Halmahera Cuckooshrike

Rather large, dark, stocky gull-like seabird with big white wing patches (seen in flight). In summer often seen flying over Patagonian steppe or associating with Kelp Gulls at beaches, dumps, river mouths, and lakes near the coast. Also found well offshore, where it chases other birds to steal their food. Usually seen as singles or small groups. Plumage variable, but always with some orange tones—sometimes bright and extensive, sometimes limited to underwing and base of tail. The only skua likely to be seen in Chile and southern Argentina.

Large blue-gray jay with a black face and piercing yellow eyes. Note the white-tipped tail. Found at forest edges, in wooded savanna, in second growth, and in white sand forests, avoiding the interior of humid forests. The “Campina Jay” subspecies of southern Amazonia, considered a species by some authorities, has a pale azure rather than dark purplish-blue breast, a paler uppertail, and two bare blue skin patches around the eye. The call is a loud, harsh “jeer,” similar to the call of Violaceous Jay.

A small fruit-dove of moist lowland and foothill forest. Crimson forehead, yellow bill, pale gray from face to chest and orange-yellow belly separated by a dark red chest band. Prefers mid-elevation forest in high rainfall areas where it forages actively for fruit at all levels in the trees. Separated from similar Ornate Fruit-Dove by yellow belly and Coroneted Fruit-Dove by its darker cap and gray chest. Call, a slow, mournful, falling “woo-ooo” or an accelerating series of quicker, seesaw “wooloo”.