TZ Bird Photos

Iringa Akalat, Sheppardia lowei

Photographed along Mapimbili Stream in Uzungwa Scarp Forest Reserve, May 2004.

Iringa Akalat recorded at Mufu, Ndundulu in the West Kilombero Scaro Forest Reserve

 

Dappled Mountain Robin, Arcanator orostruthus

This bird was netted at Ihambwi Stream near Uhafiwa in the southern part of the Udzungwa Scarp Forest Reserve in May 1991.

White-browed Crombec

David C. Moyer - This bird was netted in in Mfitwa forest in the Mahale Mountains National Park in November 2005.

Yellow-bellied Wattle-eye, Dyaphorophyia concreta kungwensis

David C. Moyer - This male was netted in Mfitwa Forest in Mahale Mountains National Park in November 2005

Regal Sunbird, Nectarinia regia andersoni

David C. Moyer - Netted at the forest edge on Mfitwa Mountain in Mahale Mountains National Park, November 2005

Mountain Illadopsis, Trichastoma pyrrhopterum

David C. Moyer - Netted in thick forest at 2450m on Mfitwa Mountain in Mahale Mountains National Park in November 2005.

Bocage's Akalat, Sheppardia bocagei ilyai

David C. Moyer <dmoyer@wcs.org> This birds was netted in August 2005 in Riverine Forest at 1700m along the Mbala Stream in the Sitebe Syampemba Mountains 60 km NW of Mpanda.

Yellow-streaked Greenbul, Phyllastrephus flavostriatus kungwensis

David C. Moyer <dcmoyer@mac.com> This subspecies is endemic to the Mahale Peninsula and is common in high altitude forests there.

Green-backed Camaroptera

David C. Moyer <dcmoyer@mac.com> Both Green-backed and Grey-backed forms are found together in high altitude forests of Mahale. In Western Tanzania these two forms are likely to be color morphs of the same species and not distinct taxa.

Grey-backed Camaroptera

David C. Moyer <dcmoyer@mac.com> Both Green-backed and Grey-backed forms are found together in high altitude forests of Mahale. In Western Tanzania these two forms are likely to be color morphs of the same species and not distinct taxa.

Yellow-bellied Wattle-eye, Dyaphorophyia concreta kungwensis

A pair of the very distinctive endemic subspecies of Yellow-bellied Wattle-eye were netted in montant forest with a bamboo understory at 2500 m on Mfitwa Mountain in Mahale Mountains National Park. November 2006

Bamboo Warbler, Bradypterus alfredi kungwensis

This species was common in bracken and thicket at 2500m on the forest edge at Mfitwa and Sisaga in Mahale Mountains National Park.

Alexander's Akalat, Sheppardia insulana kungwensis

This species was common in the high altitude forest in Mahale Mountains National Park in November 2006. The call and habitat are very different from that of Bocage's Akalat, Sheppardia bocagei ilyai, found in the lower altitude riverine forests throughout the Mahale ecosystem down to Northern Zambia. Field data strongly uphold the split proposed by Alexander Prigogine but not followed in BOA.