The Southern African Birdfinder lists the top ten special species for the Ruacana and Kunene River area as cinderella waxbill, rufous-tailed palm-thrush, Hartlaub's spurfowl, Monteiro's hornbill, Madagascar bee-eater, Rüppell's parrot, grey kestrel, white-tailed shrike, bare-cheeked babbler and chestnut weaver. For those of us resident in central Namibia some of these species are quite common but this area is also host to a number of other species such as swamp boubou and yellow-bellied greenbul which are also to be found further to the east in the Kavango and Caprivi Regions.