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• Violet-throated Starfrontlet Coeligena violifer

  

  The Violet-throated Starfrontlet has a green head and chest, with an iridescent violet throat patch in males. It belongs to a hummingbird family that uses nectar and small insects.

• Rufous Woodpecker Micropternus brachyurus

  A rufous-brown woodpecker whose male has red on the face; it forages at ant nests in forest.

• Tawny Tit-Spinetail Sylviorthorhynchus yanacensis

  A small furnariid localized in high Andean Polylepis woodland and nearby scrub. Its fine bill and long tail are distinctive.

• Red-chested Owlet Glaucidium tephronotum

  The Red-chested Owlet is a small owl without ear-tufts. It lives in forest and along forest edges and feeds chiefly on invertebrates.

• Rhinomyias additus

  This flycatcher is endemic to Buru. Recent accounts use the combination Eumyias additus.

• Yellow-rumped Siskin Spinus uropygialis

  The Yellow-rumped Siskin is a small finch of the high Andes. Its black head and back contrast with a bright yellow rump; females and young birds are duller.

• White-collared Pigeon Columba albitorques

  The White-collared Pigeon lives in the highlands of Eritrea and Ethiopia. It has a white collar on the back of its neck and makes daily movements between feeding and roosting sites.

• Rough-legged Buzzard Buteo lagopus

  A hawk with feathers extending down its legs, moving between the Arctic and open lands farther south with the seasons.

• Blue-and-black Tanager Tangara vassorii

  The Blue-and-black Tanager ranges along the Andes from Venezuela to Bolivia. It is mostly blue with black wings and tail and occurs in Andean scrub and elfin forest edges.

• Spectacled Bristle Tyrant Pogonotriccus orbitalis

  This small flycatcher uses the upper levels of humid Andean forest. A pale eye-ring and yellow wing-bars are useful identification marks.

• Long-winged Antwren Myrmotherula longipennis

  This antwren forages in the middle levels of Amazonian forest. Males are gray with a black throat; females are brown to rufous-brown, and the birds often join mixed-species flocks.

• Purple-crowned Plovercrest Stephanoxis loddigesii

  This hummingbird lives in the Atlantic Forest of South America. Males raise a purple-blue crest during courtship, while females lack the crest and are green and grayish-white. It feeds on nectar and insects.

• Grey-and-buff Woodpecker Hemicircus concretus

  This small woodpecker searches among branches and leaves for invertebrates in humid forests.

• 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.

• Tawny Fish Owl Ketupa flavipes

  This nocturnal owl has mottled tawny plumage and a white throat. In Taiwan it lives in low-elevation streamside forest and catches crabs, frogs, and other animals.

• Black Shama Copsychus cebuensis

  The Black Shama is a Cebu Island bird with glossy black plumage and a long tail.

• Apapane Himatione sanguinea

  The Apapane is a Hawaiian honeycreeper that uses nectar as a major food source and also takes insects. It visits ʻōhiʻa blossoms and moves through the canopy as it feeds.

• Ruddy Cuckoo-Dove Macropygia emiliana

  This dove has a rusty-brown body and a paler, yellowish head. It forages quietly in the middle and lower forest, eating fruits and seeds.

• Red Goshawk Erythrotriorchis radiatus

  A large reddish-brown raptor, it usually hunts birds alone in northern Australian forest, savanna, and waterside habitats.

• Cinnamon Warbling Finch Poospiza ornata

  This small finch has a gray face and back, a chestnut patch on the mid-back, and cinnamon tones on its eyebrow and underparts. It breeds in Argentina’s Monte Desert and moves north-east in winter.

• Rufous-tailed Flycatcher Myiarchus validus

  A Jamaican forest bird that darts out from cover to catch insects.

• Fringe-backed Fire-eye Pyriglena atra

  Pyriglena atra is an antbird of coastal forest in northeastern Brazil. It has red eyes; males are black, while females are mainly reddish brown. It forages in dense lower vegetation along forest edges.

• Amazilia Hummingbird Amazilis amazilia

  The Amazilia Hummingbird occurs west of the Andes. Its green throat and rufous belly stand out; it is found in coastal scrub and at gallery-forest edges.

• Little Green Woodpecker Campethera maculosa

  The pool's Little Green Woodpecker is treated in current eBird taxonomy as the Little Green group within Green-backed Woodpecker. Western birds have green backs, red on the head, and barred underparts.