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808, Southern Red Bishop Euplectes orix (see species summary here)

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Record statusACCEPTED
Vm18689 [on-line data upload (2016-01-14): 188451]
SpeciesDiderick Cuckoo
Observer(s)Robinson DM
Country, town, locusSouth Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Donnybrook,
2929DD
LocalityIn vicinity of Mackenzie Country Club
Latitude, longitude-29.9700533734564, 29.9763894081116 [0 m accuracy]
Date2016/1/13
NotesFemale with egg of Southern Red Bishop (presumably), some 200 m from reedbed where these birds are nesting. Repeated bashing of the egg on a barbed wire fence (first photo) resulted in egg being broken (second photo), which was then presumably eaten.
Nest count0
Nest sitereed

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vmSpecies codeDateNestsNotes
1868980813/1/20160Female with egg of Southern Red Bishop (presumably), some 200 m from reedbed where these birds are nesting. Repeated bashing of the egg on a barbed wire fence (first photo) resulted in egg being broken (second photo), which was then presumably eaten.

Vm 18689

Interactive map: B5 - DC with egg, repeat birdpix 23525

Best: S Red Bishop - egg taken by cuckoo

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