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[Wiganlad]

Further to my earlier post I have found these old shots of the same bird table, possibly Mara, maybe Amboseli and wonder what some are. Pic one I am mainly wondering about the smaller bird centre rear rim with clear pale eyering; pic 2 the yellow bird (seems different from my earlier post); pic 3 Purple Grenadier?; pic 4 a weaver of some kind? If there are other species lurking amongst the bulbuls then I would appreciate any guidance.

 

[sharptail]

struggling to do anything definitive with any of these, but the lone left-facing bird (image 1100123) looks like a Twinspot (female Peters' perhaps?) from shape and the markings that are just visible, although the hint of blue around the eyes is throwing me slightly (but that could be photo artefact).

 

[jrawcliffe]

No. 3 Purple Grenadier?
No. 4 Buffalo Weaver?

 

[Wiganlad]

Thank you both for your suggestions. I see that I've really thrown in a bit of a challenge with these. Anyone else's help gratefully appreciated too!

 

[birdboybowley]

1 Yellow-spotted Petronia for me
2 Weaver sp....
3 Purple Grenadier yes
4 more like a Village Weaver

 

[Wiganlad]

1 Yellow-spotted Petronia for me
2 Weaver sp....
3 Purple Grenadier yes
4 more like a Village Weaver

Brilliant call for the Petronia. My old guide shows nothing like it but when I looked online....spot on! Thank you. And I also found images just like my pic 4 which look just the same, ie Village Weaver. Many thanks for that one too. I think we were agreed on Purple Grenadier and I'll do more searching for the Weaver in pic 2. Any thoughts on these fellows from an earlier post? Various suggestions already made include a type of Firefinch, young flycatcher and Taveta Golden Weaver

 

[Andy Adcock]

Brilliant call for the Petronia. My old guide shows nothing like it but when I looked online....spot on! Thank you. And I also found images just like my pic 4 which look just the same, ie Village Weaver. Many thanks for that one too. I think we were agreed on Purple Grenadier and I'll do more searching for the Weaver in pic 2. Any thoughts on these fellows from an earlier post? Various suggestions already made include a type of Firefinch, young flycatcher and Taveta Golden WeaverView attachment 1373739View attachment 1373740View attachment 1373741

With a big, red blob, in front of the eye, what am I missing,

 

[birdboybowley]

Actually Andy think you're looking at last 3 pics not the first 4 which is where the petronia is👍

 

[MacNara]

1 Yellow-spotted Petronia for me
2 Weaver sp....
3 Purple Grenadier yes
4 more like a Village Weaver

I think 2 is Village Weaver female, though I guess it could be Vitelline Masked female. But we can't see the legs; the eye looks dark, but we can't be sure; and there are photo artefacts. So, I don't think this can get a definite ID.

 

[MacNara]

For post #6 (Wiganlad's second group).

The first bird is just a female Red-billed Firefinch. Red in front of the eye, red rump. The bill colour can't be seen clearly, but that's OK.



At first sight, the second bird looks like a juvenile flycatcher. But the spots are in the wrong locations for Slaty-backed, and on closer inspection, I'm not sure it's one of the flycatchers at all. So: I don't know.

These photos, presumably scans from slides are often badly colour-balanced. I have reduced the yellow saturation in the third photo. You can now see that the bird is a juvenile weaver. It has a pink bill and still has the yellow juvenile gape. It's a lot less yellow. At a quick glance, one of the golden weavers is a possibility (though actually I don't think so), but unless someone is confident with very young weavers, then I don't think this can be confidently IDd. It would be useful if Wiganlad could tell us which adult weavers were in other photos taken at the same time and location.



Tip: If you Insert > Thumbnail, the thumbnail goes where the cursor is. In online editing vocabulary, this means that the thumbnails (and indeed the full-size photos if you choose that option) are 'inline'. You can move them about just like text (e.g. if you put a space in front of them, they will move right; if you put a return in front of them, they will move down).

 

[Andy Adcock]

Actually Andy think you're looking at last 3 pics not the first 4 which is where the petronia is👍

Yup, sorry.