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• White-tailed Rubythroat Luscinia pectoralis

  

  Bangladesh’s bird Red List records this bird as a winter visitor to the country. In its photograph, the male has a greyish body, a black face and throat, and a bright red throat patch.

• Boat-billed Flycatcher Megarynchus pitangua

  The Boat-billed Flycatcher is a large flycatcher ranging from Mexico into South America. It hunts from mid to upper levels of tropical forest, taking insects and small animals.

• Perija Metaltail Metallura iracunda

  The Perija Metaltail is a small hummingbird restricted to the Perija Mountains on the Colombia–Venezuela border.

• Blue-capped Tanager Sporathraupis cyanocephala

  This tanager inhabits Andean forest and humid scrub. Its blue head and gray throat and belly help distinguish it from similar species.

• Spanish Imperial Eagle Aquila adalberti

  The Spanish Imperial Eagle occurs in southwestern Iberia. At Monfragüe National Park in Spain, it is described as feeding mainly on rabbits and nesting in large trees.

• Unspotted Saw-whet Owl Aegolius ridgwayi

  The Unspotted Saw-whet Owl has a rounded head without ear-tufts and a brown facial disc edged in white. It is nocturnal and occurs in mountain forests from southern Mexico into Central America. Details of its diet and breeding remain poorly known.

• Northern Flicker Colaptes auratus

  A large woodpecker of North America that searches for ants and beetles on the ground as well as on tree trunks. In flight, its white rump and the color of its wing and tail shafts are visible.

• Kauai Amakihi Chlorodrepanis stejnegeri

  This Hawaiian honeycreeper lives in high-elevation native forest on Kauai. It uses its curved bill to search trunks and branches for insects and also feeds on nectar and fruit.

• Superb Fruit Dove Ptilinopus superbus

  The Superb Fruit-Dove is a fruit-eating pigeon with different plumage in males and females. It searches for fruit in trees.

• Scalloped Antbird Myrmoderus ruficauda

  The Scalloped Antbird inhabits forest in Brazil and often stays close to the ground. Males have a dark rufous rump and tail; females have a white breast with black scalloping.

• Rufous-necked Foliage-gleaner Syndactyla ruficollis

  This furnariid occurs on the western Andean slope from northwestern Peru into Ecuador. It has a rufous neck and tail and is found in dense understory with bamboo.

• Cryptic Flycatcher Ficedula crypta

  This elusive flycatcher lives on Mindanao in mountain forest. It is recorded alone or in pairs in low vegetation on wet ravine slopes.

• Cinnamon-faced Tyrannulet Phylloscartes parkeri

  This small flycatcher is about 11.5 cm long. It ranges along the eastern Andean foothills of central and southeastern Peru and into adjacent northern Bolivia, using humid forest with tall canopy.

• Streak-throated Hermit Phaethornis rupurumii

  The Streak-throated Hermit occurs in the Amazon region of northern South America. It has pale green-gold upperparts, a black-streaked throat, and long central tail feathers with white tips.

• Chestnut-bellied Seedeater Sporophila castaneiventris

  A small seedeater of northern South America, using grassy places and river margins and eating seeds and fruit.

• Vinous-breasted Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza rhodogaster

  The Vinous-breasted Sparrowhawk is a raptor of Sulawesi and nearby islands. Adults are marked by a vinous breast and slate-gray upperparts.

• Rufescent Screech Owl Megascops ingens

  The Rufescent Screech Owl is a small nocturnal owl of humid Andean forests. The Bolivia account describes it alone or in pairs in dense middle-level foliage.

• Golden-naped Woodpecker Melanerpes chrysauchen

  Adult males have a golden forehead and nape with a red crown; females lack the red on the head. The Costa Rican account describes family groups in humid forest.

• Hispaniolan Euphonia Euphonia musica

  The Hispaniolan Euphonia (Chlorophonia musica) is resident on Hispaniola, including Gonâve Island. It uses forest and semi-open habitats and feeds on fruit.

• Eared Dove Zenaida auriculata

  This widespread South American dove has black spots on the neck and wings and reddish legs. It may gather in flocks in open areas and towns.

• Black-throated Antbird Myrmophylax atrothorax

  Male and female Black-throated Antbirds differ in throat and belly color. The male has a black throat and breast and forages in dense undergrowth near wetlands and streams.

• Orange-breasted Thornbird Phacellodomus ferrugineigula

  This ovenbird is recorded from central-northern Uruguay to eastern Brazil. Adults have three central pairs of olive-brown tail feathers, and the reddish-chestnut chin grades into an olive-brown lower belly. A 2008 comparative study treated it as a distinct species from its close relative.

• Moorland Chat Pinarochroa sordida

  The plumage and behaviour below come from a 1949 account of the Ruwenzori Mountains only. It describes birds above the bamboo zone, with dark brown upperparts, a faint wingbar and white outer tail feathers.

• Grey Monjita Nengetus cinereus

  This grey tyrant flycatcher has a white throat and a white patch below the eye. The account here describes records from a reserve in Buenos Aires.