Bornean Green-Magpie

Pale, medium-sized gull, smaller and daintier than Glaucous or Herring Gulls. Often looks cute with rounded head and small bill. Extremely variable plumage. Variation is apparently clinal across the Arctic breeding range, from darkest in the west to palest in the east. The palest adults have very pale gray backs and nearly pure white wingtips. The darkest birds, formerly known as Thayer’s Gull, are darker gray above and have blackish wingtips. Young birds range from almost pure white to medium brown, never as dark as Herring Gull. First-year birds usually have a mostly dark bill. Winters along both coasts of North America and in Europe, often near the ocean or on large lakes. Typically found in small numbers among flocks of other large gulls.

An easily overlooked forest bee-eater found in Central Africa and locally in East Africa, occurring in the forest interior and near forest edge and tree-fall gaps. Dark overall with a bluish to blue-purple head, belly, and tail, a red throat, a dark purplish-black face, a pale azure forehead, and a reddish back.  May overlap locally with Blue-moustached Bee-eater in South-West Region, Cameroon, but Blue-headed Bee-eater has a pale forehead and no noticeable eye-line. Calls include a seldom-heard, two-parted “ji-up!”

Medium-sized antpitta of floodplain forest, particularly with palmetto understory, along the confluence of the Ríos Madre de Dios and Bení in the Riberalta area. The only antpitta in range with dark chevrons on underparts or a blue-gray cap. Forages on or near the ground, but generally perches 1-2 m up in the understory or midstory to sing at dawn. Visually distinctive in range, but song deceptively similar to, and perhaps indistinguishable from, local songs of Amazonian Antshrike. Call a more distinctive three to four-part descending whistle.