5 uncertain birds, REGUA, Brazil (RJ) (1 Viewer)

[opisska]

So as I said i the other topic, my wife bought me two nice books for South America, meaning that I was able to ID a whooping 30 new (and many old) species from my short stay in Rio without any help. Yet, there are some ... leftovers, so I am gonna be a little annoying on this forum in the coming days.

In this post, I present five birds where I sort of do have an idea, but I am unsure, whether I am right. All from the wonderful REGUA reserve about 100 km NE from Rio.

1. tropical or chalk-browed mockingbird?
2. blue-winged parrolets? (this is the only shot of the flock that shows an actual blue color in the wings, on other pictures, the sitting birds are just green, but there is no other parrolet in range anyway?)
3. versicoloured emerald?
4. southern beardless tyranulet?
5. now this is slightly embarassing, but this is a rufous hornero, right? I realized that here in Brazil, there are several possibly similar species, so even though I have maybe a hundred rufous horneros already in Argentina, I am not quite sure I can ID one without the help of range.

 

[rockfowl]

1 - Chalk-browed
2 - Yes
3 - I think so.
4 - I think so.
5 - Rufous

 

[njlarsen]

#1 looks too strongly marked compared to the tropical m where I live.
I will leave the rest to others

Niels

 

[opisska]

1 - Chalk-browed
2 - Yes
3 - I think so.
4 - I think so.
5 - Rufous

Great, thanks! It is encouraging to see that my IDs on birds I have never seen (and horneros ) are not complete rubish.

Thanks to Niels as well, I was thinking that the eye patch is too strong but then there was the light colour, but that is difficult to judge.