Birds at Paradise Lost
Kenya is regarded as one of the world's great destinations for bird watching, and Paradise Lost is located in one of the country’s most important bird areas.
Shirazi has three separate bird habitats - the dense palm forest, marine estuary and freshwater river wetlands, which means an extremely diverse range of bird species can be found here.
These include African Fish Eagles, the Palm Nut Vulture, Malachite and Pied Kingfishers, Fischer's Turaco, the Southern Banded Snake Eagle, East Coast Akalat and a variety of herons, waders and Pipits.
The palm forests are home to the Little Yellow Flycatcher, Uluguru Violet-backed Sunbird, Southern Banded Snake Eagle, Spotted Ground Thrush and Plain-backed Sunbird.
Not far offshore, the Kisite-Mpunguti Marine Park is known for a large colony of Roseate Terns.
