Hi James,

This is indeed very interesting - can you give us the exact date and location you photographed the bird?

Are you signed up for the Kenya Bird Map project and Virtual Museum? (there is only one registration for both). If so, please submit the record as an incidental record to the Bird Map but then also upload the photograph to the 'Birdpix' section of the Virtual Museum so that it is kept as a 'specimen' for all and anyone to look at and reference.

The Virtual Museum is an excellent way of putting photographs of birds online and sharing them with anyone so that they can identified by experts and kept as a permanent future reference - especially rarities or out of range records. Please do use it for uploading any other photos you have of birds (and the wide range of other animals and plants it can accept). If you're not registered with the projects, let me know and I can easily do so for you.

Thanks,

Colin

 

Greetings All,

On my way back from Watamu in August I passed through Tsavo East and drove along the Galana River.  Took a picture of the attached bird which I initially thought was a Van-der-Dekens female.  After discovering that it could be a Jacksons Female albeit a country mile outside its normal range I have spent two months looking at picures, reading up every scrap of information and sharing it with everyone I could think of. 99% sure this is a Jacksons seen in Tsavo East.    Brian Finch and Mike Davidson asked me to post it here as apparently there is no record of any sighting east of the rift valley.

Regards,

James Kashangaki