Sightings Report


Site

Sans Souci Bridge Patch

Date

Tuesday Feb 19, 2019

Reported by

Piet Van Aswegen

Report

At The Patch - Bronze Mannikin. Note the speckled Crown, neck and nape. In BIRDS of South Africa - Complete Photographic Field Guide, pp404-405 Ian Sinclair and Peter Ryan depict a similar bird (photo by Neville Brickell) as a Red-backed Mannikin. However on our photographs the chestnut back as well as the black crown, nape and neck are absent. 

Juvenile Bronze mannikin usually a unifonm dun brown. Photos a stage between juvenile and adult, moulting or hybrid?

Bronze Mannikin

Bronze Mannikin

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