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• Red-headed Vulture Sarcogyps calvus

  

  The Red-headed Vulture has a red to orange head as an adult; it is paler in juveniles. It occurs across India and feeds on carrion.

• Woodpecker Finch Camarhynchus pallidus

  The sexes look alike, with brown-toned plumage. In the dry season it may use a twig or cactus spine as a tool to pull larvae from holes in wood.

• Checker-throated Stipplethroat Epinecrophylla fulviventris

  The Checker-throated Stipplethroat ranges from Central America into northwestern South America. It is treated here as Epinecrophylla fulviventris; older sources may use Myrmotherula fulviventris for the same species. It feeds on insects and spiders in the lower storey of wet foothill forest.

• Ochraceous-breasted Flycatcher Nephelomyias ochraceiventris

  This small flycatcher lives in humid mountain forest east of the Andes. It searches leaves and branches in the canopy and may join mixed-species flocks.

• Brown Cuckoo-Dove Macropygia phasianella

  The Brown Cuckoo-Dove has a long tail and lives in woodland and forest edges in eastern Australia, where it feeds on fruit and seeds.

• Javan Flameback Chrysocolaptes strictus

  The Javan Flameback is a woodpecker reported from Java and Bali. It has golden upperparts, a black band from behind the eye to the nape, a red crest in males and a yellow crest in females. Lowland moist forest is considered an important habitat.

• Dusky-tailed Canastero Pseudasthenes humicola

  A canastero found in Chile. The nominate subspecies has a brown back and pale eyebrow; a central Chile study recorded nesting in thorny scrub and cactus areas.

• Red-breasted Wheatear Oenanthe bottae

  Botta's Wheatear is a flycatcher-family bird of the highlands of southwestern Arabia. It is active by day, foraging on open grassland for small animals.

• Crowned Woodnymph Thalurania colombica

  This hummingbird occurs in separate areas from Central America into northwestern South America. Males have violet or green crowns and backs, while females have grey throats and breasts; the birds feed on nectar and small invertebrates.

• Black-faced Hawk Leucopternis melanops

  A small, stocky hawk with a black facial marking and orange cere, it searches for small prey in wet forest.

• Yellow-crested Tanager Loriotus rufiventer

  Adult males have a black head, back and tail, with a partly hidden yellow crown crest. The chest and belly center is rusty with yellow edging. It feeds in mature-forest canopy and subcanopy, often in mixed flocks.

• White-eyed Stipplethroat Epinecrophylla leucophthalma

  This small antbird occurs in Amazonian forest in Peru, Brazil, and Bolivia. Males are brown and gray, females are mainly brown, and both forage in the lower forest strata.

• 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 Cuckoo-Dove Turacoena modesta

  This large dove occurs on Timor and Wetar and feeds almost entirely on fruit.

• Red-naped Sapsucker Sphyrapicus nuchalis

  The Red-naped Sapsucker is a North American woodpecker that drills rows of holes in trees to feed on sap.

• Rusty-vented Canastero Asthenes dorbignyi

  It forages in rocky Andean scrub. In many subspecies, the back is brown, the underside is pale, and the flanks and vent are rufous.

• White-throated Robin Irania gutturalis

  Males stand out for a white throat and orange-red underparts. The species breeds in dry uplands and scrub of Southwest Asia and migrates to East Africa.

• Rufous-crested Coquette Lophornis delattrei

  The Rufous-crested Coquette is a tiny hummingbird of humid forest edges and nearby clearings in Central and South America. Males have a long rufous crest that females lack.

• Black-chested Buzzard-Eagle Geranoaetus melanoleucus

  The Black-chested Buzzard-Eagle is a large South American raptor whose broad wings and short tail form a triangular silhouette. It searches for prey over grasslands and rocky slopes.

• Lesser Grass Finch Emberizoides ypiranganus

  This small tanager is associated with grassy wetlands and sedge marshes in South America. The account describes it as sedentary.

• Black-backed Antshrike Thamnophilus melanonotus

  This antshrike is recorded from Colombia north toward northwestern Venezuela. It uses forest understorey and mid-storey, as well as scrub beside shallow streams, and forages close to the ground.

• Rufous-breasted Chat-Tyrant Ochthoeca rufipectoralis

  This chat-tyrant occurs around Andean montane forest and scrub. The rufous breast gives the bird its name; the Peru Aves account also reports it from high-elevation forest in Peru.

• Chiriqui Quail-Dove Zentrygon chiriquensis

  The Chiriqui Quail-Dove has chestnut upperparts and a slate-grey crown. It searches for food on the ground in humid montane forest in Costa Rica and western Panama.

• Rufous-bellied Woodpecker Dendrocopos hyperythrus

  This woodpecker has a red forehead and crown, black-and-white wings, and a rufous belly. It eats insects and occurs in forests from the Himalayas through parts of East and Southeast Asia.