Brown-crowned Tchagra Camillion Bush Lodge South Africa Oct 10 (1 Viewer)

[49bentley]

Can someone please confirm this to be a Brown-crowned Tchagra? Taken at Camillion Bush Lodge South Africa Oct. Sorry about pic quality. Only shot.
Thanks
Chris

 

[Butty]

I guess you mean Chameleon Bush Lodge, just N of Pretoria?
If so, it's either black-crowned tchagra or brown-crowned tchagra - I'm not sure they're separable in this view.

 

[THE_FERN]

I see a brown crown bordered by black. So brown-crowned.

 

[Bewick]

I guess you mean Chameleon Bush Lodge, just N of Pretoria?
If so, it's either black-crowned tchagra or brown-crowned tchagra - I'm not sure they're separable in this view.

Agreed, cannot make out enough of the crown to separate them.

 

[Butty]

I see a brown crown bordered by black

I don't see either a brown crown or a black border because there seems to be a thin wrinkly leaf/twig/something obscuring everything above the supercilium.

 

[49bentley]

Thanks Butty, The Fern and Bewick.

 

[THE_FERN]

I don't see either a brown crown or a black border because there seems to be a thin wrinkly leaf/twig/something obscuring everything above the supercilium.

Not in my interpretation. That leaf is the crown. You have a small green twiglet going from top right to bottom left and it springs from a larger darker twig which runs top left to bottom right. The flat part in the middle is the crown

Edit: the part above the obvious beak on the right is a highlight which makes it seem as if there's (another?) leaf there. But there isn't: it's the crown and the beak of the bird

 

[Butty]

Yes, agreed that the top (dark) edge of the crown is visible - but it's so narrow that any colour in it is unreliable (certainly the difference between black and brown) and there's no room at all to differentiate a black border (indeed, so narrow that if there was a black border then the border is all that could be visible).
If the OP has any other photos, even of poor quality, it might help.