Crescent-faced Antpitta

A sleek green bird of forests, forest edges, and palm savannahs. Groups of ten to twenty birds often rapidly disappear upon landing, their plumage melting into the similarly colored foliage. Easily distinguished from other species in its range by its color, slim build, and long pointed tail. In overflight appears green with red on forewing. Flight call is shrill and squeaky; notes of each bird often given singly or in couplets. When perched, calls are typically quiet with a murmuring quality.

A small, stub-tailed, thick-billed songbird, with dark upperparts, white throat, and yellow on the underside. Males are dark, blackish-blue above, while the duller females are gray on the upperside. Usually in pairs, within the treetops of wet forest and adjoining areas. The only similar species would be female sunbirds, which can be eliminated on bill shape; White-throated Flowerpecker possesses a stubby bill. Song is a series of ascending high notes, and call is a single very high-pitched “whit” note.

Small warbler with a small bill and a large-headed appearance. Similar to other leaf warblers, but Brooks’s Leaf Warbler has the combination of a dark bill with a pale base, yellow on face and breast, yellow crown stripe, and at least one white wingbar (often two). Forages in a restless manner in the mid-canopy of spruce and fir forests in the summer and dry scrub forests in the winter. The distinctive song consists of high-pitched “zip-zip-zip-...” notes followed by a dry trill. The call is a short “chee-up” similar to that of a Greenish Warbler.