Arabian Eagle-Owl

Long-tailed parakeet of lowland and foothill rainforest. Green with conspicuous white scaling on breast and neck, maroon tail, and red patches in the wings. Eyering is black in northwestern Ecuador and southwestern Colombia, white elsewhere in its range. Usually encountered in small flocks that fly rapidly from tree to tree giving shrill, raspy calls. Feeds on fruit, usually high in the canopy.

A nondescript brown flycatcher with a rufous tail and rump. Note the hook-tipped bill, white throat, and pale gray unstreaked underparts. Juveniles paler above with buff fringes on some wing feathers. Occupies shady areas of the forest understory, including bamboo stands, in lowland areas. Restricted to the Sula Islands. Longer-billed and longer-tailed than female Snowy-browed Flycatcher, and further differs in absence of pale forehead and in having entirely gray underparts. Song is a quiet phrase of thin, high-pitched whistles, descending at the end, “tsee-tser-soo-loo-soo.”

A small, plain-backed cormorant that is restricted to near-shore marine environments, where it is uncommon. Sometimes it occurs in coastal estuaries alongside the similar Long-tailed Cormorant, which has a shorter crest (year-round), a pale-speckled back, and a relatively longer tail. Nonbreeding and immature plumages are brownish with paler underparts. Frequently roosts on coastal rocks with other marine cormorants, which are larger and have blue or brownish eyes. Flies poorly on short, stubby wings; avoids the deeper marine waters frequented by Cape and Bank cormorants.