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WWW.TROPICALBIRDING.COM memorable Madagascar tour! aus with traditional final dinner,flavored and local endless rums! cool speciesNET of LEMUR,LOWLANDGREATER DWARF TUFT FOREST RAT,WEBB’S RED went for a enjoyaafternoon, relaxing snorkeled, where a visited andnight local some some some village. swam, we At andminutes we eventuallygreatthis awayfromhad bird. to walk but we found ofmyfavorite, aGround these, pair GROUND Our and final n day inMasoala, November BIRDING TROPICAL TRI The morning theboat next we back toTana forflight took toMaroantsetra toendanother our back
- night walk in theforest,SCOPS in weawesome views walk night of had where MALAGASY ROLLER for the people whoIt itfrom was climb missed ROLLER earlierinthe for tour.ashort steep but uphill 29 The breakfast and and breakfast The lunch bar atthe amazing Masoala th , 2015 - CASTING SPIDER. From d greatwhereCASTING herereturned our we tothe lodge SPIDER. hosts
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motionless onalogmotionless 10 for - TAILED RAT, and a RAT,TAILED very
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WWW.TROPICALBIRDING.COM Red Phaethontidae (Tropicbirds) Wilson’s Hydrobatidae(Storm Greater Flamingo Phoenicopteridae(Flamingos) Madagascar Grebe (Little) Little Grebe Podicipedidae (Grebes) QuailCommon PartridgeMadagascar Phasianidae (Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies) Helmeted Guineafowl Numididae (Guineafowl) Bernier's Teal Hottentot Teal Red Meller's Duck African Pygmy (Knob Comb White Anatidaeand Waterfowl) (Ducks,Geese, ChecklistBird BIRDING TROPICAL TRI - - tailed Tropicbird Duckbilled (Teal) - faced Whistling Storm
- The range restricted Van Dam’s Vanga fromAnkarafantsika NP. PhotoPablo by Cervantes. billed) Duck billed) Duck
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- Petrels)
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Using Clements 6.9 (H Heard = only)
Numida meleagrisNumida bernieri Anas Anas hottentota Anas erythrorhyncha Anas melleri auritus Nettapus melanotos Sarkidiornis Dendrocygnaviduata Phaethon rubricauda Oceanites oceanicus Phoenicopterus roseus Tachybaptus pelzelnii Tachybaptus ruficollis coturnixCoturnix Margaroperdix madagascarensis
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WWW.TROPICALBIRDING.COM Madagascar Wood Sarothruridae(Flufftails) Eurasian Moorhen Baillon's Crake White Madagascar Rail Rallidae (Rails, Gallinules, Subdesert Mesite MesiteBrown White Mesitornithidae (Mesites) Madagascar Buzzard FishMadagascar Black(Yellow Goshawk Henst's Madagascar Sparrowhawk Frances's Goshawk HarrierReunion Bat Hawk Madagascar Harrier Accipitridae(Hawks,Kites) and Eagles, African Spoonbill (Malagasy)Ibis Sacred Madagascan (Crested)Ibis GlossyIbis andThreskiornithidae Spoonbills) (Ibises Black Striated (Green Heron Madagascar (Squacco)Pond Squacco (Common) Heron EgretCattle Black (Egret) Heron Little Egret (Dimorphic) Great Egret (White) Purple Heron Humblot's Heron Gray Heron Little Bittern Ardeidae and(Herons, Egrets, Bitterns) Hamerkop Scopidae (Hamerkop) Yellow AfricanOpenbill Ciconiidae (Storks) BIRDING TROPICAL TRI - - - crowned Night
throated Rail breasted Mesite - billed Stork billed
- - billed) Kite billed)
backed) Heronbacked)
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Eagle Eagle
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Rail -
- Heron Heron Hawk Hawk
