Finfoot on the Wami

> From: tanzaniabirdatlas [tzbirdatlas@yahoo.co.uk]
>
> Although we have only seen one twice from the main Chalinze-Segara road bridge the Wami is obviously a good river for this bird.
>
> this pic from Sean just in, waddling along the sand like a goose, superb !!!
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> Sean, sunbird sounds like an imm male Collared. I would have thought Banded Green simply not possible in that location. Nobby, your thoughts on this one please. Plain-backed occurs but no metallic colour. Presume it had the short bill of an Anthreptes or whatever they are these days.
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> lat-longs as DD.DDDDD please but we use geocalc and can convert.
>
> good stuff
>
> Neil
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Sean Lues

> Hi Neil
>
> Think you saw the email from Jackie Barbour at Kisampa (just south of Saadani).
> We had a great weekend there and managed to get a little birding in.
>
> Two very exciting ones for me - African Finfoot (see attached photo - so this is 100% confirmation) in the Wami river;
>
> The other being a Banded Green Sunbird - I am confident in what I saw, apart from the fact that it did not have the red band of the male, instead it had a red wash across the breast(I have seen this happen before to Yellow-vented bulbuls when feeding on combretum microphylum, which was in flower while were there ...?) Otherwise - iridescent green over the top of head and mantle, extending down to the rump, but not sure about tail. No green on throat. Pale greyish underneath, including vent. The other problem is that it is not supposed to occur there? Altitude of app70m and away from any of the mountains. Was about 10metres up, feeding in a good mixed bird party.
>
> Will get the full list and co-ordinates asap (I forget - what system do you use?), but in the meantime I have a lot of work to catch up on!
>
> Regards
>
> Sean.

> Sean Lues,
>
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