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• Cinnamon Tanager Schistochlamys ruficapillus

  

  Cinnamon Tanager occurs mainly in Brazil south of the Amazon and uses semi-open grassy country with scattered shrubs and low trees. A specimen study describes a cinnamon-colored throat and breast and a whitish belly. It found substantial individual and geographic variation in plumage, so one color pattern does not represent every bird.

• Northern Black Flycatcher Melaenornis edolioides

  The Northern Black Flycatcher occurs across northern and eastern sub-Saharan Africa, using moist woodland, acacia savanna and plantations. The male is bluish slate-gray with a long tail and short wings.

• Band-tailed Barbthroat Threnetes ruckeri

  The Band-tailed Barbthroat has green upperparts and a banded tail. It visits flowers for nectar in humid forest and ranges from Central America to northwestern South America.

• White-cheeked Antbird Gymnopithys leucaspis

  The White-cheeked Antbird has a chestnut back and a white throat and center of the underside edged in black. It forages in the understory of Amazonian terra firme forest and is often found with army ants.

• Rock Earthcreeper Ochetorhynchus andaecola

  This earthcreeper inhabits high Andean steppe in northwestern Argentina. It has a long, slightly curved bill, cinnamon-brown upperparts and a pale eyebrow.

• Common Flameback Dinopium javanense

  A tree-climbing woodpecker, it braces with its tail while excavating ants and larvae. In Singapore it also occurs in parks and mangroves.

• Mindanao Brown Dove Phapitreron brunneiceps

  The Mindanao Brown Dove is known from forests on Mindanao and Basilan in the Philippines. A conservation account describes its use of upland forest and fruiting trees.

• Grey-backed Hawk Pseudastur occidentalis

  It has dark grey upperparts, a white underside, and a streaked head. A thick black band near the tip of its white tail is especially visible in flight.

• Sulphury Flycatcher Tyrannopsis sulphurea

  This flycatcher uses palm stands in the Amazon region of South America. Its olive-brown upperparts contrast with bright yellow underparts.

• Orange-throated Tanager Wetmorethraupis sterrhopteron

  This tanager is localized in southeastern Ecuador and the Cenepa River basin of northeastern Peru. The Peru account records it in humid montane forest.

• Oriental Magpie-Robin Copsychus saularis

  A small bird with black-and-white plumage and a long tail, found from the Indian subcontinent to Southeast Asia.

• Fiery-throated Hummingbird Panterpe insignis

  This hummingbird lives in the highlands of Costa Rica and extends south into Panama. Its throat and breast can flash orange-copper and blue-violet as the viewing angle changes.

• White-bibbed Antbird Myrmoderus loricatus

  It is endemic to Brazil, in Atlantic Forest from southern Bahia through Espírito Santo and Rio de Janeiro, with nearby areas of Minas Gerais and São Paulo.

• Rufous-breasted Leaftosser Sclerurus scansor

  The Rufous-breasted Leaftosser lives in South American forests and searches leaf litter for small invertebrates. It has a dark face, a pale scaled throat and a chestnut rump.

• Fine-barred Piculet Picumnus subtilis

  This small woodpecker is recorded in southeastern Peru and western Amazonia. A 2009 paper reported records in Acre, Brazil, and described foraging at the edge of terra firme forest with bamboo.

• Pink-necked Green Pigeon Treron vernans

  The Pink-necked Green Pigeon eats fruits and buds from mature trees. In Singapore it is found in both wooded and urban areas.

• Barred Honey Buzzard Pernis celebensis

  The Sulawesi Honey-buzzard is a small raptor from Sulawesi and the Banggai Islands. Adults have a rufous, streaked breast and a barred belly.

• Slaty Elaenia Elaenia strepera

  This tyrant flycatcher breeds in the southern Yungas of Bolivia and forages from the forest mid-levels to the canopy.

• Moustached Flowerpiercer Diglossa mystacalis

  This flowerpiercer occurs in the Andes of Peru and Bolivia. The southern Peruvian form albilinea is described as mostly black, matching a field report from Abra Malaga in Cusco.

• Vivid Niltava Niltava vivida

  In the Taiwan endemic subspecies N. v. vivida, males are indigo, black, and orange-yellow, while females are mainly olive-brown and yellow-brown. It uses middle and upper forest layers.

• Green-throated Carib Eulampis holosericeus

  The Green-throated Carib is a Caribbean hummingbird with an iridescent green throat and chest, a blue band beneath them, and black underparts. It uses flower nectar.

• Chapman's Antshrike Thamnophilus zarumae

  Chapman's Antshrike is about 14–15 cm long and occurs from southwestern Ecuador into northwestern Peru. It uses forest edges and secondary woodland and gleans invertebrates in trees. The species page divides this region between two subspecies.

• Light-crowned Spinetail Cranioleuca albiceps

  This ovenbird-family species occurs in humid montane forest in southeastern Peru and Bolivia. Its pale crown and dark eyebrow are distinctive.

• Dot-fronted Woodpecker Veniliornis frontalis

  This woodpecker occurs on the eastern Andean slope from Bolivia to Argentina. It inhabits humid and montane woodland, searching tree trunks for food.