Golden-billed Saltator

Unusually small kestrel with a gray head, a rufous back, unmarked buff underparts, a barred tail, and a dark “moustache” mark on the face. Found on several of the granitic Seychelles Islands. Originally found in areas of rainforest with cliffs and other rocky areas; now found in secondary scrub, cultivated areas, plantations, and towns, as well as in remnant natural habitat. Unlike other kestrels, does not hover. Call is a high, repeated “krii.” Shares general falcon shape with migrant and vagrant falcons, including Eleanora’s and Sooty Falcons, but smaller, with shorter, less pointed wings. 

Small, scarce fruiteater found in cloud forest in the eastern foothills of the Andes. Both sexes are mostly green. Male has a ruby-red throat and a yellowish belly. Female has a yellow chin and yellow scaling on the belly. Female is similar to female to Scarlet-breasted Fruiteater but smaller and with a black (not orange) bill. Feeds on berries in middle to upper levels in the forest, and often found in pairs.

A slender, plain sooty-gray apalis with red eyes and a white-tipped tail; female has a buff-chestnut throat. Juvenile has yellowish underparts. Restricted to Upper Guinea, where it is resident; pairs inhabit the canopy of tall primary and secondary lowland, gallery, and dry forest, where no similar apalises occur. Most often detected by its characteristic song, a sweet rollicking “chi-reet, chi-reet, chi-reet,” sometimes given in duet.