| Madagascar birding trip 19 Nov - 5 Dec 2010 |
| trip report by John van der Woude - www.jvanderw.nl |
| Other photos - roadside scenery, chameleons, etc. |
| see also introduction
- photos of sites - bird photos - species list
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 outside our first hotel, ready to start the trip; Nollie and me at the right Photo Hans Semeins |
 barefeet riksja walkers were a common sight |
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 Short-horned Chameleon - Calumma brevicorne (male) |
 Short-horned Chameleon - Calumma brevicorne (female) |
 waving children everywhere |
 Calumma cucullatum? (Perinet area) |
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 Photo Hans Semeins |
 Photo Hans Semeins |
 Photo Hans Semeins |
 Lucas helped the group across a stream in Andasibe-Mantadia rainforest Photo Hans Semeins |
 Photo Hans Semeins |
 Calumma brevicorne |
 Extremely well camouflaged Mossy Leaf-tailed Gecko or Southern Flat-tailed Gecko - Uroplatus sikorae. Find it by starting with the eyes, it is head down. |
 Diademed Sifaca |
Phyllomacromia trifasciata |
 rice fields were common on the first, wetter half of the trip |
 in these rice field areas houses were often considerably better than in the more sparsely vegetated areas |
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 large sundew (Drosera) |
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 Red-fronted Brown Lemur |
Spinomantis aglavei ('moss frog') |
 Phelsuma quadriocellata, a day gecko. |
 Photo Hans Semeins |
 Mantella madagascariensis |
'Comet'. Argema mittrei, largest
silkworm moth, endangered. Bigger than my hand!
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 Madagascan fire millipede |
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 stick insect (wandelende tak) |
 Sanzinia madagascariensis |
 Furcifer balteatus, male |
 Heterixalus alboguttatus |
 Parsonīs Chameleon - Calumma parsonii |
 Parsonīs Chameleon - Calumma parsonii |
 Photo Hans Semeins |
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 visitor statistics of Ramonafana national park; note the drop in 2009, caused by political unrest; 2010 will show some recovery |
 baking bricks, this was seen on many places |
 probably going to church (this was on a Sunday) |
 for former Renault 4 drivers like me it was nice to see so many of them still here, and mostly as taxi |
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 ^ collecting empty bottles
in his sleeve
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 huge Dictyophora grasshopper (10 cm) |
 in Isalo national park |
 the same Emperor Dragonfly as in Europe! |
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 clothes and tyres was a proven combination |
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 waiting for the bus |
 Chalarodon madagascariensis |
 orchid growing on tree trunk |
 Phelsuma standingii, a day gecko. |
 one of the first baobab trees of the trip, in Zombitse forest |
 Furcifer oustaleti |
 Furcifer oustaleti |
 strangling fig; the original tree inside has disappeared already |
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.jpg) looking at skulking Red-Shouldered Vanga, the third new vanga in ten minutes Photo Hans Semeins |
 Photo Hans Semeins |
 eight happy birders (nine, including me) walking back to the bus after having seen those three new vangas |
 transport across the mudflat to the fast boat for our trip to Nosy Ve island |
 arrving at Anakao opposite Nosy Ve island |
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 shelter for the sun on Nosy Ve island |
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 Photo Hans Semeins |
 from our lodge at Anakao, opposite Nosy Ve island Photo Hans Semeins |
 at the Anakao lodge Photo hans Semeins |
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 our four 4WD cars for the trip from Tulear to Ifaty, the road being too bad for our bus |
 Photo Hans Semeins |
 Photo Hans Semeins |
 it was hot and dry in the low South; note my shadow: the sun is right above my head! |
 in Ifaty spiny forest, there are other types of baobab than in Zombitse forest |
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 Photo Hans Semeins |
 Chalarodon madagascariensis |
 Nollie has to choose something |
 happy to have sold something! |
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 the baobabs in the spiny forest kept amazing us |
 now there were more professional sellers than the evening before |
 seeking shade; the dry and hot Southwest of Madagascar was very different from the cool hills with rainforest further north |
 our lodge at Ifaty |
 view from the air when leaving Madagascar, with the long strings of rice fields/arable fields in the valleys |
| see also introduction - photos of sites - bird photos - species list |