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• Green-and-white Hummingbird Elliotomyia viridicauda

  

  This hummingbird lives in forest on Peru’s eastern Andes. It has green upperparts, white underparts and a gray tail, with records from about 1,000 to 2,750 m.

• Alagoas Antwren Myrmotherula snowi

  This small antwren is recorded in humid forest in northeastern Brazil. Males are gray and females are rufous-brown; a 2005 survey documented one male in a forested valley with a stream and dense lianas.

• Berlepsch’s Canastero Asthenes berlepschi

  This small bird is restricted to the Sorata area of Bolivia. It occurs in Polylepis woodland, where it searches foliage for arthropods; territorial pairs care for young.

• Common Flameback Dinopium javanense

  A tree-climbing woodpecker, it braces with its tail while excavating ants and larvae. In Singapore it also occurs in parks and mangroves.

• Collared Owlet Taenioptynx brodiei

  A small owl with gray and rufous plumage forms, it lives in mountains and foothills.

• White-rumped Sirystes Sirystes albocinereus

  The White-rumped Sirystes ranges from southwestern Venezuela to northern Bolivia in moist lowland forest. Accounts describe it foraging alone or in pairs in the canopy.

• Rufous-vented Niltava Niltava sumatrana

  This flycatcher inhabits montane evergreen broad-leaved forest on Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula. Males have blue heads and upperparts; the plumage details here are specifically for males.

• Buff-throated Saltator Saltator maximus

  This bird lives in humid forests from Central America into northern South America. It has a green back, white eyebrow, and pale throat edged in black, and feeds on fruit and insects in the lower vegetation.

• Barred Cuckoo-Dove Macropygia unchall

  The Barred Cuckoo-Dove is a long-tailed dove ranging from the western Himalayas through Southeast Asia. In Hong Kong it is recorded as a winter visitor and passage migrant to well-wooded areas.

• 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.

• Puerto Rican Emerald Riccordia maugaeus

  This small hummingbird is found only on Puerto Rico, mainly in mountain forests and shade-grown coffee plantations.

• White-shouldered Antbird Akletos melanoceps

  This antbird occurs in the western Amazon. The male is black with a concealed white shoulder patch; the female is rufous with a black head.

• White-browed Foliage-gleaner Anabacerthia amaurotis

  This foliage-gleaner occurs in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. It has a white eyebrow and throat, rufous-brown upperparts, a bright rufous tail, and pale streaking on the upper breast. It forages low to the ground.

• Striped Woodpecker Veniliornis lignarius

  A bark-foraging woodpecker recorded in Argentina’s montane forests and forest edges in the regional account.

• Tropical Kingbird Tyrannus melancholicus

  The Tropical Kingbird has a long, forked tail. It perches in open woodland or near water and catches insects.

• Short-toed Rock Thrush Monticola brevipes

  The Short-toed Rock-thrush lives in dry rocky habitats of southern Africa. Males are blue-grey and rufous, while females are mainly grey-brown.

• Mourning Sierra Finch Rhopospina fruticeti

  It occurs in Argentine Patagonia and along the Andes, in shrub steppe and woodland-edge habitats.

• Cloven-feathered Dove Drepanoptila holosericea

  This green dove lives in New Caledonia. Males have a yellow belly and white wing bars, and the birds feed on fruit in trees.

• Snail Kite Rostrhamus sociabilis

  This raptor feeds mainly on freshwater snails. Its long, strongly curved bill fits inside the shell to pull out the animal.

• Viridian Metaltail Metallura williami

  This hummingbird is recorded in the highlands of the Sibundoy area of Colombia. Male and female throat and tail patterns differ, and males defend feeding areas.

• Fringe-backed Fire-eye Pyriglena atra

  Pyriglena atra is an antbird of coastal forest in northeastern Brazil. It has red eyes; males are black, while females are mainly reddish brown. It forages in dense lower vegetation along forest edges.

• Little Thornbird Phacellodomus sibilatrix

  This ovenbird is recorded from thorny woods and open woodland in northern Argentina. It has dull olive-brown upperparts, with chestnut on the forehead and part of the wing. An old account describes a large twig-and-thorn nest placed in a tree branch.

• Maroon Woodpecker Blythipicus rubiginosus

  This woodpecker is about 23 cm long and lives in humid forest. It is active by day and searches for food on trunks and branches.

• McConnell's Flycatcher Mionectes macconnelli

  This small flycatcher inhabits Amazonian forest. A 1978 paper, using the former genus name Pipromorpha, recorded it singing by creeks and taking insects from foliage near Manaus.