Bird Family: Twinspots

Dry thornveld. Both sexes have violet ear coverts and red bills.

Wooded streams. Yellow belly and vent in both sexes; breast whitish; dark green above; red rump and tail coverts; male has black mask.

Dense bush. Red head (not crown), throat breast and rump. Below black with white spots.

Thornveld. Red head; grey-brown above; speckled below; heavy bill.

Bushveld. Red head, neck, breast and upper-tail coverts in male; red lores and upper tail in female; rest of body grey-brown.

Dune forests, bushveld. Black head and breast; rufous upperparts; white bill and underparts.

Dense scrub. Pink face, breast and rump with cinnamon wings and back; belly and vent black with white spots.

Reedbeds. Yellow below with barred flanks; male with red mask, breast-patch and vent; above grey-brown.

Thickets. Red forehead, bill, throat, rump and upper tail; olive-green back; orange-edged wings.

Bushveld. Head, underparts and rump pinkish-red; upperparts brown washed pinkish-red; bill blue-black.

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