Subject: [Tweeters] RE: ID help for some immature African Birds
Date: Jul 19 19:52:02 2010
From: Khanh Tran - fsprucegrouse at yahoo.com


Mike,

Your chat is a SOOTY CHAT. They can have their white wings or shoulder really
hidden. Anteating chat is much more browner in appearance and more southward
from where you are.

http://image.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/98163/98163,1196729351,9/stock-photo-sooty-chat-portrait-on-the-masai-mara-7523245.jpg



Your francolin is? perhaps a RED NECKED juvenile.? Young/immature bird tough to
have just a back shot to id but just a hunch.

http://birdquest.net/afbid/imgdata/data/4121196982055.jpg

The others I need to study more carefully especially the weavers (immatures and
non-breeding

adults are tough). They are the bane of identifying correctly.? The 'finch' is
also a young one but I have an idea.? More later....

Fun, challenging stuff and hope someone else can be of more help by either
confirming or correcting my id.


My best, ?

Khanh Tran