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• Black-backed Woodpecker Picoides arcticus

  

  This woodpecker often arrives in forests after fires and feeds mainly on wood-boring beetle larvae.

• Great Black Hawk Buteogallus urubitinga

  The Great Black Hawk is a large raptor with a dark adult body and distinctive white markings on the tail. In Peru, it is recorded along lowland Amazonian rivers and in forests in the northwest.

• Tepui Foliage-gleaner Syndactyla roraimae

  This ovenbird lives in forests around the tepuis. Adults are unstreaked, with a pale throat and eyebrow contrasting with the darker body. It probes arboreal bromeliads and bamboo node sheaths and gleans branches and vines.

• Indian Chat Oenanthe fusca

  The Indian Chat is a rufous-brown bird found mainly in northern and central India, often around rocky places and old buildings. It searches for insects near the ground.

• Hispaniolan Mango Anthracothorax dominicus

  The Hispaniolan Mango is a large hummingbird found on Hispaniola. Males show an iridescent green throat, while females differ in tail and underpart pattern.

• Spot-breasted Cuckoo-Dove Macropygia mackinlayi

  This island-dwelling dove ranges from the Solomon Islands to Vanuatu. The nominate subspecies has rufous and grey color forms.

• Greenish Elaenia Myiopagis viridicata

  The Greenish Elaenia has a concealed yellow crown patch. In Bolivia it occurs in woodland and wooded savanna, with lowland records varying by season.

• Yellow-bellied Dacnis Dacnis flaviventer

  This dacnis occurs in Amazonian rainforest near rivers and in wetlands. Males have a yellow belly and red eye; females are olive-brown above.

• Little Woodpecker Veniliornis passerinus

  This small woodpecker is widespread across northern and eastern South America. It favors forest edges and regenerating woodland over dense forest interior and searches bark for insects.

• Grasshopper Buzzard Butastur rufipennis

  The Grasshopper Buzzard is a raptor of open Sahel country that feeds heavily on insects, especially grasshoppers.

• Patagonian Forest Earthcreeper Upucerthia saturatior

  This earthcreeper inhabits Patagonian forest. A primary study distinguishes it from the related open-country species by traits including its short black bill and breeding habitat.

• White-crowned Forktail Enicurus leschenaulti

  This long-tailed thrush is marked in black and white and lives along forest streams. It searches near the water for small invertebrates.

• Sooty-capped Hermit Phaethornis augusti

  The Sooty-capped Hermit has olive plumage, strong white facial lines, and a distinctive orange-rufous rump. In Venezuela it uses forest edges and undergrowth, with records of nesting in buildings.

• Sapphire Quail-Dove Geotrygon saphirina

  This dove spends much of its time near the forest floor. Its blue-gray to bronzy head and white marks around the eye stand out in evergreen forest and nearby regrowth.

• Jelski's Black Tyrant Knipolegus signatus

  This tyrant flycatcher is recorded on the eastern Andean slope of Peru, foraging along humid montane forest edges and in scrub at 1,800–2,700 m.

• Blue-and-black Tanager Tangara vassorii

  The Blue-and-black Tanager ranges along the Andes from Venezuela to Bolivia. It is mostly