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Unknown and little known information in Roberts Birds of Southern Africa, 7th edition Prepared by Sharon Maree April 2005 This serves as a summary of the unknown, little known and/or missing information in Roberts Birds of Southern Africa, 7th edition. For simplicity, the sections are given as they appear in Roberts, listing the unknown data as subheadings under each, and providing a list of species (common names only) for which these apply. The species are listed in the taxonomic order, as they appear in Roberts. INTRODUCTION Juvenile description • Black-rumped Buttonquail • Red-fronted Tinkerbird • Hottentot Buttonquail • Long-billed Crombec • Speckle-throated Woodpecker • Barratt’s Warbler • Whyte’s Barbet • Common Myna • Green Tinkerbird • Long-tailed Pipit Immature description • Blue Quail • Bat Hawk • Crested Guineafowl • Black Kite • Hottentot Buttonquail • Southern Banded Snake- • Racket-tailed Roller Eagle • Broad-billed Roller • Little Grebe • Giant Kingfisher • Great Crested Grebe • Pied Kingfisher • Black-necked Grebe • Swallow-tailed Bee-eater • Malagasy Pond-Heron • White-throated Bee-eater • Greater Frigatebird • Böhm’s Bee-eater • Lesser Frigatebird • Madagascar Bee-eater • Salvin’s Albatross • White-backed Mousebird • Chatham Albatross • Speckled Mousebird • Sooty Albatross • Red-faced Mousebird • Light-mantled Albatross • Green Malkoha • Double-banded Courser VOICE Voice description and song • Hottentot Buttonquail • Black-necked Grebe • Bradfield’s Swift • Drakensberg Prinia • Sooty Falcon Voice in behavioural context • Pied Crow DISTRIBUTION General distribution • Streaky-breasted Flufftail • Long-tailed Pipit • Souza’s Shrike POPULATION & DEMOGRAPHY General population & demography • Chukar Partridge • Silvery-cheeked Hornbill • Red-billed Spurfowl • African Hoopoe • Cape Spurfowl • Green Wood-Hoopoe • Natal Spurfowl • Common Scimitarbill • Swainson’s Spurfowl • Racket-tailed Roller • Harlequin Quail • Purple Roller • Blue Quail • Broad-billed Roller • Scaly-throated Honeyguide • Half-collared Kingfisher • Greater Honeyguide • Malachite Kingfisher • Lesser Honeyguide • African Pygmy-Kingfisher • Pallid Honeyguide • Grey-headed Kingfisher • Brown-backed Honeybird • Woodland Kingfisher • Bennett’s Woodpecker • Brown-hooded Kingfisher • Speckle-throated Woodpecker • Striped Kingfisher • Golden-tailed Woodpecker • Giant Kingfisher • Green-backed Woodpecker • Pied Kingfisher • Ground Woodpecker • White-fronted Bee-eater • Cardinal Woodpecker • Swallow-tailed Bee-eater • Bearded Woodpecker • Blue-cheeked Bee-eater • White-eared Barbet • European Bee-eater • Whyte’s Barbet • Southern Carmine Bee-eater • Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird • White-backed Mousebird • Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird • Speckled Mousebird • Red-fronted Tinkerbird • Red-faced Mousebird • Acacia Pied Barbet • Jacobin Cuckoo • Black-collared Barbet • Levaillant’s Cuckoo • Crested Barbet • Great Spotted Cuckoo • Bradfield’s Hornbill • Thick-billed Cuckoo • Red-chested Cuckoo • Lemon Dove • Black Cuckoo • European Turtle-Dove • Common Cuckoo • Laughing Dove • African Cuckoo • African Mourning Dove • Madagascar Cuckoo • Cape Turtle-Dove • Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo • Red-eyed Dove • Klaas’s Cuckoo • Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove • African Emerald Cuckoo • Blue-spotted Wood-Dove • Diderick Cuckoo • Tambourine Dove • Green Malkoha • Namaqua Dove • Coppery-tailed Coucal • African Green-Pigeon • Senegal Coucal • Kori Bustard • White-browed Coucal • Southern Black Korhaan • Burchell’s Coucal • Northern Black Korhaan • Meyer’s Parrot • Double-banded Sandgrouse • Rosy-faced Lovebird • Burchell’s Sandgrouse • Lilian’s Lovebird • African