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• Grey-headed Woodpecker Picus canus

  

  The Grey-headed Woodpecker has a green body and grey head. In India’s Great Himalayan National Park, it is described feeding on ants and insects, as well as fruit in winter.

• Buffy Helmetcrest Oxypogon stuebelii

  The Buffy Helmetcrest is a hummingbird of the high Andes of central Colombia. Local accounts place it in páramo around Los Nevados, among areas with frailejón plants.

• Large-billed Seed Finch Sporophila crassirostris

  It has a large, thick bill for its body size. The male is almost entirely black with a white wing patch and ivory bill; the female is brown above and buffier below. In Colombia it forages mainly for grass seeds in tall grass near water.

• Swinhoe's Pheasant Lophura swinhoii

  Swinhoe's Pheasant lives in Taiwan's forests. The male stands out with a white crest and back and two long white tail feathers.

• Red-billed Woodcreeper Hylexetastes perrotii

  This woodcreeper inhabits moist lowland forest in South America. It searches trunks and branches for arthropods.

• White-bellied Canary Crithagra dorsostriata

  This canary lives in dry scrub and savanna in eastern Africa. It searches for grass seeds near the ground, and some birds move outside the breeding season.

• Bronze-olive Pygmy Tyrant Pseudotriccus pelzelni

  The Peru species page identifies subspecies P. p. peruvianus and describes it feeding inconspicuously in the understory of humid montane forest. It is olive brown above.

• Javan Blue Flycatcher Cyornis banyumas

  This small flycatcher has a blue back and orange breast in males, while females have a gray-brown back and rufous tail. It catches insects from perches in the undergrowth of Java's forests.

• Golden-plumed Parakeet Leptosittaca branickii

  The Golden-plumed Parakeet lives in Andean forests from Colombia south to Peru. Adults are mostly green, with yellow plumes behind the eyes and orange tones on the belly.

• Red-eared Fruit Dove Ptilinopus fischeri

  The Red-eared Fruit Dove lives in the mountains of Sulawesi. Adults are notable for a green back and a violet-red patch by the ear; they are usually solitary and discreet.

• Cloud-forest Pygmy Owl Glaucidium nubicola

  This small owl lives in cloud forests from western Ecuador into Colombia. It may be active by day or night and is seen alone or in pairs.

• Caatinga Antwren Radinopsyche sellowi

  An antwren of dry woodland and scrub in northeastern Brazil, especially in the Caatinga region.

• Wedge-tailed Eagle Aquila audax

  The Wedge-tailed Eagle is a large eagle marked by a long, wedge-shaped tail and feathered legs down to the toes. It eats live prey as well as carcasses.

• Fire-bellied Woodpecker Chloropicus pyrrhogaster

  This woodpecker lives in lowland forests of West Africa. Its account gives a length of about 24 cm, but the plumage description available here is for males only.

• Mangrove Hummingbird Amazilia boucardi

  The Mangrove Hummingbird is endemic to Costa Rica and mainly lives in Pacific-coast mangroves, especially where Pelliciera rhizophorae is abundant.

• Spotted Tanager Ixothraupis punctata

  This tanager is described in a Suriname guide as a bird of the middle forest layers, seen in pairs or small groups. Its green plumage has dark edges.

• Delta Amacuro Softtail Thripophaga amacurensis

  A softtail known from seasonally flooded forest in the southern Orinoco Delta of Venezuela. Fine pale streaks mark its back and underparts.

• Iiwi Vestiaria coccinea

  The iiwi is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands. Its vermilion-and-black plumage and long, deeply curved bill are distinctive. It feeds on flower nectar in mountain forest, and most of the current population is on Hawaiʻi, Maui and Kauaʻi.

• Grey-crowned Flatbill Tolmomyias poliocephalus

  The Grey-crowned Flatbill is widespread in Amazonia, with records up to 1,300 m along the Andean foothills. It may forage in mixed-species flocks in the canopy of river-edge forest and on river islands.

• White-crowned Forktail Enicurus leschenaulti

  This long-tailed thrush is marked in black and white and lives along forest streams. It searches near the water for small invertebrates.

• Goias Parakeet Pyrrhura pfrimeri

  The Goias Parakeet occurs in dry forest patches on limestone in central Brazil. A 1997 field study documented dry-season feeding in this restricted habitat.

• Red Collared Dove Streptopelia tranquebarica

  The Red Collared Dove is a small dove that feeds on seeds on the ground in open grassland. Males and females have different plumage.

• Long-whiskered Owlet Xenoglaux loweryi

  The Long-whiskered Owlet is a tiny owl with long facial feathers like whiskers. It is recorded in humid mountain forests of northern Peru.

• Plain Antvireo Dysithamnus mentalis

  The Plain Antvireo is recorded across Central and South America. In Costa Rica, it occurs in the understory of humid mountain forests, and males and females differ in plumage.