Hi again Martin,
Could you please just write something up for the rarities committee
with the image. We are at present going through Beaudouin's records
and it would be great to include yours.
Please send it to Nigel Hunter <nigelhunter@timbale.org>
thanks for that
Brian

On 3/21/14, Brian Finch <birdfinch@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Martin,
> This is a fantastic record, not because it is a Beaudouin's but
> because it is an immature Beaudouin's. Two years ago at this exact
> time, I had a dependent juvenile with an adult at Nambale. There were
> two adults in the area, and presumably constituted a pair. The fact
> that a begging young was with one of them meant that it was locally
> bred, and constituted the first time ever in Eastern Africa, and the
> immature the first to be found in Eastern Africa.
> Now your bird is in first plumage, my bird from two years ago has
> probably changed considerably in plumage by now, and I think that this
> is strongly suggestive that Beaudouin's has bred in the area again.
> Well done for identifying a plumage that is incorrect in most of the
> bird literature,
> Best for now
> Brian
> Brian
>
> On 3/20/14, Martin Odino <martinchael@gmail.com> wrote:
>> This is today's record. C. beaudouini certainly turning up more
>> frequently
>> than C. pectoralis at Bunyala Rice Scheme, western kenya.
>> (NB: Even my older,-not so old; from 2011- poorer images on closer
>> examination are disappontingly then again excitingly more of beaudouini
>> than pectoralis)
>>
>> Humble regards
>>
>