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• Rufous Woodpecker Micropternus brachyurus

  

  A rufous-brown woodpecker whose male has red on the face; it forages at ant nests in forest.

• Scheepmaker's Crowned Pigeon Goura scheepmakeri

  Scheepmaker’s crowned pigeon is a large pigeon with a lacy blue crest and deep maroon chest. It lives in lowland forests of south-eastern New Guinea.

• Aripuana Antwren Herpsilochmus stotzi

  This antwren was described from the Aripuanã–Machado interfluvium in central Amazonian Brazil, where it occurs in campinarana forest on poor soils.

• Dusky-tailed Canastero Pseudasthenes humicola

  A canastero found in Chile. The nominate subspecies has a brown back and pale eyebrow; a central Chile study recorded nesting in thorny scrub and cactus areas.

• Yellow-rumped Flycatcher Ficedula zanthopygia

  The male Yellow-rumped Flycatcher has strong black, white, and yellow contrasts, while the female is mainly brown and yellow. It feeds on insects in woodland and moves between East and Southeast Asia with the seasons.

• Lesser Kiskadee Philohydor lictor

  This small flycatcher occurs around slow-moving water in the lowlands of northern South America. It has a brown back and bright yellow underparts and may perch close to the water surface.

• White-bellied Woodstar Chaetocercus mulsant

  The White-bellied Woodstar is common in montane forest on the eastern Andes and also occurs in humid montane forest on the western slope. Males have a conspicuous violet throat, while females have rufous sides to the breast and belly.

• Golden Tanager Tangara arthus

  The Golden Tanager combines golden plumage with a black ear patch and chestnut throat. It forages in the canopy of montane forest on the eastern Andes.

• Cinereous vulture Aegypius monachus

  A large vulture with broad wings and a dark-brown body.

• Arizona Woodpecker Leuconotopicus arizonae

  This woodpecker lives mainly in Mexico’s Sierra Madre and reaches only a small part of southern Arizona and New Mexico. It has a wood-brown back and spotted underparts.

• 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.

• Roraiman Antwren Herpsilochmus roraimae

  This small antwren occurs in the tepui highlands of southern Venezuela, western Guyana, and northern Brazil. Its long tail and pale eyebrow stand out. It searches for insects in the upper levels of humid evergreen forest.

• Southern Long-tailed Woodcreeper Deconychura pallida

  *Deconychura pallida* is an Amazonian bird separated in research from the formerly broad *D. longicauda* group. A 2010 study reported distinct vocal characters among its lineages.

• Nilgiri Flycatcher Eumyias albicaudatus

  The Nilgiri Flycatcher occurs in India's Western Ghats. Males are greenish indigo-blue with white patches at the tail base; females are smaller and grey-brown.

• Alder Flycatcher Empidonax alnorum

  An olive-colored small bird of wet thickets. It darts from branches to catch insects on leaves or in the air.

• Lucifer Hummingbird Calothorax lucifer

  The Lucifer Hummingbird occurs mainly in central and northern Mexico. It hovers while taking nectar from flowers.

• Pale-throated Pampa-Finch Embernagra longicauda

  A highland grassland bird of eastern Brazil that searches among rocks and shrubs for food.

• Malagasy Marsh Harrier Circus maillardi

  This raptor is endemic to Réunion. It lives mainly in wooded mountains; females are larger than males and differ in plumage.

• White-wedged Piculet Picumnus albosquamatus

  This small piculet has grey upperparts and evenly scalloped underparts. At a nest studied in southeastern Brazil, both adults fed the chicks.

• Oberholser's Fruit Dove Ptilinopus gularis

  Oberholser's Fruit Dove is a dove of Sulawesi. A survey in Gorontalo found it associated with forest compared with coconut farms.

• Orinoco Softtail Thripophaga cherriei

  A furnariid recorded in riparian forest in the upper Orinoco region of southern Venezuela. Its documented habitat is localized and information remains limited.

• Hodgson's Redstart Phoenicurus hodgsoni

  Hodgson's Redstart moves between breeding and wintering areas. It uses high-elevation scrub and forest edges, and searches for food in the upper parts of trees.

• Little Ground Tyrant Syrtidicola fluviatilis

  The Little Ground Tyrant is a small flycatcher of broad river beaches and mudflats. In 2014, one bird was recorded on a sandbar of the Napo River in Ecuador; the paper considered it a non-breeding visitor.

• Curve-winged Sabrewing Pampa curvipennis

  The Curve-winged Sabrewing occurs in the eastern Sierra Madre Oriental of Mexico. An 1887 regional account describes the male with a blue crown, bronze-green upperparts and iron-grey underparts.