Streaked Laughingthrush

Shining and distinctively yellow robin of the montane forest understory. Male sports a blazing golden brow, yellow underparts, and a black face. Female is less contrastingly patterned, but still noticeably yellow, with browner underparts and a white eyering. Both sexes have a yellow panel on either side of the tail. Song is composed of rolling, buzzing notes; it is not as melodic as those of some other bush-robins.

Brightly colored, terrestrial songbird of arid inland Australia. Breeding male has crimson crown and belly, gray back, black mask, white throat, pale eye, and blackish wings with narrow pale wingbars. Nonbreeding male more muted, with only hints of crimson. Female similar to nonbreeding male but paler around the face. Usually seen in small groups hopping along the ground in open areas.

An exceedingly rare Javan endemic starling now probably extinct in the wild. Brownish mantle, black chest and upperparts, with white belly, rump, cheek and shoulder stripe. Note the entirely ivory bill, pink legs and bare, red skin around and behind the eye. Unmistakeable, but be careful with escapee Asian Pied Starling that have black mantle, white forecrown and/or red on part of the bill. Previously seen in loose flocks, feeding on the ground of open areas, but now likely wiped out by capture for the cage bird trade. Song, a long, varied series of croaking, buzzing and shrill notes including mimicked sounds of other birds.