Flores Heleia

Large jay of humid forest and edges including savanna and premontane forest in the tepui region. Combination of size and black-and-white plumage unlike any other species in range. Moves through forest in noisy groups but can be hard to see well. Sometimes accompanies foraging flocks of oropendolas and caciques, feeding on flowers and fruit. Calls include a variety of whistles and grunts.

A light gray medium-sized tern. Black cap extends to bill in breeding plumage. Bill and legs red. In non-breeding birds, cap reduced to just the area behind the eye, bill has dull pinkish color, and underparts are white. Breeds in the circumpolar subantarctic region. Generally known to stay close to their breeding sites. Migrating Arctic Tern could occur in the same area, but not in breeding plumage, and would show more prominent black markings on outer primaries. White-fronted Tern can be distinguished by its larger body, lighter coloring, and longer, thinner, all-black bill.

Large finchlike bird with a strong bill with obviously curved mandibles. Males have a distinctive face pattern—a gray head with a broken pale eyebrow, and a prominent pale mustache and throat. Olive-brown above and gray below with two pale wingbars. Females have no facial marks and are olive-brown overall with two indistinct cinnamon wingbars. Found at the forest edge and in second growth where it is largely dependent on bamboo patches.