Javan Bush Warbler

A tiny colorful seed-eating waxbill with a grayish breast, a yellow belly, an olive-green back finely barred with dark gray, and a scarlet rump and upper tail. The male has a black throat patch that the female lacks. A local West Angolan endemic. Pairs and small groups eat grass in open areas adjacent to forest and thickets. Vocalizations are undescribed, but the species probably gives calls similar to the plaintive “swee-swee” and “seeet” of the closely related Swee and Yellow-bellied Waxbills. No similar waxbills overlap in range. 

Brightly-colored medium-sized laughingthrush. Brownish overall with a sooty-black eyebrow and bright red face and wing panel. Shy and difficult to see; moves through dense undergrowth of tropical broadleaf forest singly, in pairs, or in flocks (sometimes with other species). Song is a short but beautiful bout of whistles and warbling: “chew-cho-chew-cheuuwee.” Also gives loud buzzy and rattling notes when foraging.

A large, bulky, gray-brown ibis with an iridescent green-purple gloss on the wings. It has a bicolored black-and-red bill and a white streak across the cheek under the eye. Pairs and small flocks occur in a variety of habitats including open country, wetland margins, and forest edge; they forages on the ground, digging, probing soft soil, and picking up invertebrates with their long bills. The frequently-heard call is one of the most characteristic sounds of Africa: a loud, raucous, trumpeting “ha-da-da” which gives the bird its name.