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Our sparrows here are a bit jumpy too. But there are lots.......
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Thousands here. Most fly in groups, and there are about 10 in each group.
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Those are definitely the magpies that I remember. They probably are actually Eurasian magpies. They look the same as the ones we saw in Japan (25+ year old memory working here).
My family and I were members of an international hiking group that called itself the Mountain Magpies (San Kkachi - 산 까치). I also recall a Korean soktam (saying) that meant the same as American English "Speak of the devil," when someone you have been talking about suddenly shows up: "까치"이라고 말과 까치가 울어. [Speak of the magpie, and the magpie chirps.] Don |
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Dark Capped Bulbul
Sorting out the pics still from when we were in the bush last month.
Here is one I was pretty pleased with - a Dark Capped Bulbul. Quite a noisy bird, but always difficult to see as it "skulks" all the time. Even harder to photograph, so I was pretty pleased to get this. Also shows all the relevant markings - the yellow behind being one of the main distinguishing features of this bird.
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A really beautiful image, Kevin.
It's a great pleasure to see these birds that are quite exotic to my eye. Don |
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Thank you Don.
There is a severe drought at the moment where we go and birds were really scarce. I have a few more pics though still to do. Surprisingly we saw few vultures around - maybe they are all stuffed to bursting? I really do not know enough about bird behaviour!
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Are there a lot of birds there in South Africa? I never went there before, so I don't know much...
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Dong-Woo - I think there are relatively speaking.
There certainly seem to be far more then in the UK and Western Europe. In our garden we have daily 5-6 species and in town you could probably do around 15-20 in a day, driving. In the bush probably 12-15 in a day in one spot, but driving around, 50 species in one day, up to 100 species IDENTIFIED in 2 days. Plus maybe 10-20 unidentified. But by driving, I mean also visiting the various different habitats - dams, rivers, bushvelt (scrubby bush), savanna grassland, riverine forest etc. etc. Looking in the different habitats is the key to picking up the different species.
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Dong-Woo.
Maybe get held of a local bird book - this will give the habitats I am sure - a great aid to finding birds.......
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