Spotted Antpitta

Small unobtrusive raptor. Adults have a gray body (darker above than below), and rufous thighs and eyes. The throat is white with a very thin dividing black line helping to distinguish it from the similar Bicolored Hawk. In flight, adults have distinctive rufous underwings (white in juveniles), and three pale bands on the tail. Juveniles are streaked below with barred rufous thighs. Found in the canopy of primary forests and at borders. Often seen soaring high overhead.

An unobtrusive, sparrow-sized bird of rainforest understory. Male is glossy black with a bright blue rump, a shining white forehead, a large yellow central breast spot, and a yellow belly. Females are bright green, yellower on the belly. A common resident of tall rainforest, where it consumes fruits of understory shrubs. Males take exposed song perches, usually within 5 meters of the ground, from which they give a repeated purring note that could easily be mistaken for a frog. Otherwise most likely to be seen at fruiting shrubs. Very similar Orange-bellied Manakin does not overlap in range. Females best distinguished from other manakins by bright green plumage and strong yellow tones on belly.

A stone-colored terrestrial bird of stony hillsides, mountain ridges, and meadows above treeline. Adults speckled gray and white above, with dense rusty streaking on white underparts, red bill, and deep red legs. Usually forages in small groups, often in very exposed areas such as cliff sides and rocky ridges. Song, often given by multiple birds in a group simultaneously, is high-pitched and has a slippery, squeaky quality like wet shoes on tile; male song louder and ascending, female’s softer and descending.