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• Green-tailed Emerald Chlorostilbon alice

  

  The male's crown and breast shine golden green, while the female has grayish-white underparts and a different tail pattern. This small hummingbird takes nectar at forest and cloud-forest edges, in second growth, and around plantations. It is partially migratory.

• Xingu Scale-backed Antbird Willisornis vidua

  The Xingu Scale-backed Antbird is an antbird of lowland forest in the Brazilian Amazon east of the Xingu River.

• Grey-headed Goshawk Tachyspiza poliocephala

  The Grey-headed Goshawk has a grey adult form and a much darker form. It hunts mainly lizards from a perch and occurs on New Guinea and nearby islands.

• Golden-backed Mountain Tanager Cnemathraupis aureodorsalis

  This large tanager is recorded in humid montane forest of Peru's eastern Andes at about 3,000–3,600 m. Its blue crown and golden back and underparts stand out.

• Elliot's Woodpecker Dendropicos elliotii

  This woodpecker occurs in forests of western and central Africa. Red on the rear crown is a male trait; females lack it.

• Grey-fronted Green Pigeon Treron affinis

  This green pigeon lives in the Western Ghats of southwestern India. The male has a chestnut back, while the female's back is green.

• Violaceous Euphonia Euphonia violacea

  The Violaceous Euphonia is about 11.4 cm long. Males have blue-black backs and wings, yellow on the front of the head and underparts; females are greenish yellow above with dull yellow underparts.

• Smoky Bush Tyrant Myiotheretes fumigatus

  This flycatcher inhabits Andean forests. It is dark brown with pale mottling on the throat; one nest on a dead stump was reported in Ecuador.

• White-crowned Robin-Chat Cossypha albicapillus

  This bird is marked by a white crown and rufous underparts. It ranges from western Africa into parts of eastern Africa, using open woodland and waterside thickets.

• East Brazilian Pygmy Owl Glaucidium minutissimum

  This small owl has a rounded head without ear tufts, brown plumage, and yellow eyes. It lives in forests in eastern Brazil.

• Peruvian Treehunter Thripadectes scrutator

  This ovenbird forages in the dense understory of humid Andean montane forest. The source uses the English name “Buff-throated Treehunter” for the same scientific name and gives an eastern-Andes range in Peru and Bolivia.

• Black-breasted Hillstar Oreotrochilus melanogaster

  Males have black underparts and a glossy green throat. Females have grayish underparts. Peruvian highland records describe birds catching insects at streams.

• White-shouldered Fire-eye Pyriglena leucoptera

  This antbird occurs in eastern Brazil, Paraguay, and northeastern Argentina. Males are black and females brown; both have red eyes. It searches for insects and other prey near the forest floor.

• Semiplumbeous Hawk Leucopternis semiplumbeus

  This small raptor inhabits humid forest from Central America into northwestern South America. It uses the understory and lower canopy and rarely ventures into open areas.

• Red-legged Honeycreeper Cyanerpes cyaneus

  This small bird feeds on nectar and fruit. Breeding males shine blue-violet and have different plumage from females.

• Mottled Piculet Picumnus nebulosus

  The Mottled Piculet is a tiny woodpecker, about 10–11 cm long. Its back is olive-brown, and its belly has dark marks. It lives in moist lowland forest in southeastern South America and also searches for food in dead bamboo.

• Bar-shouldered Dove Geopelia humeralis

  The Bar-shouldered Dove ranges across northern and eastern Australia and southern New Guinea. It searches for seeds in short grass and is marked by a bronze patch on the hindneck.

• Blyth's Rosefinch Carpodacus grandis

  Blyth's Rosefinch is a large rosefinch of high-elevation conifer forest and areas near the treeline. Males and females differ in plumage.

• d'Orbigny's Chat-Tyrant Ochthoeca oenanthoides

  In Bolivia's highlands, D'Orbigny's Chat-Tyrant perches upright on bushes and sallies for arthropods. It is more secretive in dry Polylepis woodland.

• Sooty Flycatcher Artomyias fuliginosa

  This small flycatcher inhabits lowland and foothill forest in West and Central Africa. Dark chocolate-brown plumage, long pointed wings, and high perches on dead trees are characteristic.

• Rufous-banded Owl Strix albitarsis

  The Rufous-banded Owl has separate field records from Ecuador and Colombia. An Ecuadorian report describes a pale-down juvenile; a Colombian study suggests foraging in secondary forest and plantations.

• Sharp-billed Canastero Asthenes pyrrholeuca

  This ovenbird lives in dry South American scrub. Its long tail has rusty outer feathers, and it is recorded as a winter visitor in Bolivia's western Chaco.

• Giant Hummingbird Patagona gigas

  This entry covers the southern species Patagona gigas. It looks very similar to the Northern Giant Hummingbird, P. peruviana, but differs in breeding range and vocalizations.

• Creamy-bellied Antwren Herpsilochmus motacilloides

  This small antwren lives in humid montane forest on the eastern Andean slope. Males have a black cap and broad white eyebrow, and the species is reported at 900–2,100 m.