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Showing posts with label Helmeted Guineafowl. Show all posts
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Monday, 20 January 2020

Moving to the North-Eastern part of South Africa and a few different birds.

Bateleur eagle (Terathopius ecaudatus) adult....

Bateleur youngster.
The immature bateleur eagle's feathers are a uniform dark brown. Around the third year, this plumage starts to turn into adult colours of black, white and grey. It can take an immature bateleur up to 8 years to shed all their brown plumage and turn in to full adults

As above.

Martial eagle (Polemaetus bellicosus). The largest eagle in Africa, it weighs in at almost  6.5 Kg (14 lbs) and has a wingspan of about 6 feet 4 inches. It is 32 inches long.

As above.

Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea)
Morning wing-spread behaviour is a means of absorbing solar energy and passively raising their temperature to proper daytime levels...

As above...

As above.

Grey lourie (Corythaixoides concolor), also known as go-away bird, It is a very vocal bird with a nasal call “g'wa-ay, g'wa-ay” call, thus its name.

Giant kingfisher (Megaceryle maxima). It is the largest kingfisher in Africa.

Woolly-necked stork or whitenecked stork (Ciconia episcopus).

Helmeted guineafowl (Numida meleagris).



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Sunday, 1 December 2019

Birds seen in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. 2019

Southern masked weaver or African masked weaver, (Ploceus velatus).

As above

The male masked weaver, a master at nest building.

Helmeted guineafowl (Numida meleagris).

Yellow-fronted canary (Crithagra mozambica).

As above.

Cape robin-chat (Cossypha caffra).

Cardinal woodpecker (Dendropicos fuscescens).

Cape Thick-knee, also known as Spotted Dikkop (Burhinus capensis).

Cape wagtail (Motacilla capensis),



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