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• Stripe-necked Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus striaticollis

  

  The Stripe-necked Tody-Tyrant lives in humid secondary woodland and river-edge thickets in South America. It has a dark-striped white throat and yellow underparts.

• Grassland Yellow Finch Sicalis luteola

  A finch of grassland and farmland. The population on Barbados is introduced; the account suggests an introduction around 1900.

• Cardinal Woodpecker Dendropicos fuscescens

  The Cardinal Woodpecker is a small woodpecker; males have a red area on the head. It uses wooded habitats.

• Pearly Antshrike Megastictus margaritatus

  An antshrike of Amazonian lowland forest. The sexes have different plumage, and records also come from northeastern and east-central Peru.

• Malagasy Harrier Circus macrosceles

  This harrier searches for food over wetlands and other open places. Males show more white and grey, while females are browner. It occurs in Madagascar and the Comoros.

• White-chinned Thistletail Asthenes fuliginosa

  The White-chinned Thistletail occurs in the Andes. A Bogotá bird guide describes it foraging among foliage and branches, alone or in pairs.

• Black Redstart Phoenicurus ochruros

  A small bird that also lives in British cities and industrial centres. Males have grey-black plumage and a red tail.

• Drakensberg Siskin Crithagra symonsi

  This small bird lives in the Lesotho highlands and neighboring highlands of South Africa. It searches high-altitude grassland and shrubland for seeds, buds, and insects.

• Purple-backed Thornbill Ramphomicron microrhynchum

  This small hummingbird uses the canopy and subcanopy of Andean forests. Male and female plumage and tail shape differ.

• White-headed Pigeon Columba leucomela

  Adults stand out for their white head, neck, and breast against dark wings. They feed on fruit in rainforests of eastern Australia.

• Elf Owl Micrathene whitneyi

  The Elf Owl is described as the world's smallest raptor. It hunts insects and other small prey at night and nests in old woodpecker holes and similar cavities.

• Yellow-bellied Chat-Tyrant Silvicultrix diadema

  A small Andean bird that searches for insects in pairs in the forest understory. Its yellow eyebrow and yellowish belly stand out.

• Vampire Ground Finch Geospiza septentrionalis

  This small ground finch lives on Darwin and Wolf Islands in the northwestern Galápagos. It is known for pecking at the bases of seabirds' feathers and drinking blood.

• Andean Flicker Colaptes rupicola

  A woodpecker of open Andean highlands, marked by a white rump and yellow wings, that often feeds on the ground.

• Salvadori's Antwren Myrmotherula minor

  This small antwren lives in Brazil's Atlantic Forest. Males have a black throat patch extending onto the chest, and the species joins mixed-species flocks in lowland forest.

• Japanese sparrowhawk Tachyspiza gularis

  A small hawk that breeds in woods and even city parks in Japan.

• Azara's Spinetail Synallaxis azarae

  Azara's Spinetail moves through scrub in Andean montane forest, at forest edges, and in second growth. Peruvian records in the account are from 1,250–3,100 m.

• Bearded Scrub Robin Erythropygia quadrivirgata

  The Bearded Scrub Robin inhabits thickets and broad-leaved woodland in eastern and southern Africa. The mainland form has white eyebrows, moustachial stripes, and throat bordered by dark facial lines, plus white wing patches.

• Purple Finch Haemorhous purpureus

  The Purple Finch is a finch of North American forests. It cracks seeds with its large bill and often sings from high in the trees.

• Violet-crowned Hummingbird Leucolia violiceps

  This hummingbird occurs in western Mexico and reaches southeastern Arizona. It uses mid-elevation canyons and streamside woodland, feeding on nectar and small insects.

• Whistling Fruit Dove Ptilinopus layardi

  The Whistling Fruit Dove is a fruit-eating pigeon found on Kadavu and nearby Ono Island in southern Fiji. Few breeding records have been published.

• Rufous-legged Owl Strix rufipes

  The Rufous-legged Owl is a nocturnal owl of the humid forests of northwestern Patagonia. Its underside has bold pale and brown bars, and the thighs and belly are cinnamon-colored.

• 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.

• Caribbean Grey Saltator Saltator olivascens

  This gray bird occurs in northern South America. It uses forest edges and thickets, and records note it feeding on morning-glory flowers.