Avifauna recorded using Mist netting method during 2003 Spotted Ground-thrush surveys in Kenyan Coastal Forests

The biological importance and uniqueness of East African coastal forests is widely recognised; they form an Endemic Bird Area. Important remnants of this fragmented habitat is on the southern Kenyan coast, but their avifauna has been little studied. In between June and July 2003, a survey of endangered spotted ground thrush was undertaken with an overall objective of examining its conservation status on its non-breeding grounds in the Kenya Coastal Forest. Other avifauna of the ten Coastal Forests were assessed including the threats facing them using mist-netting, time species counts and point counts. This dataset contains 518 entries of birds ringed using the mist netting method. Birds in the IUCN red list were also ringed in this study including the near threatened East Coast Akalat (Sheppardia gunning), plain-backed sunbird (Anthreptes reichenowi) and Spotted Ground-thrush (Geokichla guttata). The data was formatted according to the Darwin Core Standards by A Rocha Kenya before publishing through the IPT at the National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi.