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• Black Harrier Circus maurus

  

  The Black Harrier is a southern African harrier that hunts small mammals and birds while flying low over the ground.

• Buff-thighed Puffleg Haplophaedia assimilis

  A small hummingbird of the eastern Andes of Peru and Bolivia. Its buff leg puffs and dark blue tail are useful field marks; it uses humid montane forest understory.

• Amazonian Antshrike Thamnophilus amazonicus

  An antshrike of Amazonian forests. Males are grayish, while females have a cinnamon head and breast; birds search for insects among vines and forest-edge vegetation.

• Slaty-winged Foliage-gleaner Neophilydor fuscipenne

  The Slaty-winged Foliage-gleaner inhabits moist lowland and montane forests. It has rufous-brown upperparts and dark slate-colored wings.

• Philippine Pygmy Woodpecker Yungipicus maculatus

  A small woodpecker of Philippine forests. This entry covers the three subspecies aligned with the candidate taxon and excludes the Sulu population.

• Piura Chat-Tyrant Ochthoeca piurae

  The Piura Chat-Tyrant occurs on the western Andean slope of northwestern Peru. It has a brown back, broad white eyebrow, and rufous wing bars.

• Blue-fronted Robin Cinclidium frontale

  Males are indigo with brighter blue on the forehead and shoulders; females are olive brown. The species inhabits forests from the eastern Himalayas to southwestern China and beyond.

• Silver-backed Tanager Stilpnia viridicollis

  The Silver-backed Tanager inhabits humid forest borders and remnant forest in the Andes. Its two subspecies look quite different; males of the nominate form are mostly dark blue to black with yellow to coppery cheeks and throat.

• Black-banded Fruit Dove Ptilinopus alligator

  The Black-banded Fruit Dove is marked by a white head and upper chest, a black breast band, and a grey back. It has a limited range on Australia's Arnhem Land Plateau.

• Plumbeous Hawk Cryptoleucopteryx plumbea

  The Plumbeous Hawk is a slate-colored raptor. Birds Colombia lists Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and Peru, and describes it ambushing small vertebrates inside forest.

• Garden Emerald Chlorostilbon assimilis

  The Garden Emerald occurs in southwestern Costa Rica and Panama. A breeding study documented one nest found in La Amistad International Park, Costa Rica.

• Black-throated Antbird Myrmophylax atrothorax

  Male and female Black-throated Antbirds differ in throat and belly color. The male has a black throat and breast and forages in dense undergrowth near wetlands and streams.

• Common Miner Geositta cunicularia

  This ground-dwelling bird forages in open country across South America. The sources describe several subspecies and habitats, from coastal dunes to dry highland plains.

• Ocellated Piculet Picumnus dorbignyanus

  This small woodpecker is recorded in northern Salta, Argentina. Males have red and white spots on the head; females lack the red. It occurs in savanna and scrub habitats.

• Warbling Doradito Pseudocolopteryx flaviventris

  This small tyrant flycatcher moves in short flights through reeds and searches low vegetation for food. The Argentine national account records it from the north of the country south to Chubut.

• Böhm's Flycatcher Muscicapa boehmi

  A flycatcher of miombo and other woodlands in south-central Africa. The sexes are similar, and the pale throat and breast carry dark triangular marks.

• Great Pampa-Finch Embernagra platensis

  This large finch lives in shrubby grasslands and marshes in southern South America. It has a long tail and a strong orange-yellow bill; back and vent colors vary among forms.

• Red-knobbed Imperial Pigeon Ducula rubricera

  The Red-knobbed Imperial Pigeon has a red knob at the base of its bill. It forages mainly in trees for fruit and berries and is native to the Bismarck and Solomon Islands.

• Shikra Tachyspiza badia

  A small, long-tailed hawk whose adult males and females differ in eye and upperpart color.

• Tyrian Metaltail Metallura tyrianthina

  A 19th-century account describes this hummingbird in the mountains of New Granada and Ecuador and reports that it visits flowers. The plumage and behavior below come from that historical account.

• Bolivian Slaty Antshrike Thamnophilus sticturus

  The Bolivian Slaty Antshrike occurs from eastern Bolivia into southwestern Brazil, in tropical dry forest. It has white wing spots and spots on the outer webs of many tail feathers that show from above when the tail is open.

• Striped Treehunter Thripadectes holostictus

  This treehunter lives in the understory of humid montane forest on the eastern Andes. Its head, back, and breast are densely streaked with rufous, and its tail is rufous.

• Ringed Woodpecker Celeus torquatus

  The Ringed Woodpecker is a forest woodpecker of the Amazon basin. It has black and pale bars across the back and a cinnamon-colored head.

• Strange-tailed Tyrant Alectrurus risora

  This tyrant flycatcher inhabits wet grasslands near marshes. The breeding male is conspicuous for its elongated tail and bare throat, which turns red; females are brown.