Red-necked Tanager

Medium-sized brownish bird of Andean subtropical zone from Venezuela to Ecuador. Overall warm brown, more rufous on wings and tail. Faint buffy streaking mostly restricted to head, barely extending onto upper breast. Less streaking than Striped and Black-billed Treehunters; especially note unstreaked back. Larger and heavier-billed than foliage-gleaners. Found from 1,300–2,100 m, usually in understory of cloud forest and edges. Usually skulky and difficult to see; only occasionally joins mixed-species flocks.

A classic long-billed brown marsh rail. Found in grass and sedge wetlands in eastern Madagascar. Shy and skulking, as is typical for a rail; usually detected by voice. Highly vocal, with a variety of calls, including an explosive, whinnying series and deep grunts. Larger than flufftails and Baillon’s Crake, with a longer bill. Smaller than White-throated Rail, with browner coloration and a dark throat. 

A medium-sized typical ‘double-collared’ sunbird with a long bill. Male has a very broad red breast band, bluish-violet rump patch, and a dusky belly. Female is dull gray-brown. Pairs and singles are common but extremely local in highland forests and thicket edges, restricted to distinct regions that perhaps represent three separate species: the Angolan scarp; Nyika Plateau of Malawi; and the Eastern Arc, Tanzania. Larger, with a broader red breast band on the male, than either Eastern Miombo or Forest Double-collared sunbirds; the latter also has an olive (not dusky) belly. Has a typical jumbled sunbird song.