Snipe • Scarce Swift • Greater Painted-snipe • Böhm’s Spinetail • Caspian Plover • African Palm-Swift • Three-banded Courser • Mottled Swift • Burchell’s Courser • African Black Swift • Temminck’s Courser • Bradfield’s Swift • Black-winged Pratincole • Little Swift • Grey-headed Gull • Horus Swift • African Cuckoo Hawk • White-rumped Swift • European Honey-Buzzard • Schalow’s Turaco • Bat Hawk • Knysna Turaco • Black Kite • Ross’s Turaco • Egyptian Vulture • Purple-crested Turaco • African Harrier-Hawk • Barn Owl • Lizard Buzzard • African Scops-Owl • Forest Buzzard • Cape Eagle-Owl • Steppe Eagle • Spotted Eagle-Owl • Ayres’s Hawk-Eagle • Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl • Pygmy Falcon • Pearl-spotted Owlet • African Hobby • African Barred Owlet • Little Grebe • Freckled Nightjar • Great Crested Grebe • Swamp Nightjar • Black-necked Grebe • Rufous-cheeked Nightjar • Squacco Heron • Pennant-winged Nightjar • White-backed Night-Heron • Rock Dove • Little Bittern • Speckled Pigeon • Hamerkop • African Olive-Pigeon • Hadeda Ibis • White-bellied Storm-Petrel • Fairy Flycatcher • African Pitta • Moustached Grass-Warbler • Eurasian Golden Oriole • Green-capped Eremomela • African Golden Oriole • Karoo Eremomela • Green-headed Oriole • Barratt’s Warbler • Black-headed Oriole • Yellow-throated Woodland- • Square-tailed Drongo Warbler • Fork-tailed Drongo • Black-faced Babbler • Anchieta’s Tchagra • Hartlaub’s Babbler • Southern Tchagra • Bush Blackcap • Black-fronted Bush-Shrike • Layard’s Tit-Babbler • White-crested Helmet-Shrike • Chestnut-vented Tit-Babbler • Retz’s Helmet-Shrike • Cape White-eye • Chestnut-fronted Helmet- • Orange River White-eye Shrike • Red-faced Cisticola • Black-and-white Flycatcher • Singing Cisticola • Cape Batis • Lazy Cisticola • House Crow • Rattling Cisticola • Cape Crow • Tinkling Cisticola • Pied Crow • Grey-backed Cisticola • White-necked Raven • Wailing Cisticola • Magpie Shrike • Rufous-winged Cisticola • Southern White-crowned • Luapula Cisticola Shrike • Chirping Cisticola • White-breasted Cuckooshrike • Levaillant’s Cisticola • Grey Cuckooshrike • Croaking Cisticola • Black Cuckooshrike • Neddicky • Cape Rock-jumper • Short-winged Cisticola • Rufous-bellied Tit • Zitting Cisticola • Miombo Tit • Desert Cisticola • Grey Tit • Cloud Cisticola • Mascarene Martin • Pale-crowned Cisticola • White-throated Swallow • Wing-snapping Cisticola • Wire-tailed Swallow • Karoo Prinia • Greater Striped Swallow • Drakensberg Prinia • South African Cliff-Swallow • Namaqua Warbler • Eastern Saw-wing • Roberts’s Warbler • African Red-eyed Bulbul • Red-winged Warbler • Cape Bulbul • Rufous-eared Warbler • Stripe-cheeked Greenbul • Bar-throated Apalis • Yellow-bellied Greenbul • Black-headed Apalis • Yellow-streaked Greenbul • Chirinda Apalis • Tiny Greenbul • Grey-backed Camaroptera • Livingstone’s Flycatcher • Cinnamon-breasted Warbler • Melodious Lark • Miombo Blue-eared Starling • Cape Clapper Lark • Sharp-tailed Starling • Karoo Lark • Pied Starling • Barlow’s Lark • Common Starling • Dusky Lark • Common Myna • Gray’s Lark • Western Violet-backed • Agulhas Long-billed Lark Sunbird • Eastern Long-billed Lark • Bronzy Sunbird • Benguela Long-billed Lark • Miombo Double-collared • Stark’s Lark Sunbird • Sclater’s Lark • Variable Sunbird • Large-billed Lark • Copper Sunbird • Spotted Creeper • Gurney’s Sugarbird • Short-toed Rock-Thrush • Chestnut Weaver • Miombo Rock-Thrush • Yellow-crowned Bishop • Orange Ground-Thrush • Black-winged Bishop • Groundscraper Thrush • Yellow-mantled Widowbird • Olive Thrush • Locustfinch • Karoo Thrush • Red-headed Finch • Grey Tit-Flycatcher • Cut-throat Finch • White-starred Robin • Yellow-bellied Waxbill • East Coast Akalat • Red-faced Crimsonwing • Cape Robin-Chat • Lesser Seedcracker • White-throated