Site Report: South Pare Mountains

Birding by Motorbike by Barbara Carr

South Pare Church

Dry-leaf Commodore (Precis tugela)

Nose Fly (Stomorhina sp)

Little Swift (Apus affinis)

Usambara Double-collared Sunbird (Cinnyris usambaricus)

Pin-tailed Whydah (Vidua macroura) - Female

South Pare White-eye (Zosterops winifredae)

Augur Buzzard (Buteo augur)

Mountains

Visits

2025-02-02: This morning, we drove up a very bad road to get to the area where the South Pare White-eye can be found. Upon arrival on the top, it turns out the road was blocked by a landslide. So, we got on some motorcycles to transport to the forest. All of the forest birds were terrified and difficult to see. We were lucky with the white-eye. There was one just next to the road that we saw incidentally.

Species Seen

Kingdom: Animals (35 records)

Phylum: Arthropods (2 records)

Class: Insects (2 records)

Order: Butterflies and Moths (1 record)
- Family: Brush-footed Butterflies
- Dry-leaf Commodore (Precis tugela)

Order: Flies (1 record)
- Family: Nose Flies
- Nose Fly (Stomorhina sp)

Phylum: Chordates (33 records)

Class: Birds (33 records)

Order: Bucerotiformes (1 record)
- Family: Hornbills
- Silvery-cheeked Hornbill (Bycanistes brevis)

Order: Doves and Pigeons (1 record)
- Family: Pigeons and Doves
- Tambourine Dove (Turtur tympanistria)

Order: Hawks, Eagles, Kites, and Allies (1 record)
- Family: Hawks, Eagles, and Kites
- Augur Buzzard (Buteo augur)

Order: Hummingbirds and Swifts (1 record)
- Family: Swifts
- Little Swift (Apus affinis)

Order: Musophagiformes (1 record)
- Family: Turacos
- Hartlaub's Turaco (Tauraco hartlaubi)

Order: Perching Birds (27 records)
- Family: African Warblers
- Kretschmer's Longbill (Macrosphenus kretschmeri)
- Family: Bulbuls
- Black-headed Mountain Greenbul (Arizelocichla nigriceps)
- Family: Cardueline Finches and Allies
- Streaky Seedeater (Crithagra striolata)
- Family: Gonoleks
- Tropical Boubou (Laniarius major)
- Family: Indigobirds
- Dusky Indigobird (Vidua funerea)
- Pin-tailed Whydah (Vidua macroura)
- Family: Jays and Crows
- Black-backed Puffback (Dryoscopus cubla)
- Brown-crowned Tchagra (Tchagra australis)
- Family: Old World Flycatchers
- African Stonechat (Saxicola torquatus)
- Family: Old World Sparrows
- Village Weaver (Ploceus cucullatus)
- Bronze Mannikin (Spermestes cucullata)
- Family: Old World Warblers and Gnatcatchers
- African Hill-Babbler (Sylvia abyssinica)
- Family: Paradise-flycatcher
- African Paradise-Flycatcher (Terpsiphone viridis)
- Family: Prinias and Apalis
- Black-headed Apalis (Apalis melanocephala)
- Family: Shrikes
- Northern Fiscal (Lanius humeralis)
- Family: Starlings and Mynas
- Red-winged Starling (Onychognathus morio)
- Family: Swallows
- Lesser Striped-Swallow (Cecropis abyssinica)
- Mosque Swallow (Cecropis senegalensis)
- Black Sawwing (Psalidoprocne pristoptera )
- Family: Thrushes and Allies
- Spotted Flycatcher (Muscicapa striata)
- African Dusky Flycatcher (Muscicapa adusta)
- Red-capped Robin-Chat (Cossypha natalensis)
- Family: Wagtails and Pipits
- Striped Pipit (Anthus lineiventris)
- Family: White-eyes
- South Pare White-eye (Zosterops winifredae)

Order: Woodpeckers, Barbets, Toucans, and Honeyguides (1 record)
- Family: Honeyguides
- Lesser Honeyguide (Indicator minor)

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