Africa 2324 Wild Things

Tree 100s of black kites after flying ants after thunderstorm and next morning, rock prat, many paradise flycatcher, woodlands kingfisher, Mayers parrot, thick-billed weaver.

Wattled lapwing  Squirrel with black tipped tail? Hippo, amethyst sunbird

  Chameleon  Swamp boubou duets, how do they sychronise?

 Jacobian cuckoo, 2 nagapies 

 Dusky lark, mosque swallow

 Black kite

Black-backed barbet Tree and staghorn Pedras Negras 20 Nov 2023

 Blue-spotted wood dove, Angolan swallow?, Angolan cliff swallow? Blue monkey when we crossed the Kwanza river on the way to Luanda 

 Green throated sunbird

 Collared palm thrush,  Baobab Ground hornbill

Shalow's turaco (thanks Rees Clements) Copper sunbird, tree pipit, Western banded snake eagle, African finfoot, vervet monkeys chasing African finfoot.

Rock pratincole Southern carmine bee-eater Chirping cisticola, Luapula cisticola, African skimmer, Grey-rumped swallow, Jameson's firefinch, brown firefinch,  Northern carmine bee-eater

Pearl-spotted Owlet Grey-headed kingfisher, Souza's shrike, Sharp-tailed starling, Bradfield's hornbill, White-browed coucal, Cape clawless otter 

 Hautlaub's babbler, Violet-backed starling, Swamp boubou, Meyer's parrot, Coppery-tailed coucal,  Ross's turaco, Southern yellow white-eye, 

 Black-faced babbler, Spotted flycatcher

Layard's warbler, 

 Rockrunner, Violet wood hoopoe, Bare-cheeked Babbler, dassie rat Double-banded Sandgrouse Tree

  Damara Red-billed  Hornbill  Hartlaub's spurfowl (heard not seen), White-tailed shrike, Great sparrow

 Nicholson's pipit, Grey-backed Camaroptera, Barred Wren-warbler, Carp's tit,  Monteiro's hornbill,  Ruppell's parrot, Rosy-faced lovebird, 

 Red-billed Spurfowl, Great Snipe

 Ruddy Turnstone

 Ruppell's Korhaan On the way to Tirasberg

 Black-chested Snake Eagle, flock of 75to100 blue cranes