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• Star-chested Treerunner Margarornis stellatus

  

  This ovenbird occurs in mossy montane forest from Colombia into western Ecuador. Its reddish-brown body and rows of white breast spots are distinctive.

• Sickle-winged Chat Emarginata sinuata

  A sickle-shaped outer wing tip and a dark triangle at the end of the tail help identify this chat. It searches the ground for invertebrates and also eats fruit.

• White-bellied Mountain-gem Lampornis hemileucus

  This hummingbird lives in the mountains from Costa Rica to western Panama. Males have a purple throat; females have green throat spots.

• Western Crowned Pigeon Goura cristata

  The Western Crowned Pigeon is a large forest pigeon of New Guinea and nearby Indonesian islands. Its blue-grey body and fan-shaped crest stand out, and it feeds on the ground.

• 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.

• Black-throated Flowerpiercer Diglossa brunneiventris

  This flowerpiercer lives in the high Andes. Disjunct populations occur in northern Colombia and farther south in Peru, Bolivia and Chile, and their relationship has been studied.

• Red-stained Woodpecker Veniliornis affinis

  This woodpecker inhabits forests of the Amazon Basin. Males have red on the head, females lack red on the head, and both sexes have red wing spots.

• Rio Branco Antbird Cercomacra carbonaria

  This antbird lives in gallery forest in Roraima, northern Brazil, and adjacent Guyana. Males and females differ in plumage.

• Black-breasted Buzzard Hamirostra melanosternon

  This large raptor lives mainly in inland Australia. It takes prey on the ground and eats carrion; it is known for dropping stones to break eggs.

• Cabanis's Spinetail Synallaxis cabanisi

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

• Chapin's Flycatcher Muscicapa lendu

  This flycatcher lives in humid mountain forests and sallies from branches to catch flying insects.

• Outcrop Sabrewing Campylopterus calcirupicola

  The original paper described it as a distinct species in the Campylopterus largipennis complex and compared it with Diamantina Sabrewing: it is smaller and has longer pale tail tips. eBird later changed its English name from Dry-forest Sabrewing to Outcrop Sabrewing.

• Cream-breasted Fruit Dove Ptilinopus merrilli

  This medium-sized dove lives in forests around Luzon. A field study recorded it feeding on fruit in the forest canopy.

• Reiser's Tyrannulet Phyllomyias reiseri

  Reiser's Tyrannulet is recorded in Brazil and Paraguay. It has bright yellow-green upperparts and pale yellow underparts, and the field account reports it most often in gallery forest in Brazil's Cerrado.

• Bananaquit Coereba flaveola

  This small nectar-feeding bird has a white eyebrow and yellow rump. It perches while feeding from flowers.

• Eastern Grey Woodpecker Dendropicos spodocephalus

  This woodpecker lives in eastern African forests and searches for insects on trunks and on the ground. It has a gray head and underside; adult males have a red crown.

• Rufous-margined Antwren Herpsilochmus rufimarginatus

  This small antwren occurs in forests of eastern and southeastern Brazil, eastern Paraguay, and northeastern Argentina. It searches forest vegetation for insects and other small invertebrates.

• Mantled Hawk Pseudastur polionotus

  The Mantled Hawk is a large hawk with white and slate-grey plumage and a short tail. It lives in humid hilly forest and hunts reptiles, small mammals, and birds.

• Canebrake Groundcreeper Clibanornis dendrocolaptoides

  The Canebrake Groundcreeper lives in the southern Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil, eastern Paraguay, and Misiones in Argentina. A 2025 Argentine review reports that it tunnels into vertical banks near springs or streams and that most recent Argentine records cluster in central-eastern Misiones.

• Arnot's Chat Pentholaea arnotti

  This bird inhabits woodlands of central and southern Africa. In the nominate subspecies, the male is black with a white crown and wing patch; small groups search for insects beneath large trees.

• Ruby Topaz Chrysolampis mosquitus

  The Ruby-topaz Hummingbird feeds on flower nectar, along with small insects and spiders. Males have a red crown and shining golden throat; females are bronze-green. Its range includes Caribbean islands and northern to central South America.

• White-breasted Ground Dove Pampusana jobiensis

  A dove from the islands around New Guinea. The New Guinea form has a dark purple back and a white breast patch.

• White-eyed Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus zosterops

  Olive upperparts, a pale iris, and two narrow wing bars help identify this small tyrant flycatcher. It forages in the understory and midstory inside forest.

• Slate-colored Seedeater Sporophila schistacea

  Males range from dark gray to gray-olive. The species occurs around humid forest edges and understory, and may move in search of seeding bamboo, though it is not an obligate bamboo specialist.