Ngorongoro

A full day in the crater. Amazing. Mainly looking at mammals (family saw Lions for the first time!) but lots of good birds seen as well. List of new stuff with some photos of the day below…

Purple Heron
African Spoonbill
Lappet-faced Vulture
African Marsh-Harrier
Coqui Francolin (heard only)
Kori Bustard
Black-bellied Bustard
Long-toed Lapwing
Senegal Lapwing? – a very good candidate, but unfortunately too far to confirm, so could have been Black-winged Lapwing.
Olive Pigeon
Schalow's Turaco
Hoopoe
White-headed Barbet
Grey Woodpecker
Singing Bushlark
Banded Martin
Common House-Martin
Silverbird
Hunter's Cisticola
Stout Cisticola
African Reed-Warbler
Northern Black-Flycatcher
Northern Anteater-Chat
African Paradise-Flycatcher
Bronze Sunbird
Golden-winged Sunbird
Eastern Double-collared Sunbird
White-breasted White-eye
Brubru
Hildebrandt's Starling
Rufous-tailed Weaver
Red-billed Firefinch
Purple Grenadier
Common Waxbill
Lion
Black-backed Jackal
Grant's Gazelle
Impala

Edit (31/10/2011): A flock of Widowbirds taken in the Ngorongoro proved to be Fan-tailed Widowbird.