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Nairobi National Park
Incredible animals roaming free and wild against a not-so-distant backdrop of city skyscrapers.
Introducing Nairobi National Park
There’s nowhere quite like Nairobi National Park, with incredible animals roaming free and wild against a not-so-distant backdrop of city skyscrapers. It’s among the best places in Kenya to see rhinos, and there’s a good chance that you’ll spot lions and an extensive portfolio of other safari species. Whether you visit the park as a precursor to a longer safari, a final goodbye to Kenya, or the main event, Nairobi NP deserves as much time as you can give it. Nairobi National Park has a decent variety of wildlife. Aside from elephants, all of the Big Five are present. There is a good population of both black rhino and white rhino, and the latter are often seen grazing on the open plains. Leopards are shy, and cheetah and hyena are rarely spotted, but lion is regularly seen. It’s a good place to see many different antelope species in one park.
Experience the Nairobi National Park
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Wildlife at the Nairobi National Park
Nairobi national park boasts 100 species of mammals, including 39 lions and 90 rhinos, 40 different amphibians and reptiles. The park has only four of the big five namely (buffalos, lions, leopards, rhinos) minus elephants. Nairobi National Park has a spectacular wildebeest and zebra migration, the large predators in the park includes the lion, leopard, hyena and cheetah. Other animal species in the park includes; giraffe, hippopotamus, blue wildebeest, plain zebra, Thomson’s gazelle, Grant’s gazelle, common eland, impala, hartebeest, waterbuck, common warthog, olive baboon, black-backed jackal, common ostrich and many others, Nairobi National Park is the only one in the world to be a home to wild animals while being part of a capital city, but Nairobi is one of the fastest growing metropolises in Africa, increasingly endangering the park in its midst.
Nairobi National Park has a vast tracts of open grass plains with scattered acacia bush, there is a highly dry forest on the western side of the park and to the south there is riverine forest and a permanent river. The vegetation is of the dry transitional open scenic savanna type, which enables east spotting and observation of various animal species, again the acacias and other thorny varieties, muhuhu, Cape chestnut, and Kenya olive are the most important trees which are the main habitats of the park.
Birdlife at the Nairobi National Park
Nairobi National Park is a haven birding safari destination in Kenya, where the park has over 500 bird species recorded, of which 20 are seasonal European migrants. Nairobi National park probably Kenya’s capital the longest bird list of all cities in the word making the best birding tour ever. The park’s substantial area of undisturbed grassland is of great importance for species such as the restricted-range Jackson’s widowbird, which breeds here regularly after good rains, other grassland birds include the Ostriches, secretary birds and bustards. Many bird species in Nairobi National Park includes Abyssinian thrush, Corncrakes, Fischer’s lovebirds, Grey crowned crane, Hartlaub’s bustard, Jackson’s widowbird, Kori bustard, Lesser kestrel, Martial eagle, Pallid harrier, White-bellied bustard, White-headed vulture and many others. November to April is when the migrants from Europe and North Africa are present then spectacular Jackson’s widowbird displays from March to May.
Best time to visit Nairobi National Park
Nairobi National Park can be visited year-round, but wildlife viewing is best during the Dry season (June to October). Wildlife watching is more difficult during the long rains (March to May) and the short rains (November to December), although the timing of these rains has become less predictable in recent years. Some tracks can become extremely muddy after heavy rain and grasses tend to be high.
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