TonyQ's Big Year: Number 4

[TonyQ]

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

 

474.K141. Lynes's Cisticola  Cisticola distinctus       

Mara North Conservancy        12.09.2019

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475.K142. Common Fiscal  Lanius collaris    

Masai Mara Reserve   10.09.2019

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476.K143. Red-Billed Oxpecker  Buphagus erythrorhynchus

Selenkay Conservancy           07.09.2019

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477.K144. Red-Billed Quelea  Quelea quelea aethiopica      

Nairobi National Park  04.09.2019

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478.K145. Red-Billed Teal  Anas erythrorhyncha      

Amboseli National Park           06.09.2019

Amboseli National Park           06.09.2019

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479.K146. Red-Capped Lark  Calandrella cinerea    

Oh no, Pipits, cisticolas and now larks!

Amboseli National Park           06.09.2019

Mara Naboisho Conservancy  16.09.2019

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

Nairobi National Park  04.09.2019     

[Dave Williams]

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

 

A Cisticola ....but what kind? by Dave Williams, on Flickr

Edited October 28, 2019 by Dave Williams

[TonyQ]

@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 )

I think they are pretty birds but too difficult to identify 

[michael-ibk]

2 hours ago, TonyQ said:

Oh no, Pipits, cisticolas and now larks!

 

But you picked the only easy one!

[Galana]

Phew! We got off light with that last lot!

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.

[TonyQ]

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          

Nairobi National Park  04.09.2019

Yellow supercilliary stripe, location is right

[TonyQ]

482.K149. Red-Faced Crombec  Sylvietta whytii jacksoni     

Kicheche Valley Camp (Mara Naboisho)        13.09.2019

Kicheche Valley Camp (Mara Naboisho)        13.09.2019

From the front of our tent

[TonyQ]

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

Selenkay Conservancy           06.09.2019

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

[TonyQ]

484.K151. Red-headed Weaver  Ploceus leuconotos           

Mara Naboisho Conservancy  14.09.2019

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!

[TonyQ]

485.K152. Red-Knobbed Coot  Fulica cristata           

Amboseli National Park           06.09.2019

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486.K153. Red-necked Spurfowl  Francolinus afer   

Youngster, Mara North Conservancy        10.09.2019

Mara Naboisho Conservancy  15.09.2019

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487.K154. Ring-Necked Dove  Streptopelia capicola somalica         

Nairobi National Park  04.09.2019

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488.K155. Rosy-breasted Longclaw  Macronyx ameliae wintoni       

Mara North Conservancy        08.09.2019

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489.K156. Red-Fronted Barbet  Tricholaema diademata      

Nairobi National Park  04.09.2019

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

[TonyQ]

K157.   Ruff  Philomachus pugnax   

Already seen in UK and India 

Amboseli National Park           06.09.2019

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490.K158. Rufous Sparrow  Passer rufocinctus rufocinctus  

(F) Nairobi National Park  04.09.2019

(M) Nairobi National Park  04.09.2019

[Soukous]

21 hours ago, TonyQ said:

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

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.

[michael-ibk]

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

[PeterHG]

I agree on the Bushshrike!