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Red-billed Oxpeckers
May 8th, 2012
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Sunbirds can’t hover?
April 26th, 2012
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Purple Sunbirds usually don’t hover much but this one was hunting for spiders very intently by hovering at the tips of branches Tweet
Greater-painted Snipe
April 25th, 2012
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Greater-painted snipe is unusual in showing reversed sexual dimorphism; the female is larger and more brightly colored than the male, with the sides of the head, neck and throat a rich chestnut brown, and a distinct black band across the breast; the male is paler and greyer. Tweet
Johnny Jhonny, Yes Papa….
April 20th, 2012
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The Kentish Plover, Charadrius alexandrinus, is a small wader in the plover bird family. Despite its name, this species no longer breeds in Kent, or even Great Britain. It breeds in a wide range, from southern Europe to Japan and in Ecuador, Peru, Chile, the southern United States and the Caribbean. The North American Committee [...]
The toss…
April 13th, 2012
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The Southern Carmine Bee-eater (Merops nubicoides) (formerly Carmine Bee-eater) occurs across sub-equatorial Africa, ranging from KwaZulu-Natal and Namibia to Gabon, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and Kenya. This species, like other bee-eaters, is a richly coloured,striking bird, predominantly carmine in colouration, but with the crown and undertail coverts blue. Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Carmine_Bee-eater Tweet
Spur-winged Goose
April 12th, 2012
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The Spur-winged Goose (Plectropterus gambensis) is a large bird in the family Anatidae, related to the geese and the shelducks, but distinct from both of these in a number of anatomical features, and therefore treated in its own subfamily, the Plectropterinae. It occurs in wetlands throughout sub-Saharan Africa. Tweet
Indian Black Francolin
April 11th, 2012
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There are six recognized subspecies of Black Francolin: F. f. francolinus (Linnaeus, 1766) – Western Black Francolin – Cyprus, southern Turkey to Iraq and Iran F. f. arabistanicus (Zarudny and Harms, 1913) – Iranian Black Francolin – southern Iraq and western Iran F. f. asiae (Bonaparte, 1856) – Indian Black Francolin – northern India F. [...]
Blacksmith Lapwing
April 9th, 2012
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The Blacksmith Lapwing or Blacksmith Plover (Vanellus armatus) occurs commonly from Kenya through central Tanzania to southern and southwestern Africa. The vernacular name derives from the repeated metallic ‘tink, tink, tink’ alarm call, which suggests a blacksmith’s hammer striking an anvil. Tweet
Booyah to you
April 4th, 2012
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Rueppell’s Glossy-Starling
April 2nd, 2012
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Rueppell’s Glossy-Starling – immatures have dark eyes! It is named after Wilhelm Peter Eduard Simon Rüppell (20 November 1794 – 10 December 1884). He was a German naturalist and explorer. Rüppell is occasionally transliterated to “Rueppell” for the English alphabet. Tweet
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