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TonyQ's Big Year: Number 4


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So I am going with @Galana suggestion for this bird and then I will never take a photo of a cisticola again :D

 

474.K141. Lynes's Cisticola  Cisticola distinctus       

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Mara North Conservancy        12.09.2019

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475.K142. Common Fiscal  Lanius collaris    

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Masai Mara Reserve   10.09.2019

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476.K143. Red-Billed Oxpecker  Buphagus erythrorhynchus

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Selenkay Conservancy           07.09.2019

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477.K144. Red-Billed Quelea  Quelea quelea aethiopica      

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Nairobi National Park  04.09.2019

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478.K145. Red-Billed Teal  Anas erythrorhyncha      

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Amboseli National Park           06.09.2019

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Amboseli National Park           06.09.2019

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479.K146. Red-Capped Lark  Calandrella cinerea    

Oh no, Pipits, cisticolas and now larks!

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Amboseli National Park           06.09.2019

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Mara Naboisho Conservancy  16.09.2019

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480.K147. Red-Cheeked Cordon-bleu  Uraeginthus bengalus bengalus      

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Nairobi National Park  04.09.2019     

Dave Williams
Posted (edited)

Excuse me Tony for hijacking your thread but our two birds are uncannily similar but there isn't anything like them in the guide book.

Mine was seen at Mlondozi Picnic site which is on a small rocky hill. Terrain fits the bill for Wailing but the description doesn't really match.

 

Stop Press! You have added a lot more photos in the last few minutes!! If our Cisticolas are identical as they appear they can't be Lyne's as it doesn't occur in Kruger.

I'm with you..they are not worth the bother and I won't be chasing them next time either:unsure:

 

48975409032_905be9ce75_b.jpgA Cisticola ....but what kind? by Dave Williams, on Flickr

Edited by Dave Williams
Posted

@Dave Williams  if you check @Galana post he says there is a northern wailing aka Lyne’s and a southern wailing which is the SA version. So yours is possibly that bird. (Or possibly not..I could be convinced of anything I think. If @Galana suggested it was an Ostrich I might accept it :D)

I think they are pretty birds but too difficult to identify 

Posted
2 hours ago, TonyQ said:

Oh no, Pipits, cisticolas and now larks!

 

But you picked the only easy one! :)

Posted

Phew! We got off light with that last lot!:lol:

4 hours ago, Dave Williams said:

Terrain fits the bill for Wailing but the description doesn't really match.

Well it kind of does apart from the greyer not buff belly.

Eventually you hit the wall of there only being two Cisticola with grey bellies in RSA. It could be a Neddicky apart from the wing panel and Grey-backed is well out of range. It is not an Ostrich so the odds are on a Wailer.

Posted
19 hours ago, michael-ibk said:

 

But you picked the only easy one! :)

Of course! I also managed the Pink-Breasted Lark in Selenkay - that was quite an easy one as well.

 

481.K148. Red-collared Widowbird  Euplectes ardens          

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Nairobi National Park  04.09.2019

Yellow supercilliary stripe, location is right

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482.K149. Red-Faced Crombec  Sylvietta whytii jacksoni     

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Kicheche Valley Camp (Mara Naboisho)        13.09.2019

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Kicheche Valley Camp (Mara Naboisho)        13.09.2019

From the front of our tent

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483.K150. Rosy-Patched Bush-Shrike  Rhodophoneus cruentus     

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Selenkay Conservancy           06.09.2019

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Selenkay Conservancy           06.09.2019

Sitting on a bush at the side of the track, not bothered by us at all, singing as loud as it can. A lovely bird to be Number 150 for Kenya

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484.K151. Red-headed Weaver  Ploceus leuconotos           

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Mara Naboisho Conservancy  14.09.2019

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Mara Naboisho Conservancy  14.09.2019

A bit of a jigsaw puzzle but I think the markings and beak are clear, even if not in focus!

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485.K152. Red-Knobbed Coot  Fulica cristata           

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Amboseli National Park           06.09.2019

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486.K153. Red-necked Spurfowl  Francolinus afer   

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Youngster, Mara North Conservancy        10.09.2019

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Mara Naboisho Conservancy  15.09.2019

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487.K154. Ring-Necked Dove  Streptopelia capicola somalica         

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Nairobi National Park  04.09.2019

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488.K155. Rosy-breasted Longclaw  Macronyx ameliae wintoni       

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Mara North Conservancy        08.09.2019

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489.K156. Red-Fronted Barbet  Tricholaema diademata      

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Nairobi National Park  04.09.2019

Well you can see some of it.......

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K157.   Ruff  Philomachus pugnax   

Already seen in UK and India 

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Amboseli National Park           06.09.2019

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490.K158. Rufous Sparrow  Passer rufocinctus rufocinctus  

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(F) Nairobi National Park  04.09.2019

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(M) Nairobi National Park  04.09.2019

Posted
21 hours ago, TonyQ said:

If @Galana suggested it was an Ostrich I might accept it :D)

That's settled then. 

 

Apart from Ostrich I really loved the Pygmy Falcon shots and the Red & Yellow Barbet. But I'd be happy with most of them.

Posted

The Rosy-Patched Bushshrike is wonderful, what a stunning bird! 

Posted

I agree on the Bushshrike!

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