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• White-tipped Dove Leptotila verreauxi

  

  The White-tipped Dove is marked by sandy plumage, a darker back, and white tips on the outer tail feathers. It searches for seeds on the ground in dry woods and riverside scrub.

• Western Kingbird Tyrannus verticalis

  The Western Kingbird has a gray back, yellow belly, and white edges on the tail. From an exposed perch in open country, it sallies after flying insects.

• Dusky-blue Flycatcher Muscicapa comitata

  The Dusky-blue Flycatcher (Bradornis comitatus) occurs in the Afrotropical region. It uses forest edges, secondary growth and farmland, and catches invertebrates in the air.

• Pale-tailed Canastero Asthenes huancavelicae

  Pale-tailed Canastero occurs in central-southern Peru. The Apurimac form usheri has pale outer tail feathers, and the species account places it in arid valleys with scattered shrubs, cacti, and trees.

• Wire-crested Thorntail Discosura popelairii

  This hummingbird is recorded in humid forests of southern Colombia. Breeding males have wire-like ornamental feathers.

• White-bearded Antshrike Biatas nigropectus

  The White-bearded Antshrike is associated with bamboo in the Atlantic Forest. Males have a black cap and white face, while females have a rufous crown.

• Mantled Hawk Pseudastur polionotus

  The Mantled Hawk is a large hawk with white and slate-grey plumage and a short tail. It lives in humid hilly forest and hunts reptiles, small mammals, and birds.

• Espanola Cactus Finch Geospiza conirostris

  The Large Cactus Finch is a Darwin's finch of the Galápagos, with a varied diet that includes Opuntia cactus. Here the account follows the Trust's treatment of the Española Island population.

• Bar-bellied Woodpecker Veniliornis nigriceps

  This woodpecker occurs in the eastern Andes, in montane forest and scrub. It has olive-brown upperparts, barred underparts, and red on the male’s head; it forages near the ground.

• Inca Dove Columbina inca

  The Inca Dove is a small dove that walks on the ground to find seeds in dry, open places. Its feathers have a scaly-looking pattern.

• Pacific Flatbill Rhynchocyclus pacificus

  This tyrant flycatcher occurs along the Pacific side of western Colombia and northwestern Ecuador. It forages in humid forest understory.

• Kurdistan Wheatear Oenanthe xanthoprymna

  Kurdistan Wheatear breeds in parts of southeastern Turkey, Syria, northern Iraq, and southwestern Iran, then winters farther south toward the Red Sea and southern Arabia.

• Stripe-crowned Spinetail Cranioleuca pyrrhophia

  This ovenbird occurs in southern South America, where it searches for food on tree trunks and branches.

• Minute Hermit Phaethornis idaliae

  This hummingbird occurs in lowland southeastern Brazil. It has iridescent dark-green upperparts and pointed central tail feathers, and forages in the forest understorey.

• Bahia Antwren Herpsilochmus pileatus

  The Bahia Antwren inhabits coastal forest in southern Bahia, Brazil. Males are gray and black, while females show buff tones.

• Martial Eagle Polemaetus bellicosus

  The Martial Eagle is a large eagle with dark spots on its white belly. It uses open habitats such as wooded savanna and grassland.

• White-throated Seedeater Sporophila albogularis

  This small bird is recorded in the Caatinga of northeastern Brazil. Males have small white patches near the eye, and the birds take grass seeds from the ground. Regional accounts describe shrubland near wet places and along dry-forest edges.

• Black-backed Woodpecker Picoides arcticus

  This woodpecker often arrives in forests after fires and feeds mainly on wood-boring beetle larvae.

• Lined Quail-Dove Zentrygon linearis

  A ground-dwelling dove of foothill and mountain forests in Colombia, Venezuela and Trinidad.

• Orange-crested Flycatcher Myiophobus phoenicomitra

  This small flycatcher inhabits humid Andean forests. Sighting and photographic records of its subspecies are reported from Colombia's eastern Andean slope.

• Cryptic Flycatcher Ficedula crypta

  This elusive flycatcher lives on Mindanao in mountain forest. It is recorded alone or in pairs in low vegetation on wet ravine slopes.

• Slender-billed Xenops Xenops tenuirostris

  This small ovenbird relative has a thin, straight bill and moves over trunks and branches. The Peru account places it in lowland Amazonian forest edges and secondary growth, with records to 500 m along the Andean foothills.

• Blue-capped Puffleg Eriocnemis glaucopoides

  This resident hummingbird is recorded in Argentina and Bolivia, at elevations of 1,500–3,400 m.

• Chestnut-crested Antbird Rhegmatorhina cristata

  A lowland forest antbird of southeastern Colombia and northwestern Brazil that searches near the ground around columns of ants.