Golden-winged Warbler

Medium-sized antbird. Males are black with a large white patch on the back and females are brown overall, paler below, with grayish sides of the head. Inhabits the understory of humid forest, including the forest edge and light gaps, and also tall adjacent second growth. Regularly attends army-ant swarms. The song is a loud descending series of “peek” notes, and the call is a rattle.

A cute and dumpy black and white flycatcher-like bird with striking red eye-wattles. The sexes differ: male has a broad black chest band and white throat; female has black chest and throat with only a small white chin patch. Juvenile browner, with indistinct eye-wattles. Pairs are resident, flitting around the middle canopy of primary and secondary montane evergreen forest. Restricted to the highlands of western Cameroon, where it is an endangered species. Calls include a repeated grating “chhrrt-er-cheert-cheert” interspersed with clicks, buzzing notes, and wing-flitting noises, similar to other wattle-eyes. Black-throated Wattle-eye is similar to Banded, but prefers woodland and has a white wingbar. 

An overall sooty-colored cuckooshrike with broad white tips to the tail feathers. Male is dark sooty-gray with a slaty sheen, slightly paler on rump. Underparts paler toward tail; wings black. Female is very similar to male, but paler in general, often weakly barred with dark and pale gray on underparts. Male has a black mask, while female has dark lores and a faint eyering. Juvenile is blackish-brown above and brownish-gray below, heavily scaled whitish all over, with broad white tips on wing feathers. Immature like female, but more strongly and extensively barred below. Song is a loud series of whistles “pe-pe-pe-peew-peew-pew”; sometimes the starting notes are skipped. Found in all types of woodlands, including broad-leaved forests, sometimes even near cultivation during non-breeding season.