Thanks Nate. Thats a real interesting group of records (December - February). So unexpected.

Don

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> On 30 Aug 2019, at 20:12, Nate Dias <offshorebirder@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Thanks Brian. Every now and then, a Mouse can help a Lion.
>
> If people would like to drill down on December-February records only,
> this web link will pull that up:
>
> https://ebird.org/map/mankin2?neg=true&env.minX=39.7223199687553&env.minY=-3.4841217490495424&env.maxX=40.15559328418499&env.maxY=-3.231870258873646&zh=true&gp=true&ev=Z&mr=on&bmo=12&emo=2&yr=all&byr=1900&eyr=2019
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> Again, it helps to click the "Show Points Sooner" box on the right
> side of the page to make the individual site markers more distinct as
> you zoom in.
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> There are a finite number of eBird reports from December-February in
> Kenya - they are listed below (except the Ngulia record which has
> already been mentioned)
>
> Working north to south:
>
> January 8, 1987 - Eric VanderWerf had one just west of the Sabaki
> River Mouth near the Malinidi-Garsen Road bridge.
> https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S39346452
>
> February 17, 2019 - Ri Nique had one at 'Bofa-Kilifi'.
> https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S53498370
>
> December 7, 2016 - Doris Schaule had one at the Nguuni Nature
> Sanctuary just north of Mombasa.
> https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S32918532
>
> January 10, 2015 - Laurent Esselen had one just east of Haller Park
> outside Mombasa. https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S21277789
>
> January 8 2015 - Andrew Rains reported two south of Diani Beach.
> https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S21248793
>
> February 19, 2018 - Stephanie Dolrenry had one just east of Mwabungu.
> https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S43419719
>
> January 10, 2016 - Simon Carter had two at the Gazi mangrove
> boardwalk. Notes say "Calling to each other. Recording Id'd by James
> Bradley." https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S26813864
>
> February 4, 2017 - Rob Williams had one in Shimoni at the 'Deep Sea
> Adventures" garden. https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S34172736
>
> February 14, 1995 - four were reported around Vanga to the Kenya
> Birdfinder project from a National Museum of Kenya Ornithology
> Department waterbird count.
>
>
> The bulk of them seem to be in the past four years - perhaps this is
> an artifact of eBird not existing until recently.
>
>
> Good birding,
>
> Nate
>
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>
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> more skill from the hunter, better nerves and more patience than the
> rifle shot." -- Bror Blixen
>
>> On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 10:42 AM Brian Finch <birdfinch@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Nate,
>> You have been impressively busy, this is such a good haul of data,
>> thanks so much for all this input.
>> I don't know exactly how to drive eBird, so did not get to the
>> individual records themselves, but I did get into the images. For the
>> East African records they all fell into the March-November period
>> except, a bird on Mafia which could have a resident population like
>> Pemba.
>> When Don had his breeding record it was August which is when Mangrove
>> K's are in Kenya. On your detailed sighting list, the only record
>> outside of it was Doris's Tana records on 3rd and 4th Feb 2017, which
>> is interesting.
>> What I do find very intriguing is that when our birds are present, is
>> exactly the time they winter in KZN where they do not breed, which
>> certainly supports there being two different populations. When our
>> birds go south, so do the KZN birds to breed in the Eastern Cape. It's
>> dangerous to suppose anything in birds nowadays, but it would suggest
>> that our birds do not go as far south as Natal and are southern
>> Tanzanian and Mozambican birds.
>> Best for now
>> Brian
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