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• Bare-faced Ground Dove Metriopelia ceciliae

  

  A 17–18 cm dove with extensive orange bare skin around the eye and pale scaling on the back and wings. In Bolivia it uses dry slopes and grasslands and searches for food on the ground.

• Boreal Owl Aegolius funereus

  A small owl of forests in northern North America and Eurasia. At night it waits on a perch for small animals.

• Chilean Flicker Colaptes pitius

  A grey head, dark back and wings barred with white, and a white rump help identify it. In northwestern Patagonia, it searches for ants on the ground and also uses tree trunks.

• Black-and-yellow Grosbeak Mycerobas icterioides

  The Black-and-yellow Grosbeak has a large pale bill. Males are black and yellow, while females are grayish; pairs and small flocks occur in hill and montane forest.

• 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.

• Himalayan Vulture Gyps himalayensis

  A large vulture of high Central Asia, including the Tibetan Plateau, it searches from the air for large-mammal carcasses.

• Chestnut-backed Thornbird Phacellodomus dorsalis

  This ovenbird occurs in the Marañón drainage of northern Peru. It has a chestnut back and tail with a white throat, and pairs forage in scrub and sparse dry woodland.

• Black-capped Antwren Herpsilochmus atricapillus

  This antwren occurs in Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina, in dry or moist lowland forests.

• Grey Pileated Finch Coryphospingus pileatus

  The Grey Pileated Finch is a South American finch found in Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela. It searches for seeds on the ground and low shrubs; males can raise a red crest.

• Gray-breasted Sabrewing Campylopterus largipennis

  This hummingbird occurs in humid lowland forest in eastern Colombia and in foothill forest east of the Andes. It feeds on nectar and also sallies from a perch to catch small insects.

• Black-throated Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus granadensis

  This small bird lives in humid Andean forests and has a black throat patch. Peru Aves records it on the eastern Andean slope, including Peru.

• Burmese Collared Dove Streptopelia xanthocycla

  This dove is recorded in central Myanmar. A yellow ring of bare skin around the eye is a useful field mark. ITIS lists the name as valid and cites the 2025 IOC World Bird List.

• Peruvian Screech Owl Megascops roboratus

  This owl ranges from southern Ecuador to northwestern Peru. It uses mostly dry woodland and semi-open landscapes with old trees that have cavities; both grey and red morphs occur.

• Black-cheeked Woodpecker Melanerpes pucherani

  The sexes differ in the red on the head; this woodpecker feeds in humid lowland evergreen forest, including in the canopy.

• Great Rosefinch Carpodacus rubicilla

  A finch about 20 cm long, found in mountain regions from the Caucasus to Central Asia and seen in Georgia in winter.

• Orange-breasted Forest Robin Stiphrornis erythrothorax

  An older record from Liberia describes different male and female plumage and birds in low forest undergrowth. The IUCN assessment uses the English name Orange-breasted Forest-robin.

• Japanese sparrowhawk Tachyspiza gularis

  A small hawk that breeds in woods and even city parks in Japan.

• Spotted Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus erythropygius

  It occurs in humid forests of Central America. In Costa Rica it uses the canopy, edges, and older secondary growth, sometimes in pairs or mixed flocks.

• Narrow-billed Antwren Formicivora iheringi

  This small antwren inhabits Brazilian scrub and woodland. It searches foliage for small invertebrates.

• Yellow-bridled Finch Melanodera xanthogramma

  This finch inhabits Andean rocky ground and high-altitude grassland. Males are yellow and olive, while females and young birds are brown and streaked; it searches for seeds on the ground.

• Brown Inca Coeligena wilsoni

  This hummingbird inhabits the western Andes of Colombia and Ecuador. It has brown plumage and a white spot behind the eye, and uses humid montane forest and cloud forest.

• Orange-eyed Flatbill Tolmomyias traylori

  This small flycatcher was described from the western Amazon. The original paper records sites in southern Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, and says the limits of its range were not known.

• Cream-breasted Fruit Dove Ptilinopus merrilli

  This medium-sized dove lives in forests around Luzon. A field study recorded it feeding on fruit in the forest canopy.

• Brown Fish Owl Ketupa zeylonensis

  The Brown Fish Owl is a large owl whose range extends from Turkey and the Middle East through India and parts of Southeast Asia to southeastern China.