Kruger 2012 Birds ID

[pedro maia]

When I came back from this year trip to Mashatu I started to make birds life lists in bubo.org, one is from SA since we drove to Botswana border and back, then I also added some species from other trips to SA and I had the idea to have another deeper check on my pictures from those trips to try and add more birds to my lists (I´ll also have to do that with my Pantanal trip).

 

With this quarantine thing my BY has to wait for better times but I have more time so I started with my 2012 trip to Kruger, I don´t really have many birds because I didn´t pay too much attention to them but to help pass time I´m going to post first those I coould ID (please feel free to correct my mistakes) and then I´ll post those I have doubts and also some UFOs, maybe even one of those can be identified.

Edited March 17, 2020 by pedro maia

[pedro maia]

Southern ground hornbill

 

Southern yellow-billed hornbill

 

Grey lourie

 

Hamerkop

 

Helmeted guineafowl

 

Red-billed oxpecker

 

White-backed vulture

 

Lilac-breasted roller

 

African fish eagle

 

Purple-crested turaco

[pedro maia]

And now those I need confirmation or ID:

 

1 - Cape glossy starling?

 

2 - Cape glossy starling?

 

3 - Lesser-masked weaver?

 

4 - Tawny eagle?

 

Picture from Sunset Dam with several species to ID

 

5 - Yellow-billed stork juveniles (the adults I don´t have doubts)?

 

6 - UFOs

 

7 - UFOs

 

8 - Hadada ibis?

 

9 - UFO

 

9 - UFO (with yellow-billed stork and hadada ibis, I guess)

 

10 - Fork-tailed drongo?

 

11 - Gray heron? + some eagle?

 

12 - White-breasted cormorant?

 

13 - UFO?

 

That´s all, if someone is bored...

[michael-ibk]

Having never been to Kruger I´m not the most qualified Person to do this but I´ll give it a try nonetheless.

 

1: Cape Glossy or Greater Blue-Eared Starling, both occur according to the Maps and look very similar.
2: Looks more like Greater Blue-Eared Starling (Very blue on the belly and below the eye, distinct dark spots on the wing)
3: Agree with Lesser Masked Weaver

4: Agree with Tawny Eagle (colour looks right, bill very heavy)
5: The smaller birds are African Spoonbills
6: UFO indeed. Water Thick-Knees probably
7: Maybee White-Crowned Lapwing
8: Agree with Hadada
9: Thick-Knee again?
10: Agree with Drongo, tail looks right
11: Grey Heron and juv. African Fish Eagle
12: Agree with WB Cormorant
13: Wow, you are not making this easy. Probably Cormorant again. Their stones tend to look like this, they have not joined the toilet paper madness yet.

Edited March 18, 2020 by michael-ibk

[pedro maia]

Thanks @michael-ibk, I should have IDeed the African Spoonbills, as for the UFOs, 6 and 9 may be Water thick-knees, let´s see if somoene else is bored enough to have a go, maybe @Galana although he is probably too busy with his Uganda´s EBCs.

 

Starlings are a pain in the..., some of them are too similar.

Edited March 18, 2020 by pedro maia

[mvecht]

@pedro maia  Pedro, I think they are Stone Curlews

aka Dikkop or Thick knee

[pedro maia]

36 minutes ago, mvecht said:

@pedro maia  Pedro, I think they are Stone Curlews

aka Dikkop or Thick knee

 

In #6 it’s posible to see (badly) the eyebrow and the bill of one of them and that’s what it looks like.

[Peter Connan]

No. 11: Is the big bird not perhaps a Marabou? Can't really see enough, but to me it seems wrong for a Heron?

[pedro maia]

55 minutes ago, Peter Connan said:

No. 11: Is the big bird not perhaps a Marabou? Can't really see enough, but to me it seems wrong for a Heron?

 

It would add to my list but I don’t have any other picture of that one.

[pedro maia]

I found the rest of the pictures from this trip, I IDeed a few more:

 

Bateleur

 

Common bulbul (hi @xelas )

 

Grey heron (the other one was doubtful)

 

Southern red-billed hornbill

 

Magpie shrike

[pedro maia]

Now is when I need help.

 

This one is the starling from post #3 above, I really think is a Blue-eared starling

 

Not sure if this is the same bird but is from the same momment

 

A "better" picture from UFO 7 from post #3, I think it confirms that it´s a White-crowned lapwing

 

14 - Another Tawny eagle?

 

15 - Egyptian goose?

 

16 - Marabu stork?

 

17 - Reed cormorant?

[xelas]

Starling is correctly ID as Greater Blue-eared Starling

Yes, another Tawny Eagle

Egyptian Goose on eggs 

Yes, the ugly bird

Might be but you should discard this photo, is almost like taken by @Galana 

[pedro maia]

1 hour ago, xelas said:

Starling is correctly ID as Greater Blue-eared Starling

Yes, another Tawny Eagle

Egyptian Goose on eggs 

Yes, the ugly bird

Might be but you should discard this photo, is almost like taken by @Galana 

 

More respect for the EBC king .

 

if you have another look that’s a crop of part of the picture of the grey heron in post #10, I just realized that posible reed cormorant was there too.

[michael-ibk]

8 hours ago, xelas said:

Yes, another Tawny Eagle

 

Nope don´t think so - 14 looks like a juv. African Harrier-Hawk (Gymnogene) to me. Agree with everything else.

[xelas]

3 minutes ago, michael-ibk said:

 

Nope don´t think so - 14 looks like a juv. African Harrier-Hawk (Gymnogene) to me. Agree with everything else.

 

See, I do get confused with anything that is not a bulbul 

[michael-ibk]

And even Bulbuls can be very tricky!

[pedro maia]

10 hours ago, michael-ibk said:

 

Nope don´t think so - 14 looks like a juv. African Harrier-Hawk (Gymnogene) to me. Agree with everything else.

 

These raptors are really a chalenge, let´s see if there are more opinions.

[pedro maia]

I made the additions to my SA list in bubo.org but I couldn´t add the White-breasted cormorant because it´s not listed, the cormorants listed for SA are the following:

 

Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)

Cape Cormorant (Phalacrocorax capensis)

Bank Cormorant (Phalacrocorax neglectus)

Reed Cormorant (Phalacrocorax africanus)

Crowned Cormorant (Phalacrocorax coronatus)

 

Any thoughts? Doesn´t the White-breasted cormorant occur in SA?

 

 

 

[Peter Connan]

Yes, definitely. 

 

 

 

Edited March 20, 2020 by Peter Connan

[pedro maia]

Thanks @Peter Connan, and nice pictures.

 

I’m thinking that at bubo.org they aren’t separating it from the Great cormorant, what I read here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_cormorant makes me think that.