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 Post subject: Bunting, Lark-like
Unread postPosted: Wed Dec 17, 2008 5:21 pm 
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Can some clever forumite :clap: pls help with the ID of the following bird. Pic was taken on a walk around Nossob camp, KTP on 29th Aug. I have got myself all confused with red headed finches, shaft tailed whydahs etc etc !!!!

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Caracal, I have never birded that area before, and really cant talk by experience :D

Your bird looks like a Lark-Like Bunting.
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 Post subject: Re: Identification Help - LBJs
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I agree 100% that is a Lark-Like Bunting. The horn coloured top of the bill, with the lighter lower mandible is a good pointer.

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 Post subject: Re: Identification Help - LBJs
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Caracal wrote:
Can some clever forumite :clap: pls help with the ID of the following bird. Pic was taken on a walk around Nossob camp, KTP on 29th Aug. I have got myself all confused with red headed finches, shaft tailed whydahs etc etc !!!!

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Thank you
Michéle
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I seem to have missed this post. I agree that this one is a Lark-like Bunting.

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 Post subject: Re: Identification Help - LBJs
Unread postPosted: Fri May 07, 2010 10:18 pm 
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Some more "mystery birds" from my recent KTP trip:

First, are these (3 different birds) perhaps lark-like buntings?

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All three seen on 19 February 2010 in KTP.

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 Post subject: Re: Identification Help - LBJs
Unread postPosted: Thu May 13, 2010 1:10 am 
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These that I posted last week appear to have been overlooked. Can anyone help with ID of these? All seen on 19 February 2010 in KTP.
arks wrote:
Some more "mystery birds" from my recent KTP trip:

First, are these (3 different birds) perhaps lark-like buntings?

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All three seen on 19 February 2010 in KTP.

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 Post subject: Re: Identification Help - LBJs
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Lark-Like Bunting :thumbs_up:

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 Post subject: Re: Identification Help - LBJs
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Lark-Like Bunting :thumbs_up:

Many thanks, RJ !

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 Post subject: Identification Help - LBJs
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And meanwhile, just to further confuse matters :whistle: :wink: there's this little birdie, seen at the same time as those confusing yellow canaries. But this one I was thinking was a larklike bunting?

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Very similar to the female yellow canary, but instead of the streaking on the breast, it has a cinnamon/rose wash.

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Lark Like Bunting :thumbs_up:

White throat, White eyebrow extends past the eye, overall cinnamon color, longish tail, bunting like beak 8)

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Thanks Batmad and RJ. Here's another one I'm puzzling over. I'm thinking that the bird on the right is again a larklike bunting, but what about the one on the left? Seen in KTP in March 2010.

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Bird on the right is Lark like Bunting and the bird on the left is a Juvenile :wink:

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 Post subject: Bunting, Lark-like
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A common, yet very easily overlooked bird in the Karoo.

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