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

[49bentley]

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

 

[tconzemi]

Agreed, last one is a Buteo

 

[49bentley]

Thanks Tom.

 

[MacNara]

Agreed, last one is a Buteo

? 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. ?

 

[THE_FERN]

? 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

 

[MacNara]

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?

 

[Indobirder]

Last bird looks like Jackal Buzzard?

I initially thought Augur, but looks like Jackal "replaces" that one in SA

 

[Butty]

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'.

 

[49bentley]

Thanks MacNara, The Fern, Indobirder and Butty.