Gilden Barbet - Capito auratus

Size: 6.75-7 inches
A large barbet, bright yellow below with orange or scarlet throat. Females are more heavily streaked on back, auricular, and underparts. Throat of female spotted or streaked, but some of the regions are unmarked or scarlet.
Song is a series of coupled hoots, accelerating in pace and descending in pitch: 'boop-boop, boop-boop-boopboop-booboop-bubup'.
Calls include various grunts and snarls.

Desert Finch - Rhodopechys obsoleta

Identification: 14.5-15cm (6 in)
Adult male breeding: pale sandy-brown, black lores, pink coverts and base of flight feathers, white edges to primaries and outer tail feathers.
Adult female breeding: as male, but lacks black lores, slightly less pink in wing and flight feathers brownish-black.
Call is a rather soft rippling or purring, almost Bee-eater-like "rrrree", "prruii-prruii", "Prrryv, prrryv" or "prrrt-prrrt", also a fairly harsh "turr" and a sharp "shreep" given in flight.
The song is a pleasant rambling or chattering jumble of disconnected notes incorporating many of the call notes with some harsher trills and rolls, reminiscent of both Linnet and Greenfinch, but usually harsher, or more nasal.

Trumpeter Finch - Rhodopechys githaginea

Identification: 14-15cm (5.5-6 in)
Adult male breeding: greyish head, bright pink tinge to body and wings, waxy orange-red bill.
Adult female breeding: pale grey or sandy-grey, with pale (or faint) pink tips to wing-coverts, sides of base of tail, chin and throat; bill pale yellow.
Call is a short or abrupt "chee" or "chit" often used as a contact note. The flight call is a soft "weechp".
Song is a very distinctive and characteristics drawn out nasal wheeze or monotone buzz "cheeee" or just "eeeeeee", rising slightly in scale and often followed by short tin-trumpet-like phrases, or interspersed with short high-pitched metallic clicks and whistles.
Distribution: Southeast Spain, north Africa (from Morocco, Algeria and central and southern Tunisia discontinuously eastward through libya possibly to northwest Egypt, south to Mauritania and east through northern Mali to Niger and Chad.

Crimson Winged Finch - Rhodopechys sanguinea

Identification: 15-18cm (6-7 in)

Adult male: blackish cap, extensive pink in wings, rump and face, black centers to breast feathers. Large pale yellow bill.

Adult female breeding: suller than male; lacks pink (or pink obscured) on face and rump, less pink in wing.

Call: the contact note is a fairly soft but musical, almost chat-like "wee-tll-ee" or "wee-tell-er" and the flight call a soft "chee-rup", "chilip", "tlweep" or "toik" and a Woodlark-like "dy-lit-dy-lit".

Song: is a repeated, clear and melodious, quiet, grating and sparrow-like "tchili-tchwilichip" delivered from tops of bushes or grass tussocks and a rippling "turdel-edel-weep-ou" in circling and undulating songflight, often high in the sky.

Distribution: discontinuously from central, southern and eastern Turkey through the southern Caucasus to Irang and Afghanistan and Central Asia to Tadzhikstan, the Russian parts of the Tien Shan range and the Tarbagatai range in northwest Sinkiang, Chine, also southern Lebanon to mount Hermon, Israel

Common Waxbill - Estrilda Astrild

Description
Size: 4.25-5 inches.
Adult: finely barred, except for pale face, brigh red eye-stripe, wax-red bill and small pinkish patch on lower breast and belly.
Juvenille: very faintly barred (looks, plain), pale red through eye; black bill, pale buff-brown underparts.
Call: commonest call is a sharp, abrupt 'pit' or 'tchick', often repeated when alarmed or excited, also a soft 'chip' and a nasal 'cher-cher-cher'.
Song: is a low, harsh rising 'tcher-tcher-preeee', 'cher-cher-cher', occasionally followed by a 'dit' note or a descending 'chewi-chee'

Black Bellied Firefinch - Lagonosticta rara

Description
Size: 4 inches
Male: dull crimson except for brighter rump and uppertail-coverts; centre of lower breast to lower flanks and undertail-coverts black.
Female: gray head and face; bright red spot on lores, pale buff throat, pinkish underparts, blackish from lower belly to undertail.
Call: a repeated sharp 'chek' or 'tseeay', also a soft nasal 'keeyh' or 'squeer'.
Song: a variable jumble of low-pitched phrases and a Greenfinch like trilling ending with a whistling 'tyee tyee tyee' or 'tew tew tew'.

Black Faced Firefinch - Lagonosticta larvarta

Description
Size: 4.5 inches
Male nigricollis: Dark grey upperparts, except bright crimson rump and uppertail-coverts; pale lavender underparts, small white spots on sides of lower breast.
Female nigricollis: similar to nominate female, but slightly paler brown or gray-brown upperparts with pale or buff-brown underparts.
Call: a weak lipsing note.
Song: is very similar to that of African Firefinch.