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• Plain-mantled Tit-Spinetail Leptasthenura aegithaloides

  

  This small bird lives in dry scrub and woodland edges, and it is recorded hanging upside down from branches. It feeds mostly on insects.

• Short-toed Rock Thrush Monticola brevipes

  The Short-toed Rock-thrush lives in dry rocky habitats of southern Africa. Males are blue-grey and rufous, while females are mainly grey-brown.

• Yellow-bellied Elaenia Elaenia flavogaster

  This tyrant flycatcher has a bushy crest and yellowish lower belly. It catches insects by flying out from a perch and also eats fruit.

• Violet-capped Hummingbird Goldmania violiceps

  The Violet-capped Hummingbird occurs in tropical forest from eastern Panama to northwestern Colombia. The male has a violet crown and forked chestnut tail, and visits flowers low in the forest.

• Rufous-crested Tanager Creurgops verticalis

  This tanager inhabits the Andes of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. It joins mixed-species flocks high in the canopy and mainly forages for insects.

• Sulawesi Hawk-Eagle Nisaetus lanceolatus

  The Sulawesi Hawk-Eagle is a large raptor of Indonesian forest, centered on Sulawesi. Adults have a rufous, streaked breast and a densely barred belly.

• Scarlet-backed Woodpecker Veniliornis callonotus

  This small, colorful woodpecker is described from western Ecuador to northwestern Peru. It has a red back, white underparts, and sex-specific crown colors. BirdLife’s country records also include Colombia.

• Mariana Fruit Dove Ptilinopus roseicapilla

  The Mariana Fruit Dove lives in forests of the Northern Mariana Islands. It walks along branches while feeding on fruit, leaves, seeds, and flowers.

• Western Fire-eye Pyriglena maura

  This antbird lives in dense forest understory from northern to central South America. It searches near the ground for insects and small lizards.

• Itatiaia Spinetail Asthenes moreirae

  This small ovenbird lives in high-elevation grasslands of southeastern Brazil. Its long, frayed tail is distinctive, and it forages among grass and shrubs.

• Mourning Wheatear Oenanthe lugens

  The mourning wheatear is a small bird of deserts and rocky highlands.

• Black-billed Flycatcher Aphanotriccus audax

  This small flycatcher occurs locally from eastern Panama to northern Colombia. The male has an olive-grey crown.

• Blue-headed Sapphire Chrysuronia grayi

  This hummingbird is recorded in dry areas of Colombia and Ecuador. A 2015 paper uses the older genus name Amazilia grayi and compares the male's tail and the female's underside with a related species.

• Slaty Tanager Creurgops dentatus

  This tanager uses humid Andean forests. Males are dusky gray with a rufous cap; females have rufous throat and underparts, and the species may forage in mixed flocks.

• Rüppell's Vulture Gyps rueppelli

  A large African vulture that soars over open country and feeds on carrion.

• Jamaican Woodpecker Melanerpes radiolatus

  The Jamaican Woodpecker has a relatively long bill. It eats both plant and animal matter and forages by probing bark and bromeliads.

• White-throated Quail-Dove Zentrygon frenata

  A dove of humid Andean forests, it has pale stripes on the face and a light throat. It may forage on the forest floor in the early morning.

• Slaty Antwren Myrmotherula schisticolor

  This small antwren occurs in Panama's humid forests. Males are gray and females olive-brown, and the birds search low growth for small prey.

• White-collared Foliage-gleaner Anabazenops fuscus

  This bird is recorded in forests of southeastern Brazil. Its bill is bluish-yellow, with white markings around and above the eye. Pairs move through dense foliage and along trunks, inspecting dead leaves and epiphytes for food.

• Slaty-backed Forktail Enicurus schistaceus

  This forktail lives along rocky streams from the eastern Himalayas into Southeast Asia, where it searches among stones for aquatic insects.

• White-crested Spadebill Platyrinchus platyrhynchos

  This small flycatcher feeds in the understory of Amazonian forest. It is widespread but considered rare in Peru.

• 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.

• Rufous-breasted Warbling Finch Poospiza rubecula

  This finch occurs in a restricted area of the western Peruvian Andes. Adult males have a slate-grey back and tail, black face, and rufous forehead, eyebrow, and breast. A 1994 field visit recorded small groups feeding in low branches and on vegetated ground.

• Beaudouin's Snake Eagle Circaetus beaudouini

  This snake eagle lives in the sparsely wooded Sahel. It searches from prominent perches and takes snakes and other small prey.