Pls ID help (Tanzania 2) (1 Viewer)

[geopap]

07/2007 Tanzania
1 = ?
2 & 3 the same birds The first 3 photos at Indian Ocean
4 = Great White Egret?
5 = Little Egret? (I can't see long slim bill)
Many thanks for your time

 

[Bird Hard 2]

Photo 2 and 3 are House Crow
You are right about 4 and 5 - Great White and then Little Egrets.
Photo 1 is 2 House Crows attacking what looks like a Reef Heron, but may be a Purple Heron. The angle of the photo might be hiding some true colouring on the wing.

 

[Microtus]

The legs on the heron in #1 look dark, contrasting with yellow feet. So the heron should be Western Reef Heron, or perhaps Black Egret??

 

[jc122463]

Hi Geopap,
1. House Crows attacking either Little or Dimorphic Egret.
2+3. House Crows
4. Intermediate Egret (the bill size looks wrong for Great Egret).
5. Probably Little Egret

 

[Steve G]

Hi Geopap,
1. House Crows attacking either Little or Dimorphic Egret.
2+3. House Crows
4. Intermediate Egret (the bill size looks wrong for Great Egret).
5. Probably Little Egret

Image 4 is a Great White Egret -check out the gape.
If image 5 was taken at coastal/mangrove then White phase Dimorphic Egret can't be excluded on the basis of this image.

 

[geopap]

Νο 4 & 5

Photo no 5 from Zanzivari - Indian Ocean
One more photo from the same bird with No 4

 

[Steve G]

Separating Little Egret, Dimorphic Egret & Western Reef Heron is pretty tricky & may not be possible with your images. In east Africa Little Egret avoids coastal mudflats & mangroves.
Still sure that image 4 is GWE -gape extending almost beyond the eye is diagnostic.

 

[David Swanepoel]

Agree with Steve on GWE

 

[Nicky mwangi]

Hi geopap

Photo 2-3-Indian house crow [corvus s splendens]
'''''' 4- western reef Heron [egretta gularis schistacea]
5-Dimorphic egret [Egretta dimorpha]
I agree with Stive G on the whole issue of distribtion of little egret at the east african coast.