Joyful Greenbul

Medium-sized warbler, light olive-brown above and yellowish below. Distinctive features include longish, daggerlike bill, long primary projection in the wings, and square tail. Told from similar Melodious Warbler by usually conspicuous pale wing panel, longer wings, and marginally shorter bill. Usually difficult to see when singing except during song flights, when long wings are apparent. Found in tall forest with oaks and birch, mixed forest, gardens, and parks. Song is fast, loud, and melodious with lots of mimicry.

Nondescript and retiring cuckoo with a pale ashy-brown back and pale underparts. Note the thin white tail tips and red eyering and iris. An austral migrant. Usually found in dry woodlands, scrub, savannas, gallery forests, and also in the borders of humid moist forests in the nonbreeding season. The song is a series of “cow-w cow-w cow cow” notes.

Small and active “Pallas’s-type” leaf warbler with a long yellow brow stripe and pale rump. Yellowish-olive overall with two tan wingbars, one much larger than the other. White outer tail feathers typically invisible when perched, but eye-catching when the bird is hovering or landing. Extremely similar to other “Pallas’s-type” warblers, but combination of orangish wingbars, weak crown stripe, and rather uniform underparts is diagnostic. Pallas’s Leaf Warbler has a brighter crown stripe, a flashier rump patch, and yellow wingbars. Buff-barred’s head can sometimes have a gray wash similar to that of Ashy-throated Warbler, but it lacks that species’ clean white brow stripe. Buff-barred is common in hilly and montane forests, often as part of mixed-species flocks; listen out for its loud “tzeet” notes and shrill buzzy trill of a song.