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Red-backed
Common sight during migration
Open fields with some bush species
Small bird about the size of a sparrow with lovely chestnut
Female Red-backed
Female
Bushes by waterhole
Bird with brown back, sides and upper chest ...
That morning I was lucky to catch a (to me) pretty big
Bird with distinctive grey head and black eye stripe.
Grey crown; black face mask; chestnut wings; white throat, brownish ...
Precise location not known, south of Sabie river between Skukuza and Nkuhlu.
Female in pictures 3 & 4.
Marula / Knob-thorn Open Tree Savanna
Juvenile, moulting.
Marula / Knob-thorn Open Tree Savanna
A smal carniverous bird, the Red-backed ...
Grey-blue crown;black line through the eyes; wings are chestnut, grey rump; ...
Measuring 17 cm in length, the red-backed ...
is closely related to the red-backed
family that is found mainly in Asia. It is closely related to the
Blue-grey head contrasting with reddish-brown
"The general colour of the male’s upper parts is reddish. It has a grey head ...
of the upper back. The tail is more ...
reddish as in the red-backed
, rodents and lizards. Like other shrikes ...