Ecuadorian Tyrannulet

Like most larks, often inconspicuous on the ground and best detected by voice. The prolonged warbling and trilling song is given in flight, often so far overhead that the bird appears as a speck, if you can even see it. On the ground, note brown streaky plumage, distinct bushy crest, and broad, diffuse paler eyering. Chunkier than pipits, and does not habitually bob its rear end. In flight shows white sides to tail and narrow white trailing edge to wings. A denizen of open country, especially rough grassland, heathland, farmland, and airports.

A small, slender gray shag, with a slender bill, yellow legs and feet, and small dark spots on its shoulder and wing feathers. Feeds, roosts, and breeds around rocky shorelines of the Chatham Islands. The Chatham Islands Shag and the Great Cormorant are the only two similar species with overlapping range, distinguished by the white upper wing patch on the Chatham Islands Shag and the much darker overall appearance and larger size of the Great Cormorant. The Pitt Island Shag is the only shag found on the Chatham islands to have yellow legs and feet.

This medium-sized wren has a very limited range in the Cauca Valley in Colombia. It is warm rufous-brown above and white below with a white eyebrow and faintly striped cheeks. The tail and undertail coverts are barred. Sexes similar. Pairs are found in dry forests, where they forage among thickets and vine tangles in the understory. Like many wrens, can be difficult to see, but listen for its relatively low-pitched flutey song.