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21 January 2024: Day 3, Marievale Hen Sanctuary — Highway Scholar Southern Africa Birding Safari. Click on right here to see (typically) the place I’m as we speak.
Right now we’re birding at Marievale Hen Sanctuary southeast of Johannesburg. Within the third week of January it’s mid-summer in South Africa, just like July within the U.S.
Lots of the birds at Marievale are just like these in Florida. As an illustration, the African spoonbill pictured above resembles our roseate spoonbill. (I favor the roseate spoonbill as a result of it’s lovely pink.)
There are additionally a number of species which might be native in each locations: fulvous whistling duck, frequent moorhen, cattle egret, nice egret, shiny ibis, barn swallow and peregrine falcon. At Marievale *not* each chicken is a Life Hen.
See Marievale’s birds within the 8-minute video beneath and also you, too, might conclude that South African marsh birds are the identical as Florida’s and but they’re completely different. After the video I’ve supplied a desk with the names of comparable North American species.
| vid# | Species at Marievale | Much like Japanese N.American chicken… | sortname | #Instances |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Purple-billed Teal | resembles Ruddy duck, however associated to mallard | teal | 2 |
| 2 | Cape Shoveler | Northern Shoveler | shoveler | 3 |
| 3 | Malachite Kingfisher | Belted Kingfisher | kingfisher | 6 |
| 4 | Pied Kingfisher | Belted Kingfisher | kingfisher | |
| 5 | Purple-knobbed Coot | American Coot | coot | 7 |
| 6 | Reed Cormorant | Double-crested cormorant | cormorant | 7 |
| 7 | Spur-winged geese in flight | Canada geese in flight | goose | |
| 8 | Yellow-billed duck | Mallard | duck | 2 |
| 9 | Sacred Ibis | resembles Wooden Stork, not associated | ibis | |
| 10 | African Swamphen | Grey-headed Swamphen, launched in FL | swamphen | 2 |
| 11 | African snipe | Wilson’s snipe | snipe | |
| 12 | Frequent /Eurasian Moorhen | Frequent gallinule | moorhen | 2 |
| 13 | Gray-headed (or Grey-hooded) gull | Bonaparte’s gull | gull | 2 |
| 14 | Three-banded plover | Killdeer or Semi-palmated plover | plover | 2 |
| 15 | Blacksmith Lapwing | Northern lapwing | lapwing | 2 |
| 16 | Black-winged Stilt | Black-necked stilt | stilt | 2 |
| 17 | Purple-eyed Dove | Rock pigeon | dove | |
| 18 | Blue-billed teal | Blue-winged teal | teal | |
| 19 | Speckled dove | Rock pigeon | dove | |
| 20 | White-breasted cormorant | Subspecies of Nice cormorant | cormorant | 3 |
| 21 | Nice crested grebe | Horned grebe | grebe | |
| 22 | Purple heron | Nice blue heron | heron | |
| 23 | Squacco heron | resembles Inexperienced heron | heron | 2 |
| 24 | African spoonbill | Roseate spoonbill | spoonbill | 3 |
| 25 | Black-headed heron | Nice blue heron | heron | |
| 26 | Shiny Ibis | the identical chicken is in Florida! | ibis | |
| 27 | Goliath heron | Nice blue heron | heron | |
| 28 | Gray heron | Nice blue heron | heron | |
| 29 | Ruff | Eurasian; generally visits US (NY, OH) | ruff | |
| 30 | Egyptian Goose | launched to US & Europe | goose | |
| 31 | Cape Wagtail | Eurasian; white wagtail is in AK | wagtail | |
| 32 | African Rail | Virginia rail | rail | |
| 33 | Little Egret | Snowy egret | egret | |
| 34 | Black Heron | Snowy egret sporting black | heron | |
| 35 | Burchell’s (White-browed) coucal | nothing prefer it within the U.S. | coucal | |
| 36 | Lengthy-tailed Widowbird | nothing prefer it within the U.S. | widowbird | |
| 37 | African Stonechat | nothing prefer it within the U.S. | stonechat |
(credit are within the captions)
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