Amboseli National Park, formerly Maasai Amboseli Game Reserve, is a national park in Loitoktok District in Kajiado County, Kenya. It harbours 400 species of birds including water birds like pelicans, kingfishers, crakes, harmer kop and 47 raptor species. The local people are mainly Maasai.
Amboseli National Park was home to Echo, the most researched elephant in the world, and the subject of many books and documentaries, followed for almost four decades by American conservationist Cynthia Moss. Echo died in 2009 when she was about 60 years old.
Amboseli National Park is home to African bush elephant, Cape buffalo, impala, lion, cheetah, spotted hyena Masai giraffe , Grant’s zebra, and blue wildebeests . It is also a host of large and small birds occur too.