Lake Nakuru
Speckled Pigeon
27 March 2013 18:31
© GW - monacoeye, all rights reserved, Gambia, Feb 2013
Bird name: Speckled Pigeon
Latin: Columba guinea
Other: African Rock Pigeon
Family: Columbidae • Pigeons, Doves
Range: Sub-Saharan Africa
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The Speckled Pigeon is a sub-Saharan Pigeon, seen here on several occasions in the Gambia.
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Purple Roller
17 March 2013 11:32
Copyright: monacoeye • Gambia, Feb 2013 • All rights reserved
Bird name: Purple Roller
Latin: Coracias naevia
Other: Rufous Crowned Roller • Rollier varié (Fr), Strichelracke (De)
Family: Coraciidae • Rollers
Range: Sub-saharan Africa, incl Gambia to Namibia to Tanzania
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The Purple Roller (also called Rufous-crowned Roller) lives in sub-Saharan Africa, including the Gambia, where the picture above was taken.
The Purple Roller has a streaked chest and face, whitish supercilium, mostly purple with blue shoulders sometimes visible.
Further below, a photos sent in by André, taken near Lake Nakuru in Kenya.More photos...
Red Billed Oxpecker
04 April 2010 21:57
Photo copyright: AS/monacoeye • Do not copy without permission • Lake Nakuru, Oct 2009
Bird name: Red Billed Oxpecker
Latin: Buphagus erythrorhynchus
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Family: Buphagidae • Oxpeckers
Red-billed Oxpeckers picking ticks off White Rhino at Lake Nakuru in Kenya.
Red-billed Oxpeckers live in East Africa.
Oxpeckers have been classed in Sturnidae, the Starlings, in the past, but here are placed in their own family the Buphagidae.More photos...
Lesser Blue Eared Glossy Starling
26 March 2010 11:08
Photos copyright: AS/monacoeye • Lake Nakaru • Oct 2009 • Do not copy without permission
Bird name: Lesser Blue Eared Glossy Starling
Latin: Lamprotornis chloropterus
Other: Lesser Blue Eared Starling
Family: Sturnidae • Starlings
This is probably a Lesser Blue-eared Glossy-starling but there is a similar, larger, bird: the Greater Blue-eared Starling.More photos...
Superb Starling
20 March 2010 07:46
Photo copyright: AS/monacoeye • Do not copy • Images: Lake Nakuru • Oct 2009
Bird name: Superb Starling
Latin: Lamprotornis superbus
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Family: Sturnidae • Starlings
The aptly named Superb Starling lives in East Africa, seen here above at Lake Nakuru in Tanzania.More photos...
Lesser Flamingo
11 March 2010 22:57
Photo copyright: AS/monacoeye • Do not copy • Images: Lake Nakuru • Oct 2009
Bird name: Lesser Flamingo
Latin: Phoenicopterus minor
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Family: Phoenicopteridae • Flamingos
The Lesser Flamingo looks similar to the Greater Flamingo, but is smaller with more black on the bill and a red patch at the tip. Large numbers congregate in Lake Nakuru.
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