New Caledonian Myzomela

A fairly large honeyeater of mid-montane forest canopy. Mainly dusky gray plumage with a white scaled back, olive wing feathers, pale green eye wattle with short cinnamon stripes above and behind, and an additional red mark below the cheek. Similar to Belford’s and Huon Melidectes, but Cinnamon-browed lacks the facial stripe down from the bill. Call, a loud shriek or cackling phrase “keeet! kwit-kwit-kwit-kwit-kwit-kwit-kwit!”

A small, compact woodpecker with heavily streaked underparts and a solid black moustachial streak. In the female the top of the head is completely dark, while in the male the forecrown is brown and hindcrown and nape are red. Pairs inhabit a wide range of savanna, woodland, forest-edge, and riverine forest, where they feed in dead branches and smaller twigs ignored by larger woodpeckers. An angry-sounding, dry, trilled rattle call often gives it away.

Like many other babblers, this is a handsome bird but difficult to see well, as it forages in dense vegetation. Bright rufous above and gray below, with a black throat and bright white brow and circular spot at the base of the bill. Inhabits primary and secondary growth, including wet, swampy areas and weedy plantations from lowlands up into the foothills. Song is a series of rapidfire, resonant-sounding hoots. Calls include an array of loud, insistent chattering and rattling notes.