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Sokoke Pipit with a spider

One of the range-restricted Sokoke specialities. This is a small heavily streaked forest pipit which prefers the damp Afzelia forest where it feeds mainly in the leaf-litter. This is apparently only the second time this species has been photographed.
This image is of one of two birds that were working the damp leaf-litter in an area of Afzelia forest. They were watched eating spiders (this image) & snails -the latter of which they seemed to be able to prise out of their shells.
How David found these birds I will never know!


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Esa Ervasti25-Feb-2008 23:33
Congratulations for both of you!
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