Manus Boobook

Brown and gray thrush with an orange belly, pale throat, and bright orange bill, eyering, legs, and feet. Inhabits forested habitats across Christmas Island, where it can sometimes be found quite close to human habitation; the only resident thrush on the island, and unmistakable. Often encountered foraging actively on the ground. Song is a variable series of doubled notes; calls include an explosive chattering series of rapid chup notes.

Small and striking tanager with very sharp bill. Male superficially similar to Blue Dacnis but most of body black; head, back, and shoulder electric turquoise-blue. Red eye. Scarlet “thighs” inconspicuous and difficult to see in the field. Female less obvious than male; note turquoise face contrasting with buffy belly. Usually stays in the canopy of forest edges; pairs often follow mixed feeding flocks.

Small hummingbird with long, curved bill. Male dusky-greenish with contrasting white chest, expansive purple throat, and long forked tail (usually held closed in a point). Female is buffy below with a dusky mask and buffy eyebrow. All ages and sexes are most easily identified by bill shape. Found in deserts; shows a preference for flowering agave plants. Primarily a Mexican species, with very limited range in the U.S. Occurs to just south of Mexico City, where range limit with extremely similar Beautiful Hummingbird is not perfectly known. Male Lucifer has pointed outer tail feathers vs. blunt on Beautiful, but otherwise essentially inseparable.