GAME: name that bird!

[predator]

OK how about this one ?

 

[Nyamera]

Olive Thrush?

[predator]

Correct - your turn

[Nyamera]

I'll have to use this one:

 

[Jochen]

Superrrrrrrb Starling.

 

 

 

And this one?

 

[Guest nyama]

Tawny Eagle ?

[Guest John Milbank]

For variety, I'll suggest Steppe eagle.

[Jochen]

2x nope!

 

A few tips;

 

- these guys can harass you at the most popular picknick spot in Ngorongoro crater.

- try plate 34 of the Zimmerman book (large raptors overhead)

[Game Warden]

I know because I too have been attacked at that picnic spot by the lake. But it's not fair for the admin to play...

[Nyamera]

Black Kite?

[Alex The Lion]

Yellow billed kite - intra african migrant

[Guest nyama]

But it's not fair for the admin to play...

But you aren't a full-time admin, are you? Just make your post in your 'spare time'.

 

Btw, in the ever growing smiley colony on this forum I just met someone who looks like a deputy admin to me:

[predator]

I know because I too have been attacked at that picnic spot by the lake. But it's not fair for the admin to play...

 

Its perfectly fair - admin powers dont show you the answer so you dont get any advantage by being admin, and are therefore entitled to guess/answer.

[Jochen]

Black Kite?

 

Here's the right answer!

 

 

Matt,

 

Predator is right. Join the fun, man!

[Nyamera]

I haven’t been to Ngorongoro, but I’d heard about the black kites. Then I googled the yellow-billed kite and it looks like Russel’s reply is more exact, so I think he too could post a bird. I’ll see if I can find a bird …

[Nyamera]

There's a bird in this picture ...

 

[Jochen]

Wattled plover? (I miss that red thingie on the beak though...)

[Nyamera]

Wattled plover?

 

Correct!

 

There is a red thingie that's visible when the picture is bigger.

[Alex The Lion]

I haven’t been to Ngorongoro, but I’d heard about the black kites. Then I googled the yellow-billed kite and it looks like Russel’s reply is more exact, so I think he too could post a bird. I’ll see if I can find a bird …

 

I thought that its beak was yellowish, which would determine what type of kite it actually is. Jochen, any chance of cropped shot?

 

As I am playing along, thought that I would make this one a little tricky. Think of the environment you see it in and that should help.

 

[Jochen]

Wow, I must admit this was a gamble.

 

How about this one?

 

 

 

@Rusell; march sandpipier?

 

I'll try to find the pic in my DB and take a crop. But you can be sure it is a black kite; Zimmerman guide, plate 34 bird no 6; the silhouette is quite unique.

[Alex The Lion]

Jochen says march sandpiper...........................our survey says, no (cant quite replicate the family fortune noise)

 

 

As an abstainer to East Africa thus far, there are many a bird on this thread I struggle with.

[predator]

Russell: First thought was Blacksmiths Plover (aka Blacksmith lapwing), but going to go for Water thick knee

 

Jochen: Yellow spotted barbet ?

[Alex The Lion]

Getting close, the colouring is similar. As it is a silhouetee I will give a little clue. It is a quite common in the Okavango and if you look at the far bird, the colour of its legs should give you an idea

[Guest nyama]

russell -- Black-Winged Stilt ?

[Alex The Lion]

nyama - correct