Böhm's Bee-eater

Colorful small finch, usually found in grassy forest clearings or forest edge habitats, often in close association with bamboo. Favors foothills and montane areas throughout much of its range, but descends into coastal lowlands on small islands and in the far eastern end of its range, on Australia’s Cape York Peninsula. Bright green plumage, with an obvious blue face and red tail and rump. Juveniles lack the blue face and are slightly duskier below. Forages at all levels of forest, from the ground up into the canopy, often taking seeds from grasses and bamboo. Call very thin and high-pitched.

Tiny, mostly green bumblebee-like hummingbird with a straight bill, glittering magenta throat, white chest band and sides of rump, and short forked tail. Female very different, with buffy underparts, dark brown ears, and unforked rufous tail with a black band. Found in cloud forest, edges, second growth, and gardens, with some seasonal movements. Often hard to see, but sometimes perches at the top of bare branches. In Andes, compare to the similar Gorgeted Woodstar; male Gorgeted has longer purple feathers on the throat, and female lacks green central tail feathers. At lower elevations compare with Amethyst Woodstar, in which the male has a longer tail and female has a whitish throat and black tail tipped with white. Restricted to Colombia and Venezuela.

A large, heavy-billed songbird. Male is uniform slaty gray with a black crown, throat, and chest. Female is entirely slaty gray with no black markings. Singles and pairs inhabit forests and edges, including mangroves. Confined to the Banggai and Sula Islands. Bigger and heavier-billed than Sula and Common Cicadabirds, and lacks extensive pale edgings in wings. Differentiated from cicadabirds by male’s black crown and female’s lack of black facial markings. Vocalizations include a nasal “weeerrr,” repeated soft “chuk” notes, and a short buzzing rattle, “clrrrrrr.”