From: Les Underhill <les.underhill@uct.ac.za>
Date: 2017-06-20 16:44
Subject: Re: [KENYABIRDSNET] H Babblers breeding in Nairobi
Hi Sydney (and Team Kenyabirds)

It would be great if you could submit those babbler photos to the BirdPix section of the ADU Virtual Museum. Although the Virtual Museum is not yet linked to the bird atlas project, the intention is to do so. BirdPix already contains some valuable records. For example, this record from Mozambique represents the most northerly record of African Black Oystercatcher on the east coast of Africa:
http://vmus.adu.org.za/?vm=BirdPix-183
It needs to go into the distribution map for the species!!

The process for submitting records to the ADU Virtual Museum is described here:

https://www.slideshare.net/meganloftieeaton/how-to-submit-records-to-the-animal-demography-units-virtual-museums-28710898

(slideshare.net is a Linked In product; click on the arrows in the middle bottom of the slides work through the slides; don't try to "download" the slides, because then I believe you entangled in Linked In red tape)

Potentially, we can get a lot of bird atlas data into the database via BirdPix! The species identifications (if indeed one is provided) are confirmed by an expert panel (some photos of course are not IDable). BirdPix makes it possible for people who do not know their birds to contribute to the bird atlas.  They can just submit the photos, and the expert panel will do the IDs (if they can). 

The website for the Kenya Bird Map project is at
http://kenyamap.adu.org.za/index.php
The website for the ADU Virtual Museum is at
http://vmus.adu.org.za/index.php

All the best

Les

On 16/06/2017 18:22, Brian Finch birdfinch@gmail.com [kenyabirdsnet] wrote:
 

Really well done Sidney, such good news.
The Coucal is not a brood parasite though, but a potential predator,
Best for now
Brian

On 6/16/17, Sidney Shema Kamanzi sidneyshema@gmail.com [kenyabirdsnet]
<kenyabirdsnet-noreply@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> A quick update on the Hinde's Babblers at the University of Nairobi's Upper
> Kabete field station. This week I have observed 5 individuals - 4 adults, 1
> juvenile. This marks the first breeding record for Hinde's Babbler in
> Nairobi. Another interesting observation was a White-browed Coucal getting
> close to the babblers and being promptly driven away. I guess it is a brood
> parasite (or a potential one) for the babblers, as they are of a fairly
> similar size. See photos attached, though not high quality.
>
> Best regards,
> Sidney
>


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