Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush

Medium-sized spiderhunter with an olive back and streaked gray underparts. Inhabits lowland and submontane forests and forest edges, where it feeds primarily on nectar in the understory; favors blossoms of banana and ginger. Very similar in appearance to Gray-breasted Spiderhunter; range overlap is poorly understood but appears to be minimal. Look for Bornean’s more intensely streaked underparts and slightly larger size. Long-billed Spiderhunter can show some streaking on the breast but is much larger and longer-billed, with yellowish underparts. Sometimes noisy, giving loud raspy nasal calls.

A rather large, secretive, variable ground-thrush with mostly orange-rufous underparts and olive-brown upperparts, double white wingbars, and a distinctive smudged blackish mask spreading from the base of the bill to the ears, broken by a partial white eye-ring behind the eye. Rare, found in pairs in montane forest between 800 and 2300 meters of elevation in two discrete populations in the Cameroon Mountains and the Itombwe Highlands. Prefers wetter forest, including gullies and ravines where it forages on the ground, but sings from the forest canopy. Song is a rich mellow series of whistles, “chroo-woo-doo-too-loo-do-chu”; alarm call is a typical high-pitched thrush “ssreee.” No other ground-thrushes have a black face mask. 

Small dark crake with red eye and red orbital ring. Upperparts dark brown, underparts blue-gray, with red legs and short black bill. Inhabits wetlands where there is dense vegetation surrounding the water. Quite skittish and often difficult to observe. A wide variety of calls include a slow, repeated "kek" and a bubbling, accelerating "motorboat" call.