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Any idea on the bird we saw at S95 (I asked in a message above).

Going on with the awful pictures taken at a distance that make if hard to identify, these were seen flying over Letaba river January 9th 2011...



Any idea?

Cheers
Charbel

Definitely Egyptian Geese

Dave

Hi Dave
Thanks!

Cheers
Charbel

Yip, Egyptian Geese. And the one on the right is the MUMMY

you have good eyes

Thanks Highbury and AdrianP

This one definitely has me puzzled I think that it must be a chat (or perhaps a flycatcher?), perhaps the sicklewinged chat or a very pale familiar chat? Seen in the Olifantsbos area of Cape Point on 19 June 2012.

Arks, I'll risk a guess at Familiar Chat.

Sickle-winged Chat has not yet been recorded around Cape Point.
http://sabap2.adu.org.za/spp_summary.php?Spp=572

Where as Familiar Chat is quite common around there.
http://sabap2.adu.org.za/spp_summary.php?Spp=570

I second that guess

I'd call it a misty chat based on the picture

But I think Dirk is correct.

The clue is that the 4 confusing species, karoo, familiar, trac trac and sickle winged can be sorted out as follows:

White on the tail= karoo (outer tail only) and tractrac (rump and outer tail)

Tail with rufus/orange/rusty pink = familiar (rump and outer tail) and sickle winged (entirely pale rust pink with black triangle on tip)

I would say that the rufus orange is just visible on the side of the tail.

Thanks WTM and DD, and especially to adrianp for the detailed analysis

Is this perchance a Cape reed-warbler? I saw it at Strandfontein (Cape Town) on 21 June 2012.