In the grasslands and acacia scrub of Kenya, birds have long served as living measures of a landscape's health — and now the world has taken formal notice. Tsavo East and Amboseli national parks have been ranked among the planet's top birdwatching destinations, with Kenya standing as the only African nation to place two parks in the global top twenty. During this year's Global Big Day, Kenyan birders documented 824 species in a single day, a figure that outpaced every other African nation and placed Kenya seventh in the world — a testament not merely to geographic fortune, but to a deepening c