Little Bronze-Cuckoo

Medium-sized tan bird with reddish wings and tail. Forages in the understory and midstory of seasonally flooded rainforest, especially near water. Usually uncommon. Resembles a spinetail or foliage-gleaner. Compared to similar spinetails, the softtail is plainer brown with a thicker gray bill, and is a more acrobatic forager, creeping along tree branches and gleaning prey like a foliage-gleaner. Compared to similar foliage-gleaners (like Chestnut-crowned and Buff-fronted), it is smaller and skinnier, with no noticeable patterning. Listen for a low, prolonged, messy chatter.

Active and noisy inhabitant of foothill and highland forest. Brown with a gray head, white eyering, and a long black arc that extends from just above the bill to the back of the crown. Frequently joins mixed flocks, of which it is often a dominant member. Extremely similar in appearance to the closely related Huet’s and David’s Fulvettas; watch for a grayer throat and paler underparts in the former and an absent or near-invisible brow line in the latter. Song is a quick, sputtering burst of high notes that ends with a brief whistle. Calls are chattering rattles.

Spectacular ground-dwelling pigeon with long, extravagant plumes trailing down from the neck. Dark green intermixed with gray, blue, and bronzy orange, depending on the light. Tail is snow-white, but only readily visible when the bird is flushed. Generally shy, quiet, and difficult to see. Inhabits small, densely forested offshore islands from the Indian Andamans to the Solomons and New Guinea.