Taiwan Barwing

Dark, short-billed hummingbird found at very high elevations in the Andes. Plumage is olive-green; adult male has a colorful “beard” that is reduced or lacking in females and immatures. It inhabits open grassland and areas with scattered shrubs above treeline. Unlike almost all other hummingbirds, it regularly lands on the ground to feed on tiny flowers protruding from the grass.

A large, uniform rufous-brown babbler with conspicuous orange bill and feet, and a beady yellow eye. Highly gregarious, usually encountered in noisy flocks within wet rainforest understory. Orange-billed Babbler differs from the similar Yellow-billed Babbler in having a rufous body and orange legs and bill. Frequently vocal, giving a variety of rasping, chattering, and squeaking notes, grating calls, as well as laughterlike noises.

A tiny, bright green parrot found throughout much of the Amazon basin. Dusky-billed has darker green plumage and a dark upper bill compared to the very similar Blue-winged Parrotlet. Dusky-billed is also less likely to be found around clearings than Blue-winged. Often first noticed by the incessant high-pitched, buzzy calls given by flocks, not as high-pitched and piercing as the calls of Blue-winged.