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• Pale-bellied Hermit Phaethornis anthophilus

  

  This hummingbird is recorded from Panama, Colombia, and Venezuela. It also uses dry woodland, semi-deciduous forest, and shrubby edges.

• Yellow-bridled Finch Melanodera xanthogramma

  This finch inhabits Andean rocky ground and high-altitude grassland. Males are yellow and olive, while females and young birds are brown and streaked; it searches for seeds on the ground.

• Grey-throated Leaftosser Sclerurus albigularis

  The Grey-throated Leaftosser lives near the ground in humid foothill and montane forest. It turns over leaves with its bill while searching for invertebrates.

• American Goldfinch Spinus tristis

  A small finch of North America. Breeding males are bright yellow in spring, while females and winter birds are duller. It feeds mainly on plant seeds.

• Small-billed Elaenia Elaenia parvirostris

  This flycatcher ranges broadly across South America and uses forest habitat. Three wing bars can help distinguish it from the similar White-crested Elaenia.

• Qilian Bluetail Tarsiger albocoeruleus

  The Qilian Bluetail (Tarsiger albocoeruleus) breeds in mountains of northern China, including Qinghai and Gansu. It is not separated from the Red-flanked Bluetail by an obvious plumage mark; research supports the split mainly through song and genetic evidence. Its wintering range remains unknown.

• Common Bronzewing Phaps chalcoptera

  The Common Bronzewing is a large pigeon widespread in Australia. It often searches for food on the ground and has bronze-colored iridescence on its wings.

• Spot-bellied Eagle-Owl Ketupa nipalensis

  This large eagle-owl has a spotted belly. It is nocturnal and hunts in humid riverside and mountain forests.

• Black Bushbird Neoctantes niger

  This small antbird lives in Amazonian forest understory. Near Peru’s Manu National Park, a male was recorded attending a nest hung low in dense vegetation.

• Galapagos Hawk Buteo galapagoensis

  The Galapagos Hawk is a large raptor of the islands. Adults are dark, juveniles are paler, and females are larger than males.

• Arrowhead Piculet Picumnus minutissimus

  The Arrowhead Piculet is a small woodpecker of the coastal lowlands of the Guianas. Its underparts have an arrowhead-like scaly pattern; males have broad red feather tips on the crown.

• Long-billed Starthroat Heliomaster longirostris

  The Long-billed Starthroat is marked by a long, straight bill and white markings on the cheek and tail tips. The Bolivian account describes it searching vegetation at different heights and darting after flying insects.

• Black-capped Tanager Stilpnia heinei

  Black-capped Tanager occurs in the Andes. Males are blue-green and black, while females are dull green. The iridescent sheen changes with the light. It feeds on fruit and arthropods at forest edges and clearings. The account also lists its former combination, Tangara heinei.

• Spot-throated Woodcreeper Certhiasomus stictolaemus

  This woodcreeper forages low in humid Amazonian forest. Its head and body are olive brown, its wings and tail chestnut-rufous, and pale spots mark the throat and breast.

• Yellow-rumped Seedeater Crithagra xanthopygia

  This finch is reported as common in dry, open scrub in the highlands of Eritrea and Ethiopia. A 2020 expedition also recorded 12 birds in Djibouti and described their plumage.

• Unstreaked Tit-Tyrant Uromyias agraphia

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

• Sooty Chat Myrmecocichla nigra

  The Sooty Chat is a chat whose male has black plumage and a white wing patch. Females and juveniles are brown, and the species forages on the ground in grassland.

• Chiriqui Quail-Dove Zentrygon chiriquensis

  The Chiriqui Quail-Dove has chestnut upperparts and a slate-grey crown. It searches for food on the ground in humid montane forest in Costa Rica and western Panama.

• Balsas Screech Owl Megascops seductus

  This owl occurs in Mexico’s Balsas River depression. It uses dry forest and thorn scrub and hunts small mammals around night and twilight.

• White-shouldered Antshrike Thamnophilus aethiops

  This antshrike forages in the upper understorey and mid-storey of Amazonian forest; plumage varies among subspecies and sexes.

• Mountain Serpent Eagle Spilornis kinabaluensis

  The Mountain Serpent-eagle lives in Borneo's mountain forests. It has dark brown plumage and a pale, speckled underside.

• Eastern Grey Woodpecker Dendropicos spodocephalus

  This woodpecker lives in eastern African forests and searches for insects on trunks and on the ground. It has a gray head and underside; adult males have a red crown.

• Mexican Hermit Phaethornis mexicanus

  A study of the western Mexican subspecies griseoventer describes males displaying at leks in the forest understory, where females visit and choose a mate.

• Fulvous-headed Tanager Thlypopsis fulviceps

  This tanager occurs in mountain forests of Colombia and Venezuela. It has a rufous head, gray back and tail, and gray to whitish underparts.