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• Black-eared Hemispingus Sphenopsis melanotis

  

  The Peru account places this tanager in Andean montane forest and describes several forms with variable plumage. It forages in dense foliage from the understory into the middle story.

• Rufous-tailed Shama Trichixos pyrropygus

  This shama has a warm brown body and rufous tail. It skulks alone in lowland forest understorey and searches near the ground for insects.

• Middle American Screech Owl Megascops guatemalae

  This screech-owl ranges from Mexico to northern Nicaragua. Greyish and reddish morphs occur, and it uses humid as well as drier forests and woodland from low to mid elevations.

• Bearded Mountaineer Oreonympha nobilis

  A 19th-century account by Gould records specimens from Peru's Cuzco region and flights between flowers with apparent aerial insect-catching. The male description has a blue crown and long green-and-purple throat ornament.

• Ash-winged Antwren Euchrepomis spodioptila

  The Ash-winged Antwren forages with mixed-species flocks in the canopy of mature Amazonian forest. Adult males are gray with a black cap and white wingbars; the reddish back and rump can be hidden by folded wings.

• Dusky Leaftosser Sclerurus obscurior

  Sclerurus obscurior searches leaf litter on the forest floor. Peru Aves calls it the South American Leaftosser and notes that Tawny-throated Leaftosser was used formerly.

• Puerto Rican Amazon Amazona vittata

  The Puerto Rican Amazon is a green parrot endemic to Puerto Rico. It feeds mainly on wild fruit; tabonuco fruit is also important in October.

• Pileated Woodpecker Dryocopus pileatus

  A large woodpecker with a red crest and white neck stripes that searches dead wood for ants.

• Asian Rosy Finch Leucosticte arctoa

  The Asian Rosy Finch is a finch that visits northern Japan in winter. Flocks appear in open places such as coastal cliffs and grassland.

• Black Francolin Francolinus francolinus

  This ground-dwelling pheasant relative moves through grasslands and shrublands. Males are black and chestnut, while females are golden-brown with black and white spots, so the sexes look very different.

• Sumatran Green Pigeon Treron oxyurus

  The Sumatran Green Pigeon lives in evergreen forest on Sumatra and western Java. It eats fruit, especially figs, and may form groups while feeding.

• Congo Serpent Eagle Circaetus spectabilis

  The Congo Serpent Eagle is a forest raptor with rounded wings and a long tail. It watches from a perch for snakes and other prey.

• Golden-bellied Flycatcher Myiodynastes hemichrysus

  This flycatcher is found in the montane forests of Costa Rica and western Panama. Its yellow underparts and dark stripe between the throat and lower cheek are distinctive. It eats fruit and insects and is usually seen in pairs or small family groups.

• Genovesa Cactus Finch Geospiza propinqua

  The Genovesa Cactus Finch is restricted to Genovesa Island in the Galápagos. Its long, narrow bill is compressed from side to side, and the bird uses dry lowland scrub where prickly-pear cactus grows.

• Gould's Shortwing Heteroxenicus stellatus

  Gould's Shortwing lives in the Himalayas and nearby mountain ranges. Its chestnut back contrasts with a grey breast and belly marked by white spots.

• Javan Owlet Glaucidium castanopterum

  A small owl with a rounded head, chestnut back, and white underparts marked by long brown streaks. It is mainly nocturnal and lives in forest and forest edge on Java.

• Empress Brilliant Heliodoxa imperatrix

  This large hummingbird occurs in humid mountain forests from western Colombia to northwestern Ecuador. It feeds on nectar at flowers.

• Moustached Antwren Myrmotherula ignota

  This roughly 8 cm bird lives in northern Amazonia. Males have black-and-white streaking and yellow underparts, while females are buff and black; both search along tree sides.

• Para Foliage-gleaner Automolus paraensis

  The Para Foliage-gleaner occurs in the southern Brazilian Amazon. Its species account notes a greyish crown and rufous tail, and it uses terra firme forest as well as floodplain and secondary forest. This account follows the range of Automolus paraensis as a separate species.

• Maroon-fronted Parrot Rhynchopsitta terrisi

  This large parrot inhabits mountains of northeastern Mexico. It has a green body with a dark maroon forehead and wing edges, feeds mainly on pine seeds, and roosts in groups outside the breeding season. It may fly long distances to feeding areas.

• Black-rumped Flameback Dinopium benghalense

  A woodpecker with a striking golden-looking back.

• Yellow-throated Euphonia Euphonia hirundinacea

  The Yellow-throated Euphonia lives in Central American woodland. Males have blue upperparts and bright yellow underparts, while females are more subdued green.

• Sand Partridge Ammoperdix heyi

  The Sand Partridge walks on rocky slopes and in valleys, feeding on seeds, berries, and insects on the ground. Males have white facial marks; females and young birds are sandy-colored.

• Yellow-vented Green Pigeon Treron seimundi

  The Yellow-vented Green Pigeon is notable for the adult male's white belly and yellow undertail. The park profile lists it in evergreen forest in central and south-central Vietnam and other parts of the region.