Rosy Pipit

A medium-sized bird of mid-montane forest understory. Sooty gray color, paler on the belly, darker on the face and wing. Note the pale eye and white throat contrasting with the dark face. Birds on the Huon Peninsular have a gray throat. Perches on low branches, flicking tail and scanning the ground for insect prey. Smoky and Blue-gray Robins have limited altitudinal overlap, but White-eyed is usually found at lower elevations, has a white eye and usually a white throat. Voice, a loud, upslurred whistle “wit!”. Also, a rising series of notes, first whistled then becoming raspier and accelerating.

Large, conspicuous songbird with long decurved bill, dark gray mask, pale gray crown, and whitish eye. Underparts variably reddish brown, with white throat and upper breast. Juvenile similar but eye dark. Forages in small groups actively, almost comically, through open woodlands, including agricultural areas with some remaining native vegetation.

An unusual and colorful rainforest bulbul. The upperparts are dark olive-green and the underparts yellow. There are yellow spots at the corners of the tail and blue bare skin above the eye. Found in the understory of rainforest and lush secondary habitat. Sometimes joins mixed flocks and follows ant swarms. The calls are chirpy notes typical of bulbuls. Similar to Gray-headed Bristlebill, but separated by the olive-green rather than gray head, as well as the blue bare skin above the eye. Also similar to Red-tailed Bristlebill, but easily separated by the green tail. The song is a series of melancholy whistles which usually descend, and which are very similar to some vocalizations of Red-tailed Bristlebill.