Calligrafae
If you're watching #birbcam over the next few months, keep an eye out for the acacia pied barbet. It's a very rare visitor and tends to favour colder, rainy days, but never stays for very long.
Acacia Pied Barbet - eBird
A medium-sized barbet with uniformly white underparts, a black throat patch, a red forehead, and a striking yellow-and-white eyebrow. Pairs reside in semi-desert, savanna, and gardens, preferring thickets and more treed areas with suitable for nest cavities. Calls a distinctive melancholy “poooop” 6–7 times, often accompanied with a nasal, repeated “nyeeeeaar”. Miombo Barbet differs by lacking the dark throat patch and by having heavily-spotted underparts and a yellowish breast. The two species hybridize in southern Zambia.
TileadI keep wondering if I should list #BirbCam birds on my life list even though I will probably never make it to S Africa? What do other birders and bird people do with, like, real birds seen in real time but that are across oceans?
@eredien ooh I don't know! There are probably some 'purists' who believe they have to be seen in person, but given how the world and technology has progressed such that you can get real time live feeds from places, I'm personally fine with including livestreams - like if you're watching a garden stream of regular visitors and a rare bird shows up you're still witnessing a rare bird showing up ^.^