Kakamega and the neighbouring North Nandi and South Nandi forests lie to the west of the Rift Valley in western Kenya (see map, p. 370), in a humid, high-rainfall area; they are at 1,700-2,150 m, and support a mixture of lowland and montane vegetation (Britton 1980, Collar and Stuart 1988, Lewis and Pomeroy 1989). The threatened Chapin's Flycatcher Muscicapa lendu (classified as Vulnerable) occurs there, and in montane forest in the Albertine Rift mountains (EBA 106). A more-widespread threatened species which occurs in this Secondary Area is Turner's Eremomela Eremomela turneri (classified as Vulnerable).

Stattersfield, A. J., Crosby, M. J., Long, A. J. and Wege, D. C. (1998) Endemic Bird Areas of the World. Priorities for biodiversity conservation. BirdLife Conservation Series 7. Cambridge, UK: BirdLife International.

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BirdLife International (2024) Endemic Bird Area factsheet: Kakamega and Nandi forests. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/eba/factsheet/357 on 22/12/2024.