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• Black Imperial Pigeon Ducula melanochroa

  

  This large pigeon lives in forests of the Bismarck Archipelago. It feeds on fruit in the canopy and is seen alone or in small groups.

• Central American Pygmy Owl Glaucidium griseiceps

  This entry treats Glaucidium griseiceps as the Central American Pygmy Owl. It was formerly treated as a subspecies of the Least Pygmy Owl, and sources differ on the status of its local forms.

• Downy Woodpecker Dryobates pubescens

  A small black-and-white woodpecker of North America, often seen in woodlots, parks, and at backyard feeders.

• 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.

• Cape Robin-Chat Cossypha caffra

  Male and female Cape Robin-Chats look alike, with a pale orange breast and a white eyebrow-like marking. In South Africa they use thickets, stream edges, forest margins, gardens, and parks, and feed near the ground on insects and other invertebrates.

• Ornate Hawk-Eagle Spizaetus ornatus

  The Ornate Hawk-Eagle is a forest raptor marked by a black crest and a rufous neck. In Argentina it glides along forest edges and hunts large birds and mammals.

• Dark-winged Canastero Asthenes arequipae

  Dark-winged Canastero is an Andean species recognized after a former broad species was split. One bird recorded in Chile had a rufous rump and vent.

• Ornate Stipplethroat Epinecrophylla ornata

  The Ornate Stipplethroat occurs in the lower and middle forest layers of the Amazon region. It has been reported moving through hanging dead leaves while foraging.

• Maroon-tailed Parakeet Pyrrhura melanura

  The Maroon-tailed Parakeet has a green body and dark maroon tail. It occurs in forested parts of Colombia and feeds on fruit in small flocks.

• Fulvous Shrike-Tanager Lanio fulvus

  A tanager of humid lowland forests in northern Amazonia. It acts as a sentinel near the center of mixed-species flocks and catches insects flushed by other birds.

• Blue-tufted Starthroat Heliomaster furcifer

  The Blue-tufted Starthroat has a long, slightly curved black bill. Males have a violet-glittering throat and blue feathers on the sides of the neck and breast. It feeds mainly on nectar and also catches small insects in flight.

• Southern Scrub Flycatcher Sublegatus modestus

  This small flycatcher breeds in southern South America and moves north toward the southern Amazon in some seasons. It occurs in lowland scrub, open woodland, and savanna.

• Black-banded Fruit Dove Ptilinopus alligator

  The Black-banded Fruit Dove is marked by a white head and upper chest, a black breast band, and a grey back. It has a limited range on Australia's Arnhem Land Plateau.

• Bare-legged Owl Margarobyas lawrencii

  This Cuban owl has large dark eyes and pale eyebrows. It hunts at night and rests in tree cavities or caves during the day.

• Yellow-throated Woodpecker Piculus flavigula

  This woodpecker inhabits Amazonian forest, including northern Peru. It may join mixed-species flocks in the canopy and subcanopy.

• Antillean Siskin Spinus dominicensis

  This small finch has strongly different male and female plumage. Males are conspicuously yellow, while females are mainly green. It lives in the mountains of Hispaniola.

• Angola Slaty Flycatcher Dioptrornis brunneus

  This uncommon, poorly known flycatcher is endemic to Angola. The candidate name Dioptrornis brunneus is an older generic combination; current accounts use Melaenornis brunneus.

• White-collared Kite Leptodon forbesi

  The White-collared Kite is a raptor with a white band at the back of its neck. It has been recorded soaring over Atlantic Forest in northeastern Brazil.

• Striated Softtail Thripophaga macroura

  This bird is locally distributed in eastern Brazil. Its upperparts are rufous-brown with pale streaks, and its tail is cinnamon-colored. At Sooretama, pairs and small family groups were recorded foraging in the lower forest among dense vine tangles.

• Willis's Antbird Cercomacroides laeta

  This antbird is patchily distributed in Brazil and reaches extreme southern Guyana in the north. Its three subspecies occupy different areas.

• Timneh Parrot Psittacus timneh

  A grey parrot of West African forests and adjoining habitats. It eats fruit and seeds and nests in high tree cavities.

• Black-faced Tanager Schistochlamys melanopis

  This tanager occurs in forest edges and secondary vegetation on the eastern Andes of Peru. Adults are gray with a broad black mark from the face to the upper chest.

• Purple-throated Sunangel Heliangelus viola

  The Purple-throated Sunangel is about 11–12 cm long. It feeds on nectar by day in forest and at forest edges in the Andes.

• Unstreaked Tit-Tyrant Uromyias agraphia

  The Unstreaked Tit-Tyrant is endemic to Peru and lives in humid montane forest on the eastern Andean slope.