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the Zululand Birding Route - Birding Checklists Checklist for entire route. E=Eshowe Route, Me=Melmoth Route, N= Babanango, Mt=Mtunzini, R=Richard's Bay, S=St Lucia. |
Little Grebe (Dabchick) | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Great White Pelican | Mt | R | S | |||
Pink-backed Pelican | R | S | ||||
White-breasted (Great) Cormorant | Me | B | Mt | R | S | |
Cape Cormorant | R | |||||
Long-tailed (Reed) Cormorant | Me | B | Mt | R | S | |
African Darter | Me | Mt | R | S | ||
Grey Heron | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Black-headed Heron | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Goliath Heron | Mt | R | S | |||
Purple Heron | Me | Mt | R | S | ||
Great Egret | Mt | R | S | |||
Little Egret | Me | Mt | R | S | ||
Yellow-billed (Intermediate) Egret | Mt | R | S | |||
Black Egret | R | S | ||||
Cattle Egret | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Squacco Heron | Mt | R | S | |||
Green-backed Heron | E | Me | Mt | R | S | |
Black-crowned Night Heron | Me | R | S | |||
White-backed Night Heron | Me | Mt | ||||
Little Bittern | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Dwarf Bittern | S | |||||
Great Bittern | R | |||||
Hamerkop | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
White Stork | E | Me | B | S | ||
Black Stork | E | Me | B | R | S | |
Abdim's Stork | B | |||||
Woolly-necked Stork | E | B | Mt | R | S | |
African Openbill | R | S | ||||
Saddle-billed Stork | S | |||||
Yellow-billed Stork | E | Mt | R | S | ||
Sacred Ibis | E | Me | Mt | R | S | |
Southern Bald Ibis | E | Me | B | |||
Glossy Ibis | E | R | S | |||
Hadeda Ibis | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
African Spoonbill | E | Me | Mt | R | S | |
Greater Flamingo | R | S | ||||
Lesser Flamingo | R | S | ||||
White-faced Duck | E | Me | Mt | R | S | |
Fulvous Duck | E | Me | R | |||
White-backed Duck | E | R | ||||
Egyptian Goose | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Yellow-billed Duck | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Cape Teal | E | R | ||||
Hottentot Teal | E | R | S | |||
Red-billed Teal | E | R | S | |||
Cape Shoveller | E | R | S | |||
Southern Pochard | E | R | S | |||
African Pygmy Goose | E | R | S | |||
Knob-billed Duck | E | R | S | |||
Spur-winged Goose | E | Me | Mt | R | S | |
Secretarybird | E | Me | B | S | ||
Cape Vulture | Me | B | ||||
African White-backed Vulture | Me | B | S | |||
Lappet-faced Vulture | B | |||||
White-headed Vulture | B | |||||
Black Kite | S | |||||
Yellow-billed Kite | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Black-shouldered Kite | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Cuckoo Hawk (African Baza) | E | S | ||||
Bat Hawk | E | B | S | |||
Verreaux's (Black) Eagle | Me | B | ||||
Tawny Eagle | E | Me | B | S | ||
Wahlberg's Eagle | E | Me | B | S | ||
Booted Eagle | Me | B | ||||
African Hawk Eagle | Me | B | S | |||
Long-crested Eagle | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Martial Eagle | E | Me | B | S | ||
Crowned Eagle | E | Me | B | S | ||
Brown Snake Eagle | E | Me | B | S | ||
Black-breasted Snake Eagle | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Southern Banded Snake Eagle | Mt | S | ||||
Bateleur | E | Me | B | S | ||
Palm-nut Vulture | Mt | R | S | |||
African Fish Eagle | E | Me | Mt | R | S | |
Common (Steppe) Buzzard | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Forest Buzzard | E | Me | B | S | ||
Jackal Buzzard | E | Me | B | |||
Lizard Buzzard | E | Me | S | |||
Little Sparrowhawk | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Black Sparrowhawk | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
African Goshawk | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Gabar Goshawk | Me | B | S | |||
Western Marsh Harrier | R | |||||
African Marsh Harrier | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Gymnogene (African Harrier Hawk) | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Osprey | R | S | ||||
Peregrine Falcon | Me | B | R | |||
Lanner Falcon | E | Me | B | S | ||
Sooty Falcon | Mt | |||||
Amur Falcon (Eastern Red-footed Falcon) | E | Me | B | S | ||
