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• Sooty Woodpecker Mulleripicus funebris

  

  The Northern Sooty Woodpecker is a large woodpecker of the northern Philippines. In the northern taxon, males have broader burgundy facial markings and smaller white spots on the neck than the related southern form.

• Ashy-headed Green Pigeon Treron phayrei

  The male has a grey head and maroon wings. The female is mostly green, and both feed on fruit in forest habitats.

• East Andean Antbird Drymophila caudata

  The East Andean Antbird is a small antbird of Colombia’s eastern Andean slopes. Males are dark, while females are browner or more rufous.

• Spot-breasted Thornbird Phacellodomus maculipectus

  The Spot-breasted Thornbird is a furnariid of woodlands, savannas, scrub, and wetlands in northwestern Argentina. Its rufous head and pale-marked breast stand out; it builds an elongated nest of twigs.

• Javan Whistling Thrush Myophonus glaucinus

  Myophonus glaucinus is now called the Javan Whistling Thrush. A 2004 species-limits study describes glossy dark blue on the male’s head and upperparts, and reports birds mostly on the ground and ridges at Gunung Gede, Java.

• Olivaceous Elaenia Elaenia mesoleuca

  This small tyrant flycatcher occurs in southeastern Brazil, eastern Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, and northern Uruguay. It closely resembles E. parvirostris, and voice is reported as a useful clue where field separation is difficult.

• Rufous Sabrewing Pampa rufa

  A large hummingbird of the Pacific slope from southern Mexico to El Salvador. It is green above and rufous below and on the tail, and is recorded in forests and coffee plantations.

• Green-throated Tanager Stilpnia argyrofenges

  A tanager of humid forest on the eastern Andean slope. It is recorded in the canopy and middle levels, both in pairs and mixed flocks.

• Rufous-winged Buzzard Butastur liventer

  The Rufous-winged Buzzard is a raptor that searches for prey in wooded grassland and farmland. By day, it watches open ground from a perch.

• Red-backed Flameback Dinopium psarodes

  This Sri Lankan woodpecker is the red-backed form. It is most widespread in the wet zone, while birds in the north-central contact area can show intermediate plumage.

• Sclater's Crowned Pigeon Goura sclaterii

  A large crowned-pigeon of southern New Guinea's lowland rainforests, with a crest that extends far back and a blue-gray body.

• Rusty-backed Antwren Formicivora rufa

  This antwren occurs in South America, including cerrado scrub. Males have black breast and belly areas bordered by white, while females have dark streaks on the white throat and breast.

• Xingu Scythebill Campylorhamphus multostriatus

  A scythebill of large forest tracts between Brazil’s Xingu and Tocantins rivers. In live or freshly collected birds, the upper bill is distinctly blackish.

• Chinese Blue-flycatcher Cyornis glaucicomans

  A small flycatcher that breeds in western China and winters farther south in Southeast Asia. It is a rare passage migrant and winter visitor in Hong Kong.

• Say's Phoebe Sayornis saya

  This flycatcher inhabits dry, open country in western North America. Cinnamon tones wash across its underside, and it sallies from low perches to catch insects.

• Purple-throated Sunangel Heliangelus viola

  The Purple-throated Sunangel is about 11–12 cm long. It feeds on nectar by day in forest and at forest edges in the Andes.

• Bay-chested Warbling Finch Castanozoster thoracicus

  It has a bluish-gray head and back with a broad rufous band along the flanks. It lives along high-elevation forest edges in southeastern Brazil.

• Henst's Goshawk Astur henstii

  A large hawk 52–62 cm long. It lives in Madagascar's forests, including eastern rainforest and western dry forest. It is active by day and hunts vertebrates.

• Red-stained Woodpecker Veniliornis affinis

  This woodpecker inhabits forests of the Amazon Basin. Males have red on the head, females lack red on the head, and both sexes have red wing spots.

• Seychelles Blue Pigeon Alectroenas pulcherrimus

  This large pigeon lives on islands in the Seychelles. Its dark blue body, pale breast patch, and red bare skin on the face stand out; it feeds on fruit and seeds in trees.

• Uniform Antshrike Thamnophilus unicolor

  This antshrike lives in the understory of humid montane forest along the eastern Andes from Colombia to Peru. It is recorded infrequently.

• Lesser Hornero Furnarius minor

  This small ovenbird is common along Amazonian rivers. It searches for food on the ground in open places created by rivers and similar early-growth habitats made by people.

• Brown Scrub Robin Erythropygia signata

  This southern African robin occurs in forest and dense scrub. South Africa and Eswatini hold most of the global population, while it is uncommon in Mozambique and reported from few sites there.

• Greater Pewee Contopus pertinax

  The Greater Pewee occurs widely in Mexico and breeds in mountain forests in Arizona and locally in western New Mexico. In the U.S. it is mainly a summer bird.