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Birdbrain22 said:
Odd... it was definitely on streetview as it was at the start of the trail. Ill try to find it again

EDIT... Ah now I see. I was just looking at continuous paths and assuming they were streetview as opposed to the circles meaning just someones picture. But now I see someone can great a whole segment along a trail or road.
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Had a look nearby, found a Common Gallinule #171 :t:
https://www.google.com/maps/@28.361...185.28015&pitch=0&thumbfov=100!7i16384!8i8192
 
Full list update; 172:


Common Ostrich
Australian Brushturkey
Red Grouse
Red-legged Partridge
Common Pheasant
Helmeted Guineafowl
Vulturine Guineafowl
Magpie Goose
Canada Goose
Greylag Goose
Pink-footed Goose
Coscoroba Swan
Black Swan
Mute Swan
Whooper Swan
Egyptian Goose
Common Shelduck
Paradise Shelduck
Crested Duck
Pacific Black Duck
Mallard
Chestnut Teal
Hardhead
New Zealand Scaup
Tufted Duck
Common Eider
Goosander [Common Merganser]
House Swift
Common Swift
Alpine Swift
Rock Dove [feral pigeon]
Woodpigeon
Collared Dove
Mourning Dove
Zebra Dove
Australasian Swamphen
Common Gallinule
Common Moorhen
Dusky Moorhen
Eurasian Coot
Greater Flamingo
Chilean Flamingo
Eurasian Oystercatcher
Variable Oystercatcher
Pied Avocet
Black-winged Stilt
Pied Stilt
Northern Lapwing
Masked Lapwing
Blacksmith Lapwing
Eurasian Curlew
Black-tailed Godwit
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
Common Sandpiper
Willet
Common Redshank
Black-legged Kittiwake
Black-headed Gull
Slender-billed Gull
Silver Gull [Silver & Red-billed sspp]
Laughing Gull
Dolphin Gull
Belcher's Gull
Black-tailed Gull
Heermann's Gull
Common Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Kelp Gull
Slaty-backed Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Western Gull
Glaucous Gull
European Herring Gull
American Herring Gull
Caspian Gull
Yellow-legged Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Royal Tern
Cabot's Tern
Forster's Tern
Common Tern
Arctic Tern
Sooty Tern
Black Guillemot
Laysan Albatross
Black-footed Albatross
Northern Fulmar
Christmas Shearwater
White Stork
Marabou Stork
Magnificent Frigatebird
Pygmy Cormorant
Double-crested Cormorant
Little Black Cormorant
Great Cormorant
Sacred Ibis
Australian White Ibis
American White Ibis
Glossy Ibis
Squacco Heron
Western Cattle Egret
Eastern Cattle Egret
Grey Heron
Great Egret
White-faced Heron
Snowy Egret
Little Egret
Great White Pelican
Dalmatian Pelican
Brown Pelican
Turkey Vulture
American Black Vulture
Western Osprey
Griffon Vulture
Yellow-billed Kite
Black Kite
Red Kite
Hen Harrier
Cinereous Harrier
Bald Eagle
Common Buzzard
Burrowing Owl
Green Woodhoopoe
Pied Kingfisher
Common Kestrel
Lesser Kestrel
Crimson Rosella
Australian King Parrot
Australian Magpie
Magpie-lark
Red-backed Shrike
Fork-tailed Drongo
Black Drongo
Rufous Treepie
Iberian Magpie
Eurasian Magpie
Western Jackdaw
House Crow
American Crow
Rook
Carrion Crow
Hooded Crow
Pied Crow
Common Raven
White-spectacled Bulbul
Red-vented Bulbul
Barn Swallow
House Martin
Common Myna
Tristram's Starling
Common Starling
Spotless Starling
Northern Mockingbird
Mistle Thrush
Common Blackbird
American Robin
Great Thrush
Black Redstart
European Stonechat
White Wagtail
House Sparrow
Spanish Sparrow
Common Chaffinch
Reed Bunting
Great-tailed Grackle
Red-winged Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
Red-crested Cardinal

Awaiting verification:
Slavonian Grebe (post 62)
Franklin's Gull (posts 258, 260)
Pigeon sp., Lima (post 259)
Audouin's Gull (post 280)
Asian Koel (post 356)

Savanna Elephant
Asian Elephant
Human
Long-tailed Macaque
Olive Baboon
Chacma Baboon
Black-faced Vervet Monkey
Spectacled Flying-fox
California Sealion
Warthog
Plains Zebra
Impala
Defassa Waterbuck
 
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jurek said:
Asian Openbills
https://www.google.com/maps/@4.0601...4!1s_RWe1oKDEPeAG_LjDw1QNQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
Purple heron
https://www.google.com/maps/@4.0573...4!1s-Wesay2YGmdcYwOvhy-HTA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
More Openbills or Painted Storks?
https://www.google.com/maps/@4.0666...4!1sNGWZRnvZPS1C-QmgNbCdTA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
Strangely – no Metallic Starling, which seemed to be everywhere in this area, no pond herons... Also, i could not find an Alpine Chough on any pass...
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Asian Openbill #173, Purple Heron #174. Can't make out the flying birds!
 
