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497/ZA56.) Plain-Backed Pipit (Anthus leucophrys) / Braunrückenpieper

 

A few individuals in the Kafue.

 

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And that´s already it for Zambia. As mentioned before the overlap with Tanzania was significant, only one out of four birds seen was a new one. For anybody interested here´s the whole list of all the birds I´ve identified. 208 in total. (A few by call only, like an African Broadbill which drove me nuts early morning in Pioneer because it was really close but I just could not locate it.)

 
Helmeted Guineafowl
Natal Spurfowl
Red-necked Spurfowl
Swainson's Spurfowl
Spur-winged Goose
Knob-billed Duck
Egyptian Goose
Fiery-necked Nightjar
Freckled Nightjar
Square-tailed Nightjar
African/Malagasy Palm Swift
White-rumped Swift
Schalow's Turaco
Purple-crested Turaco
Grey Go-away-bird
Black-bellied Bustard
Senegal Coucal
White-browed/Burchell's Coucal
Levaillant's Cuckoo
Diederik Cuckoo
Red-chested Cuckoo
Red-eyed Dove
Ring-necked Dove
Laughing Dove
Emerald-spotted Wood Dove
Namaqua Dove
African Green Pigeon
African Finfoot
Black Crake
Grey Crowned Crane
Wattled Crane
Water Thick-knee
Spotted Thick-knee
Black-winged Stilt
Blacksmith Lapwing
White-crowned Lapwing
Crowned Lapwing
African Wattled Lapwing
Kittlitz's Plover
Three-banded Plover
White-fronted Plover
Greater Painted-snipe
African Jacana
Ruff
Little Stint
Common Sandpiper
Marsh Sandpiper
Wood Sandpiper
Common Greenshank
African Skimmer
Yellow-billed Stork
African Openbill
Saddle-billed Stork
Marabou Stork
Reed Cormorant
Great/White-breasted Cormorant
African Darter
African Sacred Ibis
Hadada Ibis
African Spoonbill
Lava/Striated Heron
Squacco Heron
Western/Eastern Cattle Egret
Grey Heron
Black-headed Heron
Goliath Heron
Great Egret
Intermediate Egret
Black Heron
Little/Dimorphic Egret
Hamerkop
Great White Pelican
African Harrier-Hawk
Hooded Vulture
White-backed Vulture
White-headed Vulture
Lappet-faced Vulture
Black-chested Snake Eagle
Brown Snake Eagle
Western Banded Snake Eagle
Bateleur
Martial Eagle
Wahlberg's Eagle
Tawny Eagle
Steppe Eagle
African Hawk-Eagle
Lizard Buzzard
Shikra
Black/Yellow-billed Kite
African Fish Eagle
Common Buzzard
African Scops Owl
Verreaux's Eagle-Owl
African Wood Owl
African Barred Owlet
Red-faced Mousebird
Eurasian/African Hoopoe
Green Wood Hoopoe
Common Scimitarbill
Southern Ground Hornbill
Southern Red-billed Hornbill
Crowned Hornbill
African Grey Hornbill
Trumpeter Hornbill
Racket-tailed Roller
Lilac-breasted Roller
Broad-billed Roller
Grey-headed Kingfisher
Brown-hooded Kingfisher
Striped Kingfisher
Malachite Kingfisher
Half-collared Kingfisher
Giant Kingfisher
Pied Kingfisher
Little Bee-eater
White-fronted Bee-eater
Böhm's Bee-eater
European Bee-eater
Southern Carmine Bee-eater
Black-collared Barbet
Crested Barbet
Lesser Honeyguide
Greater Honeyguide
Bennett's Woodpecker
Cardinal Woodpecker
Brown-necked Parrot
Meyer's Parrot
Lilian's Lovebird
African Broadbill
Chinspot Batis
Grey-headed Bushshrike
Orange-breasted Bushshrike
Brown-crowned Tchagra
Black-backed Puffback
Tropical Boubou
White-crested Helmetshrike
Retz's Helmetshrike
White-breasted Cuckooshrike
Black Cuckooshrike
Black-headed Oriole
Fork-tailed Drongo
African Paradise Flycatcher
Pied Crow
Southern Black Tit
Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Lark
Common/Somali/Dodson's/Dark-capped Bulbul
Yellow-bellied Greenbul
Terrestrial Brownbul
Grey-rumped Swallow
Brown-throated Martin
Barn Swallow
Wire-tailed Swallow
Lesser Striped Swallow
Long-billed Crombec
Willow Warbler
Rattling Cisticola
Croaking Cisticola
Neddicky
Tawny-flanked Prinia
Yellow-breasted Apalis
Green-backed/Grey-backed Camaroptera
Yellow-bellied Eremomela
Arrow-marked Babbler
Southern Yellow/Forest/Northern Yellow/Green White-eye
Wattled Starling
Greater Blue-eared Starling
Lesser/Miombo Blue-eared Starling
Meves's Starling
Violet-backed Starling
Yellow-billed Oxpecker
Red-billed Oxpecker
Kurrichane Thrush
Southern Black Flycatcher
Pale Flycatcher
Ashy Flycatcher
White-browed Robin-Chat
Collared Palm Thrush
African/Madagascan Stonechat
Arnot's Chat
Collared Sunbird
Amethyst Sunbird
Scarlet-chested Sunbird
White-bellied Sunbird
Variable Sunbird
Copper Sunbird
Southern Grey-headed Sparrow
Red-billed Buffalo Weaver
White-browed Sparrow-Weaver
Spectacled Weaver
Holub's Golden Weaver
Lesser Masked Weaver
Village Weaver
Red-headed Weaver
Red-headed Quelea
Red-billed Quelea
Yellow-mantled Widowbird
Green-winged Pytilia
Red-throated Twinspot
Red-billed Firefinch
Jameson's Firefinch
Blue Waxbill
Common Waxbill
Bronze Mannikin
Village Indigobird
African Pied Wagtail
African Pipit
Plain-backed Pipit
Yellow-fronted Canary
 
