Michael Mills – Leader
Paul Ashley
Aidan Kelly
Steve Kornfeld
Don MacGillivray
Peter Marsh
Judy Meredith
Mark Tasker
Alex Torborg
Bob Walton
Birding Africa is running a number of Angola trips this year to catch up on the trips cancelled in the last 2 years due to Covid. I was on the trip scheduled for the 8th to 27th August most ably lead by Michael Mills. Unfortunately I felt it necessary to cut the trip short and return to Sydney due to my wife, Robin, succumbing to illness. I was with the group from the 8th to the 20th August.
The full trip report from Michael Mills can be seen here.
New Birds seen on the trip were:-
• Grey-striped Spurfowl (Pternistis griseostriatus)
• Mottled Spinetail (Telacanthura ussheri)
• Böhm’s Spinetail (Neafrapus boehmi)
• Mottled Swift (Tachymarptis aequatorialis)
• Horus Swift (Apus horus)
• Great Blue Turaco (Corythaeola cristata)
• Red-crested Turaco (Tauraco erythrolophus)
• Gabon Coucal (Centropus anselli)
• Thick-billed Cuckoo (Pachycoccyx audeberti)
• Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo (Cercococcyx mechowi)
• Afep Pigeon (Columba unicincta)
• Western Bronze-naped Pigeon (Columba iriditorques)
• Allen’s Gallinule (Porphyrio alleni)
• Senegal Lapwing (Vanellus lugubris)
• Kelp Gull (Larus dominicanus)
• Caspian Tern (Hydroprogne caspia)
• West African Crested Tern (Thalasseus albididorsalis)
• African Cuckoo-hawk (Aviceda cuculoides)
• Red-backed Mousebird (Colius castanotus)
• Pale-billed Hornbill (Lophoceros pallidirostris)
• Blue-throated Roller (Eurystomus gularis)
• Shining-blue Kingfisher (Alcedo quadribrachys)
• Bristle-nosed Barbet (Gymnobucco peli)
• Anchieta’s Barbet (Stactolaema anchietae)
• Hairy-breasted Barbet (Tricholaema hirsuta)
• Miombo Pied Barbet (Tricholaema frontata)
• Black-collared Barbet (Lybius torquatus)
• Black-backed Barbet (Lybius minor)
• Brown-backed Honeybird (Prodotiscus regulus)
• Least Honeyguide (Indicator exilis)
• Buff-spotted Woodpecker (Pardipicus nivosus)
• Golden-tailed Woodpecker (Campethera abingoni)
• Little Green Woodpecker (Campethera maculosa)
• Red-fronted Parrot (Poicephalus gulielmi)
• African Broadbill (Smithornis capensis)
• Angola Batis (Batis minulla)
• Black-throated Wattle-eye (Platysteira peltata)
• White-fronted Wattle-eye (Platysteira albifrons)
• Monteiro’s Bushshrike (Malaconotus monteiri)
• Many-colored Bushshrike (Chlorophoneus multicolor)
• Gorgeous Bushshrike (Telophorus viridis)
• Marsh Tchagra (Bocagia minuta)
• Braun’s Bushshrike (Laniarius brauni)
• Gabela Bushshrike (Laniarius amboimensis)
• Retz’s Helmetshrike (Prionops retzii)
• Gabela Helmetshrike (Prionops gabela)
• Purple-throated Cuckooshrike (Campephaga quiscalina)
• Souza’s Shrike (Lanius souzae)
• Velvet-mantled Drongo (Dicrurus modestus)
• Blue-headed Crested Flycatcher (Trochocercus nitens)
• Rufous-vented Paradise Flycatcher (Terpsiphone rufocinerea)
• African Paradise Flycatcher (Terpsiphone viridis)
• White-winged Black Tit (Melaniparus leucomelas)
