View Full Version : Song Bird in Kenya, Need Help with ID
Loi Nguyen
08-08-2013, 10:26 PM
This image was taken on the Laikipia plateau in Kenya on a river bank. Appreciate your help with IDing it.
1DX
500f4 II +1.4X III
1/1000
f5.6
ISO-800
Handheld from safari vehicle
Thank you
Loi
Richard Unsworth
08-09-2013, 01:44 AM
Nice shot indeed, lovely BG and perch
ID looks like a Zitting cisticola to me :-)
arash_hazeghi
08-09-2013, 01:56 AM
very nice calling pose and a nice combination of perch + BG
sorry can't help with ID
gail bisson
08-09-2013, 04:48 AM
It is definitely a cisticola but which one? I looked through my SASOL Birds of SA and the black bill makes me think this is a croaking cisticola.
Nice perch and BG. I would take a bit off the top.
Gail
edwardselfe
08-09-2013, 05:17 AM
I'd agree on Zitting or Fan-tailed Cisticola although I'd expect a longer tail. However, it's a pretty bedraggled looking individual so perhaps not easy to tell. Like the lighting and the behaviour and it's nice to see the black lining of the mouth which is a feature that cisticolas (and some other warblers) develop during their breeding season.
Ed
adrian dancy
08-09-2013, 01:26 PM
Nice work with this Cisticola in full song. Nice perch and BG and IQ.
vishaljadhav
08-09-2013, 01:32 PM
Great pose and a perfect BG, i like the calling pose nicely captured
Robert Holguin
08-09-2013, 03:32 PM
Wonderful shot.
Love the calling pose, great perch, and very nice background.
Well done.
David Salem
08-09-2013, 06:54 PM
Nice looking shot Loi. I like the calling pose and the look at the inside of the mouth. The perch and the BG look great, almost like a set-up but im sure it wasn't. One more for taking some off the top. Well done.
Loi Nguyen
08-10-2013, 12:30 AM
Thank you everyone. Glad that you like it.
Richard, Gail, and Edward, thanks for narrowing down the ID as a Cisticola. I looked up Zitting and Fan tailed Cisticola, and to me this looks like a Fan tailed because of the red color of the eye.
Here is a repost with tighter crop.
David, no, this was not a set up, but the BG color was amazing, It was right next to a river in early morning. I was just testing the AF focus on the branch when he flew in and landed on that exact branch!
Loi
Frank Schauf
08-10-2013, 03:41 AM
Excellent shot with a great perch.
edwardselfe
08-10-2013, 05:20 AM
Much better with closer crop.
Zitting and Fan-tailed Cisticolas are the same - they just have two names and I wrote both in case anyone was struggling to find in their book.....not that any of this matters for this forum! Nice pic and great colours.
Ed
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