Teardrop White-eye

Heavily patterned terrestrial bird of Western Australia and western South Australia. White eyebrow and moustache, with deep chestnut brown back and intricately patterned wing. Female has white belly and gray chest, male white belly, gray flanks, and black chest and throat. Note gray sides rather than warm brown sides of Cinnamon and Nullarbor quail-thrushes. Usually seen walking around in areas of open woodland and shrubland. Call is a long, high-pitched whistled "seeeep."

A small songbird with a modestly long tail and pale bill. Slate-gray above, pale below, with black mask and throat, rich rufous-orange throat and upper breast, and white tail corners. Endemic to the Louisiade Archipelago, southeast of New Guinea. Inhabits and forest edge, where itorages actively, sometimes hovering. Vocalizations are poorly known, but presumably similar to closely-related species, including whistles as well as harsh and unpleasant-sounding calls. Formerly treated as a subspecies of Spectacled Monarch.

Brightly-colored swallow with a deeply forked tail, pale orangish rump, black squared-off undertail coverts, an incomplete orange collar, and faint streaking below. Juveniles average paler and lack extensive orangish tones; may resemble house-martins but note deeply forked tail. Typically glides on stiff, flat wings, flying quite languidly with shallow wingbeats. Builds mud nests in mountains, on sea cliffs, and on buildings and other structures. Forages over open areas. Frequently gives a short, sparrow-like “twi’wit.” Very similar to African Red-rumped Swallow, but shows much heavier streaking below.