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Juvenile Eastern Chanting-goshawk
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Juvenile Eastern Chanting-goshawk (Melierax poliopterus)

Bird watching in `As `Ela, Djibouti

Bird identified with the help from the birdforum: https://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=366981


And as I managed to get a sound recording you can listen to this very bird here: https://www.xeno-canto.org/433906
Habitat
Oasis
Location
`As `Ela, Djibouti
Date taken
8 September 2018
Scientific name
Melierax poliopterus
Equipment used
Canon 5D
Supporter
DABS, thank you for your kind words!

It was an adventure to get the picture. I was sneaking after the bird, 500 kg bird watcher, and no, we were not in a group, I was alone.

I managed to make a recording of the bird and I was playing the sound and I was finally managing to come really close after having followed the bird around in `As `Ela gardens.

And this is what I found to be the most fun, trying to sneak up on the birds for a close up picture. And I enjoyed myself for more than an hour with this bird.
 
Staff member
Opus Editor
Supporter
That's a lovely picture you've taken of this youngster Aladdin.

We don't have a juvenile image in The Opus as yet, so I'll upload this one to the article shortly.

Many thanks for sharing it with us lad.

If the sound recording is your own, I could also upload it to the article. Would it be possible to upload it in .mp3 to a thread in [COLOR="Blue"]The Opus forum[/COLOR]?
 
A very well detailed close up of this lovely bird, Aladdin.
 

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