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Tanzania set 2 (1 Viewer)
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lou salomon
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1 is a 1st winter curlew sandpiper
5 looks like Southern/East African Citril.
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6135/6017306029_ef1ed02dbc.jpg
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6135/6017306029_ef1ed02dbc.jpg
The Curlew Sandpiper, (Ssp Black-headed) Mountain Greenbul, Rattling Cisticola and Citril all look good to me.
Photo 4 really is difficult. I've darkened it up to try and get a bit more detail out of the photo. I wonder if it might be juvenile (pale bill) or female Red-billed Quelea? It has red legs, pale underparts, an eyestripe behind but not in front of (I think, the lighting is very bright) the eye. But I don't have any confidence. I'm not even sure of the angle of the head. Female Straw-tailed Whydah could maybe look like this in a certain light (but the bill looks too big). Or...
I hope someone else will comment on this.
(Edited: originally, by error, I put Bulbul, not Greenbul.)
Photo 4 really is difficult. I've darkened it up to try and get a bit more detail out of the photo. I wonder if it might be juvenile (pale bill) or female Red-billed Quelea? It has red legs, pale underparts, an eyestripe behind but not in front of (I think, the lighting is very bright) the eye. But I don't have any confidence. I'm not even sure of the angle of the head. Female Straw-tailed Whydah could maybe look like this in a certain light (but the bill looks too big). Or...
I hope someone else will comment on this.
(Edited: originally, by error, I put Bulbul, not Greenbul.)
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Thanks - Straw-tailed Whydah looks most likely I think but can't rule out House Sparrow so will have to call it a mystery I think 
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Valéry Schollaert
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Thanks - Straw-tailed Whydah looks most likely I think but can't rule out House Sparrow so will have to call it a mystery I think
It is a straightforward House Sparrow, no whydah here.
Your bulbul is Black-headed Mountain Greenbul as here
http://www.tanzaniabirds.net/African_birds/greenbul_black-headed_mountain/bhmg.htm
Regards,
