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• Blue-capped Redstart Phoenicurus coeruleocephala

  

  The Blue-capped Redstart is about 15 cm long, and the sexes differ in plumage. It takes small invertebrates in rocky mountain habitat and open pine forest by day. Recordings in northern India and Central Asia show only part of its range.

• Buff-breasted Warbling-finch Microspingus lateralis

  This small tanager lives in the mountains of southeastern Brazil. It uses forest edges and bamboo patches, eating insects, fruit, and seeds.

• Malabar Imperial Pigeon Ducula cuprea

  This pigeon occurs in India's Western Ghats. The 2022 eBird India taxonomy update separated it from Mountain Imperial-Pigeon and notes its darker iris and narrower tail band as identification features.

• Mountain hawk-eagle Nisaetus nipalensis

  A large forest hawk-eagle with broad wings and a crest at the back of the head.

• Speckled Hummingbird Adelomyia melanogenys

  The inornata subspecies of the Speckled Hummingbird has dark sides to the head and a bronze-green back. In Argentina's Salta and Jujuy provinces, it uses high-elevation scrub and forest.

• Black-crested Antshrike Sakesphorus canadensis

  This antshrike is associated with low vegetation at water edges. The Peru Aves account records foraging in permanently or seasonally flooded forest, lake edges, and along slow-flowing creeks.

• 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.

• Golden-collared Woodpecker Veniliornis cassini

  This small woodpecker occurs in northern Amazonia and nearby forest regions. The male's red crown and yellow wing spots, along with barred underparts in both sexes, help identify it.

• Least Flycatcher Empidonax minimus

  The Least Flycatcher is a small bird with a pale eye ring that darts from a perch to catch insects.

• Equatorial Akalat Sheppardia aequatorialis

  The Equatorial Akalat is a small bird of humid mountain forests in central and eastern Africa. It is about 12–13 cm long, weighs 16.8–18 g and feeds mainly on invertebrates.

• Red-cowled Cardinal Paroaria dominicana

  Common in northeastern Brazil, this tanager has a red head and throat, grey back, black wings and tail, and a white underside to the tail; immatures have a duller orange head.

• Flock Bronzewing Phaps histrionica

  Flock Bronzewings are nomadic ground-feeding pigeons. Inland Queensland observations describe movements following rain and seasonal food availability.

• Rufous-tailed Hawk Buteo ventralis

  The Rufous-tailed Hawk is a South American hawk with a noticeable rufous tail. Its plumage ranges from light to dark forms.

• 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.

• Variable Antshrike Thamnophilus caerulescens

  The Variable Antshrike is about 13–14 cm long, and male plumage differs markedly among regions. In Bolivia it is recorded from the eastern Andean Yungas to southeastern lowlands.

• Buff-breasted Earthcreeper Upucerthia validirostris

  This ovenbird relative lives in rocky parts of the high Andes. A taxonomic study describes geographic changes in size and plumage. A diet study in southern Peru's queñua forests found insects, spiders, and scorpions in examined birds.

• Bamboo Woodpecker Gecinulus viridis

  The Bamboo Woodpecker is a subdued green woodpecker closely associated with bamboo. It probes stems and trunks slowly for small prey.

• Restinga Tyrannulet Phylloscartes kronei

  This small flycatcher is recorded in coastal forest in southeastern Brazil. Its habitat includes sandy restinga woodland and nearby riverine forest.

• Blue-fronted Redstart Phoenicurus frontalis

  The Blue-fronted Redstart is a mountain bird; males show blue on the head and back and orange underparts, while females are mainly brown. It uses different elevations at different times of year.

• White-throated Seedeater Sporophila albogularis

  This small bird is recorded in the Caatinga of northeastern Brazil. Males have small white patches near the eye, and the birds take grass seeds from the ground. Regional accounts describe shrubland near wet places and along dry-forest edges.

• Pink-spotted Fruit Dove Ptilinopus perlatus

  The Pink-spotted Fruit Dove is a fruit-eating pigeon of New Guinea and nearby islands. Pink spots on its wings stand out.

• Northern Harrier Circus hudsonius

  The Northern Harrier is a North American hawk that glides low over grasslands and marshes while searching for small prey.

• Blue-throated Starfrontlet Coeligena helianthea

  The Blue-throated Starfrontlet lives in mountain forest in Colombia's Eastern Andes. Males have an iridescent blue throat and green body; females are less vivid. It feeds on nectar and also catches insects.

• Mouse-colored Antshrike Thamnophilus murinus

  An antshrike that often forages with mixed-species flocks in the middle levels of Amazonian evergreen forest.