Band-tailed Nighthawk

A fairly small bird of grasslands and swamps from the lowlands to mid-mountains. Large for a munia. Black head and underparts, rufous back and sides blending to yellow tail. Note the large silver-blue bill. Juvenile all brown but still with a large bill. Distinguished from other co-occuring munia species by its larger size and much thicker bill. Call, sharp, metallic “tink” notes.

Large and unusually colored barbet, with a mostly red head, a broad brown band across the underparts, a black back, and a white belly and rump patch. Also note the chunky pale bill. Found locally in moist woodland, gardens, and along forest edge. Often in pairs. The easily ignored call is a rough, repeated “kyea”. Somewhat similar to Black-billed Barbet, but easily separated by the brown rather than black breast band, and the pale rather than dark bill.

Rather large, dark gray-brown goose with typically small orange patch on bill, and orange legs. In flight lacks contrasting pale forewing areas of Pink-footed Goose and Graylag Goose. Not always safely told in the field from Taiga Bean Goose, but Tundra averages a shorter and thicker bill, vs. the longer, more sloping bill of Taiga. Breeds on tundra and winters in farmland and wetlands, where it associates readily with other geese.