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WackoRhino
 Post subject: Re: Identification Help - Raptors
Unread postPosted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 11:35 pm 
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Okay, a last one from KTP for whom I need help.

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A PCG maybe ? :lol: :lol:

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I think of a PCG :hmz: ... with a mask :lol:

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The orange legs do it!

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Please help in confirming the identification of this raptor.

Date Taken: 2012-06-01
Where: Southern Kruger National Park
Size: Guinea Fowl +- 53 cm

The raptor was sitting on a branch overlooking the savanna field.

This looks like a Dark Chanting Goshawk (Donkersingvalk) to me but I am not sure. There were some others that look similar, but did not make the cut...

  • Lizzard Buzzard - To big to be a LB.
  • Southern Pale Chanting Goshawk - Wrong area....

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It is a Dark Chanting Goshawk

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Thanks MattAxel :D

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Agreed! Nice shot!

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Thanks Anne-Marie and Bush Baptist. Now my TR is on the way. :) :)

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This was taken from very far away in poor light, so may be impossible to ID and I really don't have any idea what it might be. Seen late afternoon along Darling Hills Road on 17 May 2012.

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...and judging from the wing shape I'd say it was going like a Boeing!

Best guess osprey?

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:hmz: looks a lot like the osprey I saw in WCNP in Feb arks.

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Dear experts,

I have posted my trip report about KTP http://www.sanparks.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=64645
and there is still one raptor that has no ID

Thanks for helpin' :D

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I will go for Pale form Tawny Eagle...

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arks wrote:
This was taken from very far away in poor light, so may be impossible to ID and I really don't have any idea what it might be. Seen late afternoon along Darling Hills Road on 17 May 2012.

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Sorry to chime in quickly but it seems as if this one might have slipped by. Osprey has much narrower and longer looking wings. This is an immature African Fish-Eagle. They're notorious for pretending to be Ospreys :wink:

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Agree fully with Deefstes. The head as well, points to African Fish-Eagle.

Here is a photo of mine to show what Deefstes meant with the longer and narrower wings.

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