As I mentioned in yesterday's post, our neighbor Dean is currently working in Nigeria. While there he's been taking a few photos of the strange and wonderful wildlife there. In some ways the same, but in some ways the animals are very different.
Check out this colorful lizard.
And here's a big frog.
My husband has always been pretty adept at identifying different birds so he helped me find the names of the following birds. You can go to Google Images and type in the name and you can see the names are correct!
A very exotic looking Pin-Tailed Whydah (vidua macroura) in his breeding plummage. Note the long tail!
A very exotic looking Pin-Tailed Whydah (vidua macroura) in his breeding plummage. Note the long tail!
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This is the African Harrier Hawk (polyboroides typus)..JPG)
A Pied Crow (corvus albus)..jpg)
And finally some White Faced Whistling Ducks (dendrocygna viduata).
Click on any picture to enlarge.Thanks to Dean for sending the photos!
4 comments:
The Pied Crow look like the ones on the Windex commercial?!
Patti
Thanks for sharing these wonderful pictures! I really enjoyed them. Especially the bird with the incredibly long tail feathers!!
We've been busy with major fires close to our home, so I haven't been able to check out your blog entries, but I will have to get caught up as soon as things calm down here.
Love the pictures!
Yes they are the same birds as the Windex commercial!
~M~, hope everything's started to settle up there!
Tina,
I think things are getting closer to "normal", but we're in for storms and high heat for the next few weeks and we're so dry it could get bad again. So, we'll just have to see how the next few weeks go. I'll keep the blog posted though! ;-)
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