Ant-eating Chat
Short grasslands. Entirely dark brown or blackish-brown; only primary feathers show paler in flight.
Colour: Dark Brown
Arrow-marked Babbler
Mixed bushveld and thickets. Above dark brown; breast grey-brown; belly tawny; white arrow marks all over; eyes orange with red eye-rings; bill and legs black.
African Wood Owl
Forests. Dark brown above including surround of facial disc; finely barred brown on whitish underparts; no ‘ear’ tufts.
African Scops Owl
Mixed bushveld. Woodbark camouflage; very mottled grey-brown colour, with flecks of white and black; small ear tufts.
African Fish-Eagle
Wetlands. Wings dark brown; belly chestnut-brown; head, breast and mantle white; cere and legs yellow.
African Grass Owl
Moist grasslands. Dark brown above with small white spots; creamy below with small brown spots; no ‘ear’ tufts.
African Hawk-Eagle
Woodland. Dark brown above; white below with dark breast-streaks; eyes, cere and feet yellow. Underwing shows white ‘windows’; tail with black terminal band.
African Barred Owlet
Woodland. Dark brown-grey above including head, with fine white barring plus band of large white wing-spots; below white with grey-brown bars and spots.
African Black Duck
Rivers. Dark brown with white-spotted upperparts; bill grey; legs orange.
