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• Pied Water Tyrant Fluvicola pica

  

  The Pied Water Tyrant has black-and-white upperparts, white underparts, and a black bill and legs. In Peru it has been recorded in Ucayali and southern Loreto, where it uses open scrub near water.

• Sula Fruit Dove Ptilinopus mangoliensis

  This pigeon occurs on Indonesia’s Sula Islands. Its 1898 description records grey underpart feathers edged broadly in greenish yellow and narrow yellow lines on the crown feathers.

• Red-rumped Wheatear Oenanthe moesta

  The Red-rumped Wheatear is marked by rufous on its rump and tail. It lives in stony semi-desert and saline plains.

• Bananaquit Coereba flaveola

  This small nectar-feeding bird has a white eyebrow and yellow rump. It perches while feeding from flowers.

• Greater Yellownape Chrysophlegma flavinucha

  The Greater Yellownape is a large woodpecker that searches tree trunks for food.

• Bare-eyed Antbird Rhegmatorhina gymnops

  This antbird lives near the forest floor in southeastern Amazonian Brazil. Bare facial skin forms a pale eye-ring, and it follows army-ant swarms to catch small animals flushed by the ants.

• Steppe Eagle Aquila nipalensis

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

• Coppery-headed Emerald Microchera cupreiceps

  This small hummingbird is endemic to the highlands of Costa Rica. The adult male's copper-colored crown and tail, with white outer tail feathers, are useful field marks.

• Red-faced Spinetail Cranioleuca erythrops

  This spinetail has a rufous face and long stepped tail; in Costa Rica it occurs in humid forest at middle elevations.

• White-cheeked Tody-Flycatcher Poecilotriccus albifacies

  The White-cheeked Tody-Flycatcher is a small bird with a red crown and white cheeks. It lives in the Amazonian understory, especially in dense Guadua bamboo patches.

• Kosrae Fruit Dove Ptilinopus hernsheimi

  This fruit-dove lives on Kosrae. Calls are often heard in rainforest, and an older comparison found higher density there than in mangroves. Micronesian forms, including the Kosrae group, have a yellow band at the tail tip.

• Luzon Water Redstart Rhyacornis bicolor

  The main reported range is the Central Cordillera and Sierra Madre on Luzon, Philippines. It catches aquatic invertebrates beside rocky streams and riparian thickets. Males are dark slaty blue above with chestnut rump, tail and belly; females are similar but duller. The sources use Phoenicurus bicolor; this entry retains the pool name Rhyacornis bicolor.

• Sulphur-throated Finch Sicalis taczanowskii

  A finch of northwestern Peru's tropical savanna. It has gray-brown upperparts, light-brown underparts, and a yellow face and throat.

• Olive Woodpecker Dendropicos griseocephalus

  The Olive Woodpecker inhabits forests and dense woodland from central to southern Africa. Its olive-gray underside and upper-canopy foraging are characteristic.

• Guianan Streaked Antwren Myrmotherula surinamensis

  This small antwren inhabits riverside vine tangles and seasonally flooded forest. It gleans insects from leaves and is listed in a Smithsonian field checklist for Guyana.

• Ornate Hawk-Eagle Spizaetus ornatus

  The Ornate Hawk-Eagle is a forest raptor marked by a black crest and a rufous neck. In Argentina it glides along forest edges and hunts large birds and mammals.

• Rainbow-bearded Thornbill Chalcostigma herrani

  This hummingbird occurs in the northern Andes of Colombia and Ecuador. Males have an elongated, multicoloured gorget; both sexes have white-tipped tails.

• Brown-rumped Foliage-gleaner Automolus melanopezus

  The Brown-rumped Foliage-gleaner occurs in lowland forests from Colombia to Bolivia. It forages in the understory of young floodplain forest; the Peru Aves account also associates it with Guadua bamboo in southeastern Peru.

• Marble-faced Bristle Tyrant Pogonotriccus ophthalmicus

  This flycatcher lives in humid Andean montane forest. It has a gray crown and greenish-olive back, while the breast is gray in the southern subspecies ottonis and olive-yellow in northern nominate birds.

• Philippine Cuckoo-Dove Macropygia tenuirostris

  A long-tailed dove found on islands in the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and Taiwan.

• Ashy Flycatcher Muscicapa caerulescens

  The Ashy Flycatcher is grey to blue-grey, with a pale brow line that joins a narrow white eye-ring. It uses edges and clearings in dry and moist forest as well as moist savanna, catching mainly insects. The source uses Fraseria caerulescens and notes its former placement in Muscicapa.

• Swallow Tanager Tersina viridis

  In Bolivia, the Swallow Tanager is seen in forest canopies and feeds mainly on fruit. Females have a dark facial mask and barred flanks.

• Strickland's Woodpecker Leuconotopicus stricklandi

  Strickland's Woodpecker lives in the mountains of Mexico. It searches the bark of pine and oak woodland for small invertebrates.

• Dot-winged Antwren Microrhopias quixensis

  This antwren lives in humid forests from Central America into northern South America. Males are black with white wing markings; females have a slate-gray back and rufous underparts.