The orange-breasted fruiteater (Pipreola jucunda) is a species of bird in the family Cotingidae native to Colombia and Ecuador. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is a plump green bird about 18 centimetres (7 in) long. Males have a glossy black head and bib, an orange throat and yellow belly. Females lack the dark head and have green upper parts and green and yellow streaked underparts. Both sexes have orange beaks and greyish-green legs. This is a relatively common species with a wide range, and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature has rated its conservation status as being of «least concern».
The Red-ruffed fruitcrow is a species of passerine bird, the only one of the monotypic genus Pyroderus, of the Cotingidae family. It is native to South America.
This bird is around 23cm. It has unmistakable characteristics. Above its beak it is black and below it is orange. Its eyes are red and it has a rather long tail. It is deep black in color with white cheeks, white pectoral tufts and broad white tips on its outer rectrices. It has inner margins of white inner rectrices that are prominent in flight.
It´s a species of bird placed in the family Grallariidae, previously included in Formicariidae. It is native to the Andean region of northwestern South America.
Own of Central America and the extreme northwest of South America. This Nuthatch is the only one with densely ridged tops and bottoms. Its name Xiphorhynchus comes from the Greek roots xiphos = sword and rhunkhos = beak. The epithet lachrymosus comes from Latin and means full of tears.
The black-chested buzzard-eagle (Geranoaetus melanoleucus) is a bird of prey of the hawk and eagle family(Accipitridae). It lives in open regions of South America. This species is also known as the black buzzard-eagle, grey buzzard-eagle or analogously with «eagle» or «eagle-buzzard» replacing «buzzard-eagle», or as the Chilean blue eagle. It is sometimes placed in the genus Buteo.
The American kestrel (Falco sparverius) is the smallest and most common falcon in North America. It has about a two to one range in size over subspecies and sex, varying in size from about the weight of a blue jay to a mourning dove. It also ranges to South America, and is a well-established species that has evolved seventeen subspecies adapted to different environments and habitats throughout the Americas. It exhibits sexual dimorphism in size (females being moderately larger) and plumage, although both sexes have a rufous back with noticeable barring. Its plumage is colorful and attractive, and juveniles are similar in plumage to adults.
The spectacled parrotlet (Forpus conspicillatus) is a species of parrot in the family Psittacidae. It is the nominate species (Forpus conspicillatus conspicillatus).
There are two subspecies: the Cauca spectacled parotlet (F. c. caucae) and the Venezuelan spectacled parotlet (F. c. metae).
Males are larger and have longer bills than females. The breeding range runs along the Gulf and Atlantic Coast, and the coasts of Mexico and Central America. Outside the breeding period, the range extends further inland in North America and also includes the Caribbean. It is also found along the northwestern South American coastline in Colombia and Venezuela. Populations in central Venezuela overlap and interbreed with the scarlet ibis. The two have been classified by some authorities as a single species.
The grey-breasted mountain toucan (Andigena hypoglauca) is a species of bird in the family Ramphastidae found in humid highland forest, often at the tops of the trees, in the Andes of southern Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. It remains locally fairly common, but has declined due to habitat loss.
