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  1. Hillevandam

    who can help me with this one? This moth is found in farm bush/ deteriorated tertiary rainforest.

    This moth is found in the east of Sierra Leone West Africa.When seated, the front wing is folded so it looks like a curled up leaf. If you have an idea as to what family or genus this is please reply too everything helps to narrow down the search.
  2. Hillevandam

    Who knows somebody with some knowledge of West African moths?

    Who knows somebody with some knowledge of West African mothsThere are no books available as far as I know and I have a few hundred photographs that I would like to identify.
  3. Hillevandam

    is this a moth or some type of hopper?

    This insect is found in the east of Sierra Leone West Africa. Usually I encounter it sitting on less than 1meter from the ground but that maybe coincidence. It seems not to be too particular to specific vegetation as long as there is enough shadow and undergrowth. If this is a moth, I would like...
  4. Hillevandam

    Is this a tessman's flycatcher?

    Saw this bird in the area near my house in Kwidadu Kono District in the east of Sierra Leone w.Africa. If this is a Tessman's Flycatcher, it is 50-100 km outside its small distribution area in the south-east of Sierra Leone. Who can confirm or come up with a different ID for this bird?
  5. Hillevandam

    Is this a moth?

    You could be right. The shape is similar to some Cicadellidae, I could not find any pictures of leafhoppers with a fan shaped tail though. Such tails are more something for Cixiidae but then the body shape is completely different. Thanks anyway.
  6. Hillevandam

    Is this a moth?

    This creature sat on the outside of the window of my livingroom in Kwidadu in the east of Sierra Leone (w. Africa). It is about 8mm. If it is a moth, to what family does it belong? I am well aware of the fact that only about 10% of the African insects have been described so even if you are not...
  7. Hillevandam

    Crows & Gull, Preston, Lancashire

    both correct (although the spelling is Carrion Crow)
  8. Hillevandam

    who can help ID this young bird

    How long do juv sunbirds have their juv. colours in general?
  9. Hillevandam

    who can help ID this young bird

    Plenty of collared Sunbirds around here. Seem to have never gotten juv.s in my garden so far although I see them every day. Thanx.
  10. Hillevandam

    Warbler like bird in my garden, ID?

    Would anybody confirm this to be a female pygmy Sunbird(the only Hedydipna spp in west Africa)?
  11. Hillevandam

    Warbler like bird in my garden, ID?

    On April 10 I saw this small bird in my garden in Kwidadu in Kono district Sierra Leone w.Africa. I do't know what happened to the back of the head. Over exposure, wind or baldness? Who can help me with the id. ?
  12. Hillevandam

    who can help ID this young bird

    Found on the edge of a rice swamp in Kono district in the east of Sierra Leone w. Africa. The behaviour of the birds (4 or 5 in the same shrub) looked like fledglings to me. Beeping a lot as if waiting on feeding.
  13. Hillevandam

    Nkulengu Rail

    Jan, I fully agree with you. I am in the possession of a Vernacular list of plants in Sierra Leone. There is not a singular tree named after the sound they make (like ratelpopulier in Dutch) yet most are named after properties like 'spoon wood' (different Apocaniceae that have soft wood that is...
  14. Hillevandam

    Nkulengu Rail

    Jan, I fully agree with you. I am in the possession of a Vernacular list of plants in Sierra Leone. There is not a singular tree named after the sound they make (like ratelpopulier in Dutch) yet most are named after properties like 'spoon wood' (different Apocaniceae that have soft wood that is...
  15. Hillevandam

    Juvenile weaver

    On 30 November I saw this weaver near Kwidadu in the east of Sierra Leone (w.Africa) could this be a juvenile veillot's black weaver or is it something else?
  16. Hillevandam

    Slender billed greenbul?

    On 2 March I saw this bird across the road from my house in Kwidadu in the east of Sierra Leone(w.Africa). My first guess is slender billed greenbul but I don't think it can be because there are not too many large trees anymore in the area and this one sits not more than 3m high in a bush. Swamp...
  17. Hillevandam

    Tinkerbird?

    On 8 March I saw this bird in a tree near my house in Kwidadu in the east of Sierra Leone (w.Africa). It may be a tinkerbird but I can't see the white markings in the face. Who can help me?
  18. Hillevandam

    Salagena transversa??

    I saw this moth in my house in the east of Sierra Leone w.Africa two weeks ago. I guessed right away that it is a metarbelidae but as there are 7 species of which only one has got photos on the web I had to go by names. As this one has got lines across its wings, transversa could be the logic...
  19. Hillevandam

    My patch is your patch, is our patch, is here

    New in Sierra Leone, just on a trip? Feel welcome to join me here for birding, entomology or botany or just whatever else moves around in wi yon Salone. I 've been around for about 20 years here and have still loads of mystery pictures but also the key to solving some of your mysteries maybe. I...
  20. Hillevandam

    Unknown birds Panama

    No 3 is a (Streptopelia) dove. It has not got a black collar, that would make identification a lot easier. No 1 could be a weaver if those are found in Central America.
  21. Hillevandam

    India, Ranthambore. Shikra?

    Wow, this shikra looks completely different from the ones in Western Africa. Never saw the white spots on the back. Are there subspecies within the Acipiter badius?
  22. Hillevandam

    Dutch duck ID

    Little history on dutch ducks In the 1970s I would only see the occasional Gadwall in the Amsterdamse waterleidingduinen but anywhere else only Mallards. Now everywhere in the west of Netherland it is almost the other way around. Gadwalls have increased as have Shovelers but the mallard has...
  23. Hillevandam

    is this a juvenile honeyguide greenbul?

    On Dec 1 I saw this bird in the tree opposite my house in Kwidadu just north of Koidu in the east of Siera Leone w. Africa. The white outer tail feathers do not match the grey backed Cameroptera, though all the other colours do. Could it be a juv. honeyguide greenbul? The picture in my birdbook...
  24. Hillevandam

    What bug is this

    Thanks for helping me in the right direction. With only about 10% of the African insects described the chance that it has not got a name yet is considerable. Reduviidae are mentioned as present in W.Africa but there is no mention of the family on the Sierra Leone checklist yet. I have now added...
  25. Hillevandam

    what sunbird female is this

    thanx Thanks guys. It is a brown sunbird. We are here near the distribution boundary and I just forgot that they are here. Wonder why they call it mangrove sunbird as it is definitely not bound to mangrove The only mangrove swamps are over 200km away.;)
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