White-rumped Triller

Stunning and unmistakable: green and yellow plumage with bold black-and-blue head pattern. Birds from Texas to Honduras have a blue crown, dark eye, and relatively uniform lime-green body, and occur in small flocks in woodland with brushy understory. Birds in South America, sometimes called Inca Jays, occur in Andean cloud forest from Venezuela to Bolivia. They show a white crown, pale eye, blue forehead tuft, and rich sulphur-yellow belly contrasting with darker green upperparts. Both populations give a variety of strange mechanical calls.

A big green parrot with a large orange bill, a thin black line between bill and eye, and uniform green wings. Confined to the island of Buru, where it is found in upper levels of forest in foothills and mountains. Distinguished from Great-billed Parrot by plain wings, thin black loral line, and absence of yellow on the underwings. Lacks the red shoulder of male Eclectus Parrot shows red shoulder. Gives a loud, raucous “wek” call. Often heard calling in darkness, as it is often active before dawn and after dusk.

A fairly large, short-tailed bird of mid-montane forest canopy. Male is mainly black with white flanks, golden throat, bronzy-scaled chest, white stripe down the forehead and 6 antennalike feathers projecting from the back of the head. Note the yellow eye. Female is gray-brown above and strongly-barred below with a heavy white stripe above the eye. Male dances at a terrestrial court, where it gives one of the most elaborate displays in the bird world. Co-occurs with Lawes’s Parotia but Carola’s male has white flanks and female lacks a black head. One of many different vocalizations is a loud, quavering shriek.