This page is an arbitrary collection of video-grabs from my first trip to Nigeria. The quality is variable (I'm no Nigel Blake!) partly because I was new to the equipment - obtained video camera just prior to departure and had not read manual, and partly due to my aging optics through which I got most of the images - Kowa TSN2 and Optolyth bins, both 20 yrs old.
More plain-backed pipit images are on a separate linked page.
Please click on images for (in some cases only slightly) larger versions! Some short video clips follow at foot of page. All images or movies may be freely used for any non-commercial use, preferably with acknowledgement.
Black-headed Heron, Squacco Heron, Intermediate Egret, White-faced Whistling Ducks, African Jacana, Black Crake:
Cattle Egret, Senegal Thickknee, Spur-winged Plover, White-headed Lapwing
Common Sandpipers, Wood Sandpiper, Greenshank:
Laughing Dove, Red-eyed Doves, Levaillant's Cuckoo, Woodland Kingfisher, African Grey Hornbill:
Plain-backed Pipits:
African Pied Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail, Common Bulbul, Superb Sunbird, :
Black-necked Weaver (brachypterus), Slender-billed Weaver, Bronze Mannikins, Pied Crows:
Movies section
These are brief (<10 seconds) mpeg movies (blue borders). File sizes are indicated. Please note that due to former host failure these are all being transferred to a separate site (http://box.net/) - hope to update May 08!
Senegal Thickknee - IITA lake, Ibadan (385kB)
Male Slender-billed Weaver (0.5, 0.9 MB) + two extra images (breast plumage seems to lack any sign of the orange-red tinge of Slender-billed, appearing more Little Weaver; but I think bill shape and all-dark eye makes this Slender-billed - do you agree?) - garden in Festac Town, Lagos
Plain-backed Pipits - near IITA lake, Ibadan (1, 2, 1, 2 MB) - for more detail see linked Plain-backed Pipits page
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Long-legged Pipits - near IITA lake, Ibadan (0.4, 0.6, 1.6, 0.8 MB)
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PS - Unsatisfied? For some truly dazzling images of African birds, albeit from Gambia, check out this page: Nigel Blake's Gambia preview pics