AW Challenge - Bird Check list of Rietvlei Nature Reserve

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429. Giant Kingfisher Megaceryle maxima


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118. Secretarybird Sagittarius serpentarius

Identification
Sexes similar, male larger and with slightly longer crest and tail. Orange facial skin, grey-­black plumage and characteristic striding gait through grass. In flight, barred tail distinctive.
Juvenile: Plumage browner, facial skin yellow and with shorter tail.


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199. Swainson’s Spurfowl Pternistis swainsonii

Identification
36 cm; sexes alike, male considerably larger than femal. Blackish (not red) upper mandible and legs.
Juvenile: Duller overall, with less bare red skin on face; throat with white feathers and bill brown with yellow base.


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526. Greater Striped Swallow Hirundo cucullata

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391. Burchell's Coucal Centropus burchelli

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580. Groundscraper Thrush Psophocichla litsitsirupa

Identification
21 cm; sexes alike. Grey upperparts, lack of wing bars.
Juvenile: Flecked with white above; buff spotted below.

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548. Pied Crow Corvus albua

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457. African Grey Hornbill Tockus nasutus

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428. Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis

Identification
25 cm; sexes similar. Only kingfisher in region with an all black and white plumage.
Male: Double breast band. Female: Easily separable with single breast band.
Juvenile: Breast band greyish black; feathers on face, throat and breast fringed buff.

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431. Malachite Kingfisher Alcedo cristata

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