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madagascar magpie-robins: the cute couple of berenty

2007-12-13 - 7:15 a.m.

all photos � 2007 by elaine radford

Note: Don't miss my trip report from Madagascar. To my knowledge, we are the first tour to see Madagascar Serpent-Eagle, amongst other brags. To start with part one, Ranomafana, click here. To continue with part two, Ampijoroa, click here. Part 3, Masaola, is here. Part 4 is right here. Here's the bird list, and here's the lemur list. And if you still haven't had enough, click here for my one day birding spree of johannesburg

Don't even think I've run out of photos of my Madagascar adventure. There are plenty more. I just haven't had time to get them all sorted. (There is a rather large holiday on its way to be planned for.) For today's quick pick, enjoy the "cute couple" of Berenty, a pair of Madagascar Magpie-Robins that were working on a nest near the gathering point for the van park. Check out the wing pattern. It's different for the different races of Magpie-Robin. At Masaola, for example, you would be looking for an all black-backed, black-winged race.


the female was always delivering twigs here and there, not sure if she'd made a final decision on the nest site while we were there, or if this species likes to have a dummy nest as well as the "real" nest, anybody know?

I dreamed last night that I went out to Arthur and Gwen's flight cage, and they had four babies, two of them too small to survive. Good old Arthur. It's been a long time.

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