Yellow-crowned Manakin

A small, sparrow-like canary with different-looking males and females. The male is chestnut, white, and black, with the black continuous from the nape to the spurs on the breast in the Black-headed group, and with the black areas mixed with white in the Damara group. The female has a uniform gray-brown head and a chestnut back and tail. In the breeding season the species occurs in pairs and small groups, but during the non-breeding season it may gather in flocks of up to 200 and may mix with other species. It is resident but nomadic throughout arid scrub, following rain and seeding events.

A large, active, noisy black tit with white shoulders, white edgings to the wing feathers, and a barred gray-and-white undertail. Pairs and small groups form the core of mixed-species feeding flocks in broadleaf woodland and thorn scrub. The species is often detected by its noisy buzzing and chirping vocalizations, including a sweet-and-scratchy “diddy-dzee-dzee-dzee-dzee-dzee.” The very similar Carp’s Tit is black under the tail; ranges only narrowly overlap.

Small pale gray flycatcher, exclusively coastal and usually observed in or very close to mangroves. Pale gray head and back, white throat and chin, pale wingbars, and a very thin gray chest band. Holds tail up and frequently fans it as it forages. Compare Gray Fantail, which is larger, darker, and has a wider black chest band, and Northern Fantail, which has a pale-streaked gray chest without a dark narrow band and lacks the pale streak behind the eye.