[Attachment(s) from tanzaniabirdatlas included below]not sure why but this was not forwarded to the group when Louis sent it through.Streaky-breasted Flufftailbreeding in dambos in Miombo woodland and a nocturnal migrant through the Udzungwa Mts but from where to where is anyone's guess for now.Neil----- Original Message -----From: Louis HansenSent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 12:44 PMSubject: flufftail ID mistakeDear wonders in the south!
Out of church (or Neil out of the pub)?
Ready for an apology? I do think that I send you ringing data for a Sarothrura rufa – but having "studied" additional photos and books – I have come to the conclusion it "must" Sarothrura boehmi. See attached photo (keept in small 800x600 and 100kb) – do you concur?
Louis
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[Attachment(s) from tanzaniabirdatlas included below]Hi allthese photos in from Chris at Eyasi.that barring on the thighs looks good for Dark Chanting but what do you think and why ?Neil----- Original Message -----From: Chris SchmelingSent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 1:51 PMSubject: Re: August listDear Neil,many thanks for your feedback, much appreciated. Lizard Buzzard is good for you, it's not really a dry country bird.Dark Chanting Gos is very good for you. I assume you know Pale Chanting quite well. Dark occurs in the coastal lowlands and the Lake Victoria basin just about reaching Olduvai so not too far away from you but PCG should be your common one.crack oncheersNeil__._,_.___Attachment(s) from tanzaniabirdatlas
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Thursday, September 3, 2009
Taita Falcon in Ruaha NP
From: Furaha Mbilinyi
It is very exciting to hear about the Taita Falcon in Ruaha NP.
They might be breeding there may be need to be checked if
there is any sign of nest on the rocks.
Furaha.
>
> > phone call from Rob Glen this afternoon.
> >
> > He and Sue just watching a Taita Falcon mobbing Verreaux's Eagle at Mpululu
> > Mt. The latter with a young bird.
> >
> > As far as I am aware this is only the second record of Taita from Ruaha,
> > the first being in the 60s.
> >
> > A rather special bird that is surely more common than we understand.
> >
> > Neil
> >
> > Neil and Liz Baker, Tanzania Bird Atlas, P.O. Box 1605, Iringa, Tanzania.
> > Mobiles: 0776-360876 and 0776-360864.
> > http://tanzaniabirdatlas.com
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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 !!!
>
> 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.
>
> 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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VS: [AfricanBirding] Birdlife release : Lake Natron faces renewed threat from soda-ash mining
> From: Raymond Katebaka [raymond.katebaka@gmail.com]
> Sent: 2009-08-26 14:36:06 MEST
> To: keith_betton [keith_betton@hotmail.com]
> Cc: AfricanBirding@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [AfricanBirding] Birdlife release : Lake Natron faces renewed threat from soda-ash mining
>
> Things are getting out of hand for our neighbors in Tanzania Keith! I
> recall in the last year such information was circulated to most of us
> conservationists who signed against that development. However, I am not sure
> if the government of Tanzania environmental agency has approved or certified
> the development by the time the advert was posted. If it did then they
> should have based on EIA provided. Apparently it?s hard for people who are
> not on ground to judge. Nevertheless what does the Environmental Management
> Plan (EMP) say? Was the assessment done in favor of the developer? Has the
> EIA contained the TEV of both direct and indirect? Does it consider
> offsetting incase of net loss? Is there anything like EIA national
> regulations, policies, acts etc?
>
> I think this is cross boarder issue that Tanzania government doesn?t have to
> decide alone. I would want to understand the involvement of the multilateral
> institutions such as World Bank. Soda ash I imagine is non renewable
> resource. How long will it last if extraction starts? If it?s short period
> of time fine, but say 40 years the biological diversity of the area will be
> affected significantly. So, does the EIA spell out this properly? Does the
> new team of experts contain neighboring countries? Surprisingly if the new
> EIA has not been produced how then there is speculation of Tanzanian
> Government Agency is seeking to buy mining equipment for large-scale soda
> ash extraction from Lake Natron?
