The scarlet-chested sunbird (Chalcomitra senegalensis) has a radiantly red breast against a dark, iridescent bronze body with a green head cap. It is fairly common and wide-ranging, found from Senegal eastwards to Eritrea and southwards to Namibia, northern Botswana and Zimbabwe,the eastern half of the Transvaal, Swaziland and KwaZulu-Natal. It occurs in a variety of open savanna woodlands, though, as a nomadic wanderer, it rarely returns to the same site in subsequent seasons.
