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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![]() Lucas helped the group across a stream in Andasibe-Mantadia rainforest Photo Hans Semeins |
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![]() 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. |
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![]() Mantella madagascariensis |
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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 |
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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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![]() 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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![]() looking at skulking Red-Shouldered Vanga, the third new vanga in ten minutes Photo Hans Semeins |
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![]() 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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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 |
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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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![]() 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 |