Minas Gerais Tyrannulet

Small, stunningly colorful tanager of Amazonian lowlands. Bright green head contrasts with red, blue, and black body. Sexes alike. Often quite common within its range. Found in the canopy of humid forest, often in mixed-species flocks. Likes to stay high in the canopy, but occasionally moves lower into the midstory, moving quickly between perches as it forages.

Spectacular purple turaco with a beautiful facial pattern: a large red-and-yellow bill, red bare skin around the eye, a white patch behind the eye, and a dark red back of the head. Shows large crimson wing patches in flight. Found along forest edge and in gallery forest and lush gardens. Acts like a typical turaco, bouncing through the trees and flying occasionally with short bursts of wingbeats and long glides. Call is a low, rollicking trill that is often given in raucous chorus by a group. Similar to Ross’s Turaco, but overlap in range is minimal, and Violet is easily separated by many details of its facial pattern, including its two-colored bill. 

Warm brownish songbird of shrubby forest edges, reedbeds, and gardens. Brown above, pale below, with pale supercilium and dark eyeline. Note rufous crown. Shy and skulking, rarely straying from dense undergrowth even when singing. Usually detected by its song, a long mournful whistle followed by a quick burst of rich, bubbly notes. All but indistinguishable from Japanese Bush Warbler; averages slightly more rufous on the crown, but best identified by range and voice.