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Posted: **Wed Oct 09, 2013 6:27 pm**

Beautiful photos of a gorgeous bird everyone

Seen at Craig Lockhart on the 5 January 2011

Posted: **Wed Oct 09, 2013 7:47 pm**

Duke wrote:Great choice BJ $\O$

I quote from "The Killer Birds of Kruger" by Brett Hilton Barber and Lou Arthur:

The bateleur is often the first bird at a kill and is known to go straight for the eyeballs of the dead animal.There is a record of a bateleur attacking a python just to get to its eyeballs

Hi Duke,

Interest fact about Bateleurs. They are definitely quick to find a kill. At first I thought they only hunt and later read about this fact.

Posted: **Wed Oct 09, 2013 7:58 pm**

Sprocky wrote:

Sprocky I hope I am right to say this is a female and the one taken by nan in flights a male. When looking at the male the black trailing edge is the widest , while the female is a narrow black edge on the wings.

Posted: **Wed Oct 09, 2013 8:01 pm**

Here you go BJ... $\O$

Posted: **Wed Oct 09, 2013 8:07 pm**

Wow Dewi $O/\$ $O\/$ $O/\$ $O\/$

Juvenile at Mpondo Dam, Kruger

Posted: **Wed Oct 09, 2013 8:41 pm**

Stunning photos everyone. $O/\$

Posted: **Wed Oct 09, 2013 8:44 pm**

male or female... the mouse

Posted: **Wed Oct 09, 2013 9:18 pm**

will read this article, thank you $\O$

a bit like this one

(Kgalagadi)

I'm THE best

Posted: **Thu Oct 10, 2013 5:58 pm**

Saw these 3 having a bath at Cubije Quap, KTP on 19 November 2012

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Bateleur (Terathopius ecaudatus)

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