Gray-lored Broadbill

A small black-and-white monarch. White below except for black throat and breast. Black above with a large white wing patch and a white cheek. Endemic to Malaita, in the Solomon Islands. Mostly found in primary forest, often in bamboo thickets. Most common calls include high-pitched whistles and harsh scolding notes. Formerly grouped with Solomons Monarch under the technically accurate but (given the prevalence of black-and-white monarchs) rather pointless name of “Black-and-white Monarch.”

An attractive Southern Ocean crested and pied cormorant with white wingbars, pinkish feet, orange-buff warty caruncles on the forehead, and a blue eye-ring. Juvenile is duller, lacking facial ornaments. Restricted to a handful of subantarctic islands, where it forages in inshore waters; uncommon resident on Prince Edward, Marion and Crozet islands, where it is the only cormorant. Call is a grunting wheeze. 

A bulky bird of tepui highlands, often encountered in groups. Unlikely to be confused within its limited range; plumage mostly coppery-olive (may tend toward yellow in sunlight) with a contrasting gray face and throat. Stout bill is silvery gray. Occurs in canopy of tepui highland forest, generally above 800 m, where groups forage noisily through vegetation, probing into epiphytes and dead leaves and hopping clumsily along branches, eating whatever is in their path. Frequents fruiting trees, and may join mixed-species flocks but are just as likely to be found away from them. Most typical call is a dreadful high-pitched screech, modulated as if the bird is being squeezed, and sounding quite literally like fingernails on a chalkboard.