>
> Let?s work together to conserve the flamingos
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 2:23 PM, keith_betton <keith_betton@hotmail.com>wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Lake Natron faces renewed threat from soda-ash mining
> > 26-08-2009
> > BirdLife has learnt that a Tanzanian Government Agency is seeking to buy
> > mining equipment for large-scale soda ash extraction from Lake Natron ? the
> > most important breeding site for Lesser Flamingo Phoeniconaias minor [Near
> > Threatened] in the world. "This is worrying indeed", said Lota Melamari -
> > the CEO of Wildlife Conservation Society of Tanzania (WCST-BirdLife in
> > Tanzania).
> > "An advert for the supply of mining equipment, and a recent announcement of
> > the expansion of the railway and building of new port at Tanga to handle
> > soda ash all point to deliberate efforts to keep alive the intention of
> > mining Lake Natron's soda ash", added Lota Melamari.
> > The Tanzania Investment Centre, a Tanzanian Government Agency, is inviting
> > interested parties to quote for the "Supply of machinery and equipment, as
> > well as trucks in a greenfield soda ash/caustic soda processing plant". The
> > advert was placed on behalf of KDCL Minerals (T) Ltd - a private company
> > which states that the $US 125 million project at Lake Natron in Northern
> > Tanzania will produce approximately 200,000 tonnes of soda ash annually.
> > Three-quarters of the world's population of Lesser Flamingo live in East
> > Africa ? and all depend on Tanzania's Lake Natron as a breeding site. The
> > development and associated infrastructure could permanently prevent the
> > birds from nesting at Lake Natron, spelling doom for the region's
> > spectacular flamingo flocks.
> > In opposition to development proposals of 2007, BirdLife launched its
> > `Think Pink' campaign. At the same time the Lake Natron Consultative Group -
> > a coalition of 49 mainly African institutions - was formed to urge the
> > Tanzanian Government to abandon the project. "Through campaigns like Think
> > Pink, the world, local communities, Tanzanian NGOs and ordinary citizens
> > have said a big `No' to the project - this will not change", warned Ken
> > Mwathe of BirdLife Africa Partnership Secretariat and Coordinator of Lake
> > Natron Consultative Group.
> > Earlier plans for mining Lake Natron involved Tata Chemicals Ltd. and the
> > governmental National Development Corporation. BirdLife welcomed the
> > withdrawal last year of an initial, inadequate and inappropriate
> > Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA), and is awaiting a new
> > ESIA to be produced and reviewed by a competent team of experts. "The
> > Tanzanian Government has promised, and consistently maintained, that no new
> > ESIA would be conducted before having in place an Integrated Management Plan
> > for the Lake Natron Ramsar Site, and this process is still ongoing",
> > concluded Lota.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
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> Sent: 2009-08-26 14:36:06 MEST
> To: keith_betton [keith_betton@hotmail.com]
> Cc: AfricanBirding@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [AfricanBirding] Birdlife release : Lake Natron faces renewed threat from soda-ash mining
>
> Things are getting out of hand for our neighbors in Tanzania Keith! I
> recall in the last year such information was circulated to most of us
> conservationists who signed against that development. However, I am not sure
> if the government of Tanzania environmental agency has approved or certified
> the development by the time the advert was posted. If it did then they
> should have based on EIA provided. Apparently it?s hard for people who are
> not on ground to judge. Nevertheless what does the Environmental Management
> Plan (EMP) say? Was the assessment done in favor of the developer? Has the
> EIA contained the TEV of both direct and indirect? Does it consider
> offsetting incase of net loss? Is there anything like EIA national
> regulations, policies, acts etc?
