Tanzania 5 - Tarangire National Park - 2 Legs

17 - 19 December 2014

Birds! Everywhere! Big ones. Little ones. Lots of color!

Little birds with lots of color:

The superb starling is one of the most widespread and colorful birds. Here a pair is nesting in a dead tree.

Kingfishers were also quite common. This is the woodland kingfisher.

White-headed buffalo weavers make interesting nests that hang from acacia trees.

Red-and-yellow barbet

The lilac-breasted roller. It's rainbow of colors.

On to larger birds:

Water thick knee, with its distinctive eye.

Two hamerkops up front; a blacksmith plover in the back.

A helmeted guineafowl. Despite being a common sight, guineafowl were particularly difficult to photograph well.

Yellow-necked spurfowl

Birds of prey and vultures

We saw a number of tawny eagles.

Two African fish eagles in a sausage tree.

Vultures, probably African white-backed

A lappet-faced vulture silhouetted against the sky.