848 The white-browed coucal is sometimes called a bottle bird because its call sounds like liquid being poured out

849 Southern ground hornbill on the lookout for food

850 Von Der Decken's hornbill. This is a male as indicated by the red bill

851 Buff-crested bustard. The male has a black belly

852 Fork-tailed drongo

853 A pair of black-faced sand grouse

854 A scruffy looking speckled mousebird with its distinctive long tail

855 This lilac-breasted roller is warming up in the early morning sunshine

856 A small and very nervous emerald spotted wood dove

857 Nile crocodile basking in the Ruaha river

858 It took patience to get this shot of a lilac-breasted roller

859 The red-cheeked cordon-bleu took a bath right outside my tent

860 African golden-breasted bunting

861 Low-level tawny eagle

862 Tawny eagle

863 Yellow white-eye 'greenish' race

864 Helmeted guineafowl are usually found in small noisy flocks

865 The grey-headed kingfisher is not aquatic, but eats insects and small lizardss

866 Magpie shrikes are highly sociable and are usually found in small groups

867 Saddle-billed stork at the water's edge

868 The Nile monitor checks for crocodiles before swimming across the river

869 White-headed buffalo-weavers build very large nests of dead thorn branches

870 African fish eagle

871 Saddle-billed stork on the sand river