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Campethera abingoni
Roughly the size of the starling, this female Golden-tailed woodpecker presents her olive green gold sprinkled back; and her white black sprayed underparts, her bright red nape and golden tail. Male (not seen) would have red mustaches.
Seen in a 'thicket' habitat - dry-land broad-leaved forest, trees not exceeding 10m in height, with densely packed branches all tangled together, in some places impenetrable... and at the outskirts of the town of Khorixas, north-western Namibia.
This spotting is a pearl in my recently-started-but-steadily-growing Namibia collection - first, it's a lifer for me; and then, it is also a first African woodpecker in my twenty years of roaming around. It was also product of a hazard, I was after some Red-faced mousebirds, and was trying to move forward in a very slow motion... when I had a chance to spot this lady, five meters from me, not alarmed at all (I must have been good in my slow motion) feeding on trunks of acacia trees.
Spotted on Feb 20, 2020
Submitted on Feb 21, 2020
1 Comment
Congratulations on your "firsts." That's always a good feeling. Thanks for sharing this incredible bird Zlatan.