A big day for me yesterday, when we went to Nosy Ve, a sandy island off Tulear, in the hope of seeing some of my most wanted birds: Red-tailed Tropicbird, which breeds there and Crab Plover, which is there sometimes. Bot are cracking birds and new families for me and both were there, along with a real bonus of a Sooty Gull, a real Madagascar rarity.
Later, in our first visit to the spiny forest at Ifaty we had superb encounter with another of my most wanted birds: Long-tailed Ground-Roller. Not a bad place, Madagascar.
Sooty Gull, Greater and Lesser Crested Terns
Red-tailed Tropicbird
Long-tailed Ground-Roller
Crab Plover: it’s not a Plover and it doesn’t eat crabs.