African Birding

Re: [AfricanBirding] old refs to HVs in Freetown

Fri, 25 May 2012 02:49:39 -0500

Clive
"Journeys/Travels without maps" or similar title is it not?
Now I'm in UK I'll try to get and read it!
James

On 24 May 2012, at 20:20, Clive Barlow wrote:

below - cited by a medical friend - a national of Freetown Sleone

I read today that Greene travelled thro the jungles and forests of

RE: [AfricanBirding] migratory warbler in southern Niger

Fri, 25 May 2012 00:04:11 -0500

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Hi Joost,

Yes indeed that would be something... sorry, with my eastern African bias I didn't consider the status in Niger, it's nowhere near of course. Would be interesting to have other photographs of grey Icterine's.

Bernd

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[AfricanBirding] James W :bird-waves

Thu, 24 May 2012 06:06:38 -0500

Dear James,

It's long since I took a close interest in the subject but I wrote an
article for Scopus (6, 25-32, 1982) with a small review, now of course very
out-of-date. If you cannot find it, I could scan a copy (if you are still
interested), but not for a couple

[AfricanBirding] mongoose pictures - request

Thu, 24 May 2012 01:26:57 -0500

Re. West Africa Does anyone have pictures &/or trail cam info or road kill shots of any W Af mongoose spp to share. Anyone know a person with a special interest with this group many thanks Clive R BarlowBrusubiGambia

Re: [AfricanBirding] BIRDSONGS COLLECTIONS

Wed, 23 May 2012 16:25:37 -0500

Dear Andrey

Great to hear that you have all these collections, I am an ornithologist working in Ethiopia and I would be very happy if you could let me know if you have bird sounds from East Africa

Bruktawit

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[AfricanBirding] BIRDSONGS COLLECTIONS

Wed, 23 May 2012 14:15:34 -0500

Dear Andrey I have made & catalogued c.4500 recordings in W Africa - mostly The Gambia & in recent years centred my attention to palearctic spp - warblers, waders, gulls and terns - singing & calling here Pls send your list ... (email address filtered)

Re : [AfricanBirding] BIRDSONGS COLLECTIONS

Wed, 23 May 2012 13:41:06 -0500

Dear Andrey,
I am interested to get the songs but don't know how they can reach me.

Thanks,
Geoffroy

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Re: [AfricanBirding] Roosting vultures.

Wed, 23 May 2012 13:19:40 -0500

Graham Greene wrote "The Heart of the Matter" about Freetown
Bill

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Wed, 23 May 2012 12:21:34 -0500

Heart of The Matter ! apols
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Re: [AfricanBirding] Roosting vultures.

Wed, 23 May 2012 12:04:12 -0500

Clive,

Heart of Darkness was written by Joseph Conrad as I'm sure you are aware.

Clive

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RE: [AfricanBirding] Roosting vultures.

Wed, 23 May 2012 11:04:20 -0500

Charles, Sure you know there are many refs to vultures in Freetown in Graham Greene's Heart of Darkness - mostly on tin roofs. In our dbase started a couple of months ago maximum count at one site is 215 HVs at one site. best wishesCRB
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[AfricanBirding] Roosting vultures.

Wed, 23 May 2012 07:40:39 -0500

The great cotton tree in Freetown, Sierra Leone, is the host of over fifty two vultures roosting every evening.

It has been a regular roosting spot for hooded vultures especially in the rainy season which has just started. There has actually been some heavy thunder storms for this time of the

Re: [AfricanBirding] bird-waves

Wed, 23 May 2012 04:46:49 -0500

As far as I know all these terms are interchangeable and none is
continent specific.
Rather they more likely reflect the international experience,
character and even the age of the birder(s) using them!

This is something I've been thinking about quite a lot recently whilst
working in some "Upper

RE: [AfricanBirding] bird-waves

Tue, 22 May 2012 06:40:35 -0500

or mixed foraging spp party ? are not the tanagers assoc with the bird wave term ? CRBBrusubi
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Re: [AfricanBirding] bird-waves

Tue, 22 May 2012 06:30:23 -0500

Hi Gerard - I've only ever heard the term 'wave' in relation to Nearctic
migrants (particularly warblers) when on migration. In Zambia we always
referred to 'bird parties' - a major feature of miombo woodland as well as
forest.

