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• Grey Hawk Buteo plagiatus

  

  It is a hawk found from the southern United States through Mexico and Central America. In the southern United States, it uses forests along rivers.

• Slaty Tanager Creurgops dentatus

  This tanager uses humid Andean forests. Males are dusky gray with a rufous cap; females have rufous throat and underparts, and the species may forage in mixed flocks.

• Scarlet-backed Woodpecker Veniliornis callonotus

  This small, colorful woodpecker is described from western Ecuador to northwestern Peru. It has a red back, white underparts, and sex-specific crown colors. BirdLife’s country records also include Colombia.

• Plain-breasted Ground Dove Columbina minuta

  The Plain-breasted Ground Dove feeds on seeds and fruit on the ground in dry grasslands and other open habitats. Males have a blue-gray head; females are paler.

• Red-headed Bullfinch Pyrrhula erythrocephala

  The Red-headed Bullfinch inhabits highland forests of the Himalayas. Males are orange-red from head to breast, while females are mainly yellow-green. It eats seeds in trees.

• Guianan Tyrannulet Zimmerius acer

  The Guianan Tyrannulet is a small bird of humid lowland forest, foraging high in the canopy north of the Amazon. Its reported range includes eastern Venezuela, the Guianas and northern Brazil. A population south of the river may represent a different, undescribed species.

• Black-banded Flycatcher Ficedula timorensis

  A forest flycatcher of Timor. It searches dense undergrowth for insects, usually alone or in pairs.

• Yungas Pygmy Owl Glaucidium bolivianum

  The Yungas Pygmy Owl lives in humid mountain forest on the eastern Andes and has eye-like markings on the back of its head.

• Chotoy Spinetail Schoeniophylax phryganophilus

  This spinetail is widespread in lowland southern and eastern South America. A 2024 specimen review found no support for treating the reported plumage variation as geographic subspecies and recommended a single species.

• Purple-crowned Fairy Heliothryx barroti

  The adult male has a shining purple crown and green upperparts; the female lacks those colors.

• Plain Antvireo Dysithamnus mentalis

  The Plain Antvireo is recorded across Central and South America. In Costa Rica, it occurs in the understory of humid mountain forests, and males and females differ in plumage.

• Little Eagle Hieraaetus morphnoides

  A small eagle with a wingspan over one metre. In woodland and along rivers in the Australian Capital Territory, it watches for prey from above and then swoops down.

• Spotted Tanager Ixothraupis punctata

  This tanager is described in a Suriname guide as a bird of the middle forest layers, seen in pairs or small groups. Its green plumage has dark edges.

• Black-and-buff Woodpecker Meiglyptes jugularis

  This woodpecker lives in Southeast Asian forests. Males have a red cheek stripe that females lack. It uses humid forest edges, secondary growth, and bamboo, searching bark for invertebrates.

• Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis

  A small, long-tailed dove with a reddish-brown breast and belly. In southern Africa it is often seen in pairs or small groups, feeding on seeds on the ground.

• Tibetan Rosefinch Carpodacus roborowskii

  A rosefinch of high elevations on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau and nearby regions. It searches for food on the ground in rocky steppe and alpine meadows.

• Snowy-throated Kingbird Tyrannus niveigularis

  This seasonal migrant appears in northwestern Peru from December to June. It uses semi-open woodland and scrub, and has a gray head, white throat, and yellow underparts.

• 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.

• Forest Owlet Athene blewitti

  A small, diurnal owl of localized forests in central and western India. Its plumage helps distinguish it from similar owls.

• Ash-browed Spinetail Cranioleuca curtata

  This ovenbird searches among mosses and epiphytes in humid montane forest on the eastern slope of the Andes.

• Grey-tailed Mountaingem Lampornis cinereicauda

  Grey-tailed Mountaingem is represented here by hummingbirds surveyed at Cloudbridge Nature Reserve, Costa Rica. The study recorded this population under an older subspecies name and described different male and female plumage.

• Bamboo Antshrike Cymbilaimus sanctaemariae

  The Bamboo Antshrike is a bamboo specialist of southwestern Amazonia. Males are barred black and white, while females have orange-buff underparts.

• American Goshawk Astur atricapillus

  This large forest raptor uses mature woodland. Wisconsin’s wildlife agency records it across the northern two-thirds of the state, in mature deciduous, conifer, and mixed forest.

• Rufous-headed Tanager Hemithraupis ruficapilla

  This tanager occurs in southeastern and eastern Brazil, in moist lowland and montane forest, second growth, and plantations.