Western Mountain Greenbul

Small antshrike found in the lower and middle levels of dry forests and at the edge of humid forests. Males are gray overall with a black crown, and white-spotted black wings and tail. Females have a rusty crown, back, and tail, are buff below with white spots on the wings. The song is a loud and long series of around 20 descending notes that accelerate in pace. Doesn’t overlap in range with similar Sooretama Slaty-Antshrike and is told from Variable Antshrike by paler gray plumage in males and richer rufous color in females.

Large pale-brown kestrel. Gray tail has broad black bands, and the back is heavily marked with black. Found in semi-desert, grassland, and arid savanna. Often perches conspicuously in an isolated tree. Calls are high-pitched squealing notes and much lower barks. Larger than all other kestrels, but similar in size to smaller falcons. Uniform brownish color is distinctive.

Medium-sized gamebird endemic to the northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, where it inhabits rocky hillsides and valley slopes with grassy or sparse brushy cover. Very similar to the much more widespread and closely related Chukar, but note present species’ pale lores and slightly different head and neck patterning: the dark band that runs down the neck is extensively warm tawny-brown, and forms an extremely thin, almost broken collar (Chukar has a black band that forms a thick, solid collar). Often forages in dense vegetation, breaking cover to give its accelerating clucking song or to survey territory; in winter, may come down to settlements in areas where not hunted intensively.