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Saturday, 19 October 2019

Just a list of birds seen while out yesterday for the record. Photos will follow when we get home late November.


58 Birds seen out with Tim Cockroft 18/10/2019 Southern Africa

African darter
(Anhinga rufa)
African stonechat
(Saxicola torquatus)
Bar-throated Apalis
(Apalis thoracica )
Black-bellied starling
(Notopholia corusca)
Bokmakierie Shrike
(Telophorus zeylonus)
Brown-hooded kingfisher
(Halcyon albiventris)
Cape glossy starling
(Lamprotornis nitens)
Cape longclaw or orange-throated longclaw
(Macronyx capensis)
Cape wagtail
(Motacilla capensis
Chinspot batis
(Batis molitor) 
Collared sunbird
(Hedydipna collaris)
Common Greenshank
(Tringa nebularia)
Common ringed plover or ringed plover
(Charadrius hiaticula)
Common starling
(Sturnus vulgaris)
Crowned Eagle
(Stephanoaetus coronatus)
Dark-backed weaver
(Ploceus bicolor)
Dark-capped (Black-eyed) Bulbul
(Pycnonotus tricolor)
Diederik Cuckoo
(Chrysococcyx caprius)
Egyptian goose
(Alopochen aegyptiaca)
Fan-tailed widowbird or red-shouldered widowbird
(Euplectes axillaris)
Fork-tailed drongo
(Dicrurus adsimilis)
Greater striped swallow
(Cecropis cucullata)
Green-backed camaroptera
(Camaroptera brachyura)
Green-backed Woodpecker
(Campethra Cailliautii)
Grey Heron
(Ardea cinera)
Grey plover
(Pluvialis squatarola)
Grey Sunbird
Cyanomitra veroxii
Hadeda Ibis
(Bostrychia hagedash)
Jackal buzzard
(Buteo rufofuscus)
Karoo prinia or spotted prinia
(Prinia maculosa) 
Kelp gull
(Larus dominicanus)
Kittlitz's plover
(Charadrius pecuarius)
Lesser striped swallow
(Cecropis abyssinica)
Little egret
(Egretta garzetta)
Long-tailed widowbird
(Euplectes progne)
Olive thrush
(Turdus olivaceus)
Pearl-breasted swallow
(Hirundo dimidiata)
Pied kingfisher
(Ceryle rudis)
Red-capped lark
(Calandrella cinereal_)
Red-faced mousebird
(Urocolius indicus) 
Red-fronted Tinkerbird
(Pogoniulus pusillus)
Red-winged starling
(Onychognathus morio)
Rufous-naped lark
(Mirafra africana) 
Southern black flycatcher
(Melaenornis pammelaina) 
Southern double-collared sunbird 
(Cinnyris chalybeus)
Southern fiscal or fiscal shrike
(Lanius collaris) 
Speckled Mousebird
(Colius striatus)
Spur-winged goose
(Plectropterus gambensis)
Streaky-headed seedeater or streaky-headed canary
(Crithagra gularis) 
Thick-billed weaver
(Amblyospiza albifrons)
Trumpeter hornbill
(Bycanistes bucinator)
Turaco or Knysna Lourie
(Tauraco corythaix)
White-necked raven
(Corvus albicollis)
White-rumped swift
(Apus caffer)
Wing-snapping cisticola
(Cisticola ayresii)
Yellow Weaver
(Ploceus subaureus)
Yellow-billed Duck
(Anas undulata )
Yellow-breasted apalis
(Apalis flavida)

Tim is highly recommended if you are travelling in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, we had an amazing day.  Diane

3 comments:

  1. That's quite an impressive list. There's a lot of ticks for me there. Looking forward to the pics.

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  2. Flippin' Heck - that's a list and a half!!!!

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  3. Hi Diane - obviously you're having a great time ... especially with 58 birds in a few days ... just keep on enjoying being 'home in the south' again! Cheers Hilary

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