Pileated Parrot

A thick-set, short-tailed parrot with green wings, a red body, a black cap, purple thighs, and a yellow bib just underneath a black streak on the side of the neck that extends up toward the cap. Resident in primary forest, but tolerant of modified habitats. Differs from the superficially similar Duchess Lorikeet in its much shorter, square-ended tail and black forehead. Has a vast repertoire of typical parrot-like squeals, shrieks, moans, and chatters.

A large, brownish lapwing endowed with yellow wattles that have distinctive fleshy red bases. The juvenile has smaller wattles. Pairs or small groups prefer marshes and wet grasslands, as well as the flooded edges of lakes, pans, and seeps. Also be found in dry savanna, cropped and burnt grasslands, or cultivated fields. It attracts attention to itself with a loud “peep-peep-peep” call. White-crowned Lapwing is similar but is smaller, has a white belly, and lacks the red bases to the wattles.

Long-winged, wedge-tailed, delicate seabird of far northern climates, nesting in open wet tundra and wintering around sea ice, occasionally moving into coastal areas. Breeding adult astonishingly beautiful: pearly gray above, rose-pink below, with coral-red legs, thin black collar, and tiny black bill. Nonbreeding adult has a tiny black dot near the ear and loses the black collar and much or all of the pink coloration. First-winter birds have blackish “M” pattern in upperwing and black tip on wedge-shaped tail. Flight graceful and buoyant.