>
> I think this is cross boarder issue that Tanzania government doesn?t have to
> decide alone. I would want to understand the involvement of the multilateral
> institutions such as World Bank. Soda ash I imagine is non renewable
> resource. How long will it last if extraction starts? If it?s short period
> of time fine, but say 40 years the biological diversity of the area will be
> affected significantly. So, does the EIA spell out this properly? Does the
> new team of experts contain neighboring countries? Surprisingly if the new
> EIA has not been produced how then there is speculation of Tanzanian
> Government Agency is seeking to buy mining equipment for large-scale soda
> ash extraction from Lake Natron?
>
> Let?s work together to conserve the flamingos
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 2:23 PM, keith_betton <keith_betton@hotmail.com>wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Lake Natron faces renewed threat from soda-ash mining
> > 26-08-2009
> > BirdLife has learnt that a Tanzanian Government Agency is seeking to buy
> > mining equipment for large-scale soda ash extraction from Lake Natron ? the
> > most important breeding site for Lesser Flamingo Phoeniconaias minor [Near
> > Threatened] in the world. "This is worrying indeed", said Lota Melamari -
> > the CEO of Wildlife Conservation Society of Tanzania (WCST-BirdLife in
> > Tanzania).
> > "An advert for the supply of mining equipment, and a recent announcement of
> > the expansion of the railway and building of new port at Tanga to handle
> > soda ash all point to deliberate efforts to keep alive the intention of
> > mining Lake Natron's soda ash", added Lota Melamari.
> > The Tanzania Investment Centre, a Tanzanian Government Agency, is inviting
> > interested parties to quote for the "Supply of machinery and equipment, as
> > well as trucks in a greenfield soda ash/caustic soda processing plant". The
> > advert was placed on behalf of KDCL Minerals (T) Ltd - a private company
> > which states that the $US 125 million project at Lake Natron in Northern
> > Tanzania will produce approximately 200,000 tonnes of soda ash annually.
> > Three-quarters of the world's population of Lesser Flamingo live in East
> > Africa ? and all depend on Tanzania's Lake Natron as a breeding site. The
> > development and associated infrastructure could permanently prevent the
> > birds from nesting at Lake Natron, spelling doom for the region's
> > spectacular flamingo flocks.
> > In opposition to development proposals of 2007, BirdLife launched its
> > `Think Pink' campaign. At the same time the Lake Natron Consultative Group -
> > a coalition of 49 mainly African institutions - was formed to urge the
> > Tanzanian Government to abandon the project. "Through campaigns like Think
> > Pink, the world, local communities, Tanzanian NGOs and ordinary citizens
> > have said a big `No' to the project - this will not change", warned Ken
> > Mwathe of BirdLife Africa Partnership Secretariat and Coordinator of Lake
> > Natron Consultative Group.
> > Earlier plans for mining Lake Natron involved Tata Chemicals Ltd. and the
> > governmental National Development Corporation. BirdLife welcomed the
> > withdrawal last year of an initial, inadequate and inappropriate
> > Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA), and is awaiting a new
> > ESIA to be produced and reviewed by a competent team of experts. "The
> > Tanzanian Government has promised, and consistently maintained, that no new
> > ESIA would be conducted before having in place an Integrated Management Plan
> > for the Lake Natron Ramsar Site, and this process is still ongoing",
> > concluded Lota.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
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VS: [tanzaniabirds] Fw: birds on Bumbire
> From: tanzaniabirdatlas [tzbirdatlas@yahoo.co.uk]
> Sent: 2009-09-01 12:43:37 MEST
> To: tanzaniabirds@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [tanzaniabirds] Fw: birds on Bumbire
>
> our first list from Bob Mathews on Bumbire, our first real list from this
> island, the only other records are from the 95 waterbird count and these
> were only the waterbirds.
>
> African Grey Parrot is a real surprise but with B&W Casqued Hornbills there
> must be some good trees left.
>
> the lovebirds would have been Fischer's, I hope he's not using Von Perlo !!
> I do encourage folk to throw that book away !!
