Kadavu Honeyeater

A large, long-tailed bird of mid-montane forest canopy on the Huon Peninsular where the only parotia. Male is mainly black with an orange patch on the forehead, bronzy-scaled chest and 6 antennalike feathers projecting from the back of the head. Note the blue eye. The female is rufous-brown above with strongly barred underparts, black head and white bands through and below the eye. The male has an elaborate dance at a terrestrial display court. Female is somewhat similar to Greater Lophorina female but Wahnes’s is larger and longer-tailed. Voice, various rasps and parrotlike squawks.

Distinctive and very noisy parakeet of open woodlands, savannas, and agricultural areas, often venturing into urban areas. Usually forages in pairs or small groups. Mostly green with a yellow belly, a conspicuous orange forehead, pale orange eyerings, a bluish crown, and a gray throat.

The smallest of the crested penguins. Note the thin yellow eyebrows that, once past the eyes, flare out toward the rear of the head. The species consists of two subspecies, the Eastern and Western Rockhopper Penguins. The Western Rockhopper Penguin breeds on offshore islands off southern Chile and Argentina and on the Falkland Islands, while the Eastern Rockhopper Penguin breeds on various subantarctic islands around New Zealand and the southern Indian Ocean. The Eastern has even eyebrows with pink skin at the base of the bill; the Western has black skin at the base of the bill, with an uneven eyebrow shape. Vagrants occasionally reach the Snares Islands. Distinguished from Snares Penguin by thinner eyebrow and smaller bill, and from Moseley’s Rockhopper Penguin by shorter, less flowing crest.