Meeting the Apex Hunter in Ngong Road Forest Sanctuary
Above: African crowned eagle at nest Ngong Road Forest Sanctuary copyright Washington Wachira
Published: 3 November 2018
“Listen,” said Fleur Ng’weno of Nature Kenya.
A piercing shrill drifted through the trees in the forest.
“It’s the African crowned eagle.”
It was what we were hoping for but like any creature on the wild, nothing is guaranteed.
Quietly we walked along the path and there in the tall croton tree, was perched Africa’s mightiest raptor by its nest.
An OMG moment!
Here we were at the Ngong Race Course that is in Ngong Road Forest Sanctuary, in one of the busiest part of a city of four million people – and in its midst we’re in a natural forest that’s home to some of the rarest creatures including the Jackson tree snake.
Urban Crowns
I’ve borrowed the title from a short film by Washington Wachira, a young ornithologist studying the African crowned eagle.
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