Yungas Sparrow

Fairly common to common in native temperate forest, adjacent shrubbery, wooded patches, and thickets along rivers and streams, especially with bamboo. Loud ringing song is commonly heard, but calling birds can be elusive. At other times can be confiding, walking out at close range as if curious, usually with tail cocked. Plumage distinctive, with bright rusty eyebrow, throat, and breast. Compare with the larger and fatter Chestnut-throated Huet-huet.

A medium-sized forest hornbill frequently seen flying overhead or crossing road cuts. Distinctive in its stark pied appearance, with black head, back, forewings, and central tail feathers. In flight, has very distinctive bicolored wings. Similar to African Pied Hornbill, but Piping Hornbill has broad white flight feathers, and its smaller bill and neck give it a stouter appearance. Calls include a rapid series of cackling notes, “huhuhuhuhu,” and higher-pitched piping whistles. 

Brown-and-buff nightbird found in arid scrub and deserts in western Ecuador and northwestern Peru.  It is dark brown, heavily mottled with buff, and has a white throat. In flight, it has white crescents near the wingtips and white stripes along the outer tail feathers. Similar to Common Pauraque, but smaller, with a shorter tail and a different voice. Compared to Tschudi's Nightjar, with which it overlaps in northwestern Peru, Scrub is much darker and has a different song. Scrub Nightjar typically gives a clear, whistled, incessantly repeated “tWEE-oh,” more emphatic and not as burry as Common Pauraque.