Rock Kestrel | E | Me | B | |||
Coqui Francolin | Me | B | S | |||
Crested Francolin | E | Me | S | |||
Shelley's Francolin | E | Me | B | |||
Red-winged Francolin | Me | B | ||||
Natal Francolin | E | Me | B | Mt | S | |
Swainson's Francolin | E | Me | B | S | ||
Common Quail | E | Me | B | S | ||
Harlequin Quail | E | |||||
Helmeted Guineafowl | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Crested Guineafowl | S | |||||
Kurrichane (Small) Buttonquail | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Black-rumped Buttonquail | E | S | ||||
Blue Crane | Me | B | ||||
Grey Crowned Crane | B | R | ||||
African Rail | E | Mt | R | S | ||
Corncrake | E | Me | S | |||
Black Crake | ||||||
Baillon's Crake | Me | S | ||||
Red-chested Flufftail | E | |||||
Buff-spotted Flufftail | E | Me | S | |||
Purple Gallinule | Mt | R | S | |||
Common Moorhen | E | Me | Mt | R | S | |
Lesser Moorhen | E | |||||
Red-knobbed Coot | E | Me | Mt | R | S | |
African Finfoot | E | Me | Mt | S | ||
Stanley's Bustard | Me | B | S | |||
Southern White-bellied Korhaan | B | |||||
Red-crested Korhaan | B | S | ||||
Black-bellied Korhaan | E | Me | B | S | ||
African Jacana | E | Mt | R | S | ||
Lesser Jacana | R | S | ||||
Common Ringed Plover | Mt | R | S | |||
White-fronted Plover | Mt | R | S | |||
Kittlitz's Plover | E | Mt | R | S | ||
Three-banded Plover | E | Me | B | Mt | S | |
Mongolian Plover | R | |||||
Greater Sand Plover | R | |||||
Grey (Black-bellied) Plover | R | |||||
Crowned Plover | Me | Mt | S | |||
Lesser Black-winged Plover | S | |||||
Black-winged Plover | Me | B | S | |||
Blacksmith Plover | E | Me | Mt | R | S | |
Wattled Plover | Me | B | R | S | ||
Ruddy Turnstone | Mt | R | ||||
Terek Sandpiper | R | |||||
Common Sandpiper | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Wood Sandpiper | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Marsh Sandpiper | E | Mt | R | S | ||
Common Greenshank | E | Mt | R | S | ||
Red Knot | R | |||||
Curlew Sandpiper | Mt | R | S | |||
Little Stint | Mt | R | S | |||
Sanderling | Mt | R | S | |||
Ruff | Mt | R | S | |||
African Snipe | E | S | ||||
Bar-tailed Godwit | R | |||||
Eurasian Curlew | R | |||||
Whimbrel | E | R | ||||
Pied Avocet | R | S | ||||
Black-winged Stilt | R | S | ||||
Crab Plover | R | |||||
Spotted Dikkop (Thick-knee) | E | Me | B | Mt | S | |
Water Dikkop (Thick-knee) | Mt | R | S | |||
Temminck's Courser | S | |||||
Bronze-winged Courser | Me | B | S | |||
Collared (Red-winged) Pratincole | Mt | R | S | |||
Kelp Gull | Mt | R | S | |||
Lesser Black-backed Gull | Mt | R | S | |||
Grey-headed Gull | Mt | R | S | |||
Caspian Tern | Mt | R | S | |||
Swift (Greater Crested) Tern | Mt | R | S | |||
Lesser Crested Tern | Mt | R | S | |||
Sandwich Tern | Mt | R | S | |||
Common Tern | Mt | R | S | |||
Little Tern | R | S | ||||
Whiskered Tern | R | S | ||||
White-winged Tern | R | S | ||||
Feral (Rock) Pigeon | R | S | ||||
Speckled Pigeon | Me | Mt | R | S | ||
Rameron (Olive) Pigeon | Me | |||||
Delegorgue's Pigeon | E | |||||
Red-eyed Dove | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Cape Turtle Dove | Me | B | S | |||
Laughing (Palm) Dove | Me | B | S | |||
Namaqua Dove | E | Me | B | R | ||
Green-spotted Dove | E | Me | B | S | ||
Tambourine Dove | E | Me | Mt | R | S | |
Cinnamon (Lemon) Dove | E | Me | Mt | S | ||
African Green Pigeon | E | Me | Mt | S | ||
Knysna Lourie (Turaco) | ||||||
Livingstone's Lourie (Turaco) | R | S | ||||
Purple-crested Lourie (Turaco) | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Grey Lourie (Go-away Bird) | S | |||||
African Cuckoo | Me | B | ||||
Red-chested Cuckoo | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Black Cuckoo | E | Me | B | S | ||
Great Spotted Cuckoo | ||||||
Jacobin (Pied) Cuckoo | E | B | S | |||
African Emerald Cuckoo | E | Me | S | |||
Klaas's Cuckoo | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Diederik Cuckoo | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Green Coucal (Yellowbill) | E | Mt | R | S | ||
Burchell's Coucal | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Barn Owl | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
