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• Indigo-capped Hummingbird Saucerottia cyanifrons

  

  This small hummingbird is described as endemic to Colombia. It has an iridescent indigo crown, green upperparts, and pale underparts, and feeds on nectar and small insects. The source uses the older generic combination Amazilia cyanifrons.

• Wedge-tailed Grass Finch Emberizoides herbicola

  This grassland bird has a wedge-shaped tail longer than half its body. It searches among grasses for insects and defends a territory as a breeding pair.

• Zone-tailed Hawk Buteo albonotatus

  The Zone-tailed Hawk is a slender, dark raptor with pale tail bands that hunts around canyons and arid foothills in the U.S. Southwest.

• Rufous Owl Ninox rufa

  The Rufous Owl is a large owl with reddish-brown plumage and pale bars. It rests in leafy cover by day and is active at night.

• White-naped Woodpecker Chrysocolaptes festivus

  The White-naped Woodpecker is marked by a white nape and dark back. It searches bark for invertebrates in open woodland.

• Three-banded Rosefinch Carpodacus trifasciatus

  The Three-banded Rosefinch is a long-tailed finch with white wing markings. The male is dark pink, while the female is mainly brown.

• Western Crowned Pigeon Goura cristata

  The Western Crowned Pigeon is a large forest pigeon of New Guinea and nearby Indonesian islands. Its blue-grey body and fan-shaped crest stand out, and it feeds on the ground.

• Star-throated Antwren Rhopias gularis

  This small antwren lives in the Atlantic Forest of eastern Brazil. Both sexes have grey underparts, rufescent-brown upperparts and a black throat spotted with white. It forages low in dense vegetation.

• Line-fronted Canastero Asthenes urubambensis

  This ovenbird lives in the high Andes of Peru and western Bolivia. It forages in humid or semi-humid scrub and has a rufous-brown back with a streaked breast.

• Pale Flycatcher Bradornis pallidus

  This flycatcher occurs in African savanna and open woodland. It waits on a low perch and catches insects in the air or on the ground. eBird uses the combination Agricola pallidus for the same bird.

• Forest Elaenia Myiopagis gaimardii

  The Forest Elaenia is widespread in the Amazon region. It forages in the canopy and sub-canopy of humid forest and sometimes joins mixed-species flocks.

• Buff-tailed Coronet Boissonneaua flavescens

  The Buff-tailed Coronet is a hummingbird of Andean montane forest. Buff or rufous edges on its tail feathers are distinctive, and it feeds on nectar and small prey.

• Tit-like Dacnis Xenodacnis parina

  This small bird inhabits Andean scrub and Polylepis woodland. Males are deep blue; females are mainly brown, with the extent of blue on the forehead and crown varying among subspecies.

• Sharp-shinned Hawk Accipiter striatus

  The Sharp-shinned Hawk is a small raptor that uses its long tail and short wings to maneuver through forests. Birds breeding in northern North America migrate south in autumn.

• Long-tufted Screech Owl Megascops sanctaecatarinae

  This owl is recorded in southern Brazil, northern Uruguay and northeastern Argentina. In Corrientes, Argentina, the first documented provincial records were reported in 2022.

• Golden-cheeked Woodpecker Melanerpes chrysogenys

  This woodpecker lives in the lowlands of western Mexico. It has golden cheeks and a black marking around the eye. Males have a red crown; females have a gray crown.

• Chinese Grosbeak Eophona migratoria

  Its thick yellow bill stands out. It feeds on seeds and fruit in woodlands and orchards of East Asia.

• African Green Pigeon Treron calvus

  The African Green Pigeon is a green fruit-eating pigeon that feeds in trees. This entry uses the West African portion of the Oiseaux.net range because that account also discusses the former broad treatment with T. delalandii.

• Amazonian Antshrike Thamnophilus amazonicus

  An antshrike of Amazonian forests. Males are grayish, while females have a cinnamon head and breast; birds search for insects among vines and forest-edge vegetation.

• 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.

• Andaman Shama Copsychus albiventris

  This long-tailed shama lives in the forests of the Andaman Islands. An observer describes it as similar to the mainland Oriental Magpie-Robin, but with a white belly. It has been heard singing in the lower forest.

• White-throated Pewee Contopus albogularis

  A French Guiana field report describes a small flycatcher with a dark-gray body and white throat. At Nouragues, one bird was observed chasing insects from a branch and returning to it.

• Sapphire-spangled Emerald Chionomesa lactea

  This hummingbird has a green body with a shimmering violet-blue throat and breast. In eastern Peru it visits flowers at forest edges and secondary growth, and also catches small insects in flight.

• Orange-headed Tanager Thlypopsis sordida

  A small tanager with a yellow-orange head. It moves through scrub, savanna, and forest edges.