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You can't help but being friends with me. Besides that I gave a lekka nice string of Karoo wors a couple of months ago. You better make sure my Karoo wors is ready for collection this weekend!

The crop you made of the face a page or 3 back is one of the last photo here. I want one of the first photo, thank you very much.

Hey Daan, I am just pulling your leg. I could be completely wrong and then I will sit with a lot of Steppe Eagle egg on my face.

Rather hear what the experts have to say about this one. I am just another kluck birder.

Here you go:

Very weird.. to me it still looks like a gape?

Kluk birder? Please..


IMG_8776 by DvdBergh, on Flickr

This debate is taking looong ...

Can I interrupt - please ID :


http://youtu.be/4p0j1F1bIKc

Juv fish-eagle

DD so why do we only see this shots now? Anyway I think TG is spot on with Tawny. From this angle you can see the neck is in fact a bit longer than it seemed in the first pic and not as broad. The eye is even looking paler now!



Here is another shot I took of a Tawny which actually shows the barring on the tail very nicely! Never to old to learn I always say!

Thanks for the additional photos DD...

I'm fairly comfortable that your bird is, in fact, a Tawny Eagle. Combination of overall shape and structure, pale iris, gape length, not hugely prominent barring on the flight feathers and tail all help to point in this direction and the lack of an obvious paler area around the throat, which is a Steppe feature, also add to the argument.

me again - Tawny? or Wahlberg's?

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/685/bild1fo.png/

thanks

Tawny

thanks, veldseun

I agree with Tawny. The nostril is more oval and more prominent, whereas with Wahlberg it should be more round and small. Good tip I learned here on the forums.

Thanks Trevor and Lizet..

I really learnt a lot with this debate, and I think some other member might have too, which is the ultimate goal at the end of the day

Hi,
I have some really fuzzy pics of raptors taken on the gravel road from Rhenosterkop in Agulhas NP to Struisbaai but I'm hoping the experts can help with an ID. The flight pics are of two different birds but are they the same species? I'm thinking kackal buzzard but I'm not sure.
I do apologise for the poor pics but holding thumbs anyway.
Thanks.

Yes, the bird is undeniably a Jackal Buzzard - and very nice white-breasted morph no less. These white-breasted morphs are not a separate subspecies but they are more common down south where you saw this bird.

Jackal buzzards are not uncommon in the Western/Southern Cape, and are given away by the underwing markings in flight. Like in your pics, Buglette!