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Agree, it´s just so cool seeing them doing what they are famous for.

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Oh crikey. 2017 is already flying past and I'm just getting around to posting my first birds.   It has been a slow start but hopefully a trip to Botswana in May will help me get my numbers up. In

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Cape Weaver (Ploceus capensis) Klein Karoo, South Africa, Feb 2017  

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#161  Black Collared Barbet (Lybius torquatus)

Majete NP, Malawi. Nov 2017

 

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#162 Crowned Hornbill (Lophoceros alboterminatus)

Majete NP, Malawi. Nov 2017

 

I saw these in South Luangwa as well, but the photo is from Majete

 

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#163 Trumpeter Hornbill (Bycanistes bucanator)

Shire River, Majete NP, Malawi. Nov 2017

 

 

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#164 Brown Headed Parrot (Poicephalus cryptoxanthus)

Majete NP, Malawi. Nov 2017

 

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#165  Yellow Canary (Crithagra flaviventris)

Majete NP, Malawi. Nov 2017yellow-canary.thumb.jpg.19281dd5cef61c909d6edaa48580fcd4.jpg

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@Soukous, Common Greenshank and Common Sandpiper seem to popup the world over. I was chatting to someone this morning who saw a Wood Sandpiper out on a station in the Kimberley, so they cover some ground too. The Tambourine Dove sounds nothing like a Tambourine, so I won't wonder "why". The African Goshawk is a beautiful bird.

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Well done catching the Black Heron with a fish in it's beak!

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16 hours ago, Peter Connan said:

Well done catching the Black Heron with a fish in it's beak!

 

Pure luck @Peter Connan I followed the bird around for quite some time, waiting for it to emerge from among the reeds and took pictures every time it spread its wings. I only noticed the fish when i was looking at the images after I got home.

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#166 Speckled Mousebird - (Colius striatus)

Lake Malawi, Malawi. Oct 2017

 

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#167 Palm Nut Vulture (Gyphhierax angolensis)

Majete NP, Malawi. Nov 2017  

 

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#168 European Bee Eater (Merops apiaster)

Majete NP, Malawi.  Nov 2017

 

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#169 Bohm's Bee Eater (Merops Boehmi)

Majete NP, Malawi. Nov 2017

 

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#170 Wailing Cisticola (Cisticola lais)

Majete NP, Malawi. Nov 2017

 

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On 11/11/2017 at 10:34 AM, Soukous said:

#165  Yellow Canary (Crithagra flaviventris)     Er! Not really. Try Mozambicus?

Coming in a bit late to your latest batch. As others, the Black Heron is a great shot and of course I love the Boehm's B Eater..

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34 minutes ago, Galana said:

Coming in a bit late to your latest batch. As others, the Black Heron is a great shot and of course I love the Boehm's B Eater..

 

@Galana That's poetic justice regarding the Canary. My guide said it was a Yellow Fronted Canary (Mozambica) and that is what I recorded at the time. When I was posting I looked in my guide book again and thought it looked more like a Yellow Canary. Hubris!

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#171  Kurrichane Thrush (Turdus libonyana) 

Majete NP, Malawi. Nov 2017

 

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#172 Lizard Buzzard (Kaupifalco monogrammicus)

Majete NP, Malawi. Nov 2017

 

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#173 Tropical Boubou (Laniarius major) 

Majete NP, Malawi. Nov 2017

 

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#174 Pin Tailed Whydah (Vidua macroura) 

Majete NP, Malawi. Nov 2017

 

sorry about the quality, it was far away

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#175 Broad Billed Roller (Eurystomus glaucarus) 

Majete NP, Malawi. Nov 2017

 

This was quite a quest. I saw a couple on South Luangwa, but always far away and against the light. The one time I thought I might get a photo, the broad Billed Roller was chased away by a Lilac Breasted Roller.

My first couple of sightings in Majete were also not great, with very poor light. 

Finally though, I got my shot. 

I'm particularly thrilled as this bird was on my wish list - I'd never seen one before.

 

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And a lovely shot you got too!

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Am very jealous of your BBR @Soukous it was one of the few on my wishlist that we failed to find....

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23 hours ago, Tdgraves said:

Am very jealous of your BBR @Soukous it was one of the few on my wishlist that we failed to find....

 

There were a few on my list that I didn't find at all and even more that I saw but couldn't get a photo of, so I was very very happy to finally snag the Broad Billed Roller

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