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• Sibilant Sirystes Sirystes sibilator

  

  The Sibilant Sirystes is a tyrant flycatcher of South American forests. A taxonomic paper describes typical southern birds and paler populations in northern and central Brazil.

• Scarlet-browed Tanager Heterospingus xanthopygius

  This tanager occurs from Panama through Colombia to Ecuador. Males are mostly black with a white eyebrow and scarlet eyebrow tufts; the species uses humid lowland forest and its edges.

• 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.

• Bananal Antbird Cercomacra ferdinandi

  An antbird recorded along the Araguaia and Tocantins river corridors of central Brazil, using dense river-edge thickets in flood-prone areas.

• Lizard Buzzard Kaupifalco monogrammicus

  The Lizard Buzzard is a small raptor of sub-Saharan Africa. Its grey head and back contrast with a black stripe down its white throat.

• Streaked Tuftedcheek Pseudocolaptes boissonneautii

  This furnariid inhabits humid Andean forests. White neck tufts and a rufous tail stand out, and it forages from the midstory to the canopy with mixed-species flocks.

• Red-billed Parrot Pionus sordidus

  This parrot is mostly green, with a blue chest and a red bill. In Ecuador, it feeds on fruit and flowers in the canopy of cloudy forests and nests in tree cavities.

• Jungle Bush Quail Perdicula asiatica

  The Jungle Bush Quail is a small quail of dry grassland and scrub in India and Sri Lanka. It feeds on seeds and insects on the ground.

• Eyebrowed Jungle Flycatcher Rhinomyias gularis

  A small flycatcher of Borneo’s mountain forests. It moves alone or in small groups in the understorey, searching for insects.

• Citril Finch Carduelis citrinella

  A small finch with a gray head and yellow-green cheeks, rump, and underparts. It feeds on plant seeds in open mountain woods and meadows.

• Blue-throated Sapphire Chlorestes eliciae

  The male is a small hummingbird with a blue-violet throat and bronzy-golden tail. It feeds mainly on nectar and also takes small arthropods.

• Grey-chested Dove Leptotila cassinii

  Grey-chested Doves have muted gray-brown upperparts with a slight purplish cast and pale underparts. They usually forage on foot, alone or in pairs, in forests from southern Mexico through Central America to northern Colombia.

• East Brazilian Pygmy Owl Glaucidium minutissimum

  This small owl has a rounded head without ear tufts, brown plumage, and yellow eyes. It lives in forests in eastern Brazil.

• Guatemalan Tyrannulet Zimmerius vilissimus

  A small tyrannulet ranging from southern Mexico to northwestern Colombia. It forages in the canopy and along forest edges, including second-growth woodland.

• Azure-rumped Tanager Poecilostreptus cabanisi

  The Azure-rumped Tanager occurs in Pacific-slope mountains of western Guatemala and Chiapas, Mexico. A Guatemalan study recorded it in humid broadleaf forest and shade coffee plantations.

• Red-headed Woodpecker Melanerpes erythrocephalus

  An adult woodpecker with a bright red head and bold black-and-white wings that eats insects and nuts.

• Northern Chestnut-tailed Antbird Sciaphylax castanea

  This antbird occurs in western Amazonia, including northern Peru. Males and females differ in their breast and wing markings, and forage in the understory of floodplain and terra firme forest.

• Steller's sea eagle Haliaeetus pelagicus

  An eagle with a massive yellow bill. It breeds along the northern Sea of Okhotsk and winters in places including northern Japan.

• Orange-breasted Thornbird Phacellodomus ferrugineigula

  This ovenbird is recorded from central-northern Uruguay to eastern Brazil. Adults have three central pairs of olive-brown tail feathers, and the reddish-chestnut chin grades into an olive-brown lower belly. A 2008 comparative study treated it as a distinct species from its close relative.

• St Lucia Amazon Amazona versicolor

  The St Lucia Amazon is a large parrot found only on Saint Lucia. It uses the forest canopy.

• Nilgiri Flycatcher Eumyias albicaudatus

  The Nilgiri Flycatcher occurs in India's Western Ghats. Males are greenish indigo-blue with white patches at the tail base; females are smaller and grey-brown.

• Black Siskin Spinus atratus

  This small finch lives in high Andean grasslands and rocky areas. Yellow patches on its otherwise black wings and tail are especially visible in flight.

• Coppery Metaltail Metallura theresiae

  This small hummingbird is endemic to Peru. It is recorded on the eastern Andean slopes in humid montane forest and scrub at 2,800–3,550 m.

• White-fronted Quail-Dove Geotrygon leucometopia

  This dove has a purplish-blue sheen on the back and a white forehead. It walks on the leaf litter of humid montane forest in Hispaniola.