Common waxbills with the highest social ranks aren’t necessarily larger or more intelligent than their peers – but they do have chest feathers that are a richer shade of red.

The common waxbill’s habit of adorning its nests with fur plucked from carnivore scat turns out to discourage attacks from predators. In southern Africa, these songbirds build enclosed grass ...

It is a birders' paradise; home to the Gorgeous Bush Shrike, as well as the Yellow-eyed Canary, Common Waxbill, the Bronze and Redbacked Manikins as well as the Bluebilled Firefinch.

16 Chukar Partridge (Alectoris chukar Gray, 1830) -- 17 Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis Linnaeus, 1758) -- 18 Red Junglefowl (Gallus gallus Linnaeus, 1758), Grey Junglefowl (Gallus sonneratii Temmink, ...