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Buteo brachypterus Buteo vociferoidesHaliaeetus Milvus (parasitus) migrans Accipiter henstii Accipiter madagascariensis Accipiter f.francesii Circus macrosceles Macheiramphus alcinus Polyboroides radiatus alba Platalea aethiopicusThreskiornis bernieri cristata Lophotibis Plegadis falcinellus Nycticorax nycticorax rutenbergiButorides striata Ardeola idae Ardeola ralloides Bubulcus ibis Egretta ardesiaca Egretta garzettadimorpha Ardea alba Ardea purpureamadagascariensis Ardea humbloti Ardea cinerea firasa Ixobrychusminutus Scopus umbretta Mycteria ibis Anastomus lamelligerus m. Canirallus kioloides kioloides Canirallus chloropus pyrrhorrhoa Gallinula Porzana pusilla Dryolimnas c. cuvieri Rallus madagascariensis benschi Monias unicolor Mesitornis variegata Mesitornis
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WWW.TROPICALBIRDING.COM Namaqua Dove Madagascar Turtle Rock Pigeon (Dove) Columbidae (Pigeons and Madagascar Sandgrouse Pteroclidae (Sandgrouse) Lesser Tern Crested Great (Swift) Tern Crested TernCommon Roseate Tern Saunders's Tern Laridae(Gulls, Terns, Skimmers) and PratincoleMadagascar Glareolidaeand(Pratincoles Coursers) Crab Plover Dromadidae(Crab Plover) Madagascar Buttonquail Turnicidae (Buttonquail) Madagascan Snipe Sanderling Curlew Sandpiper Ruddy Turnstone Bar Eurasian Curlew Whimbrel GreenshankCommon SandpiperCommon Terek Sandpiper Scolopacidae and Allies) (Sandpipers Madagascar Jacana Jacanidae (Jacanas) Greater Painted Rostratulidae (Painted White Three PloverMadagascar RingedCommon Plover Kittlitz's Plover Greater Sandplover Lesser Sandplover Black Lapwings)Charadriidae (Plovers and Black Recurvirostridae and Avocets)(Stilts Flufftail Madagascar BIRDING TROPICAL TRI - tailed Godwit - - - - banded Ploverbanded bellied (Grey) Plover winged Stilt fronted Plover
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snipe
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Dove Dove
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Snipes)
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Doves)
Sarothrura insularis insularis Sarothrura Glareola ocularis Glareola ocularis Dromas ardeola nigricollis Turnix Gallinago macrodactyla alba Calidris ferruginea Calidris Arenaria interpres lapponica Limosa Numenius arquata Numenius phaeopus stagnatilis Tringa hypoleucosActitis Xenus cinereus albinuchaActophilornis benghalensis Rostratula tenellus marginatus Charadrius tricollarisCharadrius bifrontatus thoracicus Charadrius hiaticula Charadrius pecuariusCharadrius leschenaultii Charadrius mongolus Charadrius squatarola Pluvialis Himantopus himantopus Oena capensis aliena Streptopelia p.picturata livia Columba Pterocles personatus bengalensisThalasseus bergii Thalasseus Sterna hirundo Sterna Sternula saundersi
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WWW.TROPICALBIRDING.COM Scaly Ground Short Brachypteraciidae (Ground Broad Coraciidae (Rollers) MadagascarBee Meropidae (Bee PygmyMadagascar Malagasy Alcedinidae (Kingfishers) Madagascar Hoopoe Upupidae (Hoopoes) (Madagascar) Cuckoo Leptosomidae (Cuckoo African Palm Little Swift Madagascar (Black) Swift Malagasy Spineta Apodidae (Swifts) Madagascar Nightjar Collared Nightjar Caprimulgidae and(Nightjars allies) White (African) Marsh Madagascar Long Torotoroka Scops Malagasy Scops Strigidae (Owls) BarnOwl Tytonidae(Barn Madagascar Coucal Coua Blue Verreaux's Coua Crested Coua Coua Running [Green Red Red Red Coquerel's Coua Giant Coua Madagascar (Lesser) Cuckoo Cuculidae (Cuckoos) Madagascar Blue Madagascar Green BIRDING TROPICAL TRI - - - capped Coua capped Coua fronted Coua breasted - - - legged Ground billed Rollerbilled browed Owl browed - capped Coua] capped Kingfisher Kingfisher
- Swift Swift -
Roller -
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Owl Owl
eared Owl eared
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Roller)
