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• Black-headed Tanager Stilpnia cyanoptera

  

  This tanager ranges from northern Colombia to northeastern Venezuela. Males have a black head, pale upperparts and blue flashes on the wings; females are grey-toned with green wing flashes. It uses moist woodland and eats small fruits and arthropods.

• Mugimaki Flycatcher Ficedula mugimaki

  The Mugimaki Flycatcher breeds in East Asia and migrates to Southeast Asia. In Japan it is seen during spring and autumn passage.

• Cordoba Cinclodes Cinclodes comechingonus

  This cinclodes is recorded in Córdoba Province, central Argentina. Its 1944 original description noted a ferruginous wing band and rusty tips on the outer tail feathers of the adult male type. The national parks database also lists rivers and streams among its habitat categories.

• Black-throated Antshrike Frederickena viridis

  A lowland antshrike of Venezuela, the Guianas, and Brazil. It favors dense undergrowth in evergreen forest.

• Bumblebee Hummingbird Selasphorus heloisa

  The Bumblebee Hummingbird occurs in Mexico. An early naturalist account says males used forest as their main setting but also visited wildflowers.

• White-browed Hawk Leucopternis kuhli

  This hawk lives in lowlands south of the Amazon River. A study between Brazil's Madeira and Purus rivers recorded its nesting and plumage.

• Tanna Fruit Dove Ptilinopus tannensis

  Endemic to Vanuatu, it feeds on fruit in the canopy of tall fruiting trees. Males have silver shoulder spots that females lack.

• Golden-spangled Piculet Picumnus exilis

  The Golden-spangled Piculet is a tiny woodpecker ranging across northern and eastern Brazil, eastern Venezuela and Colombia, and Guyana. It lives in forest and feeds on small invertebrates.

• Black-crowned Monjita Neoxolmis coronatus

  The Black-crowned Monjita is recorded in Argentina. Its black-and-white head and underside stand out; it often sits alone in an exposed place while searching for food.

• Chestnut-throated Seedeater Sporophila telasco

  This small seedeater ranges along the Pacific slope from southern Colombia to northern Chile. In Chile it uses dry valleys and farmland, mainly below 1,000 m.

• Mountain Robin-Chat Cossypha isabellae

  This bird has dark olive-brown upperparts, a white line in front of the eye and orange-rufous underparts. It is recorded in montane forests of western Cameroon and southeastern Nigeria; a Cameroon survey found it in primary and secondary forest.

• Olive Spinetail Cranioleuca obsoleta

  This small ovenbird occurs in eastern Paraguay, southeastern Brazil, and northeastern Argentina. Its rufous tail and wings and pale eyebrow are noticeable.

• Rondonia Warbling Antbird Hypocnemis ochrogyna

  This antbird occurs in the Brazilian states of Rondônia and Mato Grosso and eastern Bolivia. Males have black-and-white streaks, while females have browner heads and backs.

• Green-breasted Mango Anthracothorax prevostii

  The Green-breasted Mango is a relatively large hummingbird of tropical American lowlands, found around forest edges and clearings.

• Lappet-faced Vulture Torgos tracheliotos

  This large vulture occurs in dry parts of Africa south of the Sahara. It has a dark body, white down on the belly and thighs, and a bare head with prominent folds of skin.

• Tolima Dove Leptotila conoveri

  The Tolima Dove lives in the Colombian Andes. Its head is greyish, and it occurs in humid montane forest and along forest edges.

• Arrowhead Piculet Picumnus minutissimus

  The Arrowhead Piculet is a small woodpecker of the coastal lowlands of the Guianas. Its underparts have an arrowhead-like scaly pattern; males have broad red feather tips on the crown.

• Lesser Antillean Flycatcher Myiarchus oberi

  A flycatcher recorded on Dominica. The account describes it at forest edges and fruit plantations, where it catches insects by darting from a perch.

• Bluish Flowerpiercer Diglossa caerulescens

  This flowerpiercer ranges through the Andes from Venezuela to Bolivia. It uses humid montane forest and high-elevation scrub and grassland.

• Japanese robin Erithacus akahige

  A bird of dense mountain undergrowth that hops over the ground searching for small animals.

• Greater Thornbird Phacellodomus ruber

  This 19–21 cm thornbird occurs in wetland-edge thickets and other scrub. It searches on the ground and in dense vegetation for insects and other invertebrates.

• Plain Antvireo Dysithamnus mentalis

  The Plain Antvireo is recorded across Central and South America. In Costa Rica, it occurs in the understory of humid mountain forests, and males and females differ in plumage.

• Purple-crowned Fairy Heliothryx barroti

  The adult male has a shining purple crown and green upperparts; the female lacks those colors.

• White-throated Hawk Buteo albigula

  The White-throated Hawk has brown-and-white plumage with chestnut on the neck and chest. In Argentina it is recorded in Andean-Patagonian forest and the northwest.