Kolombangara Monarch

A beautiful, glossy green-and-purple starling. There is a stripe through the eye that sometimes looks black and sometimes deep purple. The eye is reddish-orange. Juveniles are dull and blackish. Found in a wide variety of savanna habitats, from moist broadleaf woodland to dry thorn savanna. Also found in villages, towns, and cultivated areas. Very similar to Lesser and Greater Blue-eared Starlings, but separated by the purple rather than greenish tail and the darker reddish eye. The vocalizations include rising whistles, nasal whines, and long series of chattering notes. 

A small, little-known bird of alpine grasslands of southeastern New Guinea. Adult has thick, silver bill, black face, brown back, yellow rump, whitish chest and sides, black from under the tail, along the sides of the pale belly, meeting at the lower chest. Gray-headed Munia overlaps slightly in elevation and the 2 species have be seen together in flocks. Adults are distinctive but juveniles are similar. Voice, some buzzing call notes and a thin “sii-sii-sii” in flight.

Small, slender, and long-tailed bird found only on islands along major rivers in the Amazon basin. Distinctive in its specialized habitat with yellow underparts and eyebrow, and conspicuous white patches in its wings and tail. Typically found in pairs, which are often hard to see as they skulk in dense, grassy thickets. Vocalizations include rich, inflected whistles and energetic, rattled churrs, often given as a duet. Birds from northeastern Brazil are now considered a different species, Bahia Wagtail-Tyrant.