Cheers

Pete

On May 21 2012, Gerard Gorman wrote:

Hi All, Is the term "Bird-Wave"

Re: [AfricanBirding] very grey Wood(?) warbler from Niger

Tue, 22 May 2012 05:20:54 -0500

Thanks, Tony. And also Clive and Bernd. Not Wood Warbler then, but Willow, given the pale legs. Apparently eastern Willow
Warblers, incuding acredula and yakutensis, are quite grey, almost without yellow/green.

Thanks again all, Joost

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Re: [AfricanBirding] migratory warbler in southern Niger

Tue, 22 May 2012 05:13:32 -0500

Thanks a lot, Bernd,

Upcher's Warbler in Niger would be something! The two other reactions (Clive Barlow, Tim Wacher) were also Hippolais, but Icterine.
It is a very grey bird, though, as you remarked. I'm afraid we will to leave this one undetermined, also because of the limited
quality

RE: [AfricanBirding] migratory warbler in southern Niger

Tue, 22 May 2012 02:58:54 -0500

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Dear Joost,

The pale primaries look like they might be due to moult/missing feathers, but difficult to judge from the photo; as the bird seems to have no green/yellow tones, one of the pale hippolais and given the strikingly dark primaries and tail I'd think it might well

RE: [AfricanBirding] bird-waves

Tue, 22 May 2012 01:20:50 -0500

Dear Gerard,

I have never heard the term, but am very used to 'mixed species flock', not
only in forest but also in savannas, especially woodland. There is a
considerable literature on the subject.

Derek Pomeroy

Re: [AfricanBirding] Rains Gambia

Mon, 21 May 2012 06:49:41 -0500

Hi, Clive

Patchy start to the season in Lagos. A couple of inches (~50mm) in the hour after dawn this morning (21st May) in Lekki, but our seasonal pools are usually full by end of may and we're probably 2 or 3 good storms behind the pace on our may norm

[AfricanBirding] bird-waves

Mon, 21 May 2012 02:29:12 -0500

Hi All,
Is the term "Bird-Wave" meaning a mixed-species flock of foraging birds that move together through forest, used much in Africa ?
Regards,
Gerard Gorman.

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Re: [AfricanBirding] Rains Gambia

Sun, 20 May 2012 07:55:53 -0500

Hi Clive,

I heard it rained a bit (5 mm) in Galmi, southern Niger, about 9 May. Quite early. House Sparrow , Village Weaver , Northern
Grey-headed Sparrow ,Senegal Coucal , Beautiful Sunbird Eating , Mourning ,Laughing Dove , Cinnamon-breasted Rock Bunting all
feeding on flying termites on 14

[AfricanBirding] Rains Gambia

Sun, 20 May 2012 06:53:11 -0500

ITCZ came early with heavy rains with electrical storm 23 00hrs Fri thro to 08 00 hrs yest a m , recent years has been well in to June - last euro warblers here on 14th May any other W African rains yet ? CRB The Gambia

[AfricanBirding] BIRDSONGS COLLECTIONS

Sat, 19 May 2012 15:08:14 -0500

Dear birders,

I have a collection - more than 400 releases (mainly CD`s and some cassettes and
vynils) with various birdsongs all over the world.

There are 21 of bird sounds CD`s from Africa.

If you have any interest to my collection, please don't hesitate to
contact me. I would send you a list.

As for

Re: [AfricanBirding] Call for Papers: Ethnoornithology session at PAOC13

Sat, 19 May 2012 14:00:42 -0500

Dear Joost,

Great to hear that another abstract has been submitted for that session!

I'll look out for Adam at Montpellier - which starts on Monday!

I'm looking forward to catching up in Arusha - the session looked a little
light for numbers but we have at least 5 (I think) so I'm hoping

Re: [AfricanBirding] Call for Papers: Ethnoornithology session at PAOC13

Sat, 19 May 2012 13:29:04 -0500

Hi Robert,

I just submitited an abstract for PAOC-13 entitled
Haussa, Zerma and Sonray bird names and bird stories from SW Niger

Hope to meet you and Fleur in Arusha. I hope Montpellier went well and that you met Adam Manvell there.

