Black-backed Tanager

Slightly bigger and stockier than Common Snipe, with a long and thick bill, heavily barred belly and contrasting upperwing pattern with dark underwings. Flushes at close range; escape flight is usually slow and short. Typically quiet and silent. Breeds in remote wet meadows or in mountain bogs where males lek (display together). Usually found at marshes on migration; autumn migrants make a direct nonstop flight to tropical African wintering grounds.

Small flycatcher found in forest canopy in the Andes from southwestern Ecuador to central Peru. It is grayish-green with yellow on the face and throat, a broken eye-ring, and yellowish fringes to the wing feathers. Almost identical in plumage to Choco Tyrannulet and Golden-faced Tyrannulet, but note their distinct geographical ranges. In areas where their ranges potentially meet, voice must be used to clinch the identification. Peruvian Tyrannulet frequently gives a ringing “su-WEET” or “su-wu-WEET.” Actively chases insects in the canopy, often cocking its tail up.

A medium-sized brown-and-white shearwater with darker upperparts extending to the head. A dark brown mottled collar extends down from the neck and fades into the white breast and underparts. The underwings have an off-white central patch that merges into the dark borders of the wing with distinctly dusky “armpits.” Breeds solely on the mainland of New Zealand, where nesting is restricted to steep tussock slopes in the alpine zone of the Seaward Kaikoura mountains. Slightly larger and darker than the Fluttering Shearwater, with less white showing on the chin and throat.