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• Bamboo Antshrike Cymbilaimus sanctaemariae

  

  The Bamboo Antshrike is a bamboo specialist of southwestern Amazonia. Males are barred black and white, while females have orange-buff underparts.

• Spix's Spinetail Synallaxis spixi

  A small South American bird recorded at woodland edges, grasslands, and savannas. Its rufous crown and wings contrast with its darker throat.

• Grey-crowned Woodpecker Colaptes auricularis

  This woodpecker lives in the foothills of western Mexico. It has a green back and barred underparts; the male has a red cheek stripe.

• Pacific Imperial Pigeon Ducula pacifica

  A large pigeon of Pacific islands, it has a pale gray to pinkish head and underside and darker gray wings and back. It feeds on fruit.

• Ovambo Sparrowhawk Accipiter ovampensis

  The Ovambo Sparrowhawk is a hawk of sub-Saharan Africa. It hunts other birds around dry woodland edges and savannas.

• Eastern Wood Pewee Contopus virens

  The Eastern Wood-Pewee is a small bird of eastern North American forests that waits on a perch and catches flying insects.

• Black-headed Hemispingus Pseudospingus verticalis

  This tanager occurs on the eastern Andean slope north and west of the Marañón Valley. The species account also lists records from Colombia and Ecuador.

• Gabela Akalat Sheppardia gabela

  The Gabela Akalat is a small forest bird from west-central Angola. A 2003 survey added records near Conda and Seles, including low secondary growth, forest edge, and regenerating coffee forest.

• Planalto Hermit Phaethornis pretrei

  This hermit hummingbird occurs in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay. Its long, slightly curved bill and long tail feathers are distinctive.

• 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.

• Greyish Miner Geositta maritima

  The Greyish Miner is recorded from western Peru to northern Chile. It walks through sparsely vegetated rocky desert in search of insects and seeds.

• Laced Woodpecker Picus vittatus

  The Laced Woodpecker has a green back and yellowish underparts. The male has a red crown and nape, while those areas are black in the female.

• Coroneted Fruit Dove Ptilinopus coronulatus

  This small pigeon is mainly green with a violet-pink crown patch. It eats fruit in lowland forests of New Guinea and nearby islands.

• Chaco Eagle Buteogallus coronatus

  The Chaco Eagle has a prominent crest and inhabits savannas and open woodland in Argentina.

• Cinnamon Attila Attila cinnamomeus

  The Cinnamon Attila occurs in Amazonian floodplain forest, edges, and river islands, foraging in the canopy and subcanopy. In Peru, the account records it in Loreto and Ucayali and describes it as uncommon there.

• 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.

• Rubeho Akalat Sheppardia aurantiithorax

  The Rubeho Akalat occurs in forest in the Eastern Arc mountains of central Tanzania. Its throat and upper breast are deep orange, and observations describe it feeding on the ground and low branches.

• White-crested Coquette Lophornis adorabilis

  This small hummingbird occurs on the Pacific side of southern Costa Rica and in far western Panama. Males have a white crest and long green cheek tufts, and visit flowers in forest edges and secondary growth.

• Plain-winged Antshrike Thamnophilus schistaceus

  This antshrike forages in the middle levels of Amazonian forest and often joins mixed-species flocks. Plumage differs by sex and between birds north and south of the Amazon River.

• Yellow-chinned Spinetail Certhiaxis cinnamomeus

  This spinetail has chestnut-brown upperparts and head, with white underparts. Its pale yellow chin can be hard to see.

• Blood-colored Woodpecker Veniliornis sanguineus

  The Blood-colored Woodpecker is a woodpecker of the Guianas. A 1953 account from Suriname recorded it in coastal coffee plantations and dry sandy country inland.

• White-winged Dove Zenaida asiatica

  A dove found from the southwestern United States through Mexico and Central America to parts of western South America. Its white wing patches form bright arcs in flight.

• Short-tailed Hawk Buteo brachyurus

  The Short-tailed Hawk circles above forests, looking for birds and diving to catch them.

• Lesser Elaenia Elaenia chiriquensis

  The Lesser Elaenia uses open scrub and forest edges. In Bolivia it occurs alone or in pairs and eats fruit and arthropods.