Santa Marta Foliage-gleaner

Small flycatcher with a long slender tail, which is usually held cocked. Mostly olive-green apart from yellow throat, belly, eyebrow, eyerings, and cheek patch. Note the prominent black patches behind the eye. Found in the canopy of the interior of humid forests mainly from 500–900 m elevation, where it is associated with mixed-species flocks. The song in a nasal, squeaky series of “ku-dut” notes.

A large, primitive parrot of lower-montane, foothill and nearby lowland primary forest. Unparrotlike, long, pointy head. Black colour with pale brown edges to the chest feathers. Bright red belly, rump and wing feathers, showing as broad red bars across the wing in flight. Appears nomadic according to fruiting of fig trees and flies in pairs or small groups with a distinctive flight. Palm Cockatoo is a similar size, but lacks the Pesquet’s red in the wing. A raucous and rasping call.

Active and colorful inhabitant of temperate lowland and foothill forests. Combination of bright orange underparts, blue-gray wings, and white cheeks is unmistakable within its range; similar Chestnut-bellied Tit is is restricted to Taiwan. Tame and boisterous, often frequenting gardens, parks, and backyard feeders, particularly in the winter.