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blue eared starling Botswana (1 Viewer)
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Andy Adcock
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Miombo, look at the flank colour.
Jean FRANCOIS
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Greater for me.
Miombo is very marginal in this country.
Jean
Miombo is very marginal in this country.
Jean
Andy Adcock
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It's close enough to the Caprivi strip to be in range I think and GB-e doesn't have chestnut flanks or black mask.
Brown feathering is a sign of immaturity in both species: not sure we can tell which it is from the colour here. Both species exhibit a "black" mask depending on angle. According to birds of birds of Botswana (read through Google), miombo has a narrower mask which appears as an eye streak. I don't get this impression here (although I'm not familiar with the miombo split): when I first saw this pic I thought greater. Certainly the mask expands behind/below the eye. So greater for me
