Ruma National Park is found in Homa Bay County and is the only terrestrial park in Kenya’s Nyanza. It’s known as the “Last Retreat of the Roan antelope” as it protects the only indigenous population of rare roan antelopes within Kenya. Ruma lies on the flat floor of the seasonally watered Lambwe River Valley bordered by the Kanyamwa Escarpment to the South-East, and by the volcanic plugs of the Ruri Hills to the north. Ruma’s birdlife is exceptional. The Park is also the only protected area in Kenya where the globally threatened blue swallow, a scarce intra-African migrant, is regularly recorded. Blue swallows, which depend upon moist grassland for both feeding and roosting, arrive in Kenya from their breeding grounds in Southern Tanzania around April and depart again in September.