South Africa Birding November 2021

[@tkgwtys]

Wonderfully clear images.

[@prabhabob784]

Lovely footage..thanks a lot

[@KLG777]

Beautiful video, wish i could visit ❤❤❤❤

[@DouglasReitzCharlottePavelka]

Great video…good timing and great audio capture

[@casvandegiessen7837]

The second bokmakierie at 17:23 is actually a cape longclaw.

[@AdityaParameshwara]

Such beautiful birds! Especially the Blue crane! Looking for more!

[@Forestfalcon1]

Loved watching this.. Not too sure about your African Marsh Harrier though.. It had a white rump..

[@mwalshvt1980]

This video was for a trip in November 2021.

[@Just_shush_now]

I think you might be mistaken about the African marsh harrier, more likely a montagus or juvenile black harrier. It has a ringed tail, I don’t believe the marsh harrier has white rump nor the African marsh harrier. You also had a two yellow billed duck, two Egyptian geese, a African sacred ibis and a African spoonbill on the last part of the video.

[@casvandegiessen7837]

The cape starling at 18:13 is actually a red-winged starling.

[@mwalshvt1980]

Thank you for the corrections!

[@shaunferguson8782]

Hi Marianne looks like you had a fantastic trip and nicely documented too, well done. I hope to be back home myself in March next year. Just a few things please can you confirm when you visited please? Also I think your Tristan Albatross is a Wandering Albatross. A Tristan would be an absolute mega rarity in Cape Town waters and the guides on the boat would've been losing their minds at it hahahahaha.

[@shaunferguson8782]

Asking cos you posted this 7months ago but has a label on Nov 2022

[@mwalshvt1980]

Darn! Should have been November 2021. I will see if I can fix that without needing to repost the video. In the meantime, I added a comment. Thanks for letting me know. Yes, the guides did go a bit crazy about the albatross. Below is text from the trip report. I have not heard if the Rarities Committee has made a decision. I hope you have a great trip next March if you go. "Tristan Albatross (CR) Diomedea dabbenena (1) 1 Cape Town--Pelagic W 6.11 (an adult Diomedea albatross seen on our pelagic from Cape Town was initially identified as a Wandering Albatross. Upon closer inspection of the plumage features, various global experts have outruled the aforementioned species. Aged at over 5 years, the bird in question showed an almost totally white tail and mostly fresh newly replaced secondaries except for a small block of white at the elbow. It is extremely unlikely that an adult Wandering Albatross would ever show this plumage combination with only the oldest males having a mostly white tail. Kirk Zufelt, co-author of Oceanic Seabirds of the World, provided a compelling argument for Tristan Albatross stating that he could confidently exclude 'Snowy' Albatross, noting that the observed plumage features are very typical of adult male Tristan Albatrosses. The record has been submitted to the South African National Rarities Committee and we await further response, though the bird in question almost certainly represents one of the first confirmed observational records of Tristan Albatross for South Africa)."

[@shaunferguson8782]

@Marianne Walsh blimey!!!! What a find if it gets accepted basically once in a lifetime. I did hear mention in the video of the pink wash on the neck, not sure if Tristan have that. Great stuff we'll wait and see then. Thanks for the info. Once again great video.