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Treron australis xenius/australisTreron australis discolor Leptosomus parvusgracilisCypsiurus Apus affinis Apus b.balstoni Zoonavena g.grandidieri m.madagascariensisCaprimulgus Gactornis enarratus superciliaris Ninox Asio capensis hova Asio madagascariensis Otus madagascariensis rutilus Otus affinis Tyto alba toulou Centropus t. caerulea Coua verreauxiCoua cristata Coua cursor Coua ruficeps[Coua olivaceiceps] r.ruficeps Coua reynaudii Coua serriana Coua coquereliCoua gigas Coua rochii Cuculus Alectroenas madagascariensis Brachypteracias squamiger Brachypteracias leptosomus Eurystomus g.glaucurus Merops superciliosus madagascariensis Corythornis v.Corythornis vintsioides Upupa marginata
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WWW.TROPICALBIRDING.COM Corvidae Magpies) (Crows,and Jays, Madagascar Paradise MonarchidaeFlycatchers) (Monarch Crested Drongo Dicruridae (Drongos) Ashy Campephagidae(Cuckoo Van Dam's Vanga Lafresnaye's Vanga Pollen's Vanga White Sickle Bernier's Vanga Helmet Vanga Vanga Rufous Ward's Flycatcher Hook (Madagascar) Blue Vanga Crossley's (Babbler) Vanga Chabert Vanga Nuthatch Vanga Red Red Vanga Tylas Dark Newtonia Common Newtonia Newtonia Archbold's Vangidae& (Vangas Helmetshrikes) Yellow Common Sunbird Schlegel's Asity Velvet Asity Philepittidae (Asities) Grey Lesser Vasa Greater Vasa Psittaculidae (Old Parrots) World PeregrineFalcon SootyFalcon KestrelBanded Madagascar Kestrel FalconidaeCaracaras)and (Falcons Long Rufous Pitta BIRDING TROPICAL TRI - - - shouldered Vanga shouldered tailed Vanga - - -
like Ground like headed Lovebird Lovebird headed tailed Ground - Cuckoo - billed Vanga Vanga billed billed Vanga Vanga billed headed Vanga headed - - bellied (Sunbird bellied headed Groundheaded - Parrot Parrot -
Parrot Parrot
- shrike
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Roller
Asity
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Flycatcher Roller
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)Asity
Atelornis pittoides Atelornis Falculea palliata palliata Falculea bernieri Oriola Euryceros prevostii Schetba rufa wardi Pseudobias Vanga curvirostris m.madagascarinusCyanolanius Mystacornis crossleyi Leptopterus chabert corallirostrisHypositta rufocarpalis Calicalicus Calicalicus madagascariensis Tylas eduardi amphichroa Newtonia brunneicaudaNewtonia archboldi Newtonia Neodrepanis hypoxantha Neodrepanis coruscans schlegeli Philepitta castanea Philepitta canus Agapornis n./libs nigra Coracopsis vasaCoracopsis v./drouhardi Falco peregrinus radama Falco concolor zoniventris Falco Falco newtoni chimaera Uratelornis crossleyi Atelornis Terpsiphone m.mutata Dicrurus f.forficatus c.Coracina cinerea damii Xenopirostris xenopirostrisXenopirostris polleni Xenopirostris (Leptopterus)Artamella viridis
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WWW.TROPICALBIRDING.COM Nectariniidae Spiderhunters) (Sunbirdsand MynaCommon Madagascar Starling Sturnidae (Starlings) Stonechat Littoral Rock Rock[Benson's Forest Rock Madagascar Magpie Muscicapidae(Old Flycatchers) World Madagascar White Zosteropidae (White Madagascar Cisticola Stripe Green Jery Common Jery Allies) Cisticolidae (Cisticolas and WarblerRand's Grey Appert's Tetraka Spectacled Tetraka (Greenbul) Yellow Thamnornis (Warbler) Wedge Cryptic Warbler Long White Warblers) Bernieridae (Malagasy Gray Emu EmuBrown Locustellidae and Allies) (Grassbirds Madagascar Swamp Subdesert Brush MadagascarBrush Acrocephalidae(Reed MadagascarBulbul Pycnonotidae(Bulbuls) Mascarene Martin (BrownPlain Hirundinidae (Swallows) Madagascar Lark Alaudidae (Larks) CrowPied BIRDING TROPICAL TRI - - crowned Tetraka crowned billed billed Bernieria - -
throated Jery - throated Oxylabes - tailed Jery browed Oxylabesbrowed
