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• Fulvous Owl Strix fulvescens

  

  This owl has a rounded, ear-tuftless head and a pale ochre face. It hunts at night and rests in shade or a cavity by day.

• White-browed Ground Tyrant Muscisaxicola albilora

  The White-browed Ground-tyrant visits the high Andes seasonally and searches for food on the ground. Peruvian records are from April to October.

• Orangequit Euneornis campestris

  The Orangequit lives in Jamaican forests and wooded farmland. Males and females have different plumage.

• Sulawesi Pygmy Woodpecker Yungipicus temminckii

  The Sulawesi Pygmy Woodpecker is a small woodpecker of forests and woodland on Sulawesi. It searches tree bark for small invertebrates.

• White-flanked Antwren Myrmotherula axillaris

  A small antbird of humid lowland forests from Central America into South America, feeding among low branches.

• Grey Hawk Buteo plagiatus

  It is a hawk found from the southern United States through Mexico and Central America. In the southern United States, it uses forests along rivers.

• Grey-headed Spinetail Cranioleuca semicinerea

  This spinetail occurs in eastern Brazil. Its gray head and upperparts contrast with conspicuous rufous wings and tail.

• St Vincent Amazon Amazona guildingii

  A large parrot of St. Vincent's tropical rainforest. Its plumage combines blue, green, orange, and other bright colors, and it eats nuts and fruit.

• Gambaga Flycatcher Muscicapa gambagae

  The Gambaga Flycatcher is a small flycatcher identified in part by faint breast streaks and a yellowish-orange lower mandible. It occurs in Africa and southwestern Arabia; breeding activity was observed in Yemen in May.

• Maui Alauahio Paroreomyza montana

  The Maui Alauahio is a small Hawaiian honeycreeper. Its surviving population lives in Maui's highlands and mainly eats small invertebrates.

• Snowcap Microchera albocoronata

  The male has a white crown and dark plumage with coppery reflections. Its outer tail feathers have white bases and dark terminal bands. This small hummingbird feeds on nectar near forest edges.

• Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis

  A small, long-tailed dove with a reddish-brown breast and belly. In southern Africa it is often seen in pairs or small groups, feeding on seeds on the ground.

• Cinereous Owl Strix sartorii

  This owl is documented in the mountains of Mexico. The American Ornithological Society committee account notes its original description from high-elevation pine forest in Veracruz and identifies its ash-gray coloration as a distinguishing feature.

• Amazonian Scrub Flycatcher Sublegatus obscurior

  This small flycatcher is widespread in Amazonia. Its head, back and breast are grey, its belly yellowish, and it forages in secondary forest and scrub.

• White-browed Conebill Conirostrum ferrugineiventre

  This small bird occurs on the eastern Andes of Peru and Bolivia. It may forage in mixed-species flocks.

• Himalayan Woodpecker Dendrocopos himalayensis

  A white shoulder patch stands out against this woodpecker's black back. Males have a red crown, and it searches tree trunks for food.

• Imeri Warbling Antbird Hypocnemis flavescens

  The Imeri Warbling Antbird is a tropical-forest antbird. A February 2017 paper reported range-extension records near El Encanto along Colombia's Putumayo River.

• Lappet-faced Vulture Torgos tracheliotos

  This large vulture occurs in dry parts of Africa south of the Sahara. It has a dark body, white down on the belly and thighs, and a bare head with prominent folds of skin.

• Chestnut-winged Cinclodes Cinclodes albidiventris

  This ovenbird relative forages on foot in open grassland and sparse scrub at high elevations. The Peru species account gives a range extending into Colombia and Ecuador.

• Brown-breasted Flycatcher Muscicapa muttui

  The Brown-breasted Flycatcher breeds in northeastern India and Indochina and winters in southwestern India and Sri Lanka. The Singapore account lists it as a vagrant there.

• Akikiki Oreomystis bairdi

  This small Hawaiian honeycreeper is endemic to Kauaʻi. A National Park Service account reported one known wild bird and a small captive population in 2024, describing the species as functionally extinct in the wild.

• Santa Marta Sabrewing Campylopterus phainopeplus

  This hummingbird is endemic to the Santa Marta Mountains of northeastern Colombia. It has been little studied, so much of its natural-history information comes from observations in this small range.

• Emerald-spotted Wood Dove Turtur chalcospilos

  The Emerald-spotted Wood Dove is a small, rounded dove with glossy green spots across its wings. It occurs in eastern and southern Africa.

• Northern Saw-whet Owl Aegolius acadicus

  This small owl lives in North American forests. It hunts small mammals at night and hides in dense conifers by day.