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• Red Pileated Finch Coryphospingus cucullatus

  

  This tanager-family bird is recorded as native in Argentina. Males have a red crest, rump, and underparts; females have a brown head, back, and wings, with a red rump and pinkish underparts. It occurs alone, in pairs, or in groups among shrubs or on the ground.

• Grey-crowned Woodpecker Colaptes auricularis

  This woodpecker lives in the foothills of western Mexico. It has a green back and barred underparts; the male has a red cheek stripe.

• Ash-throated Antwren Herpsilochmus parkeri

  This antwren lives in humid montane forest in northeastern Peru. A protected-area guide records it in mixed flocks in the canopy and middle levels at Alto Mayo.

• White-tailed Kite Elanus leucurus

  A kite with a white body and tail and gray wings. It hovers over grassland while searching for small mammals.

• Slender-tailed Woodstar Microstilbon burmeisteri

  This tiny hummingbird occurs from central and southern Bolivia to northwestern Argentina along the eastern Andes. The male is notable for its slender, elongated tail.

• Hoffmanns's Woodcreeper Dendrocolaptes hoffmannsi

  This large, 28–29 cm woodcreeper is endemic to south Amazonian Brazil. Its long tail and finely scaled face are distinctive.

• Snowy-throated Kingbird Tyrannus niveigularis

  This seasonal migrant appears in northwestern Peru from December to June. It uses semi-open woodland and scrub, and has a gray head, white throat, and yellow underparts.

• Palau Fruit-Dove Ptilinopus pelewensis

  This fruit-dove is widely distributed in Palau. A 1989 survey report notes that its green plumage and use of the canopy made it hard to see, so many records were of calling birds.

• White-bellied Bush Chat Saxicola gutturalis

  The White-bellied Bush Chat lives on Timor and nearby islands. It uses open habitats with scattered trees, and males and females differ in plumage.

• Golden-chevroned Tanager Thraupis ornata

  This tanager inhabits forest and forest edges in eastern Brazil. It feeds on fruit, flower buds and small animals.

• Cinnamon Woodpecker Celeus loricatus

  The Cinnamon Woodpecker has cinnamon-colored upperparts and wavy black barring. Plumage and barring vary among subspecies and individuals; males have a red throat, while females have a uniformly rufous head.

• White-streaked Antvireo Dysithamnus leucostictus

  This small bird lives in low tangles of humid montane forest. Males are gray, while females have a rufous-brown head and back, among other sex-specific differences.

• Gray-bellied Hawk Accipiter poliogaster

  The Gray-bellied Hawk is a large forest hawk. Adults are dark above and pale below.

• Andean Hillstar Oreotrochilus estella

  The Andean Hillstar lives in the high Andes from southwestern Peru to northwestern Argentina. Males have a green throat bordered in black and feed on nectar while perched.

• Necklaced Spinetail Synallaxis stictothorax

  This ovenbird occurs in lowlands from Ecuador into northwestern Peru. Breast spotting varies, and flank color helps distinguish it from related species.

• Slaty-headed Tody-Flycatcher Poecilotriccus sylvia

  The species ranges from Central America into northern South America. The page's photo is the Mexican subspecies schistaceiceps, showing a gray head and white eye-rings.

• West Peruvian Dove Zenaida meloda

  This sand-gray dove has a white crescent mark on its wings. It picks up seeds from the ground and may fly in flocks.

• Black Shama Copsychus cebuensis

  The Black Shama is a Cebu Island bird with glossy black plumage and a long tail.

• Yellow-green Bush Tanager Bangsia flavovirens

  This tanager is recorded in montane forest in Colombia and Ecuador, where it moves among foliage in small groups and mixed flocks.

• Scarlet-backed Woodpecker Veniliornis callonotus

  This small, colorful woodpecker is described from western Ecuador to northwestern Peru. It has a red back, white underparts, and sex-specific crown colors. BirdLife’s country records also include Colombia.

• Slender Antbird Rhopornis ardesiacus

  This antbird is recorded in Brazil's Bahia and Minas Gerais states. In the paper, the pale-purple bare skin around the eye was a narrow ring on the adults observed. The paper spells the scientific name Rhopornis ardesiaca.

• Gabar Goshawk Micronisus gabar

  The Gabar Goshawk is a small hawk with a pale gray-and-white form and an all-dark form.

• Black-breasted Puffleg Eriocnemis nigrivestis

  A hummingbird of high-elevation forest in northwestern Ecuador. It is marked by white leg puffs and feeds on flower nectar.

• Mouse-colored Thistletail Asthenes griseomurina

  This ovenbird has grey-brown plumage, a white eye-ring and a long rufous-brown tail. In the northern Peruvian Andes, it forages in humid scrub near forest edges.