Rufous-sided Honeyeater

Medium-sized rail restricted to high-elevation marshes in the Andes of Colombia. Unlikely to be confused in small range. Gray below and brown above with bright red bill and legs. Sexes similar. Like most rails, often remains hidden among marshy grasses, but not overly shy. Sometimes walks at the edge of a lake or marsh in plain sight.

A small flocking bird of scrub and grasslands. Note the dark face (black in males and gray in females) that is surrounded by a swirl of yellow from behind each eye, down the sides of the neck, and across the chest. The male Yellow-faced Grassquit has a passing resemblance, but the throat is yellow and the chest is black. Female Yellow-faced and Black-faced Grassquits are of similar size and color but lack the yellow neck and chest seen on Cuban Grassquits. The call is a sharp musical chip and the song is a rather high-pitched twitter.

A small brown owl with yellow eyes and feathered ear tufts. Note square head shape when tufts are not raised. Body all brown with extensive scattered darker and paler markings. Juvenile is heavily barred on the back and crown. Endemic to the Banggai islands off the east coast of Sulawesi; known specifically from Peleng and Labobo. Inhabits understory of forest and forest edge from lowlands to lower mountains. Distinctive: the only scops-owl in range. Song is a short, low trill, quite different from the clipped whistle of Sulawesi Scops-Owl, which it was once regarded as a subspecies of.