Madagascar Forest Rail

Small, rather chunky but long-tailed bird of tropical forest and woodland in lowlands and foothills; endemic to western Mexico. Feeds at all levels, often at fruiting trees and bushes with other vireos and fruit-eating birds. Like most vireos, generally rather sluggish. Bright yellow-and-greenish plumage, plus cocked tail, strongly suggest smaller and more lightly built Wilson’s Warbler, but note the vireo’s broad pale eyebrow, stouter bill, and stronger blue-gray legs.

Brown antwren of rainforest understory and midstory. Males are grayish brown, with black speckling on the throat, and whitish or buffy wing bars; females are buffy brown with buffy wing bars. Lacks the rufous back of some similar antwrens, and is fairly long-tailed for an antwren. Does not always have a white eye, with a variable eye color that is often brown in some areas. A common member of understory mixed species flocks, where searches for insects in curled dead leaves.

Handsome and unique white-eye, endemic to the island of Yap, in Micronesia’s western Caroline Islands. Dark olive-brown in color, with a flashing bright white eye-ring and orange legs and feet. Inhabits a range of wooded habitats on Yap, from remaining native rainforest to mangroves and forest edge. Averages less common than the Plain White-eye with which it shares the island, and tends to forage in smaller groups, or in pairs. Gives a somewhat bulbul-like series of whistled notes: “wi’di-deer-di-deer.”