Bird Family: Mannikins

Woodland thickets. Grey, darker above with red eyes, rump and upper tail-base

Thorn thickets. Yellow-green mantle and wings; red bill (red forehead and throat in male); red rump and upper tail; banded underparts.

Forest fringes. Male and female have green upper parts with white spotted underparts.

Woodland. Speckled bird with broad red throat-band; white bill.

Wetlands. Red mask, bill and central belly; brown-barred below.

Grass and scrub. Only head and breast black; underparts white; dull brown above.

Thornveld. Underparts blue; above brown.

Thornveld. Rump and underparts deep wine-red; bill and mask black.

Bushveld. Face, throat, breast, flanks and rump red; above, including crown, grey-brown; bill blue-black.

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