Somali Thrush

Well-named, the common roadside hawk in tropical lowlands of East Mexico and Central and South America. Often seen on wires, phone poles, posts out in fields. Adult has staring pale eyes, streaked breast contrasting with barred belly. Immature streaked below, much like many other immature hawks, but its tail has broad and fairly even bands. Flies with rather quick, stiff wingbeats, recalling a Red-shouldered Hawk or an Accipiter; noisy flight display mainly in late winter-spring.

A forest-dwelling cuckooshrike in which males and females are strikingly different. Males are all-black with a purple gloss to the underparts. Females have an olive-green back, a gray head, and pale yellow underparts. Found in the canopy of various forest types, including gallery forest, lowland rainforest, and montane forest. Generally uncommon and inconspicuous. The most common vocalization is a downslurred “tsieuw.” The male resembles other black male cuckooshrikes, but is distinguished by its glossy purple underparts, though these can be hard to discern. The female is identified by its plain-green back.

A trogon of lowland rainforests, almost always found in the forest interior, away from forest edges. Males and females have distinctive bare yellow facial skin below their eyes and between their eyes and bill. Both sexes have green backs and uppertails, red chests and vents, and finely barred wings. The species often calls motionless in the subcanopy, giving a series of 6-10 sad, descending coo notes, repeating these series 2-3 times per minute. Similar to the larger Narina Trogon, but Bare-cheeked Trogon is told apart by its song, its closed-canopy forest habitat, and the purely green tones on its head, back, and uppertail.