Kingfisher
I feel both these are examples of the brown-hooded Kingfishers.
I have learned when ID kingfisher its important to check the upper and lower beak colours. In this case it is orange for both. When I first saw them I thought the were Mangrove kingfishers, mainly because of the orange beak and grey head (as apposed the the woodland kingfisher which is more commen around here), but because of the spread and colouring i think now they are brown-hooded kingfishers, not sure though. They are not Striped kingfishers as they dont have the brown lower body.
One image was shot at suncity (200 km of Johannesburg), the other at Rust de Winter (50km north of Pretoria)
I feel both these are examples of the brown-hooded Kingfishers.
I have learned when ID kingfisher its important to check the upper and lower beak colours. In this case it is orange for both. When I first saw them I thought the were Mangrove kingfishers, mainly because of the orange beak and grey head (as apposed the the woodland kingfisher which is more commen around here), but because of the spread and colouring i think now they are brown-hooded kingfishers, not sure though. They are not Striped kingfishers as they dont have the brown lower body.
One image was shot at suncity (200 km of Johannesburg), the other at Rust de Winter (50km north of Pretoria)
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