Several birds from western Uganda in Sept part 2. (1 Viewer)

[chris8796]

A variety of birds that I am uncertain about for one reason or another. If needed, I can go back and get specific location data for a specific picture.

DSC_4786 and DSC_4793 are different angles of the same bird.

 

[Butty]

1. An apalis. Maybe immature chestnut-throated apalis. No idea.
2. African thrush presumably.
3. I guess more likely to be northern black flycatcher than dusky tit.
4. Brown-crowned tchagra (black border to brown crown-stripe).
5. Options: brimstone canary, yellow-fronted canary, yellow-crowned canary. Got any more photos?
6. A sunbird.
7. A flycatcher.
8. Bronze sunbird.
9. A sunbird.
10. Maybe streaky seedeater.
11-12. Looks like a stonechat in the wrong habitat
13. A (small-looking) honeyguide. I guess Willcock's honeyguide or least honeyguide are most likely.
14. Silverbird.
15. Dark chanting-goshawk (I'm guessing too chunky for Gabar goshawk).

 

[THE_FERN]

1. White-chinned prinia
2. Olive thrush
3. Northern black flycatcher
4. Brown-crowned tchagra
5. Yellow-fronted canary

7. African dusky flycatcher
8. Agree

 

[THE_FERN]

9. Female bronze sunbird
10-12. Agree
13. Dwarf honeyguide, I think. Can't see loral spots but these are often invisible anyway. Jizz & bill best for this suggest
14-15. Agree

 

[Butty]

13. Dwarf honeyguide, I think. Can't see loyal spots but these are often invisible anyway. Jizz & bill best for this suggest

Suits me, but the book (duff maps, so I've been told) says it's out of range there.

 

[THE_FERN]

Suits me, but the book (duff maps, so I've been told) says it's out of range there.

Hmm. You're right but ebird shows it is there: extends up the albertine rift. We could go back for precise location if the op is keen.

 

[Butty]

We could go back for precise location

Let's!

 

[chris8796]

Thanks for all the help, #13 the exact location is Lake Bunyonyi, -1.2878941464070153, 29.91451610826711

If I was going to guess, it would be an immature lesser honeyguide. I looked through the other photos and no loral spot or malar stripe in any.

 

[THE_FERN]

Thanks for all the help, #13 the exact location is Lake Bunyonyi, -1.2878941464070153, 29.91451610826711

If I was going to guess, it would be an immature lesser honeyguide. I looked through the other photos and no loral spot or malar stripe in any.

Given the habitat that's probably the only option. Doesn't look much like that species, but it's only one photo. Pity we can't see the undertail.

 

[chris8796]

Best picture of undertail, I don't know if it helps.

 

[Indobirder]

I was going to say that 3 is Silverbird, but it appears the order of the images has changed as it used to be 14... Odd

 

[THE_FERN]

Best picture of undertail, I don't know if it helps.

Hmm well undertail pattern looks completely different to that in Fanshawe 1st Ed. But ebird "headline" photos suggest it's OK and book wrong [see the "u"-shaped black marks on the undertail and how those marks relate to the terminal band [which we can't really see here]]. This photo looks more like lesser: get impression of vague dark grey malar + pinkish lower bill base, for example

 

[Butty]

the order of the images has changed

BF does that. Extremely annoying, confusing and time-wasting.

 

[THE_FERN]

BF does that. Extremely annoying, confusing and time-wasting.

y: but I guess it's difficult to legislate for how things [what order] will appear on different devices. Best policy: give your images simple names [1,2,3... not dsc_224124524 etc]

 

[Butty]

It seems to have been the experience through several different threads that viewing on different devices isn't the basic cause: groups of many photos start off in one order, and - hey presto - a short time later the order has changed. The order of the group in this thread is now radically different from the order when I first commented.
If the problem is that there's a threshold number of photos above which consistent performance can't be relied on, there should be an automatic rejection of photos posted above that limit. Posters could then post a 2nd batch of photos in a 2nd comment - etc. We would then all know where we are - without anyone having to think/do/remember any rules (because experience demonstrates that people ignore rules unless they are the intuitively obvious thing to do in any case).

 

[Andy Adcock]

It seems to have been the experience through several different threads that viewing on different devices isn't the basic cause: groups of many photos start off in one order, and - hey presto - a short time later the order has changed. The order of the group in this thread is now radically different from the order when I first commented.
If the problem is that there's a threshold number of photos above which consistent performance can't be relied on, there should be an automatic rejection of photos posted above that limit. Posters could then post a 2nd batch of photos in a 2nd comment - etc. We would then all know where we are - without anyone having to think/do/remember any rules (because experience demonstrates that people ignore rules unless they are the intuitively obvious thing to do in any case).

There used to be a max of five pics per post or was it three (?), before the redesign.

 

[THE_FERN]

...viewing on different devices isn't the basic cause...

Not really what I meant and we can't tell without seeing the source code. I meant that it's difficult to design something right which will work on all devices.

Either way, suggest best approach is rename as I say. Relying on implicit information (in this case order) is risky at the best of times

 

[THE_FERN]

Thanks for all the help, #13 the exact location is Lake Bunyonyi, -1.2878941464070153, 29.91451610826711

If I was going to guess, it would be an immature lesser honeyguide. I looked through the other photos and no loral spot or malar stripe in any.

If location is same, suggest most likely match for original no. 6., the dark female sunbird is northern double-collared.