Baringo: The Pain of Rare Eagle Losing Her Only Chick

By Joseph Kangogo

It is so hard to believe the family of this dragon bird called Martial Eagle produces only one egg and a chick per year.

So life has never been the same for this parent eagle, rare eagle species from remotest Kitibei village in Saimo-Kipsaraman ward, Baringo North, after it lost its only chick back in 2018.

It was around midday while the two were enjoying their happy moments while training its young son high in the sky near Kosirsir Geo-site cliff, near people's homes.

It accidentally fell down, landing in one granny's goats, kraal. Indeed, it turned out to be a bad day for her.Martial Eagles prey on monkeys and rock hyraxes.

Immediately after the incident, the young bird received a good samaritan, a whiteman and a birds expert, who came and took it over 200 kilometres away to go and treat its broken left leg and wing elbow in a private sanctuary in Roysambu, Nakuru County.

Later on in 2021, a team of concern locals and leaders from Baringo visited the sanctuary to check on its bird's health and hopefully return it back to its ecosystem, at least to join his distraced and lonely mother.

But things were not as easy as they were being thought. Indeed, the young eagle's health was improving as it could even fly fairly high 100 metres and back, although under maximum supervision.

It had also grown up, and the whiteman had named him 'George', and he even went further to get him a female suitor called 'Gushiana' from Narok.

He suggested to the Baringo delegation to wait for the couple for at least to years to have their chicks then, "You come and take a fresh eagle back home."

Alternatively, he proposed to the county government of Baringo to allocate some funds to put up a sanctuary at Releng Geosite near Kosirsir, the bird's original ecosystem, so that he will be able to release it back.

But to date, in 2026, since 2018, that story has become a pipe dream, and even who knows if the bird still exists or is dead and gone forever.

While all these are happening, the county government of Baringo is silent, yet it's busy engaging UNESCO to register the place as part of Africa's Geopark.