Kenya Birds 06 Misc (1 Viewer)

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MacNara

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• May 24, 2013

• #1

Photos 1 and 2. We saw a flock of lapwings which I think was mixed Black-winged (Photo 1) and Senegal (Photo 2). Both are new to me, so confirmation would be helpful.

Photos 3 and 4: Is this LBJ from Mount Kenya identifiable?

Photo 5: What's this? (Samburu)

 

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M

MacNara

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• May 24, 2013

• #2

Photo 6 and Photo 7: We saw Green Wood-hoopoe in Sweetwaters (no photos here). These two photos are from Samburu, and we didn't get a close look. Is it possible to tell if they are Violet or Green (I think both are possible in Samburu)?

Photo 8: Is this a juvenile Fischer's Starling?

Photo 9: Near Baringo, we saw Little, Northern Masked and Jackson's Golden-backed Weavers. This looks like Speke's, but we didn't see any others there.

Photo 10: Red-mantled Widowbird. Is the small bird on the right a female widowbird, or might it be a Whydah?

Thanks to those who followed all the way through. That's all (at least for the moment).

 

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JWN Andrewes

Poor Judge of Pasta.

• May 24, 2013

• #3

No books to hand, so I'm going to leave most of them, apart from the putataive Fischer's starling which is screaming Prodotiscus Honeybird at me. No idea which species though.

Cheers

James

 

M

MacNara

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• May 24, 2013

• #4

JWN Andrewes said:

No books to hand, so I'm going to leave most of them, apart from the putataive Fischer's starling which is screaming Prodotiscus Honeybird at me. No idea which species though.

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I'd love it to be this, since I didn't see and have never seen a Honeybird/Honeyguide. But the problem is, this bird has a yellow eye. And it's this, plus the black line leading up to the eye, plus general colouration, plus the fact that we saw Fischer's Starling in the same park that made me go for this identification.

 

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Tib78

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• May 24, 2013

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-1/2: confirmed
-3/4: African dusky flycatcher
-5: Pink-breasted lark
-6/7: always difficult on pics but Violet seems likely (no obvious green shine)
-8: stumped! Not a Fischer's starling; James's suggestion is interesting, I guess there is no other picture?
-9: Speke's sounds good but another picture wouldn't hurt
-10: the right bird is a whydah...you're really getting good at this game Mac!

 

Tib78

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• May 24, 2013

• #6

Mac,

Regarding bird 8, I believe James was right. It must be a Wahlberg's honeyguide. That was my conclusion after his comment (really well done James!), but I was unhappy with the tail pattern (lacking a dark tip). Now that I have checked Stenvenson and Fanshawe's as well as Zimmerman and al.: juvenile Wahlberg's has an all white undertail, something I forgot obviously!

In short: I don't see a yellow eye, the jizz fits Wahlberg's...and I don't see any other option!

 

M

MacNara

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• May 24, 2013

• #7

That's phenomenal of you both, James and Tib, and my mistake with the yellow eye. Immature Wahlberg's Honeybird it is.

 

JWN Andrewes

Poor Judge of Pasta.

• May 24, 2013

• #8

Woo-hoo! After a run of lousy ID contributions I finally get one right!

Cheers

James

 

M

MacNara

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• May 24, 2013

• #9

JWN Andrewes said:

Woo-hoo! After a run of lousy ID contributions I finally get one right!

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More than right. That really was very well spotted. I'm sorry about the yellow eye comment; my own eyes seem to have been the problem. Thanks very much.

 

Valéry Schollaert

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• May 24, 2013

• #10

Hi all,

Good job guys, sorry to be late, I was in the field...

eye-colour of the weaver shouts Speke's, and juv Walhberg's got me in the field already, in Bogoria, so I confirm this one too.

Cheers

 

M

MacNara

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• May 24, 2013

• #11

Valéry Schollaert said:

Hi all...eye-colour of the weaver shouts Speke's

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Hi Valery, and thanks. The Speke's is strange only because, while we saw large flocks of them in other places, we didn't see any in Bogoria except this lone individual, even though we were walking around where we saw this bird for about an hour (we saw lots of Northern Masked and Jackson's Golden-backed).