Birdland, Africa

Tirangire national park is a stopping  point for dozens of migratory bird species and dozens of year-round residents, 300 species in all.  We saw many species from our five days in Serengeti, ngorogoro and nearby lake manyara, but it was a thrill to identify about twenty five more.  Let's start though sorry the iPhone doesn't function well for birrdwatching photos.

Common Ostrich 

Yellow/billed stork

Secretary bird (named for funny plume like a pencil behind the ear)

Tawny eagle- gorgeous bird 

Helmeted Guinea fowl- amazing the strange shape can fly, but beautiful colors and patterns 

Yellow-neckedspur-fowl 

Lichtenstein's sandgrouse 

Red-eyed dove

African morning dove

Ring-necked dove 

Eurasian roller

Lilac-brested roller, lilac markings underneath so pretty in flight

Laughing dove 

Brown parrot

Fishers lovebird

Bare-faced go-away bird, named for its call

Hoopee with a long thin beak

Red-billed hornbill

Bon der deeken's hornbill 

Abyssinian crowned hornbill

Common bulbul  

Grey-backed fiscal shrike 

Black-headed weaver 

Red-billed buffalo weaver

Red-billed quelea: these move in swarms of many hundred in the talk grass.  Cool phenomenon!  (Attach video)

Greater blue-eared starling, pretty irridescent blue body 

Suburb starling: pretty and everywhere always 

Wattled starling