>
> Neil
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Matthews" <bdmatthews@aimint.net>
> To: "tanzaniabirdatlas" <tzbirdatlas@yahoo.co.uk>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 12:53 PM
> Subject: Re: birds on Bumbire
>
>
> > Hi Neil, OK, here's my first report, not quite sure how to do it, so
> > let me know if I can do better. For the month of August, here on the
> > north end of Bumbire Island, I have seen the following which I can
> > identify:
> > common fiscals, almost everyday
> > common bulbuls
> > black-headed gonolecks, almost daily
> > eastern grey plantain-eaters, all day long
> > black kites, ditto
> > white-browed coucals, often
> > black and white-casqued hornbills, although could be another species,
> > hard to tell for sure
> > African grey parrots
> > white-throated green bee-eaters, saw a flock of these one day
> > African harrier hawks
> > Vielots' black weaver
> > red-capped robin chat
> > snowy-headed robin chat
> > ring-necked dove
> > African paradise flycatchers
> > red-bellied flycatchers
> > Marico sunbird
> > African pied kingfishers, all day
> > Malachite kingfishers
> > black-headed weavers
> > Pied crows
> >
> > Of course, I see lots of yellow weavers and I think orioles also, but
> > difficult to type for sure. I hope this is ok. Thanks. Bob Matthews
> > oh, and when in Kahunda on the mainland near Sengerema early August I saw
> > some Lilian's lovebirds
> >
> >
> Neil and Liz Baker, Tanzania Bird Atlas, P.O. Box 1605, Iringa, Tanzania.
> Mobiles: 0776-360876 and 0776-360864.
> http://tanzaniabirdatlas.com
> Subscribe to: tanzaniabirds-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
>
> Sent: 2009-09-01 12:43:37 MEST
> To: tanzaniabirds@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [tanzaniabirds] Fw: birds on Bumbire
>
> our first list from Bob Mathews on Bumbire, our first real list from this
> island, the only other records are from the 95 waterbird count and these
> were only the waterbirds.
>
> African Grey Parrot is a real surprise but with B&W Casqued Hornbills there
> must be some good trees left.
>
> the lovebirds would have been Fischer's, I hope he's not using Von Perlo !!
> I do encourage folk to throw that book away !!
>
> Neil
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Matthews" <bdmatthews@aimint.net>
> To: "tanzaniabirdatlas" <tzbirdatlas@yahoo.co.uk>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 12:53 PM
> Subject: Re: birds on Bumbire
>
>
> > Hi Neil, OK, here's my first report, not quite sure how to do it, so
> > let me know if I can do better. For the month of August, here on the
> > north end of Bumbire Island, I have seen the following which I can
> > identify:
> > common fiscals, almost everyday
> > common bulbuls
> > black-headed gonolecks, almost daily
> > eastern grey plantain-eaters, all day long
> > black kites, ditto
> > white-browed coucals, often
> > black and white-casqued hornbills, although could be another species,
> > hard to tell for sure
> > African grey parrots
> > white-throated green bee-eaters, saw a flock of these one day
> > African harrier hawks
> > Vielots' black weaver
> > red-capped robin chat
> > snowy-headed robin chat
> > ring-necked dove
> > African paradise flycatchers
> > red-bellied flycatchers
> > Marico sunbird
> > African pied kingfishers, all day
> > Malachite kingfishers
> > black-headed weavers
> > Pied crows
> >
> > Of course, I see lots of yellow weavers and I think orioles also, but
> > difficult to type for sure. I hope this is ok. Thanks. Bob Matthews
> > oh, and when in Kahunda on the mainland near Sengerema early August I saw
> > some Lilian's lovebirds
> >
> >
> Neil and Liz Baker, Tanzania Bird Atlas, P.O. Box 1605, Iringa, Tanzania.
> Mobiles: 0776-360876 and 0776-360864.
> http://tanzaniabirdatlas.com
> Subscribe to: tanzaniabirds-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
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