South Luawnga plus Victoria Falls and Chobe

[roseclaw]

Starting this thread for birds (and blurds)  taken in Oct 2019 in Zambia, Zimbabwe near the falls, and Chobe along the river. I'm mostly going to need help with Raptors, waders (peeps), and little brown birds.

[offshorebirder]

I am looking forward to following along @roseclaw.  

 

[roseclaw]

I'm going to start with South Luangwa, and probably an easy one: which hornbill? African Grey?

 

[mvecht]

@roseclaw   yes they are African grey Hornbills (Lophoceros nasutus)

[roseclaw]

Thanks, @mvecht

[roseclaw]

Also South Luangwa

 

1. Wood sandpipper?

 

 

2. Little brown bird

 

 

3. Also a wood sandpipper?

 

 

4. greenshank?

 

 

5. Which kite?

 

[roseclaw]

All the same bird (blurd) at South Luangwa:. A female weaver?

 

 

 

[roseclaw]

More South Luangwa peeps:

 

7. sandpipper

 

8. sandpipper

 

 

9. babies

 

 

10. monstrous!

 

[roseclaw]

More South Luangwa sandpippers and raptors:

 

11. ???? best I could do - it was very far away

 

12. bronze mannikins and ??

 

 

13. Kittlitz's plover?

 

14. red necked spurfowl?

 

15. Two different species of dove?

 

[roseclaw]

More South Luangwa

 

16. female something

 

17. ?

 

 

18. plover

 

[Peter Connan]

15 is Laughing and I think Cape Turtle (I don't have distribution maps extending into Zambia).

18 is three-banded Plover 

 

I think 1 is a Ruff, but I'm not sure.

2 and many of the others are female Weavers or Widowbirds. I find them all basically impossible to ID correctly.

[mvecht]

Based on posture my guess is that 11 is Brown snake eagle

[roseclaw]

On 10/25/2019 at 11:35 AM, Peter Connan said:

2 and many of the others are female Weavers or Widowbirds. I find them all basically impossible to ID correctly.

 

That's what I'm afraid of.

[michael-ibk]

1,3: Wood Sandpiper indeed.
2, 17: Impossible to say for sure but most likely Red-Billed Quelea
4: Yes, Common Greenshank
5: I´d say Yellow-Billed Kite
6: Weaver when out of breeding are very difficult. Most likely Village Weaver, one of the most common species, and nothing in the pictures totally excludes it IMO.
7: A  Common Sandpiper
8: I´d say Little Stint and not Ruff
9: Lapwing chicks of some kind I´d say.
11: Brown Snake Eagle seems like a good guess.
12: Bronze Mannikin and again, impossible to safely say, but maybe Lesser Masked Weaver (note the light eyes)
13: Kittlitz´s Plover, yes
14: Indeed, Red-Necked Spurfowl
15: Cape Turtel aka Ring-Necked Dove (yes, range is good) and Laughing Dove, agree with Peter.
16: Again, not sure, maybe Village Weaver again, and I´m not totally excluding female Red-Headed Weaver
18: Three-Banded Plover like Peter said.

[roseclaw]

@michael-ibkthank you!

[roseclaw]

More South Luangwa

 

19.

 

20. plain martin?

 

 

21.

 

22. which firefinch?

 

 

23.

 

24

 

25.

 

26.

 

27.

 

28. the ones behind the stilts...

[roseclaw]

More South Luangwa: 

 

29. This one is a serious longshot

 

 

30. another sandpiper

 

 

[roseclaw]

Livingstone/Zambezi

 

31. tropical boubou?

 

32. white-winged tern? grey-headed gull?

 

[roseclaw]

Chobe:

 

33. blue waxbill and....?

 

 

34. which eagle?

 

 

35.  wagtail?

 

 

36. which sparrow? which canary?

 

 

37. pipet?

 

 

38. black flycatcher?

 

 

39. a female...?

 

[roseclaw]

Victoria Falls, Zim side:

 

40. prinia?

 

[roseclaw]

Thank you to everyone!

 

[Tdgraves]

I suppose I asked for it @roseclaw

 

I haven't got a Zambia book though, so a lot would depend on the distribution

 

40. tawny-flanked prinia

31 agree

32 tern not gull

39 yellow throated petronia

38 agree

35 yes a wagtail not sure if Cape extends that far, as no book

27 firefinch - again no book

26 yellow bellied greenbul

24 cisticola

23 brown-capped tchagra

 

am struggling with seeing the others as the photos cannot be enlarged...

 

 

 

 

[roseclaw]

@Tdgraves thank you! Unfortunately, most are already super zoomed-in and cropped already.