Subject: ACP00030q8

Subject ACP00030q8

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• by Ozro

  What kind of big bird on ground????

  Posted May 9, 2015 12:02 AM

• by yshish moderator

  Hm.. perhaps a juvenile #vulture ? Not sure about the size 😕

  Posted May 9, 2015 12:13 AM

• by sp515507

  #raptor on the ground at night

  Posted May 12, 2015 1:46 PM

• by ksigler moderator

  #bird

  Posted May 20, 2015 9:43 PM

• by tsering

  possible white-headed vulture?

  Posted May 28, 2015 8:47 PM

• by ksigler moderator

  I believe this may be an African harrier-hawk.

  Posted August 2, 2015 6:32 AM

• by yshish moderator

  #RedWater I'm not as sure about it. The beak seems to be bigger to me. But hard to tell from this record 😦

  Posted August 2, 2015 6:42 PM

• by ksigler moderator

  Good point, @yshish. Maybe palm-nut vulture, which has a larger beak and similar color layers?

  Posted August 2, 2015 9:08 PM

• by yshish moderator

  But what about the dark beak tip? Palm-nut vultures seem to have pale.. Pretty tricky guy!

  Posted August 3, 2015 9:36 AM

• by ksigler moderator

  So it's clearly some hybrid between the 2! 😄 j/k Will keep thinking/searching.

  Posted August 3, 2015 10:51 AM

• by yshish moderator

  Ah! I've just saw this image of a juvenile #palm_nut_vulture which has got as dark beak tip as our guy!! 😃 Let's call the mystery solved!

  Posted October 13, 2015 6:07 PM

• by ksigler moderator

  This site also says juveniles have dark bills. So, 5 months later... Success!

  Posted October 14, 2015 3:23 AM

• by ksigler moderator

  And I think all that makes this clip worthy of #dailyzoo

  Posted October 14, 2015 3:23 AM

• by Snorticus

  Dogged detective work there ksigler & yshish - I agree, he's very large & cool! 😄

  Posted October 14, 2015 3:41 AM