Birds - Newman's Birds of Southern Africa

Three-banded Plover

Inland water shorelines. Small plover told by white underparts with two black breast-bands; above dark brown; bill and eye-rings red.

Reedbeds and adjacent bush. Male blackish-brown all over, with a white wing-spot and white forehead when breeding; bill black; female dark brown above, whitish below, heavily streaked dark brown; bill horn-coloured.

Three-banded Courser

Dry woodland. The white throat has a chestnut V-shaped collar; the upper breast has a dark brown breast-band extending to the shoulders, and a chestnut lower breast-band.

Terrestrial Brownbul

Forests and thickets. Dark brown above; white throat contrasts with dusky breast and flanks.

Temminck’s Courser

Short grasslands. Rufous cap and lower breast; white underbelly and legs.

Tawny-flanked Prinia

Riverine vegetation and gardens. Dark brown above with white eyebrows and dark eye-stripe; white below; flanks, vent and rump tawny.

Tawny Eagle

Woodland. Various colour forms: light brown, tawny and gingery-brown. Tawny form only has black dappling on upperwing covert; all have black flight feathers and tail; cere and legs yellow.