Spectacled Bristle-Tyrant

A large and long-billed woodpecker with a pale-barred gray-olive belly and a bold facial pattern: the crown is black in the female and black (forecrown) and red (hindcrown) in the male. It forages solitarily or in pairs, preferring dead and decaying trunks where it can excavate for beetle larvae and other insects within savanna and riverine forest. It calls a sharp “kwip-kwip-kwip” and gives a characteristic drum that lasts about 5 seconds, beginning fast and then slowing. The similar Golden-crowned Woodpecker differs by occupying rainforest, having spotted (not barred) underparts, and having a yellow hindcrown patch in the male.

A small, sharp-billed warbler-like bird with bright yellow underparts, an olive-yellow back, black lores, and very narrow white spectacles around the eyes. Common in nearly all habitats on the island of Pemba, including gardens, scrub, plantations, woodland, and forest edge. Usually in hyperactive flocks. Most common call is a high-pitched, rising rattle. Song is a long, cheerful series of whistled notes. The only white-eye on Pemba. 

A distinctive, rather large flycatcher of tropical and subtropical forest and woodland, heard far more often than seen. Feeds from the forest floor to the canopy; has a habit of strongly flicking its tail up and down while perched. Readily identified by its staring face with orange eyes; stout, slightly hooked pinkish bill; and streaked breast. The bright tawny rump can be hard to see. Loud, strident, whistled song given at any time of day, but especially around dawn.