Catch the movement of a bird in a woodland canopy, a fallow field or at the summer feeder and chances are good that its identity can be told by the presence of yellow in its dress — either ov… ...

Yellow on a small bird usually gets me thinking warbler, but this bird was working the ... I could see brown and reddish brown on its back with a yellow breast but that wasn’t enough for an ID.

The yellow-crested helmetshrike (Prionops alberti), also known as King Albert’s helmetshrike, is a small bird that lives in the humid forests of the Albertine Rift mountains in central Africa.