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From: Brian Finch <birdfinch@gmail.com>
To: Itai Shanni <itaisha1@yahoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, 10 August 2011, 19:28
Subject: STRIPED HYENAS AND BLACK-CHEEKED WAXBILL IN NAIROBI NATIONAL PARK

Dear All,
Just as a matter of interest, after seeing the Striped Hyena images
taken by the Lhoirs in Nairobi National Park a few weeks ago, I asked
Tom Butynski if he had heard of any Nairobi records in the past.
He referred it to Laurence Frank at Berkeley who advised the following;


"a few years ago someone in Kitengela raised a baby striped hyena that
had been injured by Masai herders.  They also occur around both
Amboseli and the Mara, so I am not surprised to hear of them in NNP.
They are so nocturnal, solitary, and silent that people consider them
rare, but Aaron Wagner found them to be quite common in Laikipia.

Laurence"

For some bird news, on the same day the Lhoirs also photographed a
couple of associating waxbills at the Hippo Pools in Nairobi National
Park. One is a very obvious Black-faced, the other is a very obvious
Black-cheeked, but not the form that occurs down Magadi Road, or
Tsavo, where the overall ground colour tends to resemble the kiwanukae
form of Black-faced (the only race we have in Kenya), but is identical
to the typical Black-cheeked as would be seen in Samburu or Baringo.
This is an incredible surprise.
It is of course a new species for Nairobi National Park and the entire
Nairobi district.

best for now
Brian