Robin-Chat • Orange-winged Pytilia • Red-capped Robin-Chat • Brown Firefinch • Collared Palm-Thrush • Twinspot Indigobird • Rufous-tailed Palm-Thrush • Northern Grey-headed • Kalahari Scrub-Robin Sparrow • Karoo Scrub-Robin • Cape Longclaw • Whinchat • Mountain Pipit • African Stonechat • Long-tailed Pipit • Buff-streaked Chat • Kimberley Pipit • Mountain Wheatear • Wood Pipit • Capped Wheatear • Tree Pipit • Sickle-winged Chat • Black-headed Canary • Karoo Chat • White-throated Canary • Tractrac Chat • Protea Seedeater • Familiar Chat • Cape Siskin • Ant-eating Chat • Drakensberg Siskin • Arnot’s Chat • Lark-like Bunting • Mocking Cliff-Chat • Cinnamon-breasted Bunting • Boulder Chat • Cape Bunting • Pale-winged Starling • Golden-breasted Bunting • Red-winged Starling • Cabanis’s Bunting Age of first breeding • Hartlaub’s Spurfowl • African Grey Hornbill • Red-billed Spurfowl • Trumpeter Hornbill • Harlequin Quail • Silvery-cheeked Hornbill • Blue Quail • Southern Ground-Hornbill • Common Peacock • African Hoopoe • Crested Guineafowl • Violet Wood-Hoopoe • Helmeted Guineafowl • Common Scimitarbill • Egyptian Goose • Narina Trogon • South African Shelduck • Lilac-breasted Roller • Yellow-billed Duck • Racket-tailed Roller • Black-rumped Buttonquail • Purple Roller • Hottentot Buttonquail • Broad-billed Roller • Scaly-throated Honeyguide • Half-collared Kingfisher • Greater Honeyguide • African Pygmy-Kingfisher • Lesser Honeyguide • Grey-headed Kingfisher • Pallid Honeyguide • Mangrove Kingfisher • Green-backed Honeybird • Brown-hooded Kingfisher • Brown-backed Honeybird • Striped Kingfisher • Red-throated Wryneck • Giant Kingfisher • Bennett’s Woodpecker • Pied Kingfisher • Speckle-throated Woodpecker • Swallow-tailed Bee-eater • Golden-tailed Woodpecker • Blue-cheeked Bee-eater • Knysna Woodpecker • Speckled Mousebird • Green-backed Woodpecker • Red-faced Mousebird • Ground Woodpecker • Jacobin Cuckoo • Cardinal Woodpecker • Levaillant’s Cuckoo • Bearded Woodpecker • Great Spotted Cuckoo • Olive 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    UGANDA: COMPREHENSIVE CUSTOM TRIP REPORT 1 – 17 JULY 2018 By Dylan Vasapolli The iconic Shoebill was one of our major targets and didn’t disappoint! www.birdingecotours.com [email protected] 2 | TRIP REPORT Uganda: custom tour July 2018 Overview This private, comprehensive tour of Uganda focused on the main sites of the central and western reaches of the country, with the exception of the Semliki Valley and Mgahinga National Park. Taking place during arguably the best time to visit the country, July, this two-and-a-half-week tour focused on both the birds and mammals of the region. We were treated to a spectacular trip generally, with good weather throughout, allowing us to maximize our exploration of all the various sites visited. Beginning in Entebbe, the iconic Shoebill fell early on, along with the difficult Weyns’s Weaver and the sought-after Papyrus Gonolek. Transferring up to Masindi, we called in at the famous Royal Mile, Budongo Forest, where we had some spectacular birding – White-spotted Flufftail, Cassin’s and Sabine’s Spinetails, Chocolate-backed and African Dwarf Kingfishers, White-thighed Hornbill, Ituri Batis, Uganda Woodland Warbler, Scaly-breasted Illadopsis, Fire-crested Alethe, and Forest Robin, while surrounding areas produced the sought-after White-crested Turaco, Marsh Widowbird, and Brown Twinspot. Murchison Falls followed and didn’t disappoint, with the highlights being too many to list all – Abyssinian Ground Hornbill, Black-headed Lapwing, and Northern Carmine Bee-eater all featuring, along with many mammals including a pride of Lions and the scarce Patas Monkey, among others. The forested haven of Kibale was next up and saw us enjoying some quality time with our main quarry, Chimpanzees.