Bare-Faced Go-Away-Bird

The Bare-Faced Go-Away-Bird, or Corythaixoides personatus, is apparently widespread in humid lowland forests of Africa, although I certainly haven't seen it much, having spent a lot of my birding time either in the Savute or in the Timbavati of Eastern Kruger. The male boasts a dramatic black hood punctuated by white lores and sharp yellow irises. Until a recent morning spent in a city park in Pretoria, I had only seen a few Bare-Faced Go-Away-Birds at a distance, so it was a delight to come across this male at eye level in considerably degraded habitat.