Silver-rumped Spinetail

Unique-looking flycatcher with a gleamingly clean white throat and a strong rusty orange tinge to the brow and forehead. Overlaps with closely related White-gorgeted Flycatcher but lacks that species’s gray face and black border to the white throat patch. Inhabits foothill and montane forests, where it forages close to the ground in lower vegetation. Both flycatches and gleans for prey more actively. Song is a high, thin series of whistles; a simple version is “tee-tee-tew’, to which additional phrases may be added. Vocal for a flycatcher, and calls often, giving harsh rattles, chips and chiks, and high thin notes.

A small, plump terrestrial bird, roughly spherical in shape. Identified by its rusty throat and rusty-and-white eyebrow. Males have barred underparts while females have uniform pinkish cinnamon underparts. Found in dry stony scrub jungles and dry grasslands. Often seen in groups of 2–7 (but can occur in groups up to 20). Generally secretive until flushed when it suddenly bursts into flight, flying with weak whirring wingbeats low over the ground before quickly dropping into cover. Feeds on grass,seeds, and small insects.

A widespread nightjar of lowland forest and edge. Distinctive white chevron in the throat. Forages on the wing for insects over forest, in gaps and along rivers. Unlike Large-tailed Nightjar, Papuan Nightjar has no white marks in the wing or the tail. Similar to the migrant White-throated Nightjar but Papuan Nightjar is smaller in size. Call, a series of ascending, accelerating “whip” notes ending in a rather frantic “whipit-wipit-wipit!