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• Rufous-breasted Piculet Picumnus rufiventris

  

  This small piculet occurs in western Amazonia. A 2013 field account recorded foraging among bamboo and vines and an apparent recently fledged juvenile.

• 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.

• 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.

• Bay-capped Wren-Spinetail Spartonoica maluroides

  The Bay-capped Wren-Spinetail lives in salt marshes of southeastern South America. In a measured sample, males tended to have a longer rufous cap and a more robust bill than females.

• Mountain Wheatear Oenanthe monticola

  This bird occurs in the rocky uplands and open grasslands of southern Africa. Some current accounts use the genus combination Myrmecocichla.

• 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.

• Chilean Pigeon Patagioenas araucana

  A large pigeon with a vinous chest and a white nape band. It uses forest and gathers in flocks, often staying quiet in foliage.

• Cinnamon Neopipo Neopipo cinnamomea

  This small tyrant flycatcher is recorded in humid Andean foothill forest and stunted forest on white sand in the Peruvian Amazon. It is usually solitary in the understory and moves slowly.

• Green Honeycreeper Chlorophanes spiza

  This honeycreeper ranges from southern Mexico to Brazil and Trinidad. It takes nectar and fruit and forages in forest canopies and edges.

• Dot-fronted Woodpecker Veniliornis frontalis

  This woodpecker occurs on the eastern Andean slope from Bolivia to Argentina. It inhabits humid and montane woodland, searching tree trunks for food.

• Spot-backed Antwren Herpsilochmus dorsimaculatus

  This antwren lives in lowland evergreen forest in the northwestern Amazon. Males have a black head, a white eyebrow, and black-and-white spots on the back. It is found in the canopy and subcanopy.

• Besra Tachyspiza virgata

  The Besra is a small raptor found from South to Southeast Asia. It hides among dense foliage and pursues small birds and other prey with quick flight.

• Ochre-throated Foliage-gleaner Automolus ochrolaemus

  This foliage-gleaner ranges from eastern Central America into northern South America and the western Amazon. In current taxonomy it is separate from two closely related species with which it was formerly grouped.

• Southern Black Flycatcher Melaenornis pammelaina

  The Southern Black Flycatcher is a small African flycatcher found in woodland, grassland, and some settled areas. It is seen alone or in pairs.

• Gray-chinned Hermit Phaethornis griseogularis

  This hummingbird has geographically separated subspecies; this entry focuses on zonura from northern Peru.

• Pink-headed Imperial Pigeon Ducula rosacea

  The Pink-headed Imperial Pigeon is an island pigeon with pale pink on its head and upper neck. It feeds on fruit in forests of the Lesser Sunda Islands.

• Rufous-webbed Bush Tyrant Cnemarchus rufipennis

  The body is gray, with a pale center to the belly and pale undertail coverts. Rufous parts of the wings and tail show clearly in flight. It forages in open scrub and grassland in the high Andes.

• Lacrimose Mountain Tanager Anisognathus lacrymosus

  This tanager lives in humid Andean forests. Its blue upperparts and orange-yellow underparts stand out, and it often joins mixed-species flocks.

• Great spotted woodpecker Dendrocopos major

  A woodpecker with black-and-white plumage and red underparts that clings to tree trunks.

• Magdalena Antbird Sipia palliata

  This antbird occurs in humid forest in Colombia and Venezuela. It forages low in dense undergrowth, including around fallen logs.

• Steppe Eagle Aquila nipalensis

  A large eagle of open steppe and semidesert, migrating between Eurasian breeding grounds and wintering areas in Africa and Asia.

• 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.

• Gould's Shortwing Heteroxenicus stellatus

  Gould's Shortwing lives in the Himalayas and nearby mountain ranges. Its chestnut back contrasts with a grey breast and belly marked by white spots.

• Chilean Woodstar Eulidia yarrellii

  The Chilean Woodstar is a small hummingbird found in Chile and Peru. Males have olive-green upperparts, white underparts, and an iridescent violet-red throat, and feed on flower nectar.