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That is a Common Greenshank

Thanks Dot and LB

What features are most diagnostic?

This one has me stymied To me it looks most like a longbilled lark, but those don't occur in KTP Seen near Auchterlonie on 9 November 2012.

I must also apologise for the weird colour in these pix, as my camera setting was inadvertently (I have NO idea how this happened) changed to tungsten, so everything is blueish

@arks yours is a Spike-heeled Lark. Note the combination of a long, decurved bill, and short, white-tipped tail.

@huntsman, with regards to your Greenshank; it is much more pale, and grey than things like Wood and Common Sandpiper, and it has a broader bill than Marsh Sandpiper and it is slightly upturned.

Hope this helps

Thanks, Matt. I'd not realised that the spikeheeled lark had such a long bill.

Hi MattAxel

It does indeed, thanks!

The guide books give all the descriptions, but it's good to know what features will stand out in making an ID.

Yesterday I was helped to load photos. Today I'll be grateful for confirmation of names, for years I've called one of the mousebirds rosey faced- I now know its called redfaced. So I'm asking for help with these before I get into bad habits and learn the wrong name.
All at Lower Sabie camp from amaizing riverfront tents, August 2012
1)
P1010627 by jacquiandphil, on Flickr
Southern Boubou?

2)
P1010612 by jacquiandphil, on Flickr
Heuglin's Robin?

3)
P1010423 by jacquiandphil, on Flickr
Yellow Fronted Canary?

4)
P1010374 by jacquiandphil, on Flickr
Kurrichane Thrush?

5)
P1020054 by jacquiandphil, on Flickr
Mocking Chat?

6)
P1020025 by jacquiandphil, on Flickr
Redbilled Buffalo Weaver?

Thanks to anyone who can confirm my names or correct me.
Jacquie

Spot on!

The new name for Heuglin's is White-browed Robin-chat.

Thanks WTM, I've a list of old and new names. I think I'll have to start the task of writing the new names into my old book.

Great photos, by the way.

I agree, some good photos there

I'm battling a bit with this one , is it perhaps a chat flycatcher? Seen along Darling Hills Road in mid-November 2012.

With that over-bite? Never!

A young common fiscal perhaps?

Peter