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21 January 2024: Day 3, Marievale Chicken Sanctuary — Street Scholar Southern Africa Birding Safari. Click on right here to see (typically) the place I’m at this time.
Right this moment we’re birding at Marievale Chicken Sanctuary southeast of Johannesburg. Within the third week of January it’s mid-summer in South Africa, much like July within the U.S.
Most of the birds at Marievale are much like these in Florida. As an example, the African spoonbill pictured above resembles our roseate spoonbill. (I choose the roseate spoonbill as a result of it’s stunning pink.)
There are additionally a number of species which can be native in each locations: fulvous whistling duck, widespread moorhen, cattle egret, nice egret, shiny ibis, barn swallow and peregrine falcon. At Marievale *not* each fowl is a Life Chicken.
See Marievale’s birds within the 8-minute video under and also you, too, might conclude that South African marsh birds are the identical as Florida’s and but they’re totally 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 fowl… | 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 | Widespread /Eurasian Moorhen | Widespread 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 fowl 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 carrying 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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