21 January 2024: Day 3, Marievale Fowl Sanctuary — Highway Pupil Southern Africa Birding Safari. Click on right here to peer (most often) the place I’m as of late.
These days we’re birding at Marievale Fowl Sanctuary southeast of Johannesburg. Within the 3rd week of January it’s mid-summer in South Africa, very similar to July within the U.S.
Most of the birds at Marievale are very similar to the ones in Florida. For example, the African spoonbill pictured above resembles our roseate spoonbill. (I favor the roseate spoonbill as a result of it’s gorgeous purple.)
There also are a number of species which might be local in each puts: fulvous whistling duck, not unusual moorhen, livestock egret, nice egret, shiny ibis, barn swallow and peregrine falcon. At Marievale *no longer* each hen is a Lifestyles Fowl.
See Marievale’s birds within the 8-minute video under and also you, too, would possibly conclude that South African marsh birds are the similar as Florida’s and but they’re other. After the video I’ve equipped a desk with the names of equivalent North American species.
| vid# | Species at Marievale | Very similar to Jap N.American hen… | sortname | #Occasions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pink-billed Teal | resembles Ruddy duck, however associated with mallard | teal | 2 |
| 2 | Cape Shoveler | Northern Shoveler | shoveler | 3 |
| 3 | Malachite Kingfisher | Belted Kingfisher | kingfisher | 6 |
| 4 | Pied Kingfisher | Belted Kingfisher | kingfisher | |
| 5 | Pink-knobbed Coot | American Coot | coot | 7 |
| 6 | Reed Cormorant | Double-crested cormorant | cormorant | 7 |
| 7 | Spur-winged ducks in flight | Canada ducks in flight | goose | |
| 8 | Yellow-billed duck | Mallard | duck | 2 |
| 9 | Sacred Ibis | resembles Wooden Stork, no longer comparable | ibis | |
| 10 | African Swamphen | Grey-headed Swamphen, presented in FL | swamphen | 2 |
| 11 | African snipe | Wilson’s snipe | snipe | |
| 12 | Commonplace /Eurasian Moorhen | Commonplace gallinule | moorhen | 2 |
| 13 | Gray-headed (or Grey-hooded) gull | Bonaparte’s gull | gull | 2 |
| 14 | 3-banded plover | Killdeer or Semi-palmated plover | plover | 2 |
| 15 | Blacksmith Lapwing | Northern lapwing | lapwing | 2 |
| 16 | Black-winged Stilt | Black-necked stilt | stilt | 2 |
| 17 | Pink-eyed Dove | Rock pigeon | dove | |
| 18 | Blue-billed teal | Blue-winged teal | teal | |
| 19 | Speckled dove | Rock pigeon | dove | |
| 20 | White-breasted cormorant | Subspecies of Nice cormorant | cormorant | 3 |
| 21 | Nice crested grebe | Horned grebe | grebe | |
| 22 | Pink heron | Nice blue heron | heron | |
| 23 | Squacco heron | resembles Inexperienced heron | heron | 2 |
| 24 | African spoonbill | Roseate spoonbill | spoonbill | 3 |
| 25 | Black-headed heron | Nice blue heron | heron | |
| 26 | Shiny Ibis | the similar hen is in Florida! | ibis | |
| 27 | Goliath heron | Nice blue heron | heron | |
| 28 | Gray heron | Nice blue heron | heron | |
| 29 | Ruff | Eurasian; every now and then visits US (NY, OH) | ruff | |
| 30 | Egyptian Goose | presented to US & Europe | goose | |
| 31 | Cape Wagtail | Eurasian; white wagtail is in AK | wagtail | |
| 32 | African Rail | Virginia rail | rail | |
| 33 | Little Egret | Snowy egret | egret | |
| 34 | Black Heron | Snowy egret dressed in black | heron | |
| 35 | Burchell’s (White-browed) coucal | not anything adore it within the U.S. | coucal | |
| 36 | Lengthy-tailed Widowbird | not anything adore it within the U.S. | widowbird | |
| 37 | African Stonechat | not anything adore it within the U.S. | stonechat |
(credit are within the captions)