Rufous-crowned Tody-Flycatcher

Small warbler with a restricted range in the Andes of northwestern Peru and southwestern Ecuador. It is yellow with a grayish head boldly marked with dark stripes. It lacks the black crown stripe and white “headlights” of Gray-and-gold Warbler. Compared to Three-striped Warbler (little or no overlap), it is grayer on the head and neck, lacks yellow in the crown, and shows slightly paler and less extensive facial markings. Inhabits both dry and humid forest, where it actively flits around in the branches.

A medium-sized bird of mid-montane forest understory. Sooty gray color, paler on the belly, darker on the face and wing. Note the pale eye and white throat contrasting with the dark face. Birds on the Huon Peninsular have a gray throat. Perches on low branches, flicking tail and scanning the ground for insect prey. Smoky and Blue-gray Robins have limited altitudinal overlap, but White-eyed is usually found at lower elevations, has a white eye and usually a white throat. Voice, a loud, upslurred whistle “wit!”. Also, a rising series of notes, first whistled then becoming raspier and accelerating.

Medium-sized finch of hilly and montane forests and dense brushy forest edge. Male is the color of red wine, with crisp lilac eyebrows. Female is dark buffy-brown with faint streaks on the back and breast. Forages on the ground near or in dense shrubs and bushes. Gives sharp bunting-like “zip” and “zink.”