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Bub-les · #1 (**permalink**) 31-05-2008, 01:47 AM

Here's anouther couple from Tanzania for ID please

Barbara

ericrovve · #2 (**permalink**) 31-05-2008, 07:44 AM

Well, the second one is definitely a bird sitting on that horribly thorned acacia that I've forgotten the name of...

Bub-les · #3 (**permalink**) 31-05-2008, 09:42 AM

LOL.....
I think the tree is an Acacia macracantha
Barbara

black · #4 (**permalink**) 02-06-2008, 03:56 PM

Hi Barbara,
the first one is a Yellow-breasted Apalis - Apalis flavida. If I remember correctly the male *sometimes* but not always has the black bar on its chest.

The second looks like an African Pygmy-falcon - Polihierax semitorquatus. They often perch up on top of acacias like this one is doing.

Bub-les · #5 (**permalink**) 02-06-2008, 10:38 PM

Thanks for the ID for the first one
not sure you're on the right track for the second one here's another photo

I think the beak is wrong for a falcon!

Barbara

black · #6 (**permalink**) 03-06-2008, 08:57 AM

Well definitely not a Pygmy Falcon! I've had a look at the other photo and the only thing that springs to mind off the top of my head is Green-backed Camaroptera Camaroptera brachyura. However they are usually skulking devils that hang around the bottom of tangly bushes.