- tail
- - - Thrush Thrush tail throated) Martin throated) - Thrush Thrush
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(Greenbul) Warbler Warbler eye
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WarblersAllies) and P MADAGASCAR REPORT:
Corvus albus Corvus cherinaCisticola striatigula Neomixis viridis Neomixis tenella Neomixis pseudozosterops Randia cinereicepsXanthornixis apperti Xanthornixis zosteropsXanthornixis Crossleyia xanthophrys chloropetoidesThamnornis flavoviridis Hartertula Cryptosylvicola randrianasoloi Bernieria madagascariensis Oxylabes madagascariensis Amphilais seebohmi brunneus Bradypterus Acrocephalus newtoni Nesillas lantzi typica t. Nesillas Hypsipetes m. madagascariensis Phedina borbonica paludicola cowaniRiparia hovaMirafra Acridotheres tristis aurata Saroglossa Saxicola sibilla torquatus imerina Monticola bensoni] sharpei [Monticola sharpei s. Monticola albospecularisCopsychus maderaspatanus Zosterops
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WWW.TROPICALBIRDING.COM Goodman's Mouse Lemur Mouse LemurRufous Golden GrayMouse Lemur Gray Cheirogaleidae Mammals Madagascar Mannikin andEstrildidae (Waxbills Allies) ForestFody Red (Magagascar) Fody WeaverSakalava Nelicourvi Weaver PloceidaeAllies) (Weavers and House Sparrow Passeridae Sparrows) World (Old Madagascar Wagtail Motacillidae (Wagtails and Madagascar (Green) Sunbird Souimanga Sunbird BIRDING TROPICAL TRI - brown Mouse Lemurbrown - brown Mouse Lemurbrown
A Black (Mouse & Dwarf Lemurs)&(Mouse Dwarf
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- white Ruffed LemurPerinet.Pablo Photo from Cervantes. by
Cinnyris souimanga s./apolis souimanga Cinnyris Lonchura nana nana Lonchura omissa Foudia Foudia madagascariensis Ploceus sakalava Ploceus nelicourvi Passer domesticus flaviventrisMotacilla n.notatus Cinnyris
Microcebus lehilahytsara Microcebus rufus Microcebus ravelobensis Microcebus murinus Microcebus griseorufus +1
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WWW.TROPICALBIRDING.COM Red ForestLowland Rat ForestEastern Red Rat Tuft Webb’s Western Tuft Nesomyidae Rodents) (African Streaked TenrecLowland Lesser HedgehogTenrec Tenrecidae Commerson'sLeaf nosed Bats) LeafHipposideridae World (Old Mauritian Tomb Bat Emballonuridae (Sheath FlyingMadagascar Fox Pteropodidae (FruitBats) Indri Milne Diademed Sifaka Coquerel's Sifaka Verreaux’s Sifaka Eastern Lemur Woolly (Avahi) (WoollyLemurs,& Indridae Sifakas RedLemur Ruffed Black Mongoose Lemur Red White Red LemurCommon Brown Ring Golden Bamboo Lemur Ranomafana Bamboo Lemur Lemur EasternBamboo Lesser (Gray) Lemuridae(True Lemurs) Scott´s Sportive Lemur Petter's Sportive Lemur Zombitse Sportive Lemur Milne Small Lepilemuridae Lemurs) (Sportive Fat LemurCrossley's Dwarf Greater Lemur Dwarf Mittermeier's Mouse Lemur BIRDING TROPICAL TRI - - - tailed Dwarf Lemur tailed Dwarf bellied Lemurbellied Lemur Brown fronted - tailed Lemur - -
- - - toothed Sportive Lemurtoothed Sportive and Edwards Sifaka Edwards SportiveEdward’s Lemur fronted Brown Lemur Brown fronted
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(Tenrecs)
white Lemur Ruffed - tailed Rat - tailed Rat -
nosed Bat nosed
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Indri) Nesomys audebertiNesomys rufus Nesomys webbi Eliurus Eliurus myoxinus semispinosus Hemicentetes telfairi Echinops Hipposideros commersoni mauritianus Taphozous rufus Pteropus Indri Indri diademaPropithecus edwardsi Propithecus coquereliPropithecus verreauxiPropithecus laniger Avahi Varecia rubra Vareciavariegata Eulemur mongoz rubriventerEulemur albifrons Eulemur rufus Eulemur fulvusEulemur catta Lemur aureus Hapalemur g.ranomafanensisHapalemur griseus Hapalemur scottorumLepilemur petteri Lepilemur Lepilemur hubbardi edwardsiLepilemur Lepilemur microdon Cheirogaleus medius crossleyiCheirogaleus Cheirogaleus major Microcebus mittermeieri
