Three-banded Rosefinch

A plump, mostly ground-dwelling bird with long yellowish legs and a dark gray body with slightly browner wash on the wings and back. Head mostly dark gray, with bright orange beak and whitish crest. Good views may show blood-red bare skin around the eye and throat. Found in mature woodland with open understory. Nests on crater lake islands. Resident, with no record of vagrancy. Very vocal, most frequently heard in groups giving chorus of loud piping whistles and shrill cries. Calls are usually a staccato one-note whistle. Unmistakable, as it is the only scrubfowl in its range.

Small and rather drab. Brown above, darkest on head and wings. Grayish-buff below with a grayer throat. Can appear uniformly gray in dull forest light. Dark eye lacks a white eye-ring. Most common in forest but also found in forest edge and brush. Giant White-eye similar but overall darker, with thick orange bill and pale yellowish eyebrow. Dusky’s most common call is a “cheee.”

Medium-sized flycatcher with a long slender bill and orange underparts. Male is ocean-blue above, with a lighter-colored forehead, rump, and shoulder patches; darker than similar male Bornean Blue Flycatcher. Female is dark brown above, with paler orange underparts and a blue tail—a plumage unique within this species’s range. Favors inland lowland and lower foothill forests (away from Mangrove Blue Flycatcher’s coastal habitat) and not as strongly associated with riverways and streams as Malaysian Blue Flycatcher. Song is a series of three to four high whistles.