Augur Buzzard - Buteo augur
Gregory our first Safari guide and driver stopped the truck on the way from Arusha to Lake Manyara so that I could take a picture of this fine fellow along the way. These are a bird of the highlands and surrounding lands. This bird was perched on grazing land on the highland plateau before we got to the descent into the Great Rift Valley.
The photo below is of a pasturalist Masai herder and his cattle nearby to set the scene of the kind of land we were driving through before we got to the wildlife management areas and National Parks proper.
Augur Buzzards are a common african bird in their highland range - striking in their dark and white plumage. One thing that I would say about Africa is that the light strikes you. The air was clear in the highlands - little haze - a beautiful golden light.
This was one of my first african birds - one of the stars of the three hour drive to the gates of the Manyara National Park - our safari van packed with an excited family winding its way down into the Great Rift Valley.
Augur Buzzard, Buteo augur
Tanzania
26 July 2012
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