Puerto Rican Tody

Rare and declining, but still fairly abundant at its main wintering grounds at Poyang Lake, in China’s Jiangxi Province. Adult is unmistakable with all-white plumage, save for a crimson face and black wingtips. Juveniles are whitish, with a light brown head, neck, back, and wings. Typically found around lake edges and fields, where it forages in small to medium-sized groups, primarily for plant matter and invertebrates.

A medium-sized honeyeater of forest and edge from the lowlands to mid-mountains. Almost complete lack of field marks, the best ID feature. It has a small-headed and small-billed appearance, and overall color is dull gray-brown apart from birds in SE New Guinea which are more rufous-brown. Solitary and inconspiduous. Little Shrikethrush has a thicker bill, Tawny-breasted Honeyeater, a facial pattern and Tawny Straightbill has pinkish legs and a straight, pointed bill. Call, a soft “wi-wi-wi” repeated at intervals.

Handsome and unmistakable thrush. Male is gray overall, whereas female is suffused with rusty cinnamon-brown. On both sexes, note prominent black bib, slender black mask which wraps around the back of the head, and black wingtips. Endemic to Borneo’s highlands, where it wanders nomadically through submontane and montane forests in search of fruiting trees. Often encountered in pairs or small groups, foraging at middle and lower storeys of forest. Generally quiet; gives high thin “tsiiiii.”