Indian Yellow Tit

Little brown bird with a long, wispy tail found at high elevations near treeline in the Andes of southern Ecuador and northern Peru. White eye-ring, lack of an eyebrow, and brown (not chestnut) upperparts help separate it from White-chinned Thistletail; also note range. Mouse-colored is found alone or in pairs in dense shrubbery and stunted forest. Typical song is a rising, piping series that quickly accelerates into a trill.

Beautiful pipit that is pink below and streaked brown above. The male has a bold black chest band and streaking, while the female is not as heavily marked. Found in wet grasslands, where it is generally shy and inconspicuous. Vocalizations include a two-part “dhew-dhew” call that is sometimes quickly repeated or extended into a long whistle. Separated from other longclaws by its pink underparts.

A long, slender honeyeater of subalpine forest and shrubland in eastern New Guinea. All sooty gray-black plumage with long tail and very long, thin, curved bill, long white, whispy beard from the base of the bill, and a yellow-orange wattle at the back of the eye. Some white scaling on the belly. Similar to Sooty Melidectes, but Long-bearded Melidectes is larger and has a white beard. Not very vocal but gives a quiet “eh eh eh” call.