Bird ID from Botswana (1) (1 Viewer)

[tcom]

Hello

I am just back from a short two week safari in the Okavango delta and have a few birds I would like to have identified.

Here is the first post with birds taken just outside of Maun:

Pic 1

Pic 2

Pic 3

Pic 4

 

[White*Kite]

Without getting the books out I'm not sure about Pic 2, but my opinions on the others:

Pic 1 - Fork-tailed Drongo Dicrurus adsimilis
Pic 3 - Arrow-marked Babbler Turdoides jardineii
Pic 4 - Crimson-breasted Shrike Laniarius atrococcineus

 

[nigelblake]

pic 2 looks like a female Golden Bishop

 

[John Butler]

pic 2 looks like a female Golden Bishop

Don't think so Nigel. We have plenty of GB's here in Donana and all the females have fairly streaked bellies and a rather prominent supercilium

 

[tcom]

Thank you for your answers.

If interested, I have on page 6 of my bird pages the photos of the birds taken in the Okavango delta and the Chobe NP. I hope I have identified them correctly.

 

[doug_newman]

My take on the 4 birds is as follows.

1) Fork-tailed Drongo
3) Arrow-marked Babbler
4) Crimson-breasted Shrike.

As for number 2 it is clearly a weaver and there is only one female weaver with that sort of pink bill. I make it a female Red-headed weaver which you do get in that area.

Cheers.
Doug

 

[doug_newman]

On the collection of photos, there are a few corrections

Prionops retzii should be Corvinella melanoleuca
Lamprtornis nitens should be Lamprotornis australis
Gyps coprotheres should be Necrosyrtes monachus

 

[tcom]

I have made the corrections.

Thank you very much for your help Doug