Pitta-like Ground-Roller

Common in varied wooded and forested habitats, parks, gardens, farmland with hedges and scattered trees. Forms flocks in winter; often visits garden feeders. Handsome, brightly colored male is distinctive, with bluish cowl, pink face and breast, black-and-white wing pattern (colors muted in winter). Female much drabber but shares male pattern; especially note the complex wing pattern. Both sexes have white outer tail feathers, often striking in flight such as when flushed.

A small, nondescript brown songbird. An abnormal white-eye, appearing more like a gerygone due to its brown upperparts, whitish underside, and complete absence of a white eye-ring. Occurs in the foothills within thickets, scrub, and forest edge. Gregarious, often mixing with other species, especially the very different Mountain and Seram White-eyes. Confined to Seram. Unmistakable within its limited range, where no gerygones occur. High-pitched twittering call reported.

A tiny and very little-known bird of foothill forest on Samar and Leyte islands. Yellow below, with a broad yellow eyebrow and olive upperparts. Note the reddish eye and the long white plumes sprouting from the sides, lower back, and rump. Somewhat similar to the female Olive-backed Sunbird, but lacks the long bill and has white plumes. Voice thought to be similar to that of Mindanao Plumed-Warbler, which gives a sibilant chatter.