Lusaka Day Out, 13.07.12
At the tag end of a biz trip to Lusaka I managed to find a great bird guide based in Luska. His name is Lesley Reynolds of Lapwing Safaris. We visited 3 major sites just 45 minutes north of the city centre and managed 130 birds in a day, very good for the time of year. The areas were based around Chisamba; open woodland with figs for the endemic barber (the second bird of the day), miombo woodland near the Protea Safari Camp and Hunter's Farm ( a huge private farm with reservoirs). Attached is the list. Do let me know if you want further information.
| W B Cormorant |
| African Darter |
| Hamerkop |
| Goliath Heron |
| Grey Heron |
| Black Headed Heron |
| Great White Egret |
| Cattle Egret |
| Black Heron |
| Squacco Heron |
| Rufous Bellied Heron |
| Green Backed Heron |
| African Spoonbill |
| African Sacred Ibis |
| Glossy Ibis |
| Marabou Stork |
| Wooly Necked Stork |
| Yellow Billed Stork |
| White Faced Duck |
| Comb Duck |
| Red Billed Teal |
| Sothern Pochard |
| Black Shouldered Kite |
| African Fish Eagle |
| White Backed Vulture |
| Black Chested Snake Eagle |
| Brown Snake Eagle |
| African Marsh Harrier |
| Lizard Buzzard |
| Gabar Goshawk |
| Dark Chanting Goshawk |
| Shikra |
| Helmeted Guineafowl |
| Red Necked Spurfowl |
| Black Crake |
| Common Moorhen |
| African Jacana |
| Blacksmith Lapwing |
| African Wattled Lapwing |
| Crowned Lapwing |
| Black Winged Stilt |
| Common Greenshank |
| Green Sandpiper |
| Red Eyed Dove |
| Cape Turtle Dove |
| Laughing Dove |
| African Green Pigeon |
| Emerald Spotted Wood Dove |
| Namaqua Dove |
| Meyers Parrot |
| Grey Go Away Bird |
| Senegal Coucal |
| White Browed Coucal |
| African Palm Swift |
| Little Swift |
| Green Wood Hoopoe |
| Black Scimitarbill |
| Striped Kingfisher |
| Pied Kingfisher |
| Lilac Breasted Roller |
| Swallow Tailed Bee Eater |
| Little Bee Eater |
| Crowned Hornbill |
| African Grey Hornbill |
| Trumpeter Hornbill |
| Yellow Fronted Tinkerbird |
| Chaplins Barbet |
| Black Collared Barbet |
| Black Backed Barbet |
| Crested Barbet |
| Cardinal Woodpecker |
| Rufous Naped Lark |
| Flappet Lark |
| Rock Martin |
| Barn Swallow |
| Mosque Swallow |
| Grey Rumped Swallow |
| African Pied Wagtail |
| Eastern BlacK Headed Oriole |
| Pied Crow |
| Southern Black Tit |
| Dark Capped BulBul |
| Yellow Belled Greenbul |
| Kurrichane Thrush |
| White Browed Robin Chat |
| White Browed Scrub Robin |
| Familiar Chat |
| Arnott's Chat |
| African Reed Warbler |
| Lesser Swamp Warbler |
| Red Faced Cisticola |
| Rattling Cisticola |
| Yellow Breasted Apalis |
| Tawny Flanked Prinia |
| Long Billed Crombec |
| Green Backed Clamoptera |
| Pale Flycatcher |
| Southern Black Flycatcher |
| Ashy Flycatcher |
| Chinspot Batis |
| Common Fiscal |
| Black Backed Puffback |
| Brown Crowned Tchagra |
| Tropical BouBou |
| Grey Headed Bush Shrike |
| Greater Blue Eared Starling |
| Miombo Blue Eared Starling |
| Wattled Starling |
| Scarlet Chested Sunbird |
| Collared Sunbird |
| Yellow Bellied Sunbird |
| African Yellow White Eye |
| House Sparrow |
| Northern Grey Headed Sparrow |
| Spectacled Weaver |
| Village Weaver |
| Southern Masked Weaver |
| Lesser Masked Weaver |
| Red Headed Weaver |
| Reb Billed Quelea |
| Yellow Crowned Bishop |
| Yellow Bishop |
| Red Collared Widowbird |
| Green Winged Pytilia |
| Red Billed Firefinch |
| African Firefinch |
| Blue Waxbill |
| Common Waxbill |
| Yellow Fronted Canary |
| Brimstone Canary |
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| Mammals |
| Vervet Monkey |
| Tsessebe |
| Piku |
| Kudu |
| Reedbuck |
Neil Tovey
On the toilet Lifer list - 1 (SPOTTED PALM THRUSH - YABELLO, ETHIOPIA)
On the toilet list - 5 (GOLDEN EAGLE - RELICT POPULATION SANETTI PLATEAU, ETHIOPIA)
Pivots list - 194 (SHORT EARED OWL, ORIENTAL HONEY BUZZARD, NAMAQUA DOVE)
UAE list - 364 (WATER RAIL)