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madach
 Post subject: Boubou, Tropical Boubou
Unread postPosted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 12:04 pm 
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During my stay in Kruger last November I saw a pair of Tropical Boubous kill (and eat) a vine snake. As far as I know boubous eat small reptiles so snakes are probably part of their normal diet. For me this was one of the highlights of my trip.

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Great pic, Madach!! Did the boubou kill the snake by stabbing it? Do you have a link to your other pix of this? I'd love to see them.

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arks wrote:
Great pic, Madach!! Did the boubou kill the snake by stabbing it? Do you have a link to your other pix of this? I'd love to see them.

It was a pair of boubous that killed the snake. They repeatedly attacked the head of the snake until it died. In the beginning the snake was fighting back, but in the end it didn't stand a chance against those birds. I don't have a link to the other pics yet, I'm going through all my pics now and will probably have some of them online in a week or so.

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Here's another pic:

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I identified the bird in the photo incorrectly when I started out birding in 2005. It is actually a Southern Boubou. Moved pic to correct thread on 07/05/2012.

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Seen them in MZNP as well ... but strangely enough they seem more timmid there and hide a lot more than in Addo

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 Post subject: Re: Boubou, Tropical Boubou
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 Post subject: Re: Boubou, Tropical Boubou
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Lower Sabie, Nov 2011:

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Tropical Boubou1 by dinkybird, on Flickr

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Tropical Boubou by dinkybird, on Flickr

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