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• 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.

• Sunda Pygmy Woodpecker Yungipicus moluccensis

  A small woodpecker whose male has a red streak on the hindcrown. It usually searches tree trunks and branches alone or in pairs.

• Zimmer's Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus minimus

  Zimmer's Tody-Tyrant is recorded in lowland forest of northeastern Peru and adjacent Amazonian areas. Its yellow-olive plumage and yellow-edged wing feathers are useful field marks.

• Mountain Wheatear Oenanthe monticola

  This bird occurs in the rocky uplands and open grasslands of southern Africa. Some current accounts use the genus combination Myrmecocichla.

• Yellow-bellied Tanager Ixothraupis xanthogastra

  This tanager lives in Amazonian forest and along the eastern Andean foothills. It is green with dark spots and a yellow center to the belly.

• Sumba Green Pigeon Treron teysmannii

  This green pigeon is native only to Sumba, where it eats fruit in forest canopies and along edges that retain large trees.

• Black Baza Aviceda leuphotes

  The Black Baza is a forest raptor with black-and-white plumage, chestnut breast bands and a long crest. It catches insects in the canopy; some northern populations migrate south.

• Rufous Hummingbird Selasphorus rufus

  The Rufous Hummingbird makes long migrations through western North America. Males are notably rufous, while females are green with rufous sides.

• Rio de Janeiro Antbird Cercomacra brasiliana

  This antbird account is based on records from Rio de Janeiro state and nearby areas. Males are grey, females olive-brown, and the birds forage low in humid forest.

• Plain-mantled Tit-Spinetail Leptasthenura aegithaloides

  This small bird lives in dry scrub and woodland edges, and it is recorded hanging upside down from branches. It feeds mostly on insects.

• Pale-headed Woodpecker Gecinulus grantia

  The Pale-headed Woodpecker lives in bamboo and forest habitats. Males have chestnut upperparts and a reddish patch on the forecrown that females lack.

• Orange-crested Flycatcher Myiophobus phoenicomitra

  This small flycatcher inhabits humid Andean forests. Sighting and photographic records of its subspecies are reported from Colombia's eastern Andean slope.

• Abyssinian Slaty Flycatcher Dioptrornis chocolatinus

  The Abyssinian Slaty Flycatcher occurs in the Ethiopian highlands and southern Eritrea. It catches insects from branches in forest and woodland.

• White-throated Shrike-Tanager Lanio leucothorax

  This tanager inhabits humid lowland forests of Central America. Males are mostly yellow and black, females are brown with a pale throat, and the birds are often seen in pairs, families, or mixed-species flocks.

• African Collared Dove Streptopelia roseogrisea

  The African Collared Dove has a pale rosy-grey head and neck and a narrow dark half-collar on the nape. It searches for seeds on the ground.

• Papuan Harrier Circus spilothorax

  The Papuan Harrier is a raptor of grasslands and wetlands on New Guinea. A 2009 paper reports fieldwork in Papua New Guinea under the historical subspecies name Circus spilonotus spilothorax.

• Veraguan Mango Anthracothorax veraguensis

  This hummingbird lives in the lowlands of Panama and southern Costa Rica. At one Costa Rican nest, a male-plumaged bird incubated eggs and fed nestlings.

• Rufous Spinetail Synallaxis unirufa

  This long-tailed ovenbird lives in the understory of humid Andean forests. The account describes four regional forms, so the nominate form's color is distinguished from variation elsewhere.

• Red-headed Flameback Chrysocolaptes erythrocephalus

  The Red-headed Flameback occurs around Palawan in the Philippines. It uses forest and woodland and is treated as a species distinct from the Greater Flameback group.

• Pearly-vented Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus margaritaceiventer

  In Peru's eastern Andes, it forages in scrub, forest edges, and secondary forest. The source identifies the regional form as subspecies rufipes.

• Eversmann's Redstart Phoenicurus erythronotus

  The male Eversmann's Redstart has a silvery cap and orange back and underparts; the female is gray-brown with a rufous tail. It breeds in Central Asia and moves southwest for winter.

• Black-headed Tanager Stilpnia cyanoptera

  This tanager ranges from northern Colombia to northeastern Venezuela. Males have a black head, pale upperparts and blue flashes on the wings; females are grey-toned with green wing flashes. It uses moist woodland and eats small fruits and arthropods.

• Polynesian Ground Dove Pampusana erythroptera

  The Polynesian Ground Dove is a ground-dwelling pigeon of the Tuamotu Islands. It hides in dense cover and bursts out with loud wingbeats when disturbed.

• Steller's sea eagle Haliaeetus pelagicus

  An eagle with a massive yellow bill. It breeds along the northern Sea of Okhotsk and winters in places including northern Japan.