Site Report: Stone Town
Scott and Cats
Stone Town Door by Barbara Carr
Gray Wall Jumping Spider (Menemerus bivittatus)
Sooty Gull (Ichthyaetus hemprichii)
Purple-banded Sunbird (Cinnyris bifasciatus)
Masked Booby (Sula dactylatra)
Common Tern (Sterna hirundo)
Sooty Gull (Ichthyaetus hemprichii)
Little Bittern (Botaurus minutus)
Gray Wall Jumping Spider (Menemerus bivittatus)
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Scott and Cats
Stone Town Door by Barbara Carr
Gray Wall Jumping Spider (Menemerus bivittatus)
Sooty Gull (Ichthyaetus hemprichii)
Purple-banded Sunbird (Cinnyris bifasciatus)
Masked Booby (Sula dactylatra)
Common Tern (Sterna hirundo)
Sooty Gull (Ichthyaetus hemprichii)
Little Bittern (Botaurus minutus)
Gray Wall Jumping Spider (Menemerus bivittatus)
City
Visits
- 2025-02-11: We arrived in Stone Town via the ferry from Pemba. The ferry was a bit late, and there was not much of interest to see between the two islands. We arrived again to a crush of touts and taxis, but we were quickly able to ditch them and walk to our nearby hotel. After settling in at the hotel (who had lost our reservation), we decided to take a walk around a nearby swamp. This was soon abandoned as the swamp was pretty badly polluted, and some touts started messing with us.
- 2025-02-13: Hung around in the town after our trip to the rice fields
- 2025-02-14: In the very early morning, we took a trip back to the polluted swamp near the ferry terminal. Later in the day, we attended a music festival at the old fort.
- 2025-02-15: Our trip to Tanzania was coming to a close with a ferry ride back to Dar Es Salaam. We had hoped to go visit a mountain park on the outskirts of Dar Es Salaam, but unfortunately, we got into a substandard taxi involving an attempt to change prices en route.
Species Seen
Kingdom: Animals (34 records)
Phylum: Arthropods
(1 record)
Class: Arachnids
(1 record)
- Order: Spiders
(1 record)
- Family: Jumping Spiders
- Gray Wall Jumping Spider (Menemerus bivittatus)
Phylum: Chordates
(33 records)
Class: Birds
(33 records)
- Order: Anseriformes
(1 record)
- Family: Swans, Geese, and Ducks
- White-faced Whistling-Duck (Dendrocygna viduata)
- Order: Boobies
(1 record)
- Family: Boobies and Gannets
- Masked Booby (Sula dactylatra)
- Order: Cranes, Rails, and Allies
(1 record)
- Family: Rails, Gallinules, and Allies
- Eurasian Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus)
- Order: Doves and Pigeons
(2 records)
- Family: Pigeons and Doves
- Rock Pigeon (Columba livia)
- African Green-Pigeon (Treron calvus)
- Order: Hummingbirds and Swifts
(1 record)
- Family: Swifts
- African Palm-Swift (Cypsiurus parvus)
- Order: Kingfishers, Bee-eaters, Motmots
(2 records)
- Family: Kingfishers
- Malachite Kingfisher (Corythornis cristatus)
- Pied Kingfisher (Ceryle rudis)
- Order: Owls And Nightjars
(1 record)
- Family: Barn Owl and Grass-owls
- Western Barn Owl (Tyto alba)
- Order: Pelicans
(11 records)
- Family: Cormorants
- Reed Cormorant (Microcarbo africanus)
- Family: Herons
- Western Cattle Egret (Ardea ibis)
- Striated Heron (Butorides striata)
- Little Bittern (Botaurus minutus)
- Family: Ibises and Spoonbills
- African Sacred Ibis (Threskiornis aethiopicus)
- Family: Sandpipers and Allies
- Marsh Sandpiper (Tringa stagnatilis)
- Common Greenshank (Tringa nebularia)
- Wood Sandpiper (Tringa glareola)
- Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos)
- Curlew Sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea)
- Family: Stilts and Avocets
- Black-winged Stilt (Himantopus himantopus)
- Order: Perching Birds
(5 records)
- Family: Jays and Crows
- House Crow (Corvus splendens)
- Family: Old World Sparrows
- House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)
- African Golden-Weaver (Ploceus subaureus)
- Family: Sunbirds
- Purple-banded Sunbird (Cinnyris bifasciatus)
- Family: Swallows
- Wire-tailed Swallow (Hirundo smithii)
- Order: Shorebirds and Allies (8 records)
- Family: Plovers
- Common Ringed Plover (Charadrius hiaticula)