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male bird found in the beautiful groundwater forest in Lake Manyara National Park in northern Tanzania
a large hornbill ( 75 to 80 cm / 30 to 31 in ) that lives in coastal and montane forests up to 2600m from Ethiopia down to southern Mozambique.
The casque is much larger on the bill of the male than on the bills of females or juveniles.
Omnivorous like other hornbills it eats fruits, small birds and rodents, large insects etc.
Bycanistes brevis
zilveroorneushoornvogel
Calao à joues argent
Silberwangen-Hornvogel
Cálao Cariplateado
Bucero guanceargento
Calau-de-crista
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Described by eBird as "Heard more often than seen" ...
The last time I photographed one was in 2019: flic.kr/p/2hqHvCs
Aymanam, Kottayam, Kerala, India
Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater
Acanthagenys rufogularis
Meliphagidae
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Heaven, I'm in heaven
And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak
And I seem to find the happiness I seek
When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek
Frank Sinatra
Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater, Acanthagenys rufogularis
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Very much the dry inlands bird, we get them occassionally as vistors.
A Red-Cheeked Cordonbleu (Uraeginthus bengalus) feeding on grass seeds in Kimihurura, Kigali, Rwanda.
Yellow cheeked tit, Thailand.
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Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater, Acanthagenys rufogularis
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These are a nomad bird for us, and its not often I'd see two in the same year, let alone the same day, let alone together.
Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater, Acanthagenys rufogularis
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Found a visiting pair again, this time unfortunately they were chasing through the tangled old branches.
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Wikipedia: The brown-cheeked fulvetta (Alcippe poioicephala) is a babbler-like bird belonging to the family Alcippeidae found in the forests of South and Southeast Asia. It was formerly called the quaker babbler in India and common nun babbler in Malaya. They forage on trees for insects, sometimes hanging from the branches in a tit-like manner, and visiting flowers for nectar. They are often hard to see in vegetation but they have loud multi-note whistling calls in the morning and afternoon.
The brown-cheeked fulvetta is a resident breeding bird of moist deciduous and evergreen forests particularly in the hills. They are distributed widely in peninsular India, with other populations to the east of the Brahmaputra river and extending into Southeast Asia. in Bangladesh, India and Southeast Asia.
Conservation status: Least Concern
It's amazing what can be seen in such a short space of time.....
I spent an hour yesterday afternoon just down the road from home where there is a pond surrounded by some trees.
Currently there are some callistemon and mistletoe flowers in bloom and they are attracting a good selection of birds, including this White-cheeked Honeyeater.
A closer look reveals a face full of pollen!!
This bird sat still briefly long enough for this before seeking out more flowers to feed on!!
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Wikipedia: The brown-cheeked fulvetta (Alcippe poioicephala) (or brown-cheeked alcippe as the fulvettas proper are not closely related to this bird), is included in the family Alcippeidae. It was earlier also known as the quaker babbler.
The brown-cheeked fulvetta is a resident breeding bird in Bangladesh, India and Southeast Asia. Its habitat is undergrowth in moist forests and scrub jungle. This species, like most babblers, is not migratory, and has short rounded wings and a weak flight.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown-cheeked_fulvetta
Conservation status: Least Concern