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• Anna's Hummingbird Calypte anna

  

  Anna's Hummingbird has iridescent green plumage and a rose-pink throat. Males climb high and dive during courtship.

• Pink Pigeon Nesoenas mayeri

  Endemic to Mauritius, this island pigeon has soft pinkish-gray plumage and a red bill. It feeds on fruits and seeds in remaining native forest and helps disperse seeds.

• Cinnamon Screech Owl Megascops petersoni

  This small owl lives in humid montane forest on the eastern Andes. Its cinnamon-colored plumage has fine markings, and BirdLife describes it as highly dependent on forest.

• Streak-throated Bush Tyrant Myiotheretes striaticollis

  This Andean flycatcher occurs at high elevations. It searches for insects and small vertebrates in scrub and along forest edges.

• Yellow-winged Tanager Thraupis abbas

  This 17 cm tanager is included in a field guide to the Pacific of Guatemala. It has a yellow wing band, eats fruit and insects, and forages in pairs.

• Chestnut-colored Woodpecker Celeus castaneus

  This woodpecker has mostly chestnut-brown plumage and a sturdy bill for working into wood. Males have a red stripe along the side of the face; females do not. Ants and termites are major foods.

• Orange-bellied Antwren Terenura sicki

  This antwren is recorded in remaining evergreen forest in Alagoas and Pernambuco, northeastern Brazil. The 1983 type description gives a streaked black and buff crown, chestnut back and orange underside. In 2018, ICMBio reported severe fragmentation and continuing habitat loss and assessed the species as Critically Endangered in Brazil.

• Gurney's Eagle Aquila gurneyi

  Gurney's Eagle is a large forest eagle of New Guinea and nearby islands. Adults are dark brown and search for food on slow, low flights, usually alone or in pairs.

• Apurimac Spinetail Synallaxis courseni

  This spinetail is largely restricted to Peru’s Apurimac Valley, where it forages in dense humid montane undergrowth and second growth; juveniles lack the adult’s rufous crown.

• Hodgson's Redstart Phoenicurus hodgsoni

  Hodgson's Redstart moves between breeding and wintering areas. It uses high-elevation scrub and forest edges, and searches for food in the upper parts of trees.

• Beautiful Rosefinch Carpodacus pulcherrimus

  The Himalayan Beautiful Rosefinch is a seed-eating bird of Himalayan shrubland. Some populations move seasonally.

• Stripe-tailed Hummingbird Eupherusa eximia

  The Stripe-tailed Hummingbird lives in Central American mountains and feeds by darting among flowers. White stripes show when it spreads its tail.

• Wetar Ground Dove Pampusana hoedtii

  The Wetar Ground Dove is a ground-dwelling dove whose plumage differs strongly between males and females.

• 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.

• Black-capped Tyrannulet Tyranniscus nigrocapillus

  This small tyrant flycatcher has a black crown and two pale wing bars. It lives in moist Andean montane forest and often joins mixed-species flocks.

• White-shouldered Tanager Loriotus luctuosus

  This tanager occurs in Bolivia’s lowland forests. The male has a large white wing patch, and pairs or family groups move through the forest.

• Spot-breasted Woodpecker Colaptes punctigula

  This woodpecker is marked by a spotted black breast and red nape. In the Amazon it uses flooded and riverside forests.

• Humaita Antbird Myrmelastes humaythae

  This antbird lives in upper Amazon forests, including southeastern Peru. Males are gray, females reddish brown, and the birds move through low forest cover.

• Long-winged Harrier Circus buffoni

  The Long-winged Harrier searches for prey over wetlands and grasslands in South America. Plumage differs by sex, and birds occur in light and dark forms.

• Point-tailed Palmcreeper Berlepschia rikeri

  This ovenbird occurs in palm groves of northern and central South America and searches among palm fronds for arthropods.

• White-tailed Blue Robin Myiomela leucura

  This shy forest robin forages near the ground in dense cover. Males are blue, females brown, and both have white patches near the base of the tail.

• Black-headed Siskin Spinus notatus

  The Black-headed Siskin is a finch ranging from Mexico into northern Central America. Breeding males stand out for a black head and yellow belly.

• 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.

• Philippine Collared Dove Streptopelia dusumieri

  A dove of the Philippine islands, it uses open woodland and farmland. Its pale underparts have a pink wash and its neck bears a greenish half-collar.