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I took this photo from Olifants high-water bridge last month:

I had a real runnaround with this little rush-warbler, Bradypterys baboecala! At Seekoeivlei, yesterday at a marshy place I came across a number of these birds. What threw me is what looked like a pairing of two very different looking birds, both staying together and exhibiting similar tail cocking and wing-flicking behaviours.

I identified the warbler after a long search via a very nice photo on the African bird image database as a Little Rush-Warbler, Bradypterus baboecala. The Sasol LIG's illustration of this little fellow SUX! Roberts' multimedia images weren't much better and with Roberts VII's illustration you really have to have a good imagination to get the two images (mine and theirs) to fit!


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