The Crescent-faced Antpitta inhabits cloud forests, shrublands, and forest edges, where the climate is cool and humid. However, habitat fragmentation and climate change pose significant threats to its survival.
The Harpy Eagle is a behemoth of the tropical rainforest, its imposing presence commanding reverence from all who cross its path. With wings outstretched, this majestic raptor casts a shadow over the forest floor, its piercing gaze scanning the underbrush for unsuspecting prey.
The Ultramarine Grosbeak is a stunningly beautiful bird, with its bright blue plumage and striking black face mask making it a standout in its native habitats.
The Bicolored Antpitta (Grallaria rufocinerea) is a medium-sized bird with reddish-brown upperparts and grey underparts, found in cloud forests and Andean montane forests of Colombia and Ecuador.
The Buffy Helmetcrest has adapted to the high-altitude environment, with a highly efficient metabolism to cope with low oxygen levels.
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It has no sexual dimorphism. It is a large bird with a large, rounded head and thick beak. It is black from the head to the malar region and the chin and cheeks silver. Its upper parts are olive with blackish wing and tail-coverts and its underparts from the throat to the undertail-coverts are lemon yellow with washed flanks of olive mixed with gray.
This species is found in northeastern Colombia and northwestern Venezuela. In Colombia, it is distributed up to 1200 m above sea level in the arid part of the Caribbean Coast from the Sinú River eastward to the base of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, the Serranía de Perijá, and south to the lower valley of the Cauca River and the middle valley of the Magdalena River in Antioquia (ruficollis). Also in La Guajira (decolor), east of the Andes in Norte de Santander (coloratus), and north of Meta, Casanare, Arauca, and northeast of Vichada (bicinctus
Generally, a silent and uncommon bird that inhabits intermediate altitudes in the Colombian Andes. Its name means bird with a long mantle and a golden head. Pharomachrus derives from the Greek roots pharos = mantle, makros = long, and auriceps from the Latin aurum = golden and ceps = head.
