Friday 26 October 2012

On the rocks


22nd October

Tomorrow I will be up at four o’clock. Lovely though today has been in Isalo, I’ll not write much tonight. The day was hot and the lizards were beautiful, the sky was blue and the scenery dramatic, the broad-billed rollers – just two days back here – were dazzling and the ring-tails a joy as they bounded up the sandstone cliffs this evening to their fosa-proof roosts in Isalo’s caves.

This is a fine place indeed and today to my list I have added these beautiful creatures:


New today in Isalo

Mammals

97
Verreaux’s sifaka
Propithecus verreauxi

Birds

913
helmeted guineafowl
Numida meleagris
914
Madagascar turtle dove
Streptopelia picturata
915
Namaqua dove
Oena capensis
916
broad-billed roller
Eurystomus glaucurus
917
Madagascar cisticola
Cisticola cherina

Reptiles

35
four-lined iguanid
Oplurus quadrimaculatus
36
spiny-tailed iguanid
Oplurus cyclurus
37
big-eyed grass snake
Mimophis mahfalensis
38

Trachylepis elegans

2012 Totals
Mammals: 97
Birds: 917
Reptiles: 38
Amphibians: 16
Fish: 11

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