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• Philippine Honey Buzzard Pernis steerei

  

  This honey-buzzard occurs on the main Philippine islands, excluding Palawan. In 2004 on Panay, observers recorded a bird flying above primary-forest canopy and performing a wing-quivering display flight.

• Thick-billed Saltator Saltator maxillosus

  It has a yellow bill base and a white eyebrow. The source account lists Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina; an Argentina study reports records in secondary and regenerating forests in Misiones Province.

• Eurasian Wryneck Jynx torquilla

  A long-tailed woodpecker relative camouflaged by fine grey-brown patterning.

• Grey-fronted Dove Leptotila rufaxilla

  The Grey-fronted Dove is a ground-dwelling dove widespread in South America. A study in Acre found nests near forest edges and reported that breeding records peaked in the rainy season.

• Grey-hooded Attila Attila rufus

  The Grey-hooded Attila is a forest bird of Brazil, with a grey head and rufous body.

• Little Slaty Flycatcher Ficedula basilanica

  Endemic to Philippine islands, this flycatcher inhabits the shaded understory of humid evergreen forest and keeps out of sight.

• Cinnamon-rumped Foliage-gleaner Philydor pyrrhodes

  This ovenbird inhabits swamps and moist lowland forest in the Amazon region. It has brown upperparts, cinnamon underparts and tail, and a long down-curved bill.

• Tawny-bellied Hermit Phaethornis syrmatophorus

  This hummingbird occurs in the northern Andes of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. In Peru it is recorded in humid montane forest and in humid or semi-deciduous forest in western Piura.

• Yellow-breasted Antwren Herpsilochmus axillaris

  This small antwren lives in humid Andean forests. It searches for arthropods in the canopy and mid-storey and sometimes joins mixed-species flocks.

• Bicolored Hawk Astur bicolor

  The Bicolored Hawk is a forest raptor of Central and South America. It ambushes prey from cover, and plumage varies across its range.

• Collared Warbling Finch Poospiza hispaniolensis

  The Collared Warbling Finch occurs in Ecuador and Peru. Males show a white eyebrow and breast band, while females are browner and have dark streaks on the breast and belly.

• Red-crowned Woodpecker Melanerpes rubricapillus

  This small woodpecker has different head patterns in males and females: males have a red crown, while females have a white crown. It excavates its own tree cavity for nesting.

• Purple-tailed Imperial Pigeon Ducula rufigaster

  The Purple-tailed Imperial Pigeon is a large pigeon with a gray head, glossy green upperparts, a chestnut belly, and a purple sheen on the tail. It feeds on fruit in the forest canopy around New Guinea.

• Rufous-tailed Flycatcher Myiarchus validus

  A Jamaican forest bird that darts out from cover to catch insects.

• Ashy Flycatcher Muscicapa caerulescens

  The Ashy Flycatcher is grey to blue-grey, with a pale brow line that joins a narrow white eye-ring. It uses edges and clearings in dry and moist forest as well as moist savanna, catching mainly insects. The source uses Fraseria caerulescens and notes its former placement in Muscicapa.

• Araucaria Tit-Spinetail Leptasthenura setaria

  A furnariid of southern Brazil and northeastern Argentina, associated with Araucaria woodland and plantations.

• Black-throated Brilliant Heliodoxa schreibersii

  This hummingbird occurs in scattered foothill populations on the eastern Andes. In northeastern Peru its range extends from foothills into Amazonian lowlands.

• White-shouldered Antshrike Thamnophilus aethiops

  This antshrike forages in the upper understorey and mid-storey of Amazonian forest; plumage varies among subspecies and sexes.

• Black-and-white Hawk-Eagle Spizaetus melanoleucus

  The Black-and-white Hawk-Eagle has a white head with a black crest. It watches from trees for mammals, birds, and reptiles.

• Coco Island Finch Pinaroloxias inornata

  A finch endemic to Cocos Island, Costa Rica, using the island's varied habitats.

• Crimson-breasted Woodpecker Dryobates cathpharius

  The Crimson-breasted Woodpecker inhabits Himalayan mountain forests. Adult males have red feathers on the crown and nape, while the female's head is black.

• 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.

• Fulvous-faced Scrub Tyrant Euscarthmus fulviceps

  This small tyrant is recorded in dry scrub and deciduous forest of western Ecuador. It searches near the ground for insects and also eats fruit.

• Grey-throated Tit-Flycatcher Myioparus griseigularis

  This flycatcher occurs in forests from western and central Africa to Uganda and Tanzania. Its species account uses Fraseria and lists Myioparus as a former genus placement.