Cheers, Joost

Joost Brouwer
coordinator Niger Bird DataBase NiBDaB, www.nibdab.org (in English and

[AfricanBirding] WMBD 2012/KENYA /BUSIA GRASS LANDS IBA

Sat, 19 May 2012 02:50:04 -0500

Christine, is this Busia as at the Uganda border? If so, what is the
special interest?

Derek Pomeroy

[AfricanBirding] Cape Verde Bird Atlas

Wed, 16 May 2012 08:36:07 -0500

Dear all,

I would like to attract you attention to a new interesting project, which
Danny Norrey is starting here at Manchester Metropolitan University: the
Atlas of the Birds of Cape Verde.

Please check out the following links and please forward them to anyone who
is or has been working in Cape Verde

RE: [AfricanBirding] very grey Wood(?) warbler from Niger [1 Attachment]

Wed, 16 May 2012 04:09:09 -0500

... here is a willow warbler from e Gambia - March - perhaps gasping in the heat ... CRB
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Subject: [AfricanBirding] very grey Wood(?) warbler from Niger [2 Attachments]

Re: [AfricanBirding] very grey Wood(?) warbler from Niger

Wed, 16 May 2012 03:45:06 -0500

Leg colour looks yellowish, I suspect Willow Warbler.
Tony Morris
St Margaret's at Cliffe
Kent
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Wed, 16 May 2012 03:33:06 -0500

Joost - don't think wood simply not 'bright white' sharp and clean - here is a phyllos' from my place in early Feb that did all the right chiffchaff things apart from sing - your Niger bird seems to be doing so. Willow warbs occasionally sing of S-N passage

[AfricanBirding] very grey Wood(?) warbler from Niger [2 Attachments]

Wed, 16 May 2012 02:24:17 -0500

Dear all,

Taached two pictures of a Phylloscopus from SE Niger, taken ten days ago. My own impression is Wood Warbler, though a very grey one
as they sometimes are. Other people have doubts. Comments one way or the other would therefore be appreciated.

Kind regards, Joost

Joost Brouwer
coordinator Niger

RE: [AfricanBirding] migratory warbler in southern Niger

Sat, 12 May 2012 05:48:35 -0500

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Hi Joost

Difficult angle and smallish image, but just for a suggestion have you
tested it against Icterine Warber?

Tim

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Sat, 12 May 2012 02:10:03 -0500

Dear all,

Assistance with the identification of this migratory warbler in southern Niger would be apprreciated. The pale inner vanes of the
primaries have me stumped, otherwise the flat head would tempt me to call it an Olivaceous Warbler.

Haussa around Dogon Doutchi classify this bird in the group

[AfricanBirding] Re: Next ABC meeting - Sat 6 April 2013

Fri, 11 May 2012 15:22:50 -0500

Incidentally this meeting will be at the Natural History Museum, and the meeting will be organised by ABC, with BOC and the NHM as equal collaborators.

Regards

Keith

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RE: [AfricanBirding] Next ABC meeting - Sat 6 April 2013

Thu, 10 May 2012 06:00:24 -0500

Many thanks for this, Keith

Best Wishes

Geoff Orton

BTO Regional Rep (Kent)
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[AfricanBirding] RE: [sabirdnet] Join the 3-D African Bird Atlas

Tue, 08 May 2012 11:24:18 -0500

Hi Kevin,

Wow, this seems like quite a project! I haven't had the chance to go through
it properly yet, but initial impressions certainly seem pleasing to the eye!
I will have to spend a bit more time reading through the website to
understand everything, but the presentation is certainly eye-catching - it
could be

[AfricanBirding] Next ABC meeting - Sat 6 April 2013

Tue, 08 May 2012 08:00:45 -0500

Dear all

The next meeting will be held in London, UK on 6 April 2013, when we will join with the British Ornithologists Club in creating a joint programme.

