Marico (or Mariqua) Sunbird: Chimpanzee Forest Lodge, Kibale National Park, Uganda, August 2022 — Another gorgeous sunbird from our stay at Chimpanzee Forest Lodge, just outside Kibale National Park. It is the Marico Sunbird in the Birds of East Africa, and that is how I leaned it when I first encountered it in South Africa, but it is Mariqua Sunbird in eBird and, apparently, on the IOC World Bird Name List. (I should point out that there is also a possibility that this the Purple-banded Sunbird…they are almost identical expect for overall size and the length of the bill…neither of which are easy to judge from this photograph. I am pretty sure we called it a Marico when we saw it. Again, anyone who knows better please correct me.) Sony Rx10iv at 554mm equivalent. Program mode with my custom birds and wildlife modifications. Processed in Pixelmator Photo and Apple Photos. ISO 500 @ f4 @ 1/500th.

Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird: Chimpanzee Forest Lodge, Kibale National Park, Uganda, August 2022 — Tinkerbirds are small barbets, mostly black and white with some yellow somewhere. I don’t remember seeing (or at least noticing) any tinkerbirds on my 2019 trip to Uganda, but they were everywhere in 2022. They are, in fact, very common throughout East Africa. We saw at least 3 different species. This is the Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird, which has more yellow than you can see in these photos. You can just see the yellow edging in the wings on the more profile view. There is, as you might suspect from the name, a bright yellow (varying in hue from lemon to gold, regionally) on the rump. Sony Rx10iv at 561mm equivalent. Program mode with my custom birds and wildlife modifications. Processed in Pixelmator Photo and Apple Photos. ISO 1250 @ f4 @ 1/500th.