Size: small. Plumage: blue upper and rufous under parts; tail short. Other characters: bill laterally flattened, ... [details]

Length: 180-200 mm. Colour: Adult: Bright blue and turquoise upperparts; white nape patches, chin and throat; white ... [details]

Size: medium. Plumage: black or brown with whitish throats. Other characters: feet heterodactyl, but appear ... [details]

Length: 16-18 cm. Plumage: uniform dark brown with whitish throat; forked tail. Immature below, white edges to ... [details]

Length: 16-17 cm. Plumage: sooty-brown with large white throat patch; sometimes with forehead whitish; some with ... [details]

Size: medium. Plumage: ear tufts placed close together above eyes, either short or long; wings long, narrow; tail ... [details]

Length: 32-38 cm. Plumage: brown above and below, vermiculated and barred with buff below; round face pale brown ... [details]

Length: 38 cm. Plumage: pale tawny buff with darker streaks; facial disc pale buff with darker border; dusky around ... [details]

Generally does not possess any of the elaborate feather modifications of other genera; e.g. elongate wing feathers, ... [details]

Length: 23-24 cm. Plumage: back and wing coverts dark brown with pale edges; mantle buff crown dark brown bordered ... [details]

Length: 21-23 cm. Plumage: head and back silvery-grey with rufous collar on hindneck and white line from bill to ... [details]

Size: medium. Plumage: black and white; feathers of crown large, broad. Other characters: male with large well ... [details]

Length: 58-65 cm. Plumage: black above with rump and ends of outer rectrices white; tips of secondaries and inner ... [details]

Size: medium. Plumage: soft, black and white. Tail long. Slightly sexually dimorphic. Other characters: bill ... [details]

Length: 230-250 mm. Crest flat. Colour: Adult: Crest black, superciliary stripe white; ear coverts black; cheeks, ... [details]

Size: medium. Plumage: no distinct pattern, soft, diffuse, glossed blue or green above; tail long and graduated; wings ... [details]

Length: 30-35 cm. Plumage: above soft greenish grey with diffuse blue or green iridescence on back and long tail; ... [details]

Size: medium. Plumage: blue and pink. Other characters: black bill. Display flight fast and tumbling. [details]

Length: 32-36 cm. Plumage: above, back light brown, rump purplish blue; deeply forked tail greenish cobalt blue; wing ... [details]

Size: very small. Bill somewhat fattened laterally; red or black. Plumage: blue and chestnut above, chestnut below; ... [details]

Length: 115-120 mm. Shaggy crest. Colour: Adult: upperparts deep blue; top of head turquoise with black bars; ... [details]

Size: small to medium. Plumage: most grey above, barred below; rump feathers thick, long and stiff forming a pad; ... [details]

Length: 31-38 cm. Plumage: above grey; below throat and chest pale grey, belly barred black and white; long heavy ... [details]

Length: 26-28 cm. Plumage: dark grey above; throat grey; breast to crissum barred black and white; crissum cream; ... [details]

Size: small. Plumage: plain brown; long forked tail. Other characters: feet modified pamprodactyl, deeply divided ... [details]

Length: 14-17 cm. Plumage: uniform brownish-grey; tail long and deeply forked and pointed. Immature edges to ... [details]

Size: medium. Plumage: always some blue in the plumage; tail relatively long; outer primary shorter than 5th; tibia ... [details]

Length: 17-20 cm. Plumage: blue green above; white collar continuous with all-white underparts; narrow white ... [details]

Length: 215-230 mm. Colour: Adult: head, breast, flanks and belly grey, blue grey on back, rump azure blue; wings ... [details]

Size: medium to large. Plumage: lacks bold facial stripes; tail short to moderate. Other characters: large deep ... [details]

Length: 18-19 cm. Plumage: crown to back black with red tips to feathers; wing coverts brown with white shafts; ... [details]

Size: medium to giant size. Plumage: hard in texture; markedly sexually dimorphic; tail long; inter-ramal feathers ... [details]

Length: 380-430 mm. Colour: Adult male: Crest dark slate with white speckles; back and wings slatey-black with ... [details]

Size: small, slender. Plumage: colourful; feathers of throat contrasting with breast, but not long or dependent. ... [details]

Length: 19-20 cm not including median rectrix extension which is over 12.5 cm. Plumage: above, olive green on back, ... [details]

Length: 24-26 cm not including elongate central rectrices which can add 10 cm. Plumage: almost entirely various ... [details]

Length: 23-24.5 cm exclusive of elongate central rectrices which may be 7 cm. Plumage: above and below bright ... [details]

Length: 14-18 cm. Plumage: above green; below ochre-yellow belly, chestnut to cinnamon breast, black breast-band ... [details]

Length: 23-24 cm not including elongate central rectrices which can be 7 cm. Plumage: above dull olive green, paler ... [details]

Size: small to medium. Plumage: rump and belly white: uppertail-coverts dark; tail very short with spines. Other ... [details]

Length: 7.8-10 cm. Plumage: above black; rump white; belly white, throat, breast and sides brownish-grey. Wings ... [details]

Size; medium to large. Plumage: poorly developed facial disc, no eartufts; head, nape and flank feathers long and ... [details]

Length: 61-63 cm. Plumage: above tawny rufous barred brownish black; below tawny buff streaked and spotted blackish ... [details]

Forms a superspecies with A. unicolor & A. niansae [details]

Forms a superspecies with A. pallidus, A. barabtus & A. bradfieldi [details]

Taxonomically difficult genus, several controversies exist as to placement of certain species within other genera. [details]

Forms a superspecies with C. abyssinica and C. garrulus [details]

Forms a superspecies with C. abyssinica and C. caudata. Please remove. [details]

Forms a superspecies with C. poliocephalus [details]

Forms superspecies with M. superciliosus [details]

Forms a superspecies with M. persicus [details]