Red-vented Barbet

A slender ash-gray apalis with a diagnostic striking white panel on the folded wing and two pairs of white outer tail feathers which are usually obvious on the dark tail. Upperparts are darker than underparts. Presumably resident in areas of semi-arid shrubland, particularly those with scattered thorn trees along dry watercourses. Pairs sing a long duet of chipped and warbled notes. The white wing panel easily separates this species from other long-tailed warbler-like birds in its range.

A medium-sized honeyeater of mid-mountain oak forest and adjacent secondary areas. Upperparts olive, underparts gray with mottling and some streaking on the crown. Note distinctive white crescents beneath the eye and on the cheek. Solitary and inconspicuous in the upper levels of forest. No other honeyeaters have these white cresents on the face. Voice, an often repeated, whistled “chirrup!” or more musical, wrenlike “chii-pi-dup!”.

Chunky finch with a huge pale bill. Male’s vivid black-and-yellow coloration is distinctive, but note the dark rump (yellow in the similar Collared Grosbeak). Female is pale gray with a tan wash to the underparts; her Collared counterpart is much more brightly colored. Forages in pairs or small flocks in hill and montane forest; often found in coniferous groves.