ABSTRACT
Family Ciconiidae contains seventeen storks which have representatives throughout the world's zoogeographical regions, including eight species in the Afrotropical. All of these eight also occur in Kenya. The White Stork is one of the five Palearctic species which have established breeding populations within their wintering range in south (S) Africa. Black stork occupies two distinct areas. It migrates from the Palearctic winter across the north (N) tropics from Senegambia to Ethiopia, S to Uganda, Kenya and N Tanzania. Abdim's stork is a trans-equatorial intra-African migrant which breeds during the rains in the N tropics, in a zone extending from Senegambia and Ivory Coast E to Sudan and Ethiopia, with a small S outlier in the N of the L Victoria basin. After breeding, it migrates S across the equator to S Kenya, SW to Angola and S to S Africa, where it is present during the S rainy seasons.
