GAME: name that bird!

[Jochen]

Intermezzo...

 

The missing pics in previous posts are:

 

 

Bulbul

 

Red billed fire finch

 

White browed coucal

 

Hunters sunbird

 

Pin tailed whydah

 

Great spotted cuckoo

 

Black kite

 

Red-fronted barbet

 

Nubian woodpecker

 

Von der Decken hornbill

 

I placed them behind links as to not confuse with the bird we look above.

Reading back this thread; it WAS a lot of fun and certainly deserves to be continued.

 

Edit; see previous page for the bird we are looking for!

Edited February 14, 2011 by Jochen

[twaffle]

For the ID, it looks like one of the Go-Away birds but I don't know which one.

[Jochen]

For the ID, it looks like one of the Go-Away birds but I don't know which one.

 

Don't want to make an elephant out of a mouse but... you are totally wrong.

 

...K that was a tip ;-)

[twaffle]

Funny, but my 1st guess was going to be a mousebird but I thought it looked too big. What would I know!!

[Jan]

Jochen, I would say 'speckled mousebird'. I have only seen this bird twice, once in the woods behind Knysna, and also on

 

the South African/Mozambique border, at a camp that I think no longer exists, Ndumo.

 

 

 

 

Jan

[Jochen]

Jan, you are correct.

 

This pic was taken at the coast of Moz.

 

Your turn!

 

J.

[Zimbo_Mukiwa]

Jan, you are correct.

 

This pic was taken at the coast of Moz.

 

Your turn!

 

J.

Great picture there Jochen, once I had it fully downloaded, oh the joys of 'dial up'.

These birds were very common in my folks garden in Zimbabwe, frequent visiter to our bird feeders chasing every other bird away! They had so much chacter too. We would count up to 20+- at a time.

[Jochen]

Great picture there Jochen, once I had it fully downloaded, oh the joys of 'dial up'.

 

Thx, Zim stranger!

 

As Jan seems to have forgotten about this thread; here's another one:

 

[twaffle]

Pretty confident about the ID on this one! The orange eyed, brown speckled bird.

[Game Warden]

You're not thinking about Old Speckled Hen are you Twaffle?

[twaffle]

That'd be the one!! Pretty cool website.

[Jan]

I'm not sure about this one. Could it be a female rock-jumper?

 

 

 

 

Jan

[wilddog]

Is it a black faced babbler?

[bushwalker]

I,ll have a go at Hartlaub Babbler?...

[Jochen]

Wilddog & bushwalker; you are both very very close.

 

Black-faced has a yellow eye.

Hartlaub's has a white vent.

 

So it is a...

[wilddog]

...............an Arrow Marked Babbler?

[Jochen]

...............an Arrow Marked Babbler?

 

 

Yup!

 

Your turn

[kittykat23uk]

Since Wilddog hasn't posted. Here's one to keep us going:

 

 

Also two for GW

Eurasian Hoopoe, from Chambal India.

Hoopoe says "Wassup!" by kittykat23uk, on Flickr

 

African Hoopoe from Satara Kruger

satara 16 - 18 051African Hoopoe by kittykat23uk, on Flickr

Edited February 25, 2011 by kittykat23uk

[egilio]

I'd vote for an immature Shy Albatross.

[kittykat23uk]

Yep it is! Your turn!

[wilddog]

Sorry guys, away from home so cannot upload a picture. Will try to do so when I get back. In the meantime, thanks Kittykat for filling the gap.

[kittykat23uk]

no probs, plenty more where that one came from!

[egilio]

Not much time to find one but here's one.

 

Edited February 25, 2011 by egilio

[kittykat23uk]

Hmm I can't access it, says an error occurred..

[egilio]

i tried including the image from several websites (flickr and imageshack) or directly upload it, all don't seem to work...

 

Directly after posting it showed from imageshack, but now it doesn't :S

I don't know what Imageshack is doing but I've seen it on other forums where a lot of pictures suddenly aren't working anymore. It claims 'Domain Unregistered'.

From flickr I get the message (on this board): You are not allowed to use that image extension on this board...blabla.

 

So now I created an album here for just this picture, also not ideal.