Kenya has many species of Heron

Here’s a Rufous-Bellied Heron. It’s one of the many species of Heron in the wetlands here. It has a beautiful facial pattern, a pale stripe down its neck and, yes, a rufous belly.

It’s a very dark Heron. I suspect that it hunts in wet grassland rather than in open water, otherwise it would have a paler belly. It’s beautiful to see its dagger-like beak and its familiar neck movements as it walks, even though I’ve never seen this species before.