Yellow-billed Cardinal

An atypical-looking and distinctive smallish boobook, with its fairly unmarked bright cinnamon-brown plumage. Endemic to Buru, where it inhabits lowland and foothill forests. Song is a rather strange, frog- or insect-like series of hoarse, insistent-sounding croaking notes, often given in medium-length series. Formerly lumped with Seram Boobook under the name “Hantu Boobook.

A fairly large antshrike of riparian zones with lots of regional variation in plumage. Males are dark gray above, paler below, with white wing bars (not spots); the northwest subspecies is gray with a black cap. Females are rusty with a dark-gray hood. Found in seasonally flooded forests, river island forests, and mangroves. Forages close to the ground and sometimes accompanies mixed-species flocks. The song is an accelerating series of whistled descending notes.

A medium-sized bird of forest interior, from the foothill to the mid-mountains. An all-black bird with bluish gloss, long tail, flattened crown and hooked bill. Sits very upright in the midstory where it sallies to catch insects often disturbed by other species in mixed flocks. Very similar to a Spangled Drongo which it mimics the plumage of, but smaller and lacks a forked tail. Voice, a scratchy, drongolike song and a piercing, nasal “geh-geh-geh!” call.