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WWW.TROPICALBIRDING.COM PeacockGecko Day DayGeckoLined DayGeckoStanding's MadagascarGecko Day GeckoKoch's Day DayGeckoSpeckled ForestSpiny GeckoGrandidier's Dwarf Madagascar Clawless Gecko Gray'sLeaf HouseCommon Gecko MadagascarSakalava VelvetGecko LeafSatanic Common Leaf GroundMadagascar Gecko Gekkonidae Dumeril'sSwift Madagascar Grandidier's Madagascar Swift Cuvier's MadagascarSwift Three Opluridae PantherChameleon Two Warty Chameleon Oustalet's White ChameleonRhinosaurus Cryptic (Blue ChameleonGlaw's ChameleonO'Shaughnessy's Parson's (Giant) Perinet (Band Short ChameleonElongate Ancient Leaf Leaf ChameleonBrown Leaf ChameleonBruno's Chameleon Leaf Antongil Chamaeleonidae Radiated Tortoise Testudinidae REPTILES BottlenoseCommon Dolphin Cetaceans BIRDING TROPICAL TRI - banded Chameleon - - - horned Chameleon horned eyed Lizardeyed lined Chameleonlined
Chameleon -
toed Gecko toed
- Dwarf Gecko Dwarf tailed Gecko - - legged) Chameleonlegged) - bellied) Chameleonbellied) tailed Gecko
Chameleon
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Phelsuma lineataPhelsuma standingi Phelsuma Phelsuma madagascariensis kochi Phelsuma guttata Phelsuma Lygodactylus tuberosus Lygodactylus tolampyae Ebenavia inunguis Hemidactylus mercatorius Hemidactylus frenatus Blaesodactylus sakalava phantasticus Uroplatus fimbriatus Uroplatus Paroedura pictus quadrimaculatus Oplurus grandidieri Oplurus Oplurus cuvieri Chalarodon madagascariensis Furcifer pardalis Furcifer balteatus Furcifer verrucosus Furcifer oustaleti Furcifer antimena Furcifer rhinoceratus crypticumCalumma glawi Calumma oshaughnessyiCalumma parsonii Calumma gastrotaenia Calumma brevicorne Calumma Palleon nasus Brookesia superciliaris Brookesia brunoi Brookesia peyrierasi Geochelone radiata truncatus Tursiops
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WWW.TROPICALBIRDING.COM Climbing Mantella MantellaBaron's EasternFrog Madagascar Grandidier's Madagascar Frog Duméril'sFrog Madagascar Betsileo Madagascar White Green Bright Madagascar Bright Mantellidae Stump Microhylidae Madagascar Frog Reed Hyperoliidae AMPHIBIANS Snake Sand Mahafaly Bernier's Snake Striped Striped Madagascar Garter Snake Gold Collared Snake Bright HognoseBlonde Snake Giant Snake Hognose Colubridae GroundMadagascar Boa Eastern Madagascar Tree Boa Boidae Common Skink Madagascar Malagasy Skink Skink Elegant Gravenhorst's Skink Boettger's Skink Scincidae PlatedOrnate Lizard WesternPlated Lizard MadagascarLizard Plated Peter'sPlated Keeled Lizard Gerrhosauridae ModestGecko Day BIRDING TROPICAL TRI - collared Snake - - lipped Bright lipped toed Frogtoed
- eyed Frog eyed
- eyed Frogeyed -
eyed Frog Frog
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Boophis Boophis madagascariensis sp. Stumpffia madagascariensisHeterixalus Mantella Mantella baroni Mantella albofrenatusMantidactylus grandidieriMantidactylus lugubris Mantidactylus betsileanus Mantidactylus albilabris Boophis viridis Boophis
Mimophis Mimophis mahfalensis bernieri Dromicodryas lateralis Thamnosophis rhodogaster Liophidium Liophidium Leioheterodon modestus madagascariensis Leioheterodon Acrantophis madagascariensis Sanzinia madagascariensis Madascincus melanopleura Trachylepis madagascariensis Trachylepis elegans Trachylepis gravenhorstii Trachylepis boettgeri Zonosaurus laticaudatus Zonosaurus madagascariensisZonosaurus Tracheloptychus petersi Phelsuma modesta
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