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• Rufous-browed Tyrannulet Phylloscartes superciliaris

  

  This small flycatcher uses the canopy of humid montane forest. A Peru Aves account for northeastern Peru describes a gray head, a fine rufous eyebrow, and pale cheeks.

• Blue-and-gold Tanager Bangsia arcaei

  This blue-and-yellow tanager lives in Costa Rican mountain forests. Adults have dark blue upperparts and bright yellow underparts, and use the canopy as well as shrubs at forest edges.

• Nimba Flycatcher Melaenornis annamarulae

  This black flycatcher is recorded in Sierra Leone’s Gola Forest National Park. It lives inside primary forest and catches insects in the canopy or from crevices in branches.

• Geoffroy's Wedgebill Schistes geoffroyi

  This hummingbird inhabits moist Andean forests. It has a sharply pointed bill and is reported to pierce flowers near their base to take nectar through the opening.

• 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.

• Ochraceous Piculet Picumnus limae

  The Ochraceous Piculet is a small woodpecker of northeastern Brazil. Its underside grades from pale in the north to brown farther south.

• Golden Dove Ptilinopus luteovirens

  The Golden Dove is a Fijian fruit dove that feeds in the forest canopy. Males are golden while females and young are green; a 1970 field report often noted its bark-like call.

• White-rumped Vulture Gyps bengalensis

  A vulture of plains and settlements on the Indian subcontinent. It circles in the air while searching for carrion.

• Puna Ground Tyrant Muscisaxicola juninensis

  This terrestrial tyrant flycatcher lives in Andean grassland and steppe. It searches for insects in short runs and hops near rocky outcrops.

• Buff-bellied Tanager Thlypopsis inornata

  The Buff-bellied Tanager occurs in north-western Peru, with a record from extreme south-eastern Ecuador. It feeds on small arthropods in dry highland scrub. The account says females are duller than males and juveniles resemble females.

• White-vented Shama Copsychus niger

  The White-vented Shama inhabits forests around Palawan. Adults are glossy black, with white feathers on the outer tail and undertail.

• Hispaniolan Emerald Riccordia swainsonii

  The Hispaniolan Emerald is a small hummingbird of forests and scrub on Hispaniola. It feeds on flower nectar and also takes fruit. Older accounts may use the former genus Chlorostilbon; this entry keeps the candidate pool's scientific name.

• Striped Treehunter Thripadectes holostictus

  This treehunter lives in the understory of humid montane forest on the eastern Andes. Its head, back, and breast are densely streaked with rufous, and its tail is rufous.

• Philippine Pygmy Woodpecker Yungipicus maculatus

  A small woodpecker of Philippine forests. This entry covers the three subspecies aligned with the candidate taxon and excludes the Sulu population.

• Caribbean Dove Leptotila jamaicensis

  The Caribbean Dove lives in forests and scrub of eastern Mexico and Caribbean islands. It has an olive-brown back, a white face, and glossy neck feathers, and searches for seeds on the ground.

• Long-crested Eagle Lophaetus occipitalis

  A raptor with a long crest and white wing markings. It hunts small mammals in open country with trees.

• Crowned Slaty Flycatcher Griseotyrannus aurantioatrocristatus

  This gray tyrant flycatcher uses forest canopy, edges, and semi-open habitat. In Peru, austral migrants are usually recorded from February through November.

• Inaccessible Finch Nesospiza acunhae

  The Inaccessible Finch lives on Inaccessible Island. Its three island subspecies differ in plumage, bill size, and foods.

• White-browed Scrub Robin Erythropygia leucophrys

  In southern African accounts, this small bird uses scrub and savanna woodland. It has a rufous rump and upper tail coverts, a streaked breast and white wing markings. Older sources retain the combination Erythropygia leucophrys.

• Black-billed Streamertail Trochilus scitulus

  This hummingbird occurs at the eastern end of Jamaica. The 2018 survey paper used the earlier name Trochilus polytmus scitulus for this form and described the male’s black bill and long tail plumes.

• Cordoba Cinclodes Cinclodes comechingonus

  This cinclodes is recorded in Córdoba Province, central Argentina. Its 1944 original description noted a ferruginous wing band and rusty tips on the outer tail feathers of the adult male type. The national parks database also lists rivers and streams among its habitat categories.

• Ashy Woodpecker Mulleripicus fulvus

  The Ashy Woodpecker is a large woodpecker of Sulawesi and nearby islands. It searches tree trunks for ants, termites, caterpillars, and other prey.

• Purple-tailed Imperial Pigeon Ducula rufigaster

  The Purple-tailed Imperial Pigeon is a large pigeon with a gray head, glossy green upperparts, a chestnut belly, and a purple sheen on the tail. It feeds on fruit in the forest canopy around New Guinea.

• African Marsh Harrier Circus ranivorus

  Males are smaller and greyer, while females are larger and mainly brown. It flies low over coastal and inland wetlands in search of prey and ranges from eastern to southern Africa.