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• Spot-crowned Euphonia Euphonia imitans

  

  This euphonia occurs on the southern Pacific slope of Costa Rica. Males have a yellow forehead and underparts with blue-black upperparts; females have an olive back and rufous underparts.

• Grasshopper Buzzard Butastur rufipennis

  The Grasshopper Buzzard is a raptor of open Sahel country that feeds heavily on insects, especially grasshoppers.

• Rufous-breasted Spinetail Synallaxis erythrothorax

  The Rufous-breasted Spinetail uses secondary forest and second-growth scrub, gleaning invertebrates from vegetation. A historical museum account describes plumage of specimens from southern Mexico and Central America.

• Black-headed Hemispingus Pseudospingus verticalis

  This tanager occurs on the eastern Andean slope north and west of the Marañón Valley. The species account also lists records from Colombia and Ecuador.

• Kalahari Scrub Robin Erythropygia paena

  This small bird lives in dry grassland and shrubland of southern Africa. Sandy-brown upperparts contrast with pale underparts, and the rusty rump and tail stand out. It forages near the ground and has a varied song.

• Fuscous Flycatcher Cnemotriccus fuscatus

  This flycatcher occurs across South America. The Peru account describes it foraging in the understory of river-created habitats, with different subspecies associated with different environments.

• Great Antshrike Taraba major

  Male and female Great Antshrikes have different plumage: males are black above, while females are rufous-brown above. They hide in humid lowland undergrowth and are often found in pairs.

• Brown-throated Parakeet Eupsittula pertinax

  The Brown-throated Parakeet varies in plumage across its range. It nests in arboreal termite mounds and gathers in flocks where food is abundant.

• Varzea Piculet Picumnus varzeae

  This tiny woodpecker is 8–9 cm long. It occurs in seasonally flooded forest along the Amazon in Brazil, and published natural-history records are limited.

• White-eared Hummingbird Basilinna leucotis

  This hummingbird lives in mountain forests from Nicaragua to northern Mexico. It has a white ear-stripe on a dark head; in bright light, an adult male's face appears violet and its throat gleams green.

• Thick-billed Green Pigeon Treron curvirostra

  The Thick-billed Green Pigeon is a green pigeon that feeds on figs and other fruit in the forest canopy. Males and females have different plumage patterns.

• Amazonian Pygmy Owl Glaucidium hardyi

  The 14–15 cm Amazonian Pygmy Owl lives in the canopy of primary tropical forest across much of Amazonia. It is partly active by day; one nest in French Guiana was in an old woodpecker hole.

• Djibouti Francolin Pternistis ochropectus

  The Djibouti francolin is a spurfowl that lives in the remaining highland forests of Djibouti. Its belly feathers have a pale streak, and males have two spurs on each leg.

• Brown-rumped Seedeater Crithagra tristriata

  A small brown finch with fine streaks on the head. It feeds on seeds in highland scrub and woodland edges from Ethiopia to northern Somalia.

• Crested Honey Buzzard Pernis ptilorhynchus

  A hawk with broad wings and a rounded tail. In Japan, it breeds in low mountain forests north of Shikoku and digs up nests of ground-nesting wasps to eat.

• White-throated Earthcreeper Upucerthia albigula

  This earthcreeper is recorded on the western slope of the Andes in Peru. It has rufous-brown upperparts and tail, a whitish throat, and a down-curved black bill, and forages among scattered rocks and sparse scrub.

• Yellow-backed Tanager Hemithraupis flavicollis

  This tanager occurs from eastern Panama to southeastern Brazil. eBird describes pairs feeding in the canopy, often with mixed-species flocks.

• Ultramarine Flycatcher Ficedula superciliaris

  The Ultramarine Flycatcher breeds in high country around the Himalayas and moves to lower southern regions for winter.

• Austral Negrito Lessonia rufa

  A flycatcher that walks on the ground near lakes, rivers and wetlands to find insects. Birds in north-western Patagonia spend summer there and move to central Argentina in winter.

• White-streaked Antvireo Dysithamnus leucostictus

  This small bird lives in low tangles of humid montane forest. Males are gray, while females have a rufous-brown head and back, among other sex-specific differences.

• Gray-hooded Parakeet Psilopsiagon aymara

  The Gray-hooded Parakeet lives in Andean scrub and farmland. It has a brownish-gray head and yellow-green flanks.

• Golden-olive Woodpecker Colaptes rubiginosus

  This woodpecker ranges from southern Mexico through Central America into northwestern South America and the Andes. It has olive plumage with fine bars, and males show a red facial stripe.

• Rivoli's Hummingbird Eugenes fulgens

  A large hummingbird of mountain forests, it feeds at flowers and the male shows glossy colors on its crown and throat.

• Adamawa Turtle Dove Streptopelia hypopyrrha

  The Adamawa Turtle Dove lives in the highlands of western Africa. The male has blue-grey and salmon-pink on the chest and belly.