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• Grey-tailed Mountaingem Lampornis cinereicauda

  

  Grey-tailed Mountaingem is represented here by hummingbirds surveyed at Cloudbridge Nature Reserve, Costa Rica. The study recorded this population under an older subspecies name and described different male and female plumage.

• Sooty Woodpecker Mulleripicus funebris

  The Northern Sooty Woodpecker is a large woodpecker of the northern Philippines. In the northern taxon, males have broader burgundy facial markings and smaller white spots on the neck than the related southern form.

• Itatiaia Spinetail Asthenes moreirae

  This small ovenbird lives in high-elevation grasslands of southeastern Brazil. Its long, frayed tail is distinctive, and it forages among grass and shrubs.

• Fearful Owl Asio solomonensis

  The Fearful Owl is a medium-sized owl without ear-tufts. White markings form an X across its face, and it has yellow eyes and streaked brown plumage.

• Familiar Chat Oenanthe familiaris

  The Familiar Chat is a small African bird of rocky places and sparse woodland. Its rufous-orange rump and tail stand out against its grey-brown body.

• Spectacled Finch Callacanthis burtoni

  A female observed in western Bhutan had conspicuous yellow-orange skin around the eye and a heavy yellowish bill.

• Stock Dove Columba oenas

  A blue-grey pigeon that feeds on farmland and nests in holes in old trees. This entry shows part of its range in Britain and Ireland.

• Greater Spotted Eagle Clanga clanga

  Adults are dark brown with broad wings; young birds have prominent white spots on the back and wings.

• Black-backed Tanager Stilpnia peruviana

  The Black-backed Tanager is about 14 cm long and endemic to Atlantic Forest along southeastern Brazil. It mainly occupies coastal sandbank forest and lowland forest.

• Lulu's Tody-Flycatcher Poecilotriccus luluae

  Lulu's Tody-Flycatcher was described from mid-elevation forest in northern Peru. The paper describes a reddish-brown crown, yellowish olive-green back, a white band below the throat, and an orange-yellow to yellow-ochre belly. It reports four localities.

• Orange-bellied Antwren Terenura sicki

  This antwren is recorded in remaining evergreen forest in Alagoas and Pernambuco, northeastern Brazil. The 1983 type description gives a streaked black and buff crown, chestnut back and orange underside. In 2018, ICMBio reported severe fragmentation and continuing habitat loss and assessed the species as Critically Endangered in Brazil.

• Large-billed Parrotlet Forpus crassirostris

  The Large-billed Parrotlet is a small parrot of lowlands from southeastern Colombia to western Brazil. Males have blue wing markings; females are green and less yellow overall.

• Fiery-throated Metaltail Metallura eupogon

  This hummingbird occurs on the eastern slope of the central Peruvian Andes. The male has an iridescent purple throat, and records come from humid mountain forest edges and nearby scrub.

• Crimson-winged Woodpecker Picus puniceus

  This greenish woodpecker has red wings and a red crown, plus a yellow crest. It forages on trunks and large branches in forests and plantations from lowlands into lower mountain areas.

• Pernambuco Foliage-gleaner Automolus lammi

  This foliage-gleaner occurs in states of northeastern Brazil. It has white eyes and throat and coppery plumage, and searches among leaves and vines in forest interiors near streams.

• Maned Owl Jubula lettii

  An owl with long head feathers that form a mane. It lives in forests of West and Central Africa and is nocturnal, but details of its diet and other habits are poorly known.

• White-browed Scrub Robin Erythropygia leucophrys

  In southern African accounts, this small bird uses scrub and savanna woodland. It has a rufous rump and upper tail coverts, a streaked breast and white wing markings. Older sources retain the combination Erythropygia leucophrys.

• Pale Rosefinch Carpodacus stoliczkae

  The Pale Rosefinch ranges from northern and central Afghanistan into western and central China. A report also documents a bird at Turtuk, India, but its subspecies was not determined.

• Henderson Fruit Dove Ptilinopus insularis

  The Henderson Fruit Dove lives in forests on Henderson Island, where it is endemic. Adults have a purplish-crimson crown and eat fruit.

• Vinous-breasted Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza rhodogaster

  The Vinous-breasted Sparrowhawk is a raptor of Sulawesi and nearby islands. Adults are marked by a vinous breast and slate-gray upperparts.

• Collared Warbling Finch Poospiza hispaniolensis

  The Collared Warbling Finch occurs in Ecuador and Peru. Males show a white eyebrow and breast band, while females are browner and have dark streaks on the breast and belly.

• Eared Pygmy Tyrant Myiornis auricularis

  This tiny tyrant flycatcher is reported from Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina. It has a black patch behind the eye on a grey head and feeds mostly on insects.

• White-eyed Stipplethroat Epinecrophylla leucophthalma

  This small antbird occurs in Amazonian forest in Peru, Brazil, and Bolivia. Males are brown and gray, females are mainly brown, and both forage in the lower forest strata.

• Dusky-headed Parakeet Aratinga weddellii

  The Dusky-headed Parakeet is a green parrot with a grey head and white eye-ring. It uses forest edges and other partly open habitats in the western Amazon Basin.