African Grass Owl | E | Me | B | |||
African Wood Owl | E | Me | Mt | R | S | |
African Scops Owl | ||||||
White-faced Owl | ||||||
Spotted Eagle Owl | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Giant Eagle Owl | ||||||
European (Eurasian) Nightjar | E | Me | B | S | ||
Fiery-necked Nightjar | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Natal (Swamp) Nightjar | R | S | ||||
Mozambique (Square-tailed) Nightjar | Me | B | S | |||
European (Common) Swift | Me | B | ||||
African Black Swift | E | Me | B | S | ||
White-rumped Swift | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Horus Swift | E | Me | B | S | ||
Little Swift | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Alpine Swift | Me | B | S | |||
African Palm Swift | E | Me | Mt | S | ||
Speckled Mousebird | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Red-faced Mousebird | Me | B | S | |||
Narina Trogon | E | Me | Mt | S | ||
Pied Kingfisher | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Giant Kingfisher | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Half-collared Kingfisher | E | Me | B | S | ||
Malachite Kingfisher | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
African Pygmy Kingfisher | E | Me | Mt | R | S | |
Mangrove Kingfisher | Mt | S | ||||
Brown-hooded Kingfisher | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Striped Kingfisher | Me | S | ||||
European Bee-eater | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Blue-cheeked Bee-eater | R | S | ||||
White-fronted Bee-eater | R | S | ||||
Little Bee-eater | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
European Roller | E | Me | B | S | ||
Lilac-breasted Roller | S | |||||
African Hoopoe | E | Me | B | S | ||
Red-billed (Green) Wood-hoopoe | E | Me | B | S | ||
Common Scimitarbill | Me | B | S | |||
Trumpeter Hornbill | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill | Me | B | ||||
Crowned Hornbill | E | Me | B | Mt | S | |
Southern Ground Hornbill | E | Me | B | |||
Black-collared Barbet | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Pied Barbet | Me | B | ||||
White-eared Barbet | E | Me | Mt | R | S | |
Green (Woodwards') Barbet | E | |||||
Red-fronted Tinkerbird | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Golden-rumped Tinkerbird | E | Me | Mt | R | S | |
Crested Barbet | E | Me | B | S | ||
Greater Honeyguide | Me | B | S | |||
Scaly-throated Honeyguide | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Lesser Honeyguide | E | Me | B | Mt | S | |
Sharp-billed (Wahlberg's) Honeyguide | Me | B | ||||
Ground Woodpecker | B | |||||
Golden-tailed Woodpecker | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Cardinal Woodpecker | Me | B | S | |||
Bearded Woodpecker | ||||||
Olive Woodpecker | E | Me | S | |||
Red-throated Wryneck | Me | B | S | |||
African Broadbill | E | Me | S | |||
Rufous-naped Lark | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Sabota Lark | Me | B | S | |||
Eastern Long-billed Lark | Me | |||||
Dusky Lark | ||||||
Spike-heeled Lark | B | |||||
Red-capped Lark | E | S | ||||
Pink-billed Lark | B | |||||
Barn (European) Swallow | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
White-throated Swallow | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Wire-tailed Swallow | E | Me | Mt | R | S | |
Red-breasted Swallow | Me | B | R | S | ||
Greater Striped Swallow | E | Me | B | |||
Lesser Striped Swallow | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Rock Martin | E | Me | B | S | ||
Common House Martin | B | S | ||||
Grey-rumped Swallow | E | S | ||||
Sand Martin | S | |||||
Brown-throated (Plain) Martin | Me | B | Mt | R | S | |
Black Saw-wing | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Black Cuckoo-shrike | E | Me | B | S | ||
Grey Cuckoo-shrike | E | Me | S | |||
Fork-tailed Drongo | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Square-tailed Drongo | E | Me | Mt | R | S | |
Eurasian Golden Oriole | S | |||||
Eastern Black-headed Oriole | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Black (Cape) Crow | E | Me | B | |||
Pied Crow | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
House Crow | R | |||||
White-necked Raven | E | Me | B | |||
