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Lanner Falcon Skukuza Camp South Africa Oct 22 (1 Viewer)

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Can someone please confirm this to be a Lanner Falcon? Taken in Skukuza Camp South Africa Oct
Thanks
Chris
 

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? The OP seemed to suggest it was the same bird in all four photos. And, with details hidden by shrubbery, photo four looks OK for the same bird to me. ?
Surely a different bird. Look how slender its bill is compared with the falcon's. Eyes different. I wondered about lizard buzzard as I think I see a throat stripe but I think it's too dark and eye pattern wrong
 
Surely a different bird. Look how slender its bill is compared with the falcon's. Eyes different. I wondered about lizard buzzard as I think I see a throat stripe but I think it's too dark and eye pattern wrong
Perhaps. I think it's difficult to say in photo four what is photo artefact and what is shadow and what is due to the angle of the photo - I took your throat stripe to be either shadow or a falcon's face stripe seen from a different angle - but the OP seemed to think it was the same bird, or at least same species, and judging from the photo numbering (150-155-156-162) they were taken at almost exactly the same time - but if so, agreed, how did the bird move from the pole to the bush?
 
Pic 4 is certainly a different bird: bill-tip structure, face-pattern, lack of wing-covert-fringing. The 'throat-stripe' is the shadow of the bill. The photo-numbering is not an indication that the photos were all 'taken at almost exactly the same time'.
 
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