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I was lucky to observe this owl for about 20 minutes. When I first found it, it was actively looking around from a relatively open perch. It flushed to a more concealed perch after I attempted to approach it more closely. I heard it (or another individual) calling the following night in the same general area. (I'm about a year behind on my photos, but I had to expedite this one...)

Central African false gharial Mecistops leptorhynchus, caught in 10x10mm mesh fishing net Figure 1: measurement: 3.25 meters long, Figure 2: sex of the individual, it is a male, Figure 3: amputated limbs are healed, no indication of infection, A and B show the amputated right front limbs, C and D the amputated left front limbs, all these observations are from the same specimen

Photo Courtesy of Pablo Ayali

Alempijevic, D., Hart, J., Hart, T., & Detwiler, K. (2021). Using local knowledge and camera traps to investigate occurrence and habitat preference of an Endangered primate: The endemic dryas monkey in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Oryx, 1-8. doi:10.1017/S0030605320000575

The observed individual followed army ants and was part of a mixed-species flock consisting of Bleda syndactylus, Cossypha niveicapilla, Neocossyphus poensis praepectoralis, Andropadus virens and Cyanomitra obscura.

Two different birds. photo 1 shows one individual, photo 2, 3 and 4 show the second individual. Although I tried many nights to locate the common call of the Nkulengu rails around the Imbalanga station, I did not manage to see one due to the dense marantaceae vegetation and lack of trails. The birds will respond on playback but will keep quiet if you get closer. They will never leave their roosting site at night and you will therefore not be able to lure them. If you want to see a Nkulengu rail at night your best chance is to sneak up to their roosting tree (which appears to be different each night). With cameratraps I found that they are day-active and managed to lure two birds in the middle of the day after only 2 minutes playing their call.

This little guy landed onboard a yacht at sea. Exhausted. He soon disappeared and, not surprisingly, was never seen again. The position indicated is quite accurate. I'm trying to recover my old logbook to verify the exact position, but it certainly was not far from this position