Chestnut-bellied Malkoha

Unmistakable glossy black bird with a dash of bright yellow on the head and wings. Male has more extensive yellow on the head than the female. Inhabits lowland to foothill evergreen forests where it forages in pairs or small flocks up in the canopy. Look out for their flashing yellow wing patches as they move between trees. Like other mynas and starlings, gives a variety of gurgles, croaks, and high-pitched fluid notes.

A medium-sized forest hornbill frequently seen flying overhead or crossing road cuts. Distinctive in its stark pied appearance, with black head, back, forewings, and central tail feathers. In flight, has very distinctive bicolored wings. Similar to African Pied Hornbill, but Piping Hornbill has broad white flight feathers, and its smaller bill and neck give it a stouter appearance. Calls include a rapid series of cackling notes, “huhuhuhuhu,” and higher-pitched piping whistles. 

Large, long-tailed, long-billed, dull-olive tetraka. Madagascar endemic that is found in rainforest, dry deciduous forest, and locally in spiny forest. Prefers the mid-story, and often joins mixed flocks with tetrakas and other birds. Song is a fairly musical phrase of up-and-down whistles. Call is a rough “trek-trak”. Separated from tetrakas by its larger size and its longer bill and tail. Doesn’t have the pale eye-ring of Spectacled Tetraka or the gray head of Gray-crowned Tetraka. Much more olive-colored than brush-warblers.