Buff-rumped Woodpecker

Medium-sized hummingbird with a long curved bill and black-and-white striped face pattern. Clean buffy below. Look for tail pattern: all tipped white, with rufous base to outer tail feathers. Does not have elongated central tail feathers like some hermits. Moves fast, usually only seen for a few seconds at a patch of flowers. Prefers forests and edges.

A small green-backed songbird with a bold white eye-ring, a black face, a yellow throat, a white belly, and a yellow base to the undertail. Occurs in forest and nearby secondary growth in lowlands and foothills, sometimes in small groups. Confined to Seram. Conspicuous white eye-ring separates it from all other species except Warbling and Ambon White-eyes, from which it differs in its black forehead. Gives chattering “twee” call notes and a short, rapidly undulating twittering song: “titli-titli-titli.”

Even-colored antshrike of forest under- and midstory. Often travels with mixed-species flocks. Males are plain gray; females are tawny with olive underparts. Females have a more contrasting reddish cap than other female antshrikes. Heard more often than seen; listen for a series of accelerating “awh” notes terminating in a punctuated down-slurred note.