SA Rare Bird News Report - 11 July 2022
Trevor Hardaker
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This is the Southern African Rare Bird News Report issued at 18h00 on Monday, 11 July 2022.
Information has been gleaned from various websites, email groups as well as from individual observers who have passed on their sightings. This report cannot be taken as being totally comprehensive as it is based only on information made available at the time of writing. All bird sightings reported here are reported in good faith based on information as provided by the observers. Any inaccuracies are totally unintentional and the writer cannot be held liable for these.
None of the records included in this report have undergone any adjudication process with any of the subregion’s Rarities Committees, so inclusion in this report does not constitute any official confirmation of the particular record. Observers are still encouraged to make the necessary submissions accordingly.
For those who may have only joined the group recently and are interested in finding out what has been seen in the past, previous reports can be viewed at http://groups.google.co.za/group/sa-rarebirdnews |
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This will be my last week running SARBN for a little while as I am off on a birding trip on Sunday and only arrive back in South Africa on 9 August. Garret Skead has, once again, kindly offered to run it in my absence so, from Sunday onwards, all news and updates should be sent directly to him (and not to me). I will post his contact details later this week, so that you all have it on record again.
Alright, on to the news and we’ll start again in Limpopo where Southern Africa’s first WOOD WARBLER continued to entertain many twitchers at Sefapane Lodge in Phalaborwa and was still showing well there today. Good numbers of birders from all over have now travelled to see this small bird and add it to their subregion lists and it has continued to be very reliable in the small area of trees around the dam in the lodge grounds. It’s going to be interesting to see just how long it stays there and how regular the updates are once the bulk of birders have already been there to see it. Elsewhere in the province, a single AFRICAN SKIMMER was present at Grootvlei Dam in the Kruger National Park on Thursday.
Across in Mpumalanga, there were also 4 AFRICAN SKIMMERS at Mjejane Dam in Mjejane Game Reserve on Saturday. It’s really been fantastic to see how regular the number of records of this species have become in South Africa over the last few years. | |||||||||
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Wood Warbler at Sefapane Lodge © Hennie Jordaan | Wood Warbler at Sefapane Lodge © Decklan Jordaan | ||||||||
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Wood Warbler at Sefapane Lodge © Peter Rosewarne | Wood Warbler at Sefapane Lodge © Roy McGrath | ||||||||
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Wood Warbler at Sefapane Lodge © Kim Wright | Wood Warbler at Sefapane Lodge © Rene van der Schyff | ||||||||
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Wood Warbler at Sefapane Lodge © Ian Grant | Wood Warbler at Sefapane Lodge © Philip Yiannakou | ||||||||
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Wood Warbler at Sefapane Lodge © Martin Benadie | Wood Warbler at Sefapane Lodge © Matthew Axelrod | ||||||||
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Wood Warbler at Sefapane Lodge © Hannes Swanepoel | Wood Warbler at Sefapane Lodge © Andy Featherstone | ||||||||
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Wood Warbler at Sefapane Lodge © Michael Heyns | Wood Warbler at Sefapane Lodge © Lydia Schoeman | ||||||||
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Wood Warbler at Sefapane Lodge © Michael Mandy | Wood Warbler at Sefapane Lodge © Steve Benbow | ||||||||
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Wood Warbler twitchers at Sefapane Lodge © Peter Rosewarne | |||||||||
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Wood Warbler twitchers at Sefapane Lodge © Derek Engelbrecht | |||||||||
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Wood Warbler twitchers at Sefapane Lodge © Claire Grant | |||||||||
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Wood Warbler twitchers at Sefapane Lodge © Hannes Swanepoel | |||||||||
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African Skimmer at Grootvlei Dam © Luke van den Heever | African Skimmers at Mjejane Dam © Mike Lumley | ||||||||
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Into Kwazulu Natal where the EURASIAN OYSTERCATCHER was still around Peace Cottage in Umdloti on Saturday and the popular ARNOT’S CHAT was also still at Manyoni Private Game Reserve until at least Friday.
Down in the Western Cape, at least 15 FULVOUS WHISTLING DUCKS were still at the Winterbottom hide at Rondevlei Nature Reserve on Saturday while the Keurbooms River estuary in Plettenberg Bay held on to the EURASIAN OYSTERCATCHER still there this afternoon and the GOLIATH HERON still there on Friday and the COMMON SCIMITARBILL was also still at the picnic site in Meiringspoort on Friday as well. | |||||||||
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Eurasian Oystercatcher on the Keurbooms River estuary © Ian Pletzer | Goliath Heron on the Keurbooms River estuary © Ian Pletzer | ||||||||
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Common Scimitarbill at Meiringspoort © Dean Boshoff | Fulvous Whistling Ducks at Rondevlei Nature Reserve © Charles Eliis | ||||||||
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Up in Namibia, a lone WHITE-FRONTED BEE-EATER was seen at Hardap Dam on Saturday while other lingerers included the YELLOW-THROATED LEAFLOVES still at Caprivi Houseboat Safari Lodge yesterday and the ROSS’S TURACO still at Taranga Safari Lodge, west of Rundu, on Friday.
And finally, in Mozambique, there was still plenty of action at the San Sebastian Peninsula near Vilanculous on Saturday with numbers of SAUNDERS’S, DAMARA and ROSEATE TERNS on view as well as a group of around 60 CRAB PLOVERS. | |||||||||
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White-fronted Bee-eater at Hardap Dam © Magriet Cherry | Saunders’s Tern on the San Sebastian Peninsula © Dave Gilroy | ||||||||
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Roseate Terns on the San Sebastian Peninsula © Dave Gilroy | |||||||||
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Crab Plovers on the San Sebastian Peninsula © Dave Gilroy | |||||||||
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Thank you to all observers who have contributed their records. Please continue to send through any reports of odd birds as well as continued updates on the presence of rarities already previously reported, no matter how mundane you think they may be. Even if you think someone else has probably sent in a report, rather send the report yourself as well. The only way to improve this service and to make it as useful as possible to everyone is if it can be as comprehensive as possible.
Kind regards Trevor | |||||||||
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TREVOR HARDAKER Cape Town, South Africa |
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