Crested francolin
The crested francolin (Ortygornis sephaena) is a bird species in the family Phasianidae. It is well known as the Bospatrys in Afrikaans. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. One of its subspecies, Ortygornis sephaena rovuma, is sometimes considered a separate species, Kirk's francolin.
It was formerly classified in its own genus Dendroperdix, but phylogenetic analyses indicates that it groups with the grey francolin (O. pondicerianus) and swamp francolin (O. gularis). All three species were reclassified in the genus Ortygornis.[2][3]
