. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. Bulletin 93 Vol. 85 A communal nest of Lappet-faced Vulture Torgos tracheliotus (Forster) and East African Greater Kestrel, Falco rupicoloides arthuri (Gurney) by Charles R. S. Pitman Received 17 th February, 1965 Myles Turner, a Park Warden in the Serengeti National Park, in Tanzania, has sent me the details of an interesting occurrence of com- munal nesting by a Lappet-faced Vulture and an East African Greater Kestrel in the neighbourhood of Seronera, in the Western Serengeti region. The vulture's nest was found on 9th May 1964 at the to
. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. Bulletin 93 Vol. 85 A communal nest of Lappet-faced Vulture Torgos tracheliotus (Forster) and East African Greater Kestrel, Falco rupicoloides arthuri (Gurney) by Charles R. S. Pitman Received 17 th February, 1965 Myles Turner, a Park Warden in the Serengeti National Park, in Tanzania, has sent me the details of an interesting occurrence of com- munal nesting by a Lappet-faced Vulture and an East African Greater Kestrel in the neighbourhood of Seronera, in the Western Serengeti region. The vulture's nest was found on 9th May 1964 at the top of a 15 feet high Pappea capensis Eck and Zey in full leaf growing amongst the rocks of a small isolated inselberg on an open plain. The shade of this tree was selected as a suitable place for the Director of the Tanzania National Parks (John Owen), who was on tour, and Turner to have lunch. Their attention was attracted to the nest when a pair of kestrels flew away from it. They hovered nearby and then flew off about 200 yards and perched on a rock. Turner climbed up to the nest to investigate and was unaware of the brooding vulture until he actually peered over the rim of the nest and the huge bird took off at very close range and its identity was un- Turner was astonished to find a vulture's egg in a slight depression in the nest and only 2 feet 4 inches distant in another depression four kestrel eggs. As the short space between the two lots of eggs was quite flat the vulture and the kestrel when brooding must have been visible to each other—an interesting association. About five minutes after flying away. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Ornithologists' Club. London : British Ornithologists' Club
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