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Birds at South Africa & Botswana 23.10.2013 - 27.10.2013, got 20 remote lifers

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23.10.2013 I will stay now at Tembe / Nkorho Pan / Idube / Elephant Plains and Walter Sisulu Botanical Garden , South Africa plus excellent  Pete's Pond at Botswana for few days and try to identify all the birds I hear and see there. I opened the window to Nkorho Pan at 18:30. Lot's of bird sounds, many familiar to me but can't remember all the species anymore... But, at least some identifications: 1) Water Thick-knee (Burhinus vermiculatus) - at Nkorho Pan, new species, #81, for me, good start! 2) Egyptian Goose (Alopochen aegyptiacus) - two in the pond at Nkorho Pan 3) Common Swift (Apus apus) - flight calls at Walter Sisulu Botanical Garden, Roodeport, #82 Water Thick-knee in front and two Egyptian Geese 3) Helmeted Guineafowl (Numida meleagris) - calling loud somewhere close at Idube, new species, #83 4) African Scops Owl (Otus senegalensis) - calling far at Elephant Plains, #84 Off to bed att 22:30, looking forward to morning ;) 24.10.2013
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Verreaux's Eagle aka African Black Eagle at Walter Sisulu Botanical Garden, Roodeport, South Africa

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Pullus Verraux's Eagle Windy and rainy weather out there, here in Finland. Good excuse to practice some remote birding. I decided to go to South Africa this time. See what I found :) Pullus Verreaux's Eagle ( Aquila verreauxii )! And bit later an adult arrived to nest too. In addition to those, some unidentfied bird sounds... At least some Swift, sounded like Eurasian Swift (Apus apus) , but I can't be sure about it yet. Also sounds that reminded me of Starling and many odd sounds... Adult Verreaux's Eagle The online camera link:   http://www.africam.com/wildlife/black_eagle_webcam?ch=alert&src=desktop&id=167064#
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Location: Etelä-Afrikka
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My remote birding life list in bubo.org

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My remote birding life list is now at bubo.org, please take a look if you're interested:  http://www.bubo.org/Listing/my-lists.html?list_id=16976 Evenings are getting again dark up here in north, so the remote birding season is starting :)
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Birding trip to Atlantic Rainforest, Brazil

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It's again winter up here and days are short so I have time for remote birding. Got three "lifers" today from Luciano Breves's cameras : Allen's Hummingbird (Selasphorus sedentarius) (USA) Pale-breasted Thrush (Turdus leucomelas) Female Blue Dacnis (Dacnis cayana)
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Location: Brasilia
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From Ecuador via Brazil to South Africa, more new species seen and heard

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During last days I've been lurking and peeking several webcams in South America and South Africa. Itamambuca Eco Resort webcam in South Brazil gave me two new species: Golden-chevroned Tanager (Thraupis ornata ) and Half-collared Sparrow (Arremon semitorquatus) . Both of these species were "awards" from persistent waiting - Itamambuca feeder is really quiet place... Backyard of Luciano Breves, also in South Brazil, instead is a heaven for remote birder - lot's of birds all day round. New species from Luciano's feeders are all Hummingbirds: Festive Coquette (Lophornis chalybeus) , White-throated Hummingbird (Leucochloris albicollis) , Swallow-tailed Hummingbird (Eupetomena macroura) and Saw-billed Hermit (Ramphodon naevius) . Very nice hummers all! Long-tailed Sylph (Aglaiocercus kingii) , yet another nice hummingbird, visited the feeder at Buenaventura Reserve in Ecuador. There I have seen also almost every day two big unidentified hummingbird species, please
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From South Africa: Yellow Wagtail, Common Buzzard, Natal Spurfowl and Red-eyed Dove

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Africam Elephant Plains camera is again up and running and it offered me today two new species: Natal Spurfowl (Pternistis natalensis) and Red-eyed Dove (Streptopelia semitorquata) . Naturally there were many birds that I had identified also earlier, like Burchell's Coucals (Centropus burchellii) and many more. Nkorho Pan webcam instead surprised me with Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla flava) , which was calling long time close to microphone. Surprise was also Common Buzzard (Buteo buteo) . Both are summer visitors in South Africa. And below finally a decent photo of Red-billed Oxpecker (Buphagus erythrorhynchus) in the back of Impala Antelope.
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Some new birds seen at Nkorho and Tembe, South Africa

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Quick visit to http://www.africam.com/wildlife/index.php this morning gave me four new species: Pied Crow (Corvus albus) and Great White Egret (Egretta alba) in Tembe and Wood Sandpiper (Tringa glareola) and White-throated Swallow (Hirundo albigularis) in Nkorho. I have suspected White-throated Swallows many times in Nkorho, but only now I saw few birds well enough to confirm the identification. In addition to birds above, there was possibly a Guineafowl this morning in Nkorho, but I saw the bird too short time to confirm the identification. In addition to birds there were many interesting mammals this morning in those webcams: 2 Elephants, Rhino, about 10 Wildebeests, 1 Warthog and some 25 Impalas. To put it short: my best visit to Africam.com so far!
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