Handsome Fruiteater

Large elaenia with a striking headdress. It inhabits lightly-wooded areas, such as overgrown clearings, forest edge, and river islands, along the eastern base of the Andes. Mostly gray and olive with a yellow belly and white wingbars. Spiky white crest is frequently held erect, and is bordered by dark forehead tufts that can look like little horns. Usually found hawking insects from a conspicuous perch, and gives short, burry calls.

This red-eyed masked-weaver has a plain olive-green back and pink-brown legs. The breeding male has a black face mask, with the black band on the forehead above the bill varying from broad in the south to narrow farther north. Female and juvenile are dull and inseparable from other masked-weavers. Pairs and colonies are localized residents of reedbeds, wetlands and adjacent woodland, in a narrow global range between northeastern Zambia and southeastern DRC. The breeding males of Katanga and Southern masked-weavers are very similar, but the former are smaller, have some saffron around the masks, and have darker green backs and rumps; breeding male Tanganyika and Lake Lufira Masked-Weavers have more burnt-orange around the face and underparts, and ranges do not overlap.

A medium-sized wheatear, gray-brown overall with a reddish tail base. Sexes similar. Very similar to female Kurdish Wheatear; separated by whitish throat, pale buff undertail, and reddish ear patch contrasting with gray neck. Breeds on open, rocky mountain sides. Winters in mountainous arid habitats. Song consists of short buzzy warbled phrases.