Blue-headed Sunbird

Small olive-yellow flycatcher with a long slender tail, which is often held cocked. Olive above and yellow below with a pale eyebrow, a white chin, and two pale wingbars. Found in montane forests including Araucaria forests, where it forages actively in the middle and upper layers of the forest often with mixed-species flocks. The song is short and high-pitched.

A beautiful malimbe locally distributed in Central Africa and restricted to lowland primary forest and its edges, where it is often found high above the ground in small groups or with mixed-species flocks, sometimes with other species of malimbe. Both males and females are wholly black with yellow vents and orange chests that fade to yellow at the edges. Males also have an orange crown and neck, giving them a collared appearance. Overlaps with several other species of malimbe, but distinguished by the yellow vent and orange chest with yellow edges. Calls are short, mechanical squeaks, while the song is a longer series of notes that incorporates dry rasps, similar to the songs of other weavers and malimbes. Rachel’s Malimbe appears to be particularly fond of musanga trees, also known as corkwood or umbrella trees.

A variable buff-brown scrub-robin with bold white on the tail tip, eyebrow, throat, and wing. Underparts are warm brown and rump is rufous. A secretive resident, found in pairs in primary lowland evergreen forest and thickets, entering farmbush and other secondary habitats, and scarp forest up to 1600 meters. It is often first detected by its varied up-and-down musical song “teee-tooo-tree-too-loo-dee-doo” and other similar delightful tunes. The similar Brown-backed Scrub-Robin differs from Forest Scrub-Robin by having a diffusely streaked breast and a rufous basal half of the tail.