Namibia - Waterberg - Hopeless Cases (1 Viewer)

[Jacob12]

Okay, so here's the ones that I don't expect much from. All seen in mid-March at Waterberg NP in central Namibia

1. Diurnal Raptor- Is it possible to get to genus?
2. Female Sunbird - Is it possible to ID to species?
3-4. Common Buzzard? (more photos available, if helpful)
5. I really have no idea, maybe a barbet or puffback? That bill sure does look blue, but that doesn't match any bird in the book. Found in thick green forest, and was briefly seen at the top of a tree and then diving down into the branches. Bigger than a nearby African Paradise Flycatcher.

 

[Butty]

1. Bin it. Immature southern pale chanting-gos?? Who could ever tell.
3-4. Looks slightly more interesting than a buzzard. Dunno.
5. White-browed sparrow-weaver. I expect.

 

[Butty]

2. Sunbird: scarlet-chested, Marico, white-bellied - presumably one of those - but I wouldn't put faith at all in this photo actually representing the underparts correctly.
3-4. I guess immature steppe-type buzzard. But intermediate-morph booted eagle also occurs to me - or doesn't that exist any more?! a dark pale-morph one?

 

[Jacob12]

Thanks for the guesses. Would you be able to see the 'landing lights' on a booted eagle from this angle?

 

[Butty]

Oh! Same bird, I take it. That really doesn't look like a buzzard. More pics still? (please).

 

[Andy Adcock]

Looks like a Snake Eagle to me?

 

[Butty]

Looks like a Snake Eagle to me?

Must be immature black-chested snake-eagle.

 

[Waxwings]

5. White-browed sparrow-weaver. I expect.

The face pattern doesn't look right for White-browed Sparrow-weaver. I think it's an Acacia Pied Barbet.

 

[njlarsen]

Oh! Same bird, I take it. That really doesn't look like a buzzard. More pics still? (please).

Does not look like the same bird to me. The two initial images had inner primaries much paler than the outer but more importantly also paler than secondaries. That effect is gone in the third image.

Could we please have original times for these images?

Niels

 

[Butty]

Acacia Pied Barbet

Agree.

Does not look like the same bird to me

Possibly not - can't be sure from the plumage details. But all three photos still look good for immature black-chested snake-eagle.

 

[Jacob12]

Could we please have original times for these images?

They are all the same bird. I took a series of images between 10:08 and 10:09 and these photos all came from that burst. It was the only soaring raptor I photographed that day. I don't upload full-size images because data is very expensive and limited here in Namibia. (Edit: I realized I could just screenshot with the metadata displayed next to the photo)

 

[Andy Adcock]

The face pattern doesn't look right for White-browed Sparrow-weaver. I think it's an Acacia Pied Barbet.

That waas my thought too.

 

[tconzemi]

Juv Black-chested SE is correct

 

[Muppit17]

In addition to Butty's list of sunbirds, Dusky can be added. But I agree that there is not enough to I'd it here, although the beak shape would exclude a few options

 

[Butty]

beak shape would exclude a few options

. . . including dusky sunbird - hence I didn't list it.