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Hi all,
I took some time to do some birding while doing some other work at Mpala Research Centre (central Laikipia) today. Here’s some of sightings:
1. Ostrich
2. Yellow-billed Duck
3. Red-billed Teal
4. African spoonbill
5. Lesser Kestrel
6. Bateleur
7. Tawny eagle (8+)
8. Martial eagle
9. Common greenshank
10. Laughing dove
11. Black & white cuckoo
12. Hoopoe
13. D’Arnaud’s Barbet
14. Chin-spot batis
15. Fawn-coloured Lark
16. Rattling cisticola
17. Red-faced crombec
18. Superb starling
19. Hildebrandt’s starling
20. White-browed scrub robin
21. Isabelline wheatear
22. Common rock thrush
23. Speckle-fronted weaver
24. Yellow-rumped seedeater
25. Cinnamon breasted bunting
26. Common snipe
Some other recent sightings:
Nov 10 Red-billed oxpecker (2)
Nov 30 brubru, northern white-crowned shrike, steel-blue whydah
Oct 31 Purple-throated Cuckooshrike, African grey flycatcher
Daily – Scarlet-chested sunbird, Von der Decken’s & red-billed hornbill, yellow-spotted petronia, white-browed sparrow weaver, vitelline weaver, red-fronted barbet
Nov 24 – Long-tailed widowbirds (2 males), black-bellied bustard
Oct 27 – Rufous-crowned roller, 2 lesser kestrels, augur buzzard, tawny eagle, steppe eagle, martial eagle
Oct 29 crowned plover
Oct 16 – lappet-faced vulture, 3 white-backed vultures
Sep 30 – Ruppell’s vultures and 5 white-backed vultures
Sep 18 White-backed vulture
Sep 23 Imm African crowned eagle
Sep 23 Eurasian bee-eaters (20)
Sep 25 Pearl-spotted owlet (calling)
And all those others you see daily but only record momentarily in your brain!
Cheers, Darcy
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