I need help identifying this bird....
Jan 20, 2018 17:11:40 #
Shot in September 2016 in Botswana. Finally finishing the book and this little guy has no name, yet...
Thanks.
Thanks.
Jan 20, 2018 17:17:11 #
From what I see online, it’s an Egyptian Goose (Alopochen aegyptiaca)
I did a google search, Botswana brown bird white wings.
I did a google search, Botswana brown bird white wings.
Jan 21, 2018 08:59:18 #
Thanks spider. I had considered the Egyptian Goose, but since I was able to capture images of this bird that look like the one attached, I had to reject that identification. The unidentifiable bird has a fuzzy, darker head, no apparent neck ring and much more white on the wings. Also the beak colour does not appear to be consistent with the Egyptian Goose.
Jan 21, 2018 09:56:19 #
Jan 21, 2018 20:48:22 #
Spider223 wrote:
I could take the opportunity to comment on the government of the country, the persecution of the Copts, the porous border with Gaza and the infiltration of the Muslim Brotherhood - but I’ll let your “feral Egyptian” description go.... We’re thinking that the bird might be a type of Grebe.
Jan 21, 2018 21:43:13 #
Hawkowl
Loc: Ithaca, NY
Fotomacher wrote:
I could take the opportunity to comment on the government of the country, the persecution of the Copts, the porous border with Gaza and the infiltration of the Muslim Brotherhood - but I’ll let your “feral Egyptian” description go.... We’re thinking that the bird might be a type of Grebe.
I don't understand why you introduced that irrelevant political stuff into a simple bird ID issue. Spider223 was trying to be helpful, and if you look carefully through the photos in the link he provided, I think you'll see he's clearly right--it's a feral Egyptian Goose.
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