Hi Darcy,
The yellow eye, dark underparts with neat whitish rounded tips suggest
these are Brown Babblers which are the babbler you would expect at
Kitale. It's north of the equator all across to the highland parts of
the Ewaso Nyiro above Isiolo.
Best for now
Brian

On 12/28/15, Darcy Ogada ogada.darcy@peregrinefund.org [kenyabirdsnet]
<kenyabirdsnet-noreply@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> For years I've been seeing babblers at our farm near Kitale.  I've waivered
> on their ID.  The attached photos suggest they are Arrow-marked, which
> would be significantly out of the range for this species as indicated in
> Zimmerman et al.
>
> The location of our farm is
> https://www.google.co.ke/maps/place/1%C2%B000'03.6%22N+35%C2%B014'27.6%22E/@0.5780728,34.7136563,8z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0?hl=en
> <https://www.google.co.ke/maps/place/1%C2%B000%2703.6%22N+35%C2%B014%2727.6%22E/@0.5780728,34.7136563,8z/data=%214m2%213m1%211s0x0:0x0?hl=en>
>
> I'd be grateful if someone could confirm this.  Assuming these are
> Arrow-marked, is this population well known?
>
> Thanks, Darcy
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