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    Apps for recording wildlife sightings

    I wrote to observation.org and they don't support recognition in Africa. Not enough data.
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    Apps for recording wildlife sightings

    I don't like igoterra because you have to pay for it (unless you stay under 400 observations). That's not citizen science to me, but commerce. I'll give obsmapp a try.
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    Birds having fun at our water tap

    Thanks everybody for your replies. The unidentified birds have been identified as Eastern Black Bishops in non breeding plumage. The day before yesterday I could see 39 species of birds over the course of the day, most of them without even leaving my house. I love it!
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    Review of birding apps I use on Android

    The export is easy, and it is in ebird record format. There are no clickable coordinates for every individual, as this is not possible in ebird. You have to select a hotspot or name your personal location in the export process and then all coordinates are set to this location. After importing it...
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    Review of birding apps I use on Android

    Maybe one more note: I'm a idealist, open source, linux user. I like science and am kind of distrustful against organisations that give a "we want to make money" feeling, especially in community science projects. I'm also a conservative Christian from Europe, and I don't like the...
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    Review of birding apps I use on Android

    No, not yet. Birds for Africa use iGoTerra in the background (I think, they're not clear about it). I looked at their website today, and it gave me a "business" feeling more than a scientific one. Also, I use inaturalist for my other observations, so I don't need another general purpose...
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    Birds having fun at our water tap

    Are those bigger than Reichenow's Seedeater? Because they are around as well...
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    Birds having fun at our water tap

    I have added arrows to point out the birds...
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    Review of birding apps I use on Android

    Since I started birdwatching about a year ago, I have tried several birdwatching and bird information apps to help me identify and track my sightings. Below I will discuss the apps I have used so far and what I think their pros and cons are. Of course this is very personal, but I hope it can...
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    Birds having fun at our water tap

    The two birds in the grass in image DSC04898.JPG (they are also in DSC04897 and DSC4903). They are slightly bigger than the others (although smaller than the bulbuls). They kind of look like scrub robins or robin chats, but they lack the wing markings for the red-backed scrub robin (their backs...
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    Birds having fun at our water tap

    And yes, I live at a nice spot. Today I saw (and heard) over 20 different species without even leaving my house! ;-)
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    Birds having fun at our water tap

    Hello everyone. Today I took some pictures of birds at our water tap. I can identify most of them: House sparrow, Village Indigobird (some females, some males changing color right now), Reichenow's Seedeater, Green-winged Pytilia, Blue-capped Cordon Bleu, Vitelline-masked weaver, Black-necked...
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    • Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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    Dodoma, Tanzania: black and white bird

    Well, the first picture actually shows that there is a little bit of black below the bill. So it could be a sunbird after all.
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    Dodoma, Tanzania: black and white bird

    Thank you all for all the suggestions. I think the images are too bad to make a good decision. Best bets this far is either a black-headed apalis, or I misjudged the size and it is an eastern violet-backed sunbird. I'll wait whether it shows up again and will try to get better pictures. I have...
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    Dodoma, Tanzania: black and white bird

    We have eastern violet-backed sunbirds, and they are smaller.
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    Dodoma, Tanzania: black and white bird

    Yes, that would look similar. But according to the African Bird Club app, there are no black-and-white flycatchers in Tanzania, except the semi collared flycatcher, which looks very different. The fiscal flycatcher is said to only come up to the southern parts of Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
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    Dodoma, Tanzania: black and white bird

    I saw this bird today in a bush outside our window. It's my first time seeing it, so I don't know what it is. It could be a black-headed apalis, but also something totally different. The images are all blurred because my camera was focusing on a twig, but you can still see the coloring. Anyone...
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    Apps for recording wildlife sightings

    Well, I use ebird mobile for tracking. I will probably switch to birdlasser, as it's approach fits me better, but will still upload my sightings to ebird, as the website has more info and is nicer in general. My apps so far are: ebird mobile - for tracking birdlasser - tracking Merlin - bird...
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    Tanzania - overwhelming number of birds that all look similar

    Thank you all very much for your input, that is very helpful. I have joined the facebook group and visited the TBA website (it's not the most userfriendly one, but that's not a big deal).
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    Tanzania - overwhelming number of birds that all look similar

    So the short answer is: stick to it, and you will learn with time; and there is always birds that are difficult to identify. ;-) What I really like about our farm is that the birds keep on increasing both in numbers and in species. Right now, I can see more and more brown crowned tchagras...
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    Tanzania - overwhelming number of birds that all look similar

    Thank you, at least I now know that I'm not alone... ;-) Cisticolas, weavers and widobirds are abundant here. Maybe pipits as well, but how would I know... ;-) As for cisticolas, the only one I have been able to identify is the rattling cisticola. As for weavers, it's viteline masked, golden...
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    Tanzania - overwhelming number of birds that all look similar

    Merlin is quite good with songs, but not as extensive as xenocanto. All the songs on merlin are high quality, but it doesn't have the variety as xenocanto or macaulay.
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    Tanzania - overwhelming number of birds that all look similar

    Hello everybody. I live on a regenerative farm, and we have around one hundred bird species here. Thousands of birds really. There are over 500 species in the wider area. A lot of them look pretty similar, like all the cisticolas, female weavers, prinias, female indigobirds etc. I have been...
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    Appreciate Your Birding Insights for an eBird Project

    I'd like to see a feature on merlin that let's you see similar birds to a specific one you have opened. Very often the step by step guide doesn't show me the bird I am looking for, but one that looks somewhat similar. I would like to tell it "show me similar birds" and then get a list to browse...
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    Bird song Dodoma, Tanzania

    Well, I suspect this one is more of a "I'm looking for a mate" song, whereas the other is either a duett, or one calling for his existing mate who is somewhere else.
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