Id Help - Waigeo, West Papua - 12 (2 Viewers)

[mihir]

Request Id help for these birds photographed in Waigeo, West Papua, Indonesia in July 2023

1) Glossy-mantled manucode?
2)
3) Black sunbird?
4)
5) Rufous-bellied kookaburra?

 

[njlarsen]

re 5 Rufous-bellied kookaburra: looking through the field guide, that is where I also ended. Might be best to get confirmation from someone with more experience in that area
Niels

 

[sicklebill]

My Internet at Iron Range is very poor so I can't open the photos, but yes to Rufous-bellied Kookaburra and Black Sunbird anyway

 

[sicklebill]

Better reception now, so I think the first is Black Butcherbird, I can see a blue-grey bill, the distant small bird looks like one of the bronze-cuckoos and the shorebird looks Whimbrel-like

 

[Andy Adcock]

Better reception now, so I think the first is Black Butcherbird, I can see a blue-grey bill, the distant small bird looks like one of the bronze-cuckoos and the shorebird looks Whimbrel-like

Could it be Glossy Manucode, I think you can see the tip of the tail, just below the branch it's on?

 

[sicklebill]

Looking again at that manucode photo, I think the bill colour is an artefact of lighting, and the blue on the shoulder plus the tail nails it as Glossy-Mantled