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• Streak-crowned Antvireo Dysithamnus striaticeps

  

  This antvireo ranges from southeastern Honduras to Costa Rica. It is recorded mainly in evergreen forest on the Caribbean slope of Central America; the AOS checklist does not accept records from western Panama.

• Spot-throated Hummingbird Thaumasius taczanowskii

  This roughly 12 cm hummingbird lives on the western slope of the northern Andes. Green upperparts, gray underparts, and dark throat and upper-breast speckles help identify it.

• Pied Harrier Circus melanoleucos

  The Pied Harrier has strongly different male and female plumage and flies low over open grassland to search for prey.

• Sao Tome Green Pigeon Treron sanctithomae

  The Sao Tome Green Pigeon is restricted to Sao Tome Island in the Gulf of Guinea. It feeds on fruit high in forest canopies and also uses forest-edge plantations.

• Crimson-winged Woodpecker Picus puniceus

  This greenish woodpecker has red wings and a red crown, plus a yellow crest. It forages on trunks and large branches in forests and plantations from lowlands into lower mountain areas.

• Cinnamon Flycatcher Pyrrhomyias cinnamomeus

  In northwestern Argentina, the nominate subspecies is listed from Jujuy, Salta, and Tucumán. It has a dark chestnut head, with cinnamon-colored upper tail coverts and underparts.

• Crimson-breasted Finch Rhodospingus cruentus

  A small finch of western Ecuador and northwestern Peru. Short seasonal movements have been reported in western Ecuador.

• Cape Robin-Chat Cossypha caffra

  Male and female Cape Robin-Chats look alike, with a pale orange breast and a white eyebrow-like marking. In South Africa they use thickets, stream edges, forest margins, gardens, and parks, and feed near the ground on insects and other invertebrates.

• Des Murs's Wiretail Sylviorthorhynchus desmurii

  It is a small bird with a slender tail: about 22 cm long overall, with a tail of about 14 cm. It lives in humid forest and dense undergrowth in southern South America.

• Harlequin Antbird Rhegmatorhina berlepschi

  This antbird occurs in forested parts of southern Amazonia. In places where it meets the related Rhegmatorhina hoffmannsi, studies report geographic variation in throat and chest color.

• White-bellied Emerald Chlorestes candida

  The White-bellied Emerald moves quickly among leaves, flowers and forest clearings in Guatemala’s Laguna del Tigre National Park. The local biological station also notes its role in pollination.

• Black Sparrowhawk Astur melanoleucus

  A large hawk of African forests and woodlands. It mainly takes birds, and in some areas also eats fish or carrion.

• 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.

• 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.

• Bearded Tachuri Polystictus pectoralis

  This small tyrant flycatcher has a disjunct distribution across South American grasslands. It is recorded in low grassland with scattered scrub near water.

• Little Inca Finch Incaspiza watkinsi

  This small bird lives in the lower Marañón region of northern Peru. It has a gray head and breast, a brownish back, and a pale belly, and searches near the ground along woodland edges and in scrub.

• White-browed Shama Copsychus luzoniensis

  The White-browed Shama is a Philippine forest bird. A male of the nominate subspecies was observed on Mount Makiling, Luzon; the account describes the species in low thickets and vines near the ground.

• Scalloped Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes falcinellus

  This woodcreeper searches along tree trunks in humid forest. It has a rufous back, pale eyebrow, and finely scalloped belly. It is associated with the Atlantic Forest, where one observed pair took turns incubating its eggs.

• Long-winged Antwren Myrmotherula longipennis

  This antwren forages in the middle levels of Amazonian forest. Males are gray with a black throat; females are brown to rufous-brown, and the birds often join mixed-species flocks.

• Snowy-bellied Hummingbird Saucerottia edward

  Its glossy green plumage and white belly are distinctive. The distribution entry here is one 2021 observation in Panama.

• Barred Hawk Morphnarchus princeps

  This large hawk has a blackish-gray throat and chest, with fine black bars across its white belly. It is diurnal and lives in humid foothill and montane forest.

• 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.

• Black-backed Woodpecker Picoides arcticus

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

• Jamaican Elaenia Myiopagis cotta

  The Jamaican Elaenia is a small tyrant flycatcher of humid montane and foothill forests in Jamaica.