 
Beobachtungen insgesamt: 208
IOC World Bird List 9.2 (June 2019)
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I´m as jealous as anybody else, now I have to start your TR and that won´t help as well:P.

 

Where are you going to get those 3 species you need to reach 500?

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6 minutes ago, Tdgraves said:

C’mon @michael-ibk you must have three more up your sleeve....

1 minute ago, pedro maia said:

Where are you going to get those 3 species you need to reach 500?

 

I just might. And watch me now Pedro. :)

 

498/E196.) European Greenfinch (Chloris chloris) / Grünfink

 

Mils, Tirol, 25/11. A lovely morning walk today.

 

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499/E197.) Great Grey Shrike (Lanius excubitor) / Raubwürger

 

Mils, Tirol, 25/11. This was my main target today, and very happy I found it. A first for me at home in Tirol. Quite a shy bird but it let me approach reasonably close. Unfortunately the sun had not yet come out.

 

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500/ZA57.) Southern Carmine Bee-Eater (Merops nubicoides) / Scharlachspint

 

I had to keep this for the big number. One of my favourites.

 

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Congratulations on your unassailable 500. Very impressive, even in a non-COVID year! :D

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I should have known better :lol:.

 

Really impressive Michael, how you managed to reach 500 this year, and you didn´t even needed to came to portugal :P, congrats!!

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An excellent 500 to crown the year.

With the amount of birdlife in Pioneer (and the neighbour's veg patch) I could make a case of forgetting to travel further.

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You had me going there - "I've finished Zambia" - but what about the Carmine I was thinking, then there it was with the spectacular number 500 next to it.  Congratulations!!!

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Congratulations, some really interesting and beautiful birds and some really impressive photography!

As others have said, unassailable this year. But with more than a month left, how much further can you go?

 

:ph34r:

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500! Wow!

great achievement Michael, I can only look on with envy as I struggle to reach 200. :(

2 visits to Africa definitely gave you an edge. Imagine how many you might have got if you'd managed a trip to Portugal as well. :P

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Very, very well done reaching 500 birds, Michael.  A great finish with the carmines.

 

Impressive list of 208 birds for Zambia (no idea where I was looking but I know I didn't see 208 :wacko:).  After seeing your fantastic pictures I had changed my mind about posting mine, but seeing as you have only put up new BY ones I might subject you all to mine after all :D.

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25 minutes ago, Zim Girl said:

After seeing your fantastic pictures I had changed my mind about posting mine, but seeing as you have only put up new BY ones I might subject you all to mine after all :D.

 

Ha Ha Angie, you don't get off that easily

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Congratulations on an amazing 500, Michael. Many great birds and photos from Zambia. The name 'Pioneer' crept up at every other photo; what a place!  And of course a magical nr 500 with the Carmine Bee-eater.

