Pink-billed/Black-billed Cnemoscopus

Strikingly patterned raptor of the high Andes in Ecuador and southern Colombia. Note pied plumage pattern, white streaks on black breast, and orange face. Immatures are brown with pale patches in the wings (visible in flight). Similar to Mountain Caracara, which may overlap with it in southern Ecuador, but adult Carunculated has breast streaking, and immatures have barring on rump. Inhabits open areas such as paramo and farmland, sometimes congregating in large numbers.

Small wren-like bird with a long, pointed tail. Warm reddish brown with extensive white streaking on the undersides and face; also look for its thin white eyebrow and small reddish-orange throat patch. Forages singly or in pairs on the ground and in shrubs in low forest near the treeline; particularly likes Polylepis forests. Compared to similar streaked canasteros, which are mostly found in more open, grassy habitats without trees, look for its white eyebrow and unmarked back and wings.

A large, uniform blue-gray cuckooshrike with a rather long tail, a pale eye, and a black mark between the bill and the eye. Juveniles show barred underparts. Singles, pairs, or small groups inhabit the canopy of montane forest in the foothills and higher. Often joins mixed-species flocks. The only entirely bluish-gray cuckooshrike with a pale eye on Sulawesi. Gives a harsh, rasping “shhhhhhchu” call as well as a very high-pitched “sweee-sweee-sweee” that rises in volume at the end.