Checklist S164554753

Observations

1. White-faced Whistling-Duck

   Number observed:  2

   Details

   voice reminiscent of AMWI

2. Knob-billed Duck

   Number observed:  2

3. African Pygmy-Goose

   Number observed:  2

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4. Yellow-billed Duck

   Number observed:  2

5. Southern Pochard

   Number observed:  8

   Details

   These birds flew up and then over the river. All three of us thought that they were African Black Ducks, but my photos show the characteristic white wing-stripe of the Southern Pochard, reminiscent of that of a Greater Scaup.

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6. Red-eyed Dove

   Number observed:  20

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7. Laughing Dove

   Number observed:  4

8. Namaqua Dove

   Number observed:  1

9. Gray Go-away-bird

   Number observed:  3

10. Coppery-tailed Coucal

    Number observed:  1

11. Allen's Gallinule

    Number observed:  2

    Details

    better view desired

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12. Black Crake

    Number observed:  1

13. Water Thick-knee

    Number observed:  6

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14. Black-winged Stilt

    Number observed:  2

15. Three-banded Plover

    Number observed:  1

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16. Long-toed Lapwing

    Number observed:  2

    Details

    photographed in flight

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17. Blacksmith Lapwing

    Number observed:  40

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18. Wattled Lapwing

    Number observed:  4

    Details

    see note

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19. White-fronted Plover

    Number observed:  1

20. African Jacana

    Number observed:  3

21. Wood Sandpiper

    Number observed:  6

22. Ruff

    Number observed:  1

    Details

    one Reeve

    Age & Sex:

    Age	Juvenile	Immature	Adult	Age Unknown
    Male
    Female				1
    Sex Unknown

23. Reed Cormorant

    Number observed:  5

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24. Great Cormorant

    Number observed:  1

25. Striated Heron

    Number observed:  1

26. Squacco Heron

    Number observed:  3

    Details

    not far from a Nile Crocodile and some hippos

27. Western Cattle-Egret

    Number observed:  12

28. Hamerkop

    Number observed:  1

    Details

    the only one of the trip, I believe

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29. Black Kite

    Number observed:  2

30. Red-faced Mousebird

    Number observed:  10

31. Green Woodhoopoe

    Number observed:  1

32. African Gray Hornbill

    Number observed:  1

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33. White-fronted Bee-eater

    Number observed:  3

    Details

    on the big electric cables with other birds

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34. Little Bee-eater

    Number observed:  2

35. Blue-cheeked Bee-eater

    Number observed:  3

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36. European Bee-eater

    Number observed:  3

37. Southern Carmine Bee-eater

    Number observed:  25

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38. Malachite Kingfisher

    Number observed:  1

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39. Pied Kingfisher

    Number observed:  1

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40. Fork-tailed Drongo

    Number observed:  4

41. Tawny-flanked Prinia

    Number observed:  1

42. cisticola sp.

    Number observed:  1

    Details

    We heard the bird singing. Arience thought it was a Luapula Cisticola. We never saw the bird.

43. Barn Swallow

    Number observed:  10

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44. Wire-tailed Swallow

    Number observed:  6

    Details

    also a long-tailed Bradypterus-like bird

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45. swallow sp.

    Number observed:  20

46. Common Bulbul

    Number observed:  3

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47. Red-billed Oxpecker

    Number observed:  1

    Details

    on a hippo's head in the river

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48. Southern Masked-Weaver

    Number observed:  25

    Breeding & Behavior Code:

    ON Occupied Nest (Confirmed)

49. Red-billed Quelea

    Number observed:  80

50. Yellow-crowned Bishop

    Number observed:  1

51. Pin-tailed Whydah

    Number observed:  1

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52. Eastern Paradise-Whydah

    Number observed:  1

53. African Pied Wagtail

    Number observed:  2

    Details

    boat trip out of Shametu Lodge; /t 1620-1850, 2.2 km, p=3

54. passerine sp.

    Number observed:  1

    Details

    one warbler-like or Bradypterus-like bird in reeds, with long, broad, dark-brown tail, brief view