All the birds you’re about to see were filmed around our house (quite often from the sitting room window!) or not far away.
As O’D’s only camera is an MD140 Canon Camcorder and he filmed the birds without using a tripod, some of the film is rather ‘bouncy’. I hope you won’t find this too irritating. Birds move around very fast and would have flown away by the time he had set up a tripod. The breeze that usually blows in the Nhamacoa doesn’t help either, moving branches up and down and blowing leaves around.
Although we’re going to do a separate video on our resident Vangas (Bias Musicus) which are rare according to Newman’s Birds of Southern Africa, O’D thought he’d whet your appetite with a clip he took of the male Vanga removing the wings of a butterfly before popping it into the waiting mouth of the little female Vanga he and his mate had produced.
From time to time in this blog, we’ll be showing you more birds living in our little forest. There are too many to show all in one go.
For those of you who are birding enthusiasts, I attach a list of birds O’D and I have sighted in the Nhamacoa. There are many more in the forest which we have not yet filmed or been able to identify.
To watch Video Click On The Link Below-:
Below is a list of some of the birds frequently sighted around our house:
Vangas (Bias musicus) - Rare, according to Newman. Sighted almost daily by us
and at the moment busy building a nest in a eucalyptus tree in front of
our house..
Wattle-eyed Flycatchers (Platysteira peltata)
Blue-spotted Wood Doves (Turtur afer)
Crested guinea fowl (Guttera pucherani)
Helmeted guinea fowl (Numida meleagris)
Livingstone’s Turaco (Tauraco livingstonii)
Narina Trogon (Apaloderma narina)
Broad-tailed Paradise Whydahs (Vidua obtuse)
Pin-tailed Whydahs (Vidua macroura)
Yellow-rumped Widow (Euplectes capensis)
Grey or Black-tailed Waxbill (Estrilda perreini)
Crowned Hornbills (Tockus alboterminatus)
Silvery-cheeked Hornbill (Bycanistes brevis) - sighted twice January to March and
again on 14 April 2008)
Trumpeter Hornbill (Bycanistes bucinator) - sighted 15 April 2008)
African Golden Orioles (Oriolus auratus)
Black-headed Orioles (Oriolus larvatus)
Eurasian Golden Orioles (Oriolus oriolus)
Lizard Buzzards (Kaupifalco monogrammicus)
Long-crested Eagle (Lophaetus occipitalis)
Southern Banded Snake Eagle (Circaetus fasciolatus)
Heuglin’s Robin (Cossypha heuglini)
African Green pigeons (Treron calva)
Red-backed Mannikins (Lonchura cucullata)
Bronze Mannikins (Lonchura cucullata)
Jameson’s Firefinches (Logonosticta rhodopareia)
Red-throated Twinspots (Hypargos niveoguttatus)
Black Widow Finch or Indigobirds (Vidua funereal)
Tropical Boubous (Laniarius aethiopicus)
Arrow-marked Babblers (Turdoides jardineii)
Green Coucals (Ceuthmochares aereus)
Burchell’s Coucals (Centropus burchellii)
Brown-Hooded Kingfishers (Halcyon albiventris)
Malachite Kingfishers (Alcedo cristata)
Woodland Kingfishers (Halcyon senegalensis)
Pied Kingfishers (Ceryle rudis)
Green Woodhoopoes (Phoeniculus purpureus)
Black-backed Puffbacks (Dryoscopus cubla)
Gorgeous Bush Shrikes (Telophorus quadricolor)
Orange-breasted Bush Shrikes (Telophorus sulfureopectus)
White-crested Helmet Shrikes (Prionops plumatus)
Red-billed Shrike (Prionops retzil)
Black Cuckooshrike (Campephaga flava)
Paradise Flycatchers (Terpsiphone viridis)
Collared Sunbirds (Hedydipna collaris)
Scarlet-chested Sunbirds (Chalcomitra senegalensis)
Broad-billed Rollers (Eurystomus glaucurus)
African Yellow White-eye (Zosterops senegalensis)
Cardinal Woodpeckers (Dendropicos fuscescens)
Forest or Dark-backed Weavers (Ploceus rubiginosis)
Great Spotted Cuckoo (Clamator glandarius)
Red-Chested Cuckoo (Cuculus solitarius)
Forktailed Drongos (Dicrurus adsimilis)
Bulbuls
Mourning Doves
Cinnamon or Lemon Dove (Aplopelia larvata)
Francolin
We also have a variety of night birds in the form of owls, such as the Veroux, as well as nightjars, etc.
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