some birds are just always good to find and to see well and this is one of them, always a treat.
Throughout the life of the Atlas no one has actually lived in the preferred habitat for this species. It's never a garden bird or a regular safari tick. Brother Arthur came closest in Peramiho.
I'm hoping that the safari guides in this new camp in the southern Selous will tell us much about the sedentary nature of this beast, it's far too small for any hunters or WD field staff to have taken any interest in it. Brent, you need to print this map and keep it handy as a reminder.
Always well worth stopping on any blocked drainage line in the eastern Miombo and searching the long rank grasses at the edge of the dambo for this and Lavender (now Grey !!) Waxbill.
Not many of you have seen and reported this bird in the last 30 years.
Neil
Neil and Liz Baker, Tanzania Bird Atlas, P.O. Box 1605, Iringa, Tanzania.
Mobiles: 0776-360876 and 0776-360864.
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