Regards

Keith Betton
Chairman
African Bird Club

[AfricanBirding] Join the 3-D African Bird Atlas

Tue, 08 May 2012 00:53:39 -0500

Hi everyone

We are pleased to announce the launch of a brand new project at
www.g-bird.org which should hopefully shed new light on Africa's bird
movements, distributions and abundances across the continent and associated
islands. The project is aimed at all bird-watchers and allows a new level of
3-D feedback and display. The system includes

RE: [AfricanBirding] european tour cancelled ?

Mon, 07 May 2012 15:25:38 -0500

what is it you want - a pic of sedge warbler today ?Clive
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Re: [AfricanBirding] european tour cancelled ?

Mon, 07 May 2012 13:36:09 -0500

Unable to open attachment ? Could you e-mail in jpg formate Please.
Thanks Stan

[AfricanBirding] Fwd: Behaviour of Common Swifts in Africa - "Screaming Parties"

Mon, 07 May 2012 09:03:29 -0500

Hello Clive,
Yes, one might say so ...

Common Swifts, Flava Wagtails, Pied Flycatcher, Melodious Warbler

all at 9* N in Sierra Leone ...

Regards,
James

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Agreed, and because here in

[AfricanBirding] european tour cancelled ? [1 Attachment]

Mon, 07 May 2012 06:52:39 -0500

Gambia Hearing of concerns in UK that lack of food availability in Africa may be a cause of non returning migrants ? sedge (see record shot) and olivaceous (sound recorded a m) still here in my garden feeding well on whitefly invasion in ornamental flowers. There was a white stork

Re: [AfricanBirding] ABC website - Benin

Sun, 06 May 2012 06:55:25 -0500

Thanks for the heads up John.

Having just done a few tours through Benin (way too short though) whilst up in West Africa I can only echo that Benin is well worth a visit and there's probably a lot of potential in finding some new/interesting species there. The coastal forests are

[AfricanBirding] Benin - books section

Sun, 06 May 2012 05:47:24 -0500

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We have had a request to distribute this review of Agnès Giannotti?s book
which is on the Benin books & sounds page of the ABC website. Agnès had a
second book published this year which you can read about at

<http://editionsgrandvaux.free.fr/spip.php?article428>
http://editionsgrandvaux.free.fr/spip.php?article428

John Caddick

African Bird Club

Benin_Oiseaux_Afrique

Agnès Giannotti's book

FW: [AfricanBirding] ABC website - Benin

Sat, 05 May 2012 14:10:12 -0500

Dear John Caddick

Thanks for the actualisation of the hotspots of Benin, a nice and gives good information about this little country.

Can you help me on the just emailaddress of Ron Demey, The Netherlands?

Thanks before

Ben van Muyen, The Netherlands

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RE: [AfricanBirding] ABC website - Benin

Sat, 05 May 2012 13:57:39 -0500

Hi John Caddick

Thanks for your work to actualise Benin. It was a surprise of me that you and your others did so much work to realise this I'll consulting my archives for there may be a area you forget. You know I was there in period 2003 - 2006.
Still

RE: [AfricanBirding] ABC website - Benin

Sat, 05 May 2012 08:57:35 -0500

Many thanks John

It's not somewhere that's been on my radar but this might help!

Best Wishes

Geoff Orton

BTO Regional Rep (Kent)
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[AfricanBirding] ABC website - Benin

Sat, 05 May 2012 05:08:24 -0500

We are pleased to announce that the Benin resource pages
<http://www.africanbirdclub.org/countries/Benin/introduction.html> of the
ABC website have undergone a major revision in the last few weeks. This
revision includes brand new IBA, hotspots, visiting and conservation pages
as well as many new and interesting photographs, links and checklists.

This resource will provide users with

[AfricanBirding] ABC Conservation Tour to Zimbabwe and Mozambique - November 2012

Fri, 04 May 2012 18:38:54 -0500

Dear all

Once again ABC has constructed a tour in conjunction with one of its tour operator members - Birding Ecotours. This time it is from Harare to Beira via some great birding habitat. The tour runs from 17-30 November. Every booking result in a financial contribution to ABC's Conservation Fund.

Some