A birdwatching trip to Madagascar, visiting Ramanofana, Zombitse, Ifaty, Perinet and Ampijoroa.
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Moth
Gecko
Malagasy Green Sunbird
Malagasy White-eye
Parson’s Chameleon
Pitta-like Ground Roller
Velvet Asity, male
Pollen’s Vanga
Red-fronted-Brown Lemur
Brown Mesite, creeping quickly through the indergrowth in the dark, it’s hard to photograph.
Souimanga Sunbird
Green Day Gecko
Blue Vanga
Crested Drongo
Red-tailed Vanga
Skink
Green Day Gecko
Malagasy Palm Swift
Madagascan Wagtail
Ward’s Flycatcher (another Vanga)
Chabert Vanga
Red-fronted Coua
Giraffe-necked Weevil: the female is a strange looking-thing…
… but the male’s just bonkers
Forest Rock Thrush
Eastern Rufous Mouse Lemur
Blue Coua
Red-bellied Lemur
Red-fronted Coua chick, I think
Looking for a Madagascan Yellowbrow
Tylas Vanga
Grey Bamboo Lemur
Tree Boa
Deceptive Short-nosed Chameleon (I didn’t trust the explanation of the deceptive bit).
Madagascan Pygmy Kingfisher
Sooty Gull with Greater and Lesser Crested Terns
Crab Plover
Ring-tailed Lemur
Oustalet’s Chameleon
Grey-headed Lovebird
Scenery on the high pleateau
Pied Crow
Benson’s Rock Thrush, female
Benson’s Rock Thrush, male
Sunset scenery at Ranohira
Madagascan Cisticola
Giant Coua
Mahafaly Sand Snake
Cuckoo Roller, a very strange bird indeed
Malagasy Paradise Flycatcher
Appert’s Tetraka
Orchid
Baobab
Verreaux’s Sifaka
White-browed Owl
The future’s bright for these Flatid Leaf Bug nymphs…
The future’s orange.
Dry forest near Toliara
Three-eyed Lizard
Red-shouldered Vanga
The tide was in when we set off to Nosy Ve, in zebu carts
Marilyn keeping her elbow high…
Nosy Ve
The tide was out on the way back from he boat, so it was the zebu grand prix
Ours was rubbish
Red-tailed Tropicbird
Lesser Hedgehog Tenrec
Grey-headed Lovebird
Black-winged Stilt
Madagascan Plover
Long-tailed Ground Roller
Baobab
Undescribed Sportive Lemur (Spiny Forest Sportive Lemur, probably)
Thamnornis
Archbold’s Newtonia
Sickle-billed Vanga
Lesser Vasa Parrot
Spiny Forest
Subdesert Mesite
Chabert Vanga
Madagascan Buzzard
Madagascan Hoopoe
Madagascan Nightjar
Madagascan Buttonquail
Lesser Flamingos and Black-winged Stilts
Fetching the thatch
Lesser Flamingos
Running Coua
Greater Vasa Parrot
Madagascan Harrier-Hawk
Madagascan Sparrowhawk
Ugly, and its bite is apparently very nasty
Just ugly
Scorpion
Collared Nightjar
Red-breasted Coua
Leaf-tailed Gecko
Indri
Parsons’ Chameleon
Rainforest Scops Owl
Nuthatch Vanga
Malagasy Paradise Flycatcher
Madagascan Blue Pigeon
White-throated Rail
A break on the Highway to Helmet
This car didn’t make it
Short-legged Ground Roller
Lowland Striped Tenrec, trying to escape Patrice
And when we got there, the nest was bare…
After a long clamber through the jungle, and the horror of another empty nest, finally a Helmet Vanga turned up.
… and there was much rejoicing
One of the many river crossings in the dark
Meller’s Duck
Diademed Sifaka
Elephant Chameleon
Horn-nosed Chameleon
Perinet Chameleon
Goodman’s Mouse Lemur
Furry-eared Dwarf Lemur
Madagascan Pygmy Kingfisher
White-throated Oxylabes
Rainforest Scops Owl
Velvet Asity, female
Velvet Asity, male
Tree Boa
Back in Tana, Squacco and Black Herons
Night Herons
Malagasy Pond Heron
The long journey was scenic
Madagascan Hoopoe
Coquerel’s Sifaka
Sickle-billed Vanga
The beach at Mahajunga
Bernier’s Teal
Malagasy Sacred Ibis
Dimorphic Egret
The other morph
Bernier’s Teal
Broad-billed Roller
Frances’s Sparrowhawk
Striated Heron
Madagascan Buzzard
Madagascan Fish Eagle
Malagasy Coucal
Purple Heron
Humblot’s Heron
Brown Lemur
This baby Sifaka just wanted to climb onto its mum, but was made to practice jumping from bough to bough.
Green Jerys at roost
Fat-tailed Dwarf Lemur
Golden-brown Mouse Lemur
Grey Mouse Lemur
Schlegel’s Asity
White-breasted Mesite
Red-capped Coua
Olive Bee-eater