Southern Black Tit | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Grey Penduline Tit | Me | B | S | |||
Arrow-marked Babbler | Me | B | S | |||
Black-eyed (Common) Bulbul | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Terrestrial Brownbul | E | Me | S | |||
Yellow-streaked Greenbul | E | S | ||||
Sombre Greenbul | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Yellow-bellied Greenbul | E | Me | Mt | R | S | |
Eastern Nicator | S | |||||
Kurrichane Thrush | E | Me | B | Mt | S | |
Olive Thrush | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Spotted Ground Thrush | E | Mt | ||||
Orange Ground Thrush | Me | |||||
Groundscraper Thrush | E | Me | B | R | S | |
Cape Rock Thrush | E | Me | B | |||
Buff-streaked Chat | E | Me | B | |||
Familiar Chat | E | Me | B | S | ||
Mocking Chat | E | Me | B | |||
Southern Anteating Chat | B | |||||
Common Stonechat | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Chorister Robin-chat | E | Me | ||||
Heuglin's (White-browed) Robin-chat | Mt | S | ||||
Natal (Red-capped) Robin-chat | E | Me | Mt | R | S | |
Cape Robin-chat | E | Me | B | |||
White-throated Robin-chat | Me | B | S | |||
White-starred Robin | E | Me | S | |||
White-browed Scrub-robin | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Brown Scrub-robin | E | S | ||||
(Eastern) Bearded Scrub-robin | S | |||||
Garden Warbler | E | Mt | R | S | ||
Chestnut-vented Tit-babbler | Me | B | S | |||
Icterine Warbler | ||||||
Great Reed Warbler | R | S | ||||
African Marsh (Reed) Warbler | E | Mt | R | S | ||
European Marsh Warbler | R | S | ||||
European Sedge Warbler | R | S | ||||
Cape Reed (Lesser Swamp) Warbler | E | Me | Mt | R | S | |
African Yellow Warbler | Me | |||||
African Sedge (Little Rush) Warbler | E | Me | Mt | R | S | |
Barratt's Warbler | Me | |||||
Willow Warbler | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Yellow-throated Woodland Warbler | E | Me | ||||
Bar-throated Apalis | E | Me | B | |||
Yellow-breasted Apalis | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Rudd's Apalis | E | S | ||||
Long-billed Crombec | Me | B | S | |||
Green-backed Camaroptera | E | Me | Mt | R | S | |
Grassbird | E | Me | B | |||
Fan-tailed (Zitting) Cisticola | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Ayres' (Wing-snapping) Cisticola | E | Me | B | |||
Wailing Cisticola | Me | B | ||||
Rattling Cisticola | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Red-faced Cisticola | E | Me | Mt | R | S | |
Black-backed (Winding) Cisticola | E | Mt | R | S | ||
Levaillant's (Tinkling) Cisticola | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Croaking Cisticola | E | Me | B | S | ||
Lazy Cisticola | E | Me | B | |||
Neddicky (Piping Cisticola) | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Tawny-flanked Prinia | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Drakensberg Prinia | E | Me | B | |||
Spotted Flycatcher | Me | B | Mt | S | ||
African Dusky Flycatcher | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Blue-grey (Ashy) Flycatcher | E | Me | Mt | R | S | |
Southern Black Flycatcher | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Pallid (Pale) Flycatcher | Me | B | S | |||
Fiscal Flycatcher | Me | B | S | |||
Cape Batis | E | Me | ||||
Chinspot Batis | Me | B | S | |||
Woodwards' Batis | S | |||||
Black-throated Wattle-eye | Mt | R | S | |||
Blue-mantled (Crested) Flycatcher | E | Mt | R | S | ||
African Paradise Flycatcher | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
African Pied Wagtail | E | Me | Mt | R | S | |
Long-tailed (Mountain) Wagtail | E | Me | B | |||
Cape Wagtail | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Yellow Wagtail | R | S | ||||
African (Grassveld) Pipit | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Long-billed Pipit | E | Me | ||||
Plain-backed Pipit | E | Me | B | S | ||
Buffy Pipit | E | Me | B | |||
Striped Pipit | E | Me | B | |||
Bushveld Pipit | Me | B | S | |||
Short-tailed Pipit | Me | S | ||||
Orange-throated Longclaw | E | Me | B | S | ||
Yellow-throated Longclaw | E | Me | Mt | R | S | |
Pink-throated Longclaw | S | |||||
