STARLINGs & their Allies - Bird of the Month: April 2013

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By flying cheetah 2012:

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flying cheetah wrote: Sat Oct 20, 2012 8:21 pm

But today I want to show you some pics of a special bird kill..a Starling who had caught a Scorpion :shock: It took the bird nearly 10 minutes of hopping around and shaking the Scorpion before he finally could swallow it. I took plenty of pics but most of them were blurred because the bird never stood still O-/ Here are the best ones:

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2 Leucistic Cape Glossy starlings on the stoep area in front of the shop
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It is not a leucistic Cape Glossy Starling, but a "normal" female Wattled Starling, with the pink bill, dark eye and black primaries. The overall morphology is quite different between these 2 species.


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But the woman says she is a birder! :shock: O-/


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SHE says so O**

Maybe she only means that she like birds and is looking for birds lol


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I also thought it was a Wattled starling but I know that Gillian Soames is an avid birder and would be surprised if she got it wrong. :-?


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Well, this time she is ;-) Red legs and the colours are typical....and the silhouette of the head and bill. There is even a slight small spot of yellow behind the eye.


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:yes: \O


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