Palm-nut Vulture juvs in Dar

25 July 2010 10:59
Yesterday at Jangwani Beach we watched two adults with two recently fledged
young interacting. The juvs were fully independent in terms of flight but
may well still have been attached to the parents for food / feeding
opportunities. We watched one adult make a somewhat half hearted attempt to
catch a crab. It would have made great video, a bright green crab running
with claws raised and this clown of a bird bouncing after it.

Inevitably the House Crows interfered and we were perhaps too close for the
palm-nut's liking.

Checking the data this is the first breeding season record for the Dar atlas
square yet surely these birds are breeding residents along this stretch of
coast.

As ever (for all raptors), pleeeeeze find time to watch any active nests for
evidence of breeding.

Neil