Mimic Honeyeater

A small songbird with a bold white eye-ring, dark eyes, a green back and forehead, a yellow throat and base to undertail, and a white belly. Groups and pairs roam woods, forest edges and patches, gardens, cultivated spaces, and scrub. Confined to lowlands of southeast Sulawesi. Occurs at lower elevations than Warbling White-eye, and differs from it in the dark eye and green forehead. Separated from Lemon-bellied White-eye by the white belly. Gives a slow-paced, high-pitched descending tinkling song, “chi-chiwit-chit-cher-cher.” Also high “zit” notes.

Massive pale brown owl with plump, rounded ear tufts. An endangered species, found in mature boreal forests near streams where there are tree cavities suitable for nesting. Preys mostly on fish. Distinguished from Eurasian Eagle-Owl by absence of broad black streaks on breast and rounder, thicker ear tufts that are not held erect. Deep, resonant song, given in duet by pair. Duet consists of three notes, with the first two notes from a male and a third from a female. The lower-pitched female note partially overlaps with the second male note.

A small, dark scrubfowl of forest and disturbed habitats on the Bay Islands where the only member of its family. Sooty gray plumage, bare red to gray face, slight crest at the back of the head, reddish legs, and yellowish bill. It scrapes the forest floor with its large feet to uncover invertebrates. More often heard than seen. Vocal, giving varied parrotlike squeals. A common call is 2 tuneless yelps similar to New Guinea Scrubfowl, the first note higher than the second.