• Dusky Tit (Melaniparus funereus)
• Rufous-bellied Tit (Melaniparus rufiventris)
• Miombo Tit (Melaniparus griseiventris)
• Grey Penduline Tit (Anthoscopus caroli)
• Yellow-throated Nicator (Nicator vireo)
• Angola Lark (Mirafra angolensis)
• Black-collared Bulbul (Neolestes torquatus)
• Red-tailed Bristlebill (Bleda syndactylus)
• Falkenstein’s Greenbul (Chlorocichla falkensteini)
• Simple Greenbul (Chlorocichla simplex)
• Honeyguide Greenbul (Baeopogon indicator)
• White-throated Greenbul (Phyllastrephus albigularis)
• Cabanis’s Greenbul (Phyllastrephus cabanisi)
• Pale-Olive Greenbul (Phyllastrephus fulviventris)
• Brazza’s Martin (Phedinopsis brazzae)
• Black-and-rufous Swallow (Hirundo nigrorufa)
• Red-throated Cliff Swallow (Petrochelidon rufigula)
• Pulitzer’s Longbill (Macrosphenus pulitzeri)
• Red-capped Crombec (Sylvietta ruficapilla)
• Bubbling Cisticola (Cisticola bulliens)
• Wailing Cisticola (Cisticola lais)
• Chirping Cisticola (Cisticola pipiens)
• Croaking Cisticola (Cisticola natalensis)
• Short-winged Cisticola (Cisticola brachypterus)
• Lowland Masked Apalis (Apalis binotata)
• Brown-headed Apalis (Apalis alticola)
• Hartert’s Camaroptera (Camaroptera harterti)
• Miombo Wren-Warbler (Calamonastes undosus)
• Salvadori’s Eremomela (Eremomela salvadorii)
• Green-capped Eremomela (Eremomela scotops)
• Chestnut-winged Starling (Onychognathus fulgidus)
• Kurrichane Thrush (Turdus libonyana)
• Forest Scrub Robin (Cercotrichas leucosticta)
• Miombo Scrub Robin (Cercotrichas barbata)
• Brown-backed Scrub Robin (Cercotrichas hartlaubi)
• Grey-throated Tit-flycatcher (Myioparus griseigularis)
• Angola Slaty Flycatcher (Melaenornis brunneus)
• Southern Black Flycatcher (Melaenornis pammelaina)
• White-headed Robin-chat (Cossypha heinrichi)
• Gabela Akalat (Sheppardia gabela) — Endemic
• Miombo Rock Thrush (Monticola angolensis)
• Anchieta’s Sunbird (Anthreptes anchietae)
• Bannerman’s Sunbird (Cyanomitra bannermani)
• Bocage’s Sunbird (Nectarinia bocagii)
• Western Miombo Sunbird (Cinnyris gertrudis)
• Ludwig’s Double-collared Sunbird (Cinnyris ludovicensis)
• Orange-tufted Sunbird (Cinnyris bouvieri)
• Oustalet’s Sunbird (Cinnyris oustaleti)
• Black-chinned Weaver (Ploceus nigrimentus)
• Yellow-mantled Weaver (Ploceus tricolor)
• Red-headed Malimbe (Malimbus rubricollis)
• Crested Malimbe (Malimbus malimbicus)
• Golden-backed Bishop (Euplectes aureus)
• White-collared Oliveback (Nesocharis ansorgei)
• Grey Waxbill (Glaucestrilda perreini)
• Fawn-breasted Waxbill (Estrilda paludicola)
• Locust Finch (Paludipasser locustella)
• Orange-breasted Waxbill (Amandava subflava)
• Dusky Twinspot (Euschistospiza cinereovinacea)
• Landana Firefinch (Lagonosticta landanae)
• Brown Firefinch (Lagonosticta nitidula)
• Dusky Indigobird (Vidua funerea)
• Broad-tailed Paradise Whydah (Vidua obtusa)
• Fülleborn’s Longclaw (Macronyx fuelleborni)
• Wood Pipit (Anthus nyassae)
• Black-faced Canary (Crithagra capistrata)