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• Blackthroat Luscinia obscura

  

  Field surveys in the Qinling Mountains in 2011-2012 confirmed breeding birds in Shaanxi nature reserves. Males have black throats and breasts, and breeding sites included dense dwarf bamboo on mountain slopes. The paper uses Calliope obscura; the pool uses Luscinia obscura.

• Common Black Hawk Buteogallus anthracinus

  The Common Black Hawk is a dark raptor that waits for prey in wooded wetlands and along streams. It is rare in the southwestern United States and more common from Mexico southward.

• Henna-capped Foliage-gleaner Clibanornis rectirostris

  It is recorded in gallery forest and riparian woodland in Brazil's Cerrado.

• Black-hooded Antwren Formicivora erythronotos

  This small antwren lives in coastal forest in southeastern Brazil. Males and females have different plumage.

• Dubois's Seedeater Sporophila ardesiaca

  This small finch is found in grassland with bushes. The name and taxonomy shown here follow the pool’s current entry.

• Buff-bellied Hummingbird Amazilia yucatanensis

  The Buff-bellied Hummingbird is notable for its red bill and throat that can look blue-green in the right light. It feeds in South Texas, and some birds move to Louisiana for winter.

• Hangnest Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus nidipendulus

  This small tyrant flycatcher is endemic to Brazil. It has an olive-green head and back and eats mostly insects in humid forests.

• Mindanao Bleeding-heart Gallicolumba crinigera

  A Philippine forest pigeon with a striking red breast that searches for food on the ground.

• Eurasian Wryneck Jynx torquilla

  A long-tailed woodpecker relative camouflaged by fine grey-brown patterning.

• Black-backed Forktail Enicurus immaculatus

  This stream-dwelling bird has black-and-white plumage and a long forked tail. It occurs beside forested streams, alone or in pairs.

• Wahlberg's Eagle Hieraaetus wahlbergi

  Wahlberg's Eagle is a small African eagle, most often dark brown. It breeds in the south and moves within Africa seasonally, hunting across woodland and savanna habitats.

• Tufted Tit-Spinetail Leptasthenura platensis

  It is a small bird of southeastern South America’s shrubland and open woodland. Its crest and long tail stand out, and it searches for food on the ground and low vegetation.

• Amazonian Streaked Antwren Myrmotherula multostriata

  This small antwren lives in forest along Amazonian rivers and lakes. It searches for insects in the lower and middle layers among tangled vines.

• Black-crested Finch Lophospingus pusillus

  This small finch occurs in South American Chaco woodland, woodland edges and grasslands. Its usual range extends from southern Bolivia through Paraguay to west-central Argentina. A bird recorded near Mendoza city in 2024 may have escaped or been released.

• Violet-capped Woodnymph Thalurania glaucopis

  The male has a violet-blue crown and green body. Nests have been documented in forests of southeastern Brazil.

• Thick-billed Kingbird Tyrannus crassirostris

  This kingbird has a large head, massive bill, black mask, and white throat and breast. It launches from a high perch to catch insects, then returns to the perch.

• Orange-breasted Green Pigeon Treron bicinctus

  The Orange-breasted Green Pigeon ranges across South and Southeast Asian forests. It eats fruit from branches, and males and females differ in breast pattern.

• Ground Woodpecker Geocolaptes olivaceus

  This woodpecker forages on rocky hills and mountains, digging for ants. Males and females differ in their face markings.

• Ussher's Flycatcher Muscicapa ussheri

  This flycatcher lives in West African lowland forest. It hunts insects from high dead branches near forest edges and clearings.

• Square-tailed Kite Lophoictinia isura

  This kite has a white face with black streaks and a large white patch at the base of its long wings. It hunts small birds, especially nestlings, and insects in the canopy.

• Scaly-throated Foliage-gleaner Anabacerthia variegaticeps

  A foliage-gleaner ranging from Central America to the western Andes, where it searches branches and leaves for small invertebrates.

• East Andean Antbird Drymophila caudata

  The East Andean Antbird is a small antbird of Colombia’s eastern Andean slopes. Males are dark, while females are browner or more rufous.

• Small Ground Finch Geospiza fuliginosa

  The Small Ground Finch is endemic to the Galápagos Islands and eats seeds, fruit, and small arthropods. An 1841 account describes the female’s underparts as gray.

• Fiery-throated Metaltail Metallura eupogon

  This hummingbird occurs on the eastern slope of the central Peruvian Andes. The male has an iridescent purple throat, and records come from humid mountain forest edges and nearby scrub.