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• African Green Pigeon Treron calvus

  

  The African Green Pigeon is a green fruit-eating pigeon that feeds in trees. This entry uses the West African portion of the Oiseaux.net range because that account also discusses the former broad treatment with T. delalandii.

• Sooty Woodpecker Mulleripicus funebris

  The Northern Sooty Woodpecker is a large woodpecker of the northern Philippines. In the northern taxon, males have broader burgundy facial markings and smaller white spots on the neck than the related southern form.

• Rufous-sided Scrub Tyrant Euscarthmus rufomarginatus

  This small flycatcher is recorded in campo cerrado in northern Bolivia. It searches tall grass and bushes for arthropods, making short sallies to catch them.

• Fulvous Shrike-Tanager Lanio fulvus

  A tanager of humid lowland forests in northern Amazonia. It acts as a sentinel near the center of mixed-species flocks and catches insects flushed by other birds.

• White-bellied Blue-Flycatcher Cyornis pallidipes

  The White-bellied Blue-Flycatcher lives in forest undergrowth in the Western Ghats. Males are blue and white; females show brown, grey, rufous, and white.

• Cabanis's Spinetail Synallaxis cabanisi

  Cabanis’s Spinetail occurs in forest edges, secondary growth and bamboo thickets on the eastern Andes and adjacent regions.

• Rondonia Bushbird Clytoctantes atrogularis

  This poorly known antbird is recorded in the Brazilian Amazon. Its large, laterally flattened black bill has a sharply upturned tip. The female type specimen was chestnut with a black throat and upper breast; males seen in the field were described as entirely black.

• Green-backed Hillstar Urochroa leucura

  The Green-backed Hillstar occurs on the northern eastern Andes of Peru and also in Colombia and Ecuador. It inhabits humid montane forest.

• Great Nicobar Serpent Eagle Spilornis klossi

  The Great Nicobar Serpent Eagle is a small serpent eagle collected on Great Nicobar Island. Adults have a dark crown, grey cheeks, and pale underparts; specimen stomachs contained lizards and small mammals among other prey.

• Orange-fronted Fruit Dove Ptilinopus aurantiifrons

  The Orange-fronted Fruit Dove lives in lowlands near the coast of New Guinea. It has a large orange patch on the forehead and a grey collar, and mainly eats fruit.

• Black-cheeked Woodpecker Melanerpes pucherani

  The sexes differ in the red on the head; this woodpecker feeds in humid lowland evergreen forest, including in the canopy.

• Ecuadorian Tyrannulet Phylloscartes gualaquizae

  This small tyrant flycatcher occurs on the eastern Andes in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. It forages in the canopy of humid montane forest.

• Long-tailed Reed Finch Donacospiza albifrons

  This finch is patchily distributed across south-central South America in open habitats. Its plumage varies with age, feather wear, and geography, so the regional color pattern is described as a tendency rather than a rule.

• Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat Cossypha niveicapilla

  The white crown and black face make this robin-chat easy to recognize. It lives in forests, thickets, and gardens across northern and central Africa, and searches for food near the undergrowth.

• Curve-billed Reedhaunter Limnornis curvirostris

  This bird occurs in wetlands of Argentina and Uruguay. An 1888 natural-history account describes it in dense reeds rising from water, where it remains concealed.

• Spix's Warbling Antbird Hypocnemis striata

  The species account classifies this antbird as a forest-dwelling invertivore. In Anapu, Pará, two nests were documented in dense terra firme forest in April 2016.

• Gilded Hummingbird Hylocharis chrysura

  This hummingbird ranges across southern South America. Its plumage shines golden green and its tail is bronze. It takes nectar as well as insects and small spiders.

• Zone-tailed Hawk Buteo albonotatus

  The Zone-tailed Hawk is a slender, dark raptor with pale tail bands that hunts around canyons and arid foothills in the U.S. Southwest.

• Plumbeous Pigeon Patagioenas plumbea

  The Plumbeous Pigeon's plumage ranges from gray to brown among subspecies. In Peru it is often found in the canopy and subcanopy of mature Amazonian forest.

• Cream-colored Woodpecker Celeus flavus

  The Cream-colored Woodpecker lives in Amazonian floodplain forest. The sexes look similar, but the male has a red malar stripe.

• Crested Doradito Pseudocolopteryx sclateri

  The Crested Doradito is a small bird with a yellow belly and a black-and-yellow crest. It moves alone or in pairs, and studies report bill-snapping notes within its song.

• Opal-rumped Tanager Tangara velia

  This tanager lives in lowland tropical forest in northern and central South America. Its vivid blue-green body and iridescent rump give it its name.

• Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush Monticola saxatilis

  The Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush lives among mountain rocks. In breeding plumage, the male stands out in blue and orange.

• Ruddy Spinetail Synallaxis rutilans

  This Amazonian spinetail has chestnut-rufous head and underparts with a black throat. It forages in the forest understory and appears associated with thick growth near treefall gaps.