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Sketches of some birds of East Africa

Not to scale!

Sketch of Bohm's Bee-eater at nest - 9Kb Bohm's Bee-eater sketch - 10Kb

Böhm's Bee-eater at nest, Selous NP

Böhm's Bee-eater

Sketch of Harrier Hawk, aka Gymnogene - 8Kb Sketch of Lappet-faced Vulture, fka Nubian Vulture - 9Kb

African Harrier Hawk, or Gymnogene
Polyboroides typus

Lappet-faced Vulture
Torgos tracheliotus

Sketch of Pied Kingfisher and Bee-eaters - 20Kb Pratincole sketch- 3588 bytes

Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis,
Little Bee-eater Merops pusillus
White-fronted Bee-eater Merops bullockoides
and Wire-tailed Swallow Hirundo smithii (in outline).
See the development of the Bee-eater drawing

Collared Pratincole
Glareola Pratincola
Drawn in Amboseli NP

Sketch of Wattled Plover - 10Kb Pencil drawing of Ostrich - 8Kb

African Wattled Plover Vanellus senegallus, Selous NP.
Hippo with reflection in background.

Masai Ostrich Struthio camellus
Definitely not to scale!


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