It’s always fun when a new face shows up at Mt. Hoo. Sometimes it’s just the return of a seasonal visitor, like the arrival last week of the first white-crowned sparrow for the winter. Or it might be ...

Per Cornell Lab's Birds of the World website, the species is also sometimes referred to as a chestnut mannikin or black-headed munia. The small, finch-like bird has chestnut-brown plumage with a black ...