This is the third "Capie" we have seen and photographed in about six months here in Hwange and it is starting to look like for all too long now we have just been overlooking them.
When you see them in relation to the other vultures at a kill they stick out like the proverbial "sore thumb" but the so called distinguishing features that make a "Capie" a "Capie" can be more subtle!
For example the guide books say the blue patches of skin on the chest are diagnostic but i have seen more White-backed vultures sporting these than the Cape Griffons. Proff Mundy said to look for the "Captain Morgan Eye-patches" on the secondaries as diagnostic and that is what caught my eye with this individual.
The Hwange Birder
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