Kit & Herman Year 2

[Galana]

4 hours ago, TonyQ said:

when I saw a “real” Rock Dove in Scotland, I didn’t count the Birmingham Feral Pigeon as well.

I think it hinges around ancestry and divergent evolution.

By and large the feral escapes still look like the original, Viz Black Swans and Muscovy.

When I see a 'mealy chequer' look alike in town I know it's granddad cannot possibly have been a true blue Rock Dave. One is a good looking bird and the other just a flying rat! Just my thoughts.

Welcome back @Dave Williams

[Kitsafari]

432/ GN42 : Long-legged Pipit, Lope Lodge

 

Enjoying a little pretty wild flower

 

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433/ GN43 : Forbes's Plover, Loango NP
why is it forbes's and not forbes'? 

201/ GN 44 : Wood Sandpiper, Loango NP
already in my Bots list.

 

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434/ GN44 : Kittlitz's Plover, Loango NP

 

 

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435/ GN45 : Rock Pratincole, Ogooue River

 

An EBC - blame it on the rocking boat

 

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436/ GN46 : Grey Pratincole, Ogooue River

 

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437/GN47 : African Quailfinch, Lope NP

 

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438/GN48 : African Skimmer, Loango NP

 

I have to confess I can't ID those terns with the skimmers, although I think they are royal terns. 

 

[Kitsafari]

439/GN49 : Royal Tern, Loango NP

 

I'm breaking the alphabetical order so that I can include the royal terns immediately following the previous photo.

 

[Kitsafari]

440/GN 50 : Caspian Tern,  Loango NP

 

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441/ GN51 : Nothern Grey headed Sparrow,  Libreville/ Ivindo 

 

 

 

 

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442/ GN 52 : Cassin's Spinetail, Loagno NP

 

Almost an EBC, but  not quite. darn. 

 

 

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443/GN53 : Splendid Starling, Lope Lodge

 

[TonyQ]

Excellent additions. I particularly like the Grey Pratincole and the Quailfinch is lovely

(I hesitate to comment on punctuation to such a good writer, but I would guess it is Forbes's because Forbes is a proper noun and is not plural.)

[Kitsafari]

444/ GN54: Yellow-billed Stork, Loango NP

 

[Kitsafari]

Thank you @TonyQ !

 

As a non-native English speaker - the possessive nouns throw me! I've always thought the apostrophe s do not follow nouns that end with "s" but I checked the google (i always wonder how in the world we survive without google) and it says it is grammatically correct for the apostrophe s to follow names that end with an "s" so in this case, forbes is then name, and the apostrophe s grammatically follows. 

so complex lah!

[Kitsafari]

can't sleep still in a foreign city, so i'll fill the eyes wide shut hour with more count - 

 

165/GN55 : Woolly-necked Stork, Loango NP

 

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445/ GN56 : Reichenbach´s Sunbird, Lope Lodge

 

 

Edited October 23, 2019 by Kitsafari

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446/ GN 57 : Carmelite Sunbird, Loango NP

 

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447 /GN58 : Copper Sunbird, Lope Lodge

a very accommodating sunbird!

 

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448/ GN59 : Lesser striped Swallow, Lope Lodge/ Ivindo

 

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449/ GN60 : African Thrush, Lope Lodge

 

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450/ GN61 : Long-tailed Hawk, Akaka Camp

 

this beautiful raptor just flew into the camp as we were standing and chatting, waiting for lunch. It didn't seemed perturb by our presence. Hidden in the dark shadows, I didn't know which raptor it was until i came home and processed it. 

 

[Kitsafari]

I've been reliably informed that my green-headed sunbird in 445/GN56 is actually a reichenbach´s sunbird (yellow vent!) and i've corrected it accordingly. it's still a count! 

[michael-ibk]

Ah, the Long-Tailed Hawk, such a cool bird to get!