Habitat: Savanna Bushveld
Black Cuckoo
Well wooded and suburban areas. Perches and calls in same tree for long periods. Diagnostic call ‘I’m so SICK’.
Black Cuckooshrike
Woodland. Dull olive-brown above with yellow wing-feathers and tail edges; below banded black on white.
Bearded Scrub Robin
Broad-leaved and riverine woodland.
Light brown above to below eyes; eyebrows white edged black; lores black; throat white; moustachial streak black; breast, flanks and rump orange; belly white.
Bennett’s Woodpecker
Woodland. Male with red cap and moustachial streak; female with red nape; brown face and throat; below lightly spotted.
Barred Wren-Warbler
Woodland thickets. Dark brown above, buffy below and well barred brown; has dark breast in summer
