Mwea National Reserve

The Mwea National Reserve is a nature reserve in Kenya. It is characterised with the aid of furry plants and scattered large bushes Acacia species and baobab timber, ordinary savannah ecosystem. Open grasslands are dominant along the principle rivers, with occasional thick undergrowth. Renowned for its water birds and waders, over 2 hundred species of birds have been recorded inside the reserve. This warranted it being an Important Bird Area IBA. The reserve is the simplest covered location wherein the globally threatened and Kenya-endemic Hinde's babbler is understood to arise.

Mwea National Reserve also shelters two different rare species; the Pel's fishing owl and the white-backed night time heron The Malagasy pond heron is also a common sighting. Game species variety from African elephants, lesser kudus, Nile crocodiles, giraffes, Grant's zebras, buffalos, African leopards, commonplace duikers, black-subsidized jackals, bushbucks, waterbucks, Sykes' monkeys, warthogs, rock hyraxes, bush pigs, impalas and hartebeests. Striped ground squirrels, genet animals and yellow baboons also are found in Mwea.