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• 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.

• Rufous-shafted Woodstar Chaetocercus jourdanii

  This small hummingbird occurs in the mountains of Colombia and Venezuela. The male has a rosy-magenta or purple throat above a white breast band.

• Great Antshrike Taraba major

  Male and female Great Antshrikes have different plumage: males are black above, while females are rufous-brown above. They hide in humid lowland undergrowth and are often found in pairs.

• Black-billed Treehunter Thripadectes melanorhynchus

  The Black-billed Treehunter lives in humid Andean montane and secondary forests. It searches for arthropods in dense undergrowth.

• Acorn Woodpecker Melanerpes formicivorus

  The Acorn Woodpecker stores acorns in holes and raises young with other members of its group.

• Gray-fronted Quail-Dove Geotrygon caniceps

  The Gray-fronted Quail-Dove is a secretive dove from Cuba. Its pale forehead area is diffuse rather than a crisp white patch like that of a related species.

• Pale Chanting Goshawk Melierax canorus

  The Pale Chanting Goshawk is a raptor of open, dry country in southern Africa. It watches for prey from an exposed perch.

• Cuban Pewee Contopus caribaeus

  This small bird occurs in Cuba and the Bahamas. It uses a range of places with trees, from forest to scrub.

• Blue-browed Tanager Tangara cyanotis

  The blue-green eyebrow contrasts with the black mask, crown, and back. This tanager lives in humid lower Yungas forest and mainly eats fruit.

• Kurdistan Wheatear Oenanthe xanthoprymna

  Kurdistan Wheatear breeds in parts of southeastern Turkey, Syria, northern Iraq, and southwestern Iran, then winters farther south toward the Red Sea and southern Arabia.

• Velvet-purple Coronet Boissonneaua jardini

  The Velvet-purple Coronet is a hummingbird of wet montane forest in western Colombia. Its iridescent purple, blue, and green plumage, slightly curved bill, and white leg patch are noted in the account.

• Predicted Antwren Herpsilochmus praedictus

  The Predicted Antwren occurs mainly between the Purus and Madeira rivers in the western Brazilian Amazon; its western limit is provisional.

• Rusty-backed Spinetail Cranioleuca vulpina

  The Rusty-backed Spinetail is a furnariid associated with Amazonian waterside woodland. Its rufous back, tail, and crown contrast with a pale eyebrow. PeruAves describes it feeding in pairs or small groups in flooded-forest understory and overhanging vegetation beside lakes or slow streams.

• Sulawesi Pygmy Woodpecker Yungipicus temminckii

  The Sulawesi Pygmy Woodpecker is a small woodpecker of forests and woodland on Sulawesi. It searches tree bark for small invertebrates.

• Yellow-breasted Fruit Dove Ptilinopus occipitalis

  The Yellow-breasted Fruit Dove lives in forests of the Philippines. It has green upperparts, a gray head, yellow breast, and maroon marks on the belly and behind the eye.

• Ferruginous Hawk Buteo regalis

  The Ferruginous Hawk hunts small mammals over open country such as grasslands and deserts. It is a large North American hawk.

• 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.

• Amazonian Grey Saltator Saltator coerulescens

  This medium-sized tanager-family bird ranges from Central America into South America. It is greyish and has been recorded in plantation weeds, secondary forest, and scrub.

• Collared Flycatcher Ficedula albicollis

  The Collared Flycatcher breeds in Europe and winters in southeastern Africa. Breeding males show a distinct white collar.

• Tepui Goldenthroat Polytmus milleri

  The Tepui Goldenthroat is a hummingbird of tepuis in southern Venezuela and nearby areas, using cloud-forest edges and scrub at about 1,300–2,200 m.

• Brown-rumped Foliage-gleaner Automolus melanopezus

  The Brown-rumped Foliage-gleaner occurs in lowland forests from Colombia to Bolivia. It forages in the understory of young floodplain forest; the Peru Aves account also associates it with Guadua bamboo in southeastern Peru.

• Rufous-winged Woodpecker Piculus simplex

  This woodpecker occurs in Central American lowland forest. It has a green body, red nape and chestnut wings.

• Pied Cuckoo-Dove Reinwardtoena browni

  This large dove contrasts a silvery head, neck, and chest with a pale belly and dark wings and tail. It lives in forests on islands northeast of New Guinea.

• Grey Goshawk Tachyspiza novaehollandiae

  In Tasmania, this large raptor is described as white. It nests in mature wet forest near waterways and looks for prey from trees.