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Raptors, Savute, Chobe NP, Botswana -Nov'17 (1 Viewer)

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Benjoman

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Hi

~4,000 photos from honeymoon safari trip to Botswana and amazingly only about 10 birds unidentified!

A collection of raptors here from the Savuti region of Chobe NP:

1) Not a clue!
2-3) This one had our guide stumped...so he said it was a Steppe Buzzard. I can't match that against my guide book or anything else online. It felt smaller than an average buzzard at the time
4) Thought it was one of the abundant Yellow-Billed Kites at the time, but rounded tail suggests something else.
5) I have this as a Tawny Eagle, but looking for confirmation as the other Tawnys in the area were more fawn in colour

Any help very gratefully received

Cheers
 

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tconzemi said:
1. Tawny Eagle
2. and 3. light morph Wahlberg's
4. and 5. Yellow-billed Kites
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Thanks Tom

Are you confident on the Wahlbergs? I don't have anything better...just that we saw Wahlbergs elsewhere on the trip and this felt considerably smaller in the field.

Re. 4&5, I had both of these as Yellow-Billed Kites in the field, just review of photos that had me questioning.
In 5, the beak looks heavier than any of the other YBKs I saw, all of which were also uniform yellow, not the case here.

Cheers
Ben
 
Benjoman said:
Thanks Tom

Are you confident on the Wahlbergs? I don't have anything better...just that we saw Wahlbergs elsewhere on the trip and this felt considerably smaller in the field.

Re. 4&5, I had both of these as Yellow-Billed Kites in the field, just review of photos that had me questioning.
In 5, the beak looks heavier than any of the other YBKs I saw, all of which were also uniform yellow, not the case here.

Cheers
Ben
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@ Wahlberg’s: feathered tarsi so Aquila, you don’t get anything smaller in Aquila than this most typical individual
@ Juvenile dark billed Yellow-billed Kite: juvenile have black bill, this older juvenile shows already a yellow smudge at culmen, bill looks normal to me
 
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