Nutcracker said:
Talking of Asian Openbill, could these in Kampala be African Openbills?
https://www.google.com/maps/@0.2956...05.506454&pitch=0&thumbfov=100!7i13312!8i6656
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I think so. long legs, larger than white egrets.

One more game drive in Botswana: African fish eagles
https://www.google.com/maps/@-17.83...4!1sqDEJgeKdrPoKWfko-A2xPQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@-17.83...4!1s-94zqw6AkQtVIc1qdk8KWg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Red-billed Teals
https://www.google.com/maps/@-17.83...4!1srkTdriIGKONxJPcDOpBhZA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@-17.83...4!1sfLA9B7hmgWydhqjjcBxvBw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
(together with lots of unidentifieds, which I think include Fulvous whistling-ducks and black herons. They need a better camera!)
Hippo
https://www.google.com/maps/@-17.83...4!1sMkuxBLvJHpt3oIdRBle5Qw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
 
jurek said:
I think so. long legs, larger than white egrets.

One more game drive in Botswana: African fish eagles
https://www.google.com/maps/@-17.83...4!1sqDEJgeKdrPoKWfko-A2xPQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@-17.83...4!1s-94zqw6AkQtVIc1qdk8KWg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Red-billed Teals
https://www.google.com/maps/@-17.83...4!1srkTdriIGKONxJPcDOpBhZA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@-17.83...4!1sfLA9B7hmgWydhqjjcBxvBw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
(together with lots of unidentifieds, which I think include Fulvous whistling-ducks and black herons. They need a better camera!)
Hippo
https://www.google.com/maps/@-17.83...4!1sMkuxBLvJHpt3oIdRBle5Qw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
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Excellent, thanks! I'll add African Openbill #175; African Fish Eagle #176, and Red-billed Teal #177 (couldn't make them out in 1st pic, but got them in 2nd!), and Pippohotamus :t:
Others I could make out there include Egyptian Geese, Helmeted G'fowl, Blacksmith Lapwing and Little Egret, all already got.
Is this one a Black Heron?
https://www.google.com/maps/@-17.83...4!1s-L1e4LaGtN6LaUDCV-lj0g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
 
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Th. Stegmann said:
One of my all time favourite birds in a remarkable quality:

Swallow-tailed Kite, Florida:
https://www.google.com/maps/@25.148...4!1sBDQcik5DqwXbzi729JJBIg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

I wish I had a photo in this quality of it...

Edit: And the smalest animal I found til now. A flying bug or bumblebee or...
https://www.google.com/maps/@25.141...=38.19035&pitch=0&thumbfov=100!7i13312!8i6656
So finding Goldcrests or Hummingbirds should be no problem :)
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Wow!! #178.


On insects, there's one long stretch in Northumbs where there's a squashed fly or something stuck to the camera lens for many km :-O very blurred though.
 
Shoveler

https://goo.gl/maps/prZv9RJMGsnnTjDX6

Lots of variety (mostly already on the list) around this pool - but not all wild birds (Ostriches and the Cranes at the least - it was a Safari Park but now marked as closed on the map - which does explain the antelopes below the trees a bit further on). At least one Wagtail on the road. Possibility someone will be able to pick out something we've not got yet.

https://goo.gl/maps/cUyoSXV7SUpNxtAw9

EDIT: Someone has forgotten their car.... ;-)
https://goo.gl/maps/SHMn4rUZxNJrV1Kr5
 
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Stonefaction said:
Spur Winged Lapwing

https://goo.gl/maps/d3ngdpToqAaSNmF38

Shoveler

https://goo.gl/maps/prZv9RJMGsnnTjDX6
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##180, 181 :t:

Stonefaction said:
Lots of variety (mostly already on the list) around this pool - but not all wild birds (Ostriches and the Cranes at the least - it was a Safari Park but now marked as closed on the map - which does explain the antelopes below the trees a bit further on). At least one Wagtail on the road. Possibility someone will be able to pick out something we've not got yet.

https://goo.gl/maps/cUyoSXV7SUpNxtAw9
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I'll leave out the Crowned Crane then 3:)




EDIT: saw the 'temporarily closed' on the map, seen that on numerous other places, I suspect it's a covid-19 closure, not a 'permanently shut' thing :t:
 
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Stonefaction said:
Lots of variety (mostly already on the list) around this pool - but not all wild birds (Ostriches and the Cranes at the least - it was a Safari Park but now marked as closed on the map - which does explain the antelopes below the trees a bit further on). At least one Wagtail on the road. Possibility someone will be able to pick out something we've not got yet.
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This one? I'd say White Wagtail, tho' it does look a bit dark, blackish?
https://www.google.com/maps/@32.044...4!1sackiayU0-OO4vI8R6Va-hw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
 

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