Common Fiscal | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Red-backed Shrike | Me | B | Mt | R | S | |
Southern Boubou | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Black-backed Puffback | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Brubru | Me | B | S | |||
Southern Tchagra | E | Me | S | |||
Brown-crowned (Three-streaked) Tchagra | E | Me | B | S | ||
Black-crowned Tchagra | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Bokmakierie | Me | B | ||||
Gorgeous Bush Shrike | E | Me | Mt | S | ||
Orange-breasted Bush Shrike | E | Me | B | R | S | |
Olive Bush Shrike | E | Me | Mt | S | ||
Grey-headed Bush Shrike | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
White Helmet-shrike | Me | B | S | |||
Indian (Common) Myna | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
African Pied Starling | B | |||||
Wattled Starling | Me | B | S | |||
Plum-coloured (Violet-backed) Starling | E | Me | B | S | ||
Cape (Red-shouldered) Starling | E | Me | B | S | ||
Black-bellied Starling | E | Me | Mt | R | S | |
Red-winged Starling | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Red-billed Oxpecker | E | |||||
Malachite Sunbird | Me | B | ||||
Marico Sunbird | S | |||||
Purple-banded Sunbird | R | S | ||||
Neergaard's Sunbird | S | |||||
Lesser Double-collared Sunbird | E | Me | ||||
Greater Double-collared Sunbird | E | Me | B | |||
White-bellied Sunbird | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Grey (Mouse-coloured) Sunbird | E | Mt | R | S | ||
Eastern Olive Sunbird | E | Me | Mt | R | S | |
Scarlet-chested Sunbird | Me | B | Mt | R | S | |
Amethyst (Black) Sunbird | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Collared Sunbird | E | Me | Mt | R | S | |
Cape White-eye | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Yellow White-eye | S | |||||
House Sparrow | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Southern Grey-headed Sparrow | E | Me | B | S | ||
Yellow-throated Petronia | E | Me | B | S | ||
Thick-billed Weaver | E | Me | Mt | R | S | |
Forest Weaver | E | Me | Mt | R | S | |
Spectacled Weaver | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Village (Spotted-backed) Weaver | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Cape Weaver | Me | B | ||||
Southern Masked Weaver | E | Me | B | S | ||
Lesser Masked Weaver | E | S | ||||
Golden Weaver | S | |||||
African Yellow Weaver | E | Mt | R | S | ||
Southern Brown-throated Weaver | R | S | ||||
Red-billed Quelea | E | Me | Mt | R | S | |
Red-headed Quelea | S | |||||
Red Bishop | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Yellow-rumped Widow (Yellow Bishop) | B | |||||
Red-shouldered Widow | E | Me | B | Mt | R | ? |
White-winged Widow | E | Me | B | S | ||
Red-collared Widow | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Long-tailed Widow | B | S | ||||
Melba Finch (Green-winged Pytilia) | Me | S | ||||
Green Twinspot | E | Mt | R | S | ||
Pink-throated Twinspot | S | |||||
Blue-billed (African) Firefinch | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Red-billed Firefinch | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Blue Waxbill (Blue-breasted Cordonbleu) | Me | B | S | |||
Common Waxbill | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Grey (Black-tailed) Waxbill | Mt | R | S | |||
Swee Waxbill | Me | B | S | |||
African Quailfinch | Me | B | S | |||
Orange-breasted (Zebra) Waxbill | E | Me | B | S | ||
Red-headed Finch | B | |||||
Bronze Mannikin | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Red-backed Mannikin | E | Mt | R | S | ||
Magpie (Pied) Mannikin | S | |||||
Pin-tailed Whydah | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Eastern Paradise Whydah | Me | B | S | |||
Black (Variable) Widow-finch | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Steel-blue (Village) Widow-finch | S | |||||
Yellow-eyed (Yellow-fronted) Canary | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Lemon-breasted Canary | S | |||||
Cape Canary | E | Me | B | R | ||
Forest Canary | Me | S | ||||
Bully (Brimstone) Canary | E | Me | B | Mt | R | S |
Streaky-headed Canary | Me | B | S | |||
Golden-breasted Bunting | Me | B | S | |||
Cape Bunting | Me | B | ||||
Cinnamon-breasted Bunting | B |