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7 hours ago, Soukous said:

Ha Ha Angie, you don't get off that easily

Absolutely not!

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Dave Williams

Well, well, I peaked in at the right time. 500....WOW! Fabulous collection of images they are too.

Who dares wins as they say. 

I have my fingers crossed for a vaccine, no need to have to get pre flight corvid checks just a vaccine certificate and the freedom to come and go as we please once again. Hopefully next year!!

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Many thanks everybody. I do appreciate I was very lucky to do two trips to Africa this year, and obviously that gave me a huge advantage. Without the evil thing which shall remain nameless several Big Year contestants would certainly have easily overtaken me.

On 11/25/2020 at 8:48 PM, Galana said:

With the amount of birdlife in Pioneer (and the neighbour's veg patch) I could make a case of forgetting to travel further.

 

On 11/26/2020 at 5:25 PM, PeterHG said:

The name 'Pioneer' crept up at every other photo; what a place!

 

You know I actually decided next time I want to have at least a full day there, it really is such a productive patch.

 

On 11/26/2020 at 8:42 AM, Peter Connan said:

But with more than a month left, how much further can you go?

 

That´s an easy answer Peter, not very far! Lockdowned here in Austria. We have somehow managed to become (in relative terms) the country with the most infections in the world. And unlike in spring I know far too many now who´ve been caught by "it". :(

 

On 11/26/2020 at 8:44 AM, Soukous said:

Imagine how many you might have got if you'd managed a trip to Portugal as well.

 

Yes, there´s that, and also how much wine I could have had with Pedro and @Game Warden! B)

 

On 11/26/2020 at 1:33 PM, Zim Girl said:

After seeing your fantastic pictures I had changed my mind about posting mine, but seeing as you have only put up new BY ones I might subject you all to mine after all 

 

Nonsense Angie, you know you would never have gotten away with not posting yours, and you know it. :)

 

2 hours ago, Dave Williams said:

I have my fingers crossed for a vaccine, no need to have to get pre flight corvid checks just a vaccine certificate and the freedom to come and go as we please once again. Hopefully next year!!

 

So say we all Dave. So say we all.

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Beautiful shots of a stunning bird to top the league with the 500th. 

 

Congratulations on the racket-tailed roller too!

 

(sorry for the side question - I kept forgetting to ask if the beds in Pioneer camp were still as soft as they were back when we were there in 2017 [OMG was it that long ago???]) 

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7 hours ago, Kitsafari said:

the beds in Pioneer camp were still as soft as they were back when we were there in 2017

I can confirm from two stays in 2019 they were very soft but have no past experience to compare them with.

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10 hours ago, Kitsafari said:

I kept forgetting to ask if the beds in Pioneer camp were still as soft as they were back when we were there in 2017 [OMG was it that long ago???]) 

 

Sorry Kit, I don´t really remember - which means it can´t have been too bad otherwise I would have been down on the floor. And yes, wow, three years already.:(

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Congratulations, the #500 (and maybe a few more?) means you are declared winner-elect of Big Year 2020. Excellent result for this year, @michael-ibk !!

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Well done on reaching 500 - a magnificent achievement. Especially this year. I really enjoyed your Zambia additions.

When we stayed at Pioneer (2013) we were not really into birds- so there were very few in the gardens:D

 

As an aside, I was interested that the German for "Thrush" is "Drossel" - very similar to "Throssle" and old English name for a thrush.

As an aside to the aside, and English Football team, West Bromwich Albion has a nickname of the Throstles and has a thrush on their badge!

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  • 2 weeks later...

Thanks Tony and Alex. Tony, you might remember I started out this BY with a strong Latin focus, I´m very interested in that. But then I quickly just became too lazy to continue that. :-)

 

501/E198.) European Golden Plover (Pluvialis apricaria) / Goldregenpfeifer

 

Rum/Tirol, 8/12. Really delighted about this one. Golden Plovers are extremely rare in Austria - I´ve only ever seen one from very far away in Seewinkel. And there are very few records for Tirol. We had heavy snow in the mountains these past days, and so I suppose they had to come down somewhere. Down in the valley the snow quickly turned to rain, so they still can feed there. (Up here where I live we have about half a metre snow, and it´s almost 1 1/2 where my parents live!) A friend found them and alerted me. Initially there were almost 40 - naturally they flew off until I arrived. But seven were kind enough to stick around for me.

 

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