At Amagusa Preserve in Mashpi, Ecuador, I got photos of both a male and female barred becard. The bird recognition feature on iNaturalist did not even list that identification as a possibility for either. It was an identifier on iNaturalist, who goes by the moniker "Isueza" who ended up correcting my mis-identification on both, as well as a number of other birds in Ecuador. That is the feature on iNaturalist that I love.
The genus becard, which I'd never heard of, contains 17 subspecies. The barred becard is found in highlands, in a small strip, from Costa Rica to northern Bolivia. eBird records 13,221 observations and has 494 photos. None of the featured photos are from Ecuador.
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| Species map from Wikipedia |
Both males and females have an eye-ring. The male has black upperparts with quite a bit of white in the wings. The sides of the head and throat have yellowish-green which then shades to white on the rest of the underparts. The underparts have fine black barring, giving it its name.
The female, which is much prettier, has a gray crown and nape, olive green upperparts and much rufous in the wings. The underparts are greenish-yellow and are also finely barred and dusky.
They pick insects and spiders off foliage in flight and also eat small berries.
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