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• Barusan Cuckoo-Dove Macropygia modiglianii

  

  This cuckoo-dove occurs on the western Indonesian islands of Nias, Mentawai and Simeulue. A 2016 bioacoustic study lists forms from those three island groups separately.

• Mountain Buzzard Buteo oreophilus

  A raptor of East African highlands, it searches for prey while gliding above wooded slopes.

• Northern Tropical Peewee Contopus bogotensis

  The Northern Tropical Peewee is a small flycatcher with a disjunct range in Central America and northern South America. It was separated from Southern Tropical Pewee and other former groups in the 2022 taxonomy.

• Black-faced Dacnis Dacnis lineata

  In the lineata form described by Peru Aves, males are black and blue, while females are olive and grey. It forages in the canopy of mature forest and may join mixed-species flocks.

• Moussier's Redstart Phoenicurus moussieri

  A redstart of North Africa, it catches small invertebrates on the ground in open woodland and scrub.

• Mountain Velvetbreast Lafresnaya lafresnayi

  This hummingbird is recorded around Cuenca, Ecuador. It occurs in montane scrub, riverside vegetation, and forest edges, where its curved bill helps it feed on flower nectar.

• Leaden Antwren Myrmotherula assimilis

  This small bird occurs in the Amazon region of Brazil, Peru, and Bolivia. Males are grey and females olive-grey; river-edge and flooded-forest records are documented.

• Plain-winged Woodcreeper Dendrocincla turdina

  This woodcreeper has olive-brown upperparts and a reddish-brown tail. In forests of eastern Paraguay and northeastern Argentina, researchers also recorded it foraging with groups of monkeys.

• Cuban Green Woodpecker Xiphidiopicus percussus

  The Cuban Green Woodpecker is endemic to Cuba. It climbs along branches to look for insects and can excavate nest cavities in smaller trunks and branches.

• Spot-winged Pigeon Patagioenas maculosa

  The Spot-winged Pigeon is a medium-sized pigeon with pale spots across its wings.

• Lesser Spotted Eagle Clanga pomarina

  The lesser spotted eagle searches from the air on long wings and catches small mammals and amphibians.

• Jelski's Chat-Tyrant Silvicultrix jelskii

  Jelski’s Chat-Tyrant forages in the dense understory of humid montane forest. The Peru Aves page consulted here uses the older combination Ochthoeca jelskii; this entry follows the pool’s name, Silvicultrix jelskii, for the same species.

• Yellow-shouldered Grassquit Loxipasser anoxanthus

  The Yellow-shouldered Grassquit is found only in Jamaica, including forest edges and montane evergreen forest. It eats seeds and small fruits, foraging low in shrubs in pairs or family groups.

• Zappey's Flycatcher Cyanoptila cumatilis

  Zappey’s Flycatcher breeds in central and east-central China and winters in the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Java. Males are blue and females brown; it forages from the middle forest layer to the canopy.

• Tourmaline Sunangel Heliangelus exortis

  The Tourmaline Sunangel is a small hummingbird of the Andes. Males have glossy green plumage and a violet-blue throat, and the birds feed on nectar and insects.

• Wing-banded Antbird Myrmornis torquata

  This ground-foraging antbird was documented in a French Guiana breeding study. The paper notes a throat-color difference between the sexes and records birds searching leaf litter in humid mature forest.

• Many-striped Canastero Asthenes flammulata

  A nesting study documented four nests of the nominate subspecies in the high Andes of northeastern Ecuador. Newly hatched chicks look different from adults.

• White-wedged Piculet Picumnus albosquamatus

  This small piculet has grey upperparts and evenly scalloped underparts. At a nest studied in southeastern Brazil, both adults fed the chicks.

• Emerald-spotted Wood Dove Turtur chalcospilos

  The Emerald-spotted Wood Dove is a small, rounded dove with glossy green spots across its wings. It occurs in eastern and southern Africa.

• Crested Honey Buzzard Pernis ptilorhynchus

  A hawk with broad wings and a rounded tail. In Japan, it breeds in low mountain forests north of Shikoku and digs up nests of ground-nesting wasps to eat.

• Chapada Flycatcher Guyramemua affine

  The Chapada Flycatcher inhabits cerrado and seasonally flooded savanna. It forages alone or in pairs in tree crowns, taking arthropods from foliage and branches as well as fruit.

• Great Inca Finch Incaspiza pulchra

  This finch is endemic to Peru and lives in dry scrub on the western Andes. A 2016-2017 study also recorded it at lower elevations in a coastal hill reserve in La Libertad.

• Grey Tit-Flycatcher Myioparus plumbeus

  This flycatcher is widespread across sub-Saharan Africa. It has gray upperparts, a white eye-ring and white outer tail feathers, and feeds on insects in riverine forest, mature woodland and savanna.

• Green Thorntail Discosura conversii

  This small hummingbird occurs from Central America into western South America. Males are iridescent green with elongated pointed tail feathers; females have shorter tails and a white moustachial stripe.