named after explorer Joseph Thomson and is sometimes referred to as a “tommie“.
Wildebeest
The wildebeest (/ˈwɪldɪbiːst/ WIL-dih-beest,[1][2][3] /ˈvɪl-/ VIL-,[3] plural wildebeest or wildebeests), also called the gnu (/njuː/ NEW or /nuː/ NOO),[4][5][6][4][6] is an antelope in the genus Connochaetes. It belongs to the family Bovidae, which includes antelopes, cattle, goats, sheep, and other even-toed horned ungulates.
Zebra
The plains zebra (Equus quagga, formerly Equus burchellii), also known as the common zebra, is the most common and geographically widespread species of zebra. Its range is fragmented, but spans much of southern and eastern Africa south of the Sahara.
Hyena
The spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta), also known as the laughing hyena,[3] is a hyena species, currently classed as the sole extant member of the genus Crocuta, native to Sub-Saharan Africa.
Cats
The serval (Leptailurus serval) /ˈsɜːrvəl/ is a wild cat native to Africa. It is rare in North Africa and the Sahel, but widespread in sub-Saharan countries except rainforest regions. On the IUCN Red List it is listed as Least Concern.[1]
Canine
The black-backed jackal (Canis mesomelas[2] or Lupulella mesomelas[3][4]) is a canine native to eastern and southern Africa. These regions are separated by roughly 900 kilometers.
Baboon
The olive baboon (Papio anubis), also called the Anubis baboon, is a member of the family Cercopithecidae (Old World monkeys).
THE BIRD LIST
Ostrich
The common ostrich (Struthio camelus) or simply ostrich, is a species of large flightless bird native to certain large areas of Africa.
Stork
The yellow-billed stork (Mycteria ibis), sometimes also called the wood stork or wood ibis, is a large African wading stork species in the family Ciconiidae
Eagle and Hawk
The African hawk-eagle (Aquila spilogaster) is a large bird of prey. Like all eagles, it belongs to the family Accipitridae. The African hawk-eagle breeds in tropical Sub-Saharan Africa.
The western banded snake eagle (Circaetus cinerascens) is a grey-brown African raptor with a short tail and a large head.
Vulture
Rüppell’s vulture (Gyps rueppelli), also called Rüppell’s griffon vulture, named after Eduard Rüppell, is a large vulture that can be found throughout the Sahel region of central Africa.
Goose
The Egyptian goose (Alopochen aegyptiaca) is a member of the duck, goose, and swan family Anatidae. It is native to Africa south of the Sahara and the Nile Valley.
Duck
Hornbill
The southern ground hornbill (Bucorvus leadbeateri; formerly known as Bucorvus cafer), Maasai Mara, Kenya
Unknown Species, Maasai Mara, Kenya
Lake Navaisha
The marabou stork (Leptoptilos crumenifer) is a large wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae.
The African fish eagle (Haliaeetus vocifer), or the African sea eagle, is a large species of eagle found throughout sub-Saharan Africa wherever large bodies of open water with an abundant food supply occur.
The pied kingfisher (Ceryle rudis) is a species of water kingfisher widely distributed across Africa and Asia.
Yellow-billed Stork (Mycteria ibis), Lake Naivasha, Nakuru County, Kenya
Great White Pelicans on the shore of Lake Naivasha, Kenya, Africa
The reed cormorant (Microcarbo africanus), also known as the long-tailed cormorant, is a bird in the cormorant family Phalacrocoracidae.