Pantepui Thrush

Striking tuxedoed babbler with a slightly downcurved banana-yellow bill and bright white eyebrows. A foothill and montane species of forest, forest edge, and dense scrubby growth. Clambers and bounces about along branches and in the undergrowth, typically in pairs or small flocks. Song variations include brief series of hooting calls, accelerating and jumbled in the second half. Calls include various rattles and hoots; often duets.

A brilliantly colorful, unmistakable bird with vivid green back, yellow belly, purple chest, blue nape, black throat, and very pale bill; face may be red, yellow or black. Juvenile dull olive above, pale below, with paler bill than most other small finch-like birds. Feeds on the ground; when disturbed, flushes into trees, showing a flash of bright green backs. Inhabits grassy open woodlands across northeastern Western Australia, the Top End of Northern Territory, and parts of northern Queensland.

A small brown duck with a pale throat and scalloped plumage. The face is sometimes all white, but always has a white eye-ring. In flight, there is a white panel on the upperwing and white “armpits” on the underwing. Quite gregarious, gathering in marshy waterbodies. Nests in tree holes.