Hello all
Everyone has a “Devil Bird” or at least a Jonah. This is a bird that you have never seen and just about everyone else has !!
They don’t have to even be uncommon – but you are certainly jinxed !!
Finding one of these nasty creatures makes for a very good day indeed !
July 28th 2012 was such a day………..
At last……. after 30 years………. Bronze-winged Courser
(Rhinoptilus chalcopterus)
Julia phoned me at a quarter to nine that morning and said they had found one ! Well done David for remembering my plight and many thanks to Nick for getting the photo. I am grateful to you all. Not forgetting Erin who was busy with the ringing nets.
The venue was the Mukuvisi Woodlands in urban Harare. This is a fantastic little preserve for both some wild life and a beautiful tract of Miombo Woodland. Whyte’s Barbet, Spotted Creeper, Miombo Blue-eared Starlings, White-breasted Cuckoo-Shrike, Black Sparrowhawk and plenty of other species are found here.
I am off again on another marathon trip later this week so wait out for a report on that too. It’s a *big* trip !!
Cheers
Tony
Birding in Zimbabwe 