Chestnut-backed Tanager

Common and familiar bird of southern South America, found in town parks, gardens, woodlands, forests, matorral, and other semiopen habitats, usually in areas with taller trees nearby. Feeds mainly on the ground, often on lawns, and also in fruiting bushes and trees. Fall and winter flocks can number the hundreds. Plumage is not very colorful, but bright yellow bill is often striking. Male has a blacker head and darker upperparts than the female. Juvenile has a duller bill with dark spotting on underparts.

Small stunningly beautiful nuthatch of tropical and subtropical evergreen forest, typically in hilly areas and valleys. Back and wings are bright blue, and underparts are gray. Purplish face is marked by an elegant inky black eyebrow and forehead; bright yellow bill and eye ring. Roves around in small groups or pairs, sometimes joining mixed flocks, usually moving in the canopy or middle levels. Call is a dry, brisk “chit”.

Fairly small, long-tailed, plain antbird endemic to Colombia. Male is all gray with some white fringes on the wing feathers and tip of tail. Female is dull brown above and cinnamon below without wing or tail markings. Found in understory of subtropical forest and edge, where pairs are usually quite skulky and difficult to see. Very similar to Dusky Antbird, but Parker’s is found at higher elevations, around 1,100–1,800 m, and has very different song.