GoBundu will be issuing a weekly Birding Blog Post. Each post will feature a bird that has been sighted by GoBundu on their travels around Southern Mozambique over the last 16 years, together with a link that takes you to the exact google earth location that the specific bird was sighted. If you are a keen birder keep an eye on GoBundu Facebook page and Blog every Wednesday for specific locations on where you can spot various birdlife.
White-Fronted Bee-Eater
Click here to view the precise sighting location that GoBundu saw a White-Fronted Bee-Eater.
This open grassland area is situated between Ponta Malongane and Ponta Mamoli. Other birds that were sighted at this exact location are:
Trumpeter Hornbill
Crowned Hornbill
Stonechat
Black-Collard Barbet
Carmine Bee-Eater
Little Bee-Eater
Burchells Coucal
Black-Crowned Tchagra
The crimson and white throat, white forehead, and lack of pointed tail projections are diagnostic.
Habitat: Margins of wide, slow-flowing rivers with steep sandbanks and other freshwater expanses, also in woodland far from water.
Status: Common resident.
Call: ‘Querr’ and twittering noises when roosting.
Happy Birding!