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• Plain-breasted Hawk Accipiter ventralis

  

  This small hawk occurs in Andean mountain forest and cloud forest. Its plumage is variable; one adult-male form in the guide has reddish-brown flanks and thighs.

• Campo Flicker Colaptes campestris

  The male Campo Flicker is marked by a yellow face and breast, with a black crown and nape. At Costanera Sur Ecological Reserve in Buenos Aires, it is often recorded along paths and the outer sidewalk.

• Black-hooded Sunbeam Aglaeactis pamela

  This hummingbird has a dark head, white breast feathers, and a shining blue rump. It feeds at flowers in Bolivia's highlands.

• Scarlet-thighed Dacnis Dacnis venusta

  This small bird occurs in forests from Central America to northwestern South America. Males are turquoise with scarlet thighs; females are duller green-blue, with pale underparts and no scarlet thigh patch.

• White-throated Treerunner Pygarrhichas albogularis

  It climbs trunks and branches while pecking at bark for food, mainly insects. In the Argentine SIB account for the Andean-Patagonian forests, it is more often seen in low valleys during winter.

• Scrub Euphonia Euphonia affinis

  The Scrub Euphonia is a small bird of woodland, forest edges and semi-open habitats from Mexico through Central America. It is about 9 cm long, weighs around 10 g and eats fruit.

• Eastern Wood Pewee Contopus virens

  The Eastern Wood-Pewee is a small bird of eastern North American forests that waits on a perch and catches flying insects.

• 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.

• Pheasant Pigeon Otidiphaps nobilis

  The Pheasant Pigeon is a pigeon that spends much of its time on the ground and has pheasant-like habits. It eats seeds and fallen fruit.

• Yungas Pygmy Owl Glaucidium bolivianum

  The Yungas Pygmy Owl lives in humid mountain forest on the eastern Andes and has eye-like markings on the back of its head.

• White-shouldered Antbird Akletos melanoceps

  This antbird occurs in the western Amazon. The male is black with a concealed white shoulder patch; the female is rufous with a black head.

• Savanna Hawk Buteogallus meridionalis

  The Savanna Hawk is a raptor with rufous plumage and long legs. It searches for prey by walking through lowland savanna or by hunting from a perch or in flight.

• Bar-breasted Piculet Picumnus aurifrons

  The Bar-breasted Piculet is a small woodpecker of the Amazon forest canopy. Males have an orange forehead, which females lack.

• Gorgeted Sunangel Heliangelus strophianus

  Adult males have a violet-red throat and a sharply defined white gorget. This small hummingbird lives at forest edges in the mountains of Ecuador and northern Peru and feeds mainly on nectar.

• Purplish-mantled Tanager Iridosornis porphyrocephalus

  This tanager occurs in forests of western Colombia and Ecuador. It has a purplish-blue body and a bright yellow throat, and feeds on insects and fruit.

• Plain-winged Woodcreeper Dendrocincla turdina

  This woodcreeper has olive-brown upperparts and a reddish-brown tail. In forests of eastern Paraguay and northeastern Argentina, researchers also recorded it foraging with groups of monkeys.

• Blue-naped Chlorophonia Chlorophonia cyanea

  The male is a small bird with vivid blue, green, and yellow plumage. It searches for fruit high in trees; the preserved account records it at nine southeastern Brazilian localities.

• Patagonian Tyrant Colorhamphus parvirostris

  This small tyrant flycatcher is a permanent resident of northwest Patagonia. It uses wet forest and ecotonal woodland and catches flying insects from a perch.

• Large Niltava Niltava grandis

  The Large Niltava lives in forests from the southern Himalayan foothills across Southeast Asia. Adult males are black and blue; females are brown with a blue patch on the side of the neck.

• Pied Cuckoo-Dove Reinwardtoena browni

  This large dove contrasts a silvery head, neck, and chest with a pale belly and dark wings and tail. It lives in forests on islands northeast of New Guinea.

• 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.

• Western Fire-eye Pyriglena maura

  This antbird lives in dense forest understory from northern to central South America. It searches near the ground for insects and small lizards.

• Pallid Harrier Circus macrourus

  A harrier that breeds from eastern Europe to Central Asia. Males are pale gray, while females and juveniles are browner; it lives in open country.

• Buff-spotted Flameback Chrysocolaptes lucidus

  This woodpecker lives in forests of the southern Philippines. Its back is orange-red, and pale spots mark its body.