Auckland Islands Teal

A fairly small bird of lowland and foothill forest and edge. Blue feet and yellow bill. Male has white belly, bright red upperparts down to the upper chest, metallic green breast band with thin yellow line above and 2 tail wires ending in a metallic green, snail-shaped disk. Female is brown with barred underparts. Male unmistakable. Female similar to female Magnificent Bird-of-Paradise, but female King has yellow rather than blue bill. Voice, a descending series of nasal whines.

A medium to small blue-gray tern endemic to New Zealand. Breeding birds have a black cap extending down to the bill and bright orange bill and legs. Non-breeding plumage dulls to a mottled gray cap and black patch around the eye, also seen in juveniles. Breeds only along the braided rivers of the eastern South Island. Will defend nest from intruders by diving, calling harshly, and hitting intruders on the head. After breeding, populations disperse to coastal areas, foraging offshore and near coastal farmland. A small number will visit the North Island. Call is a repetitive “kit.”

Rare and declining endemic of Sumatra’s northwestern mountains. Large grayish-brown bulbul with a bright orange forehead patch, dark olive wings, and a weak crest that gives it a pointy-headed profile. Once regarded as a subspecies of the very similar Orange-spotted Bulbul, but note present species’ distribution and dark (not white) belly. Inhabits foothill and lower montane forests, where localized and largely restricted to clearings with a substantial understory. Calls are generally similar to those of Orange-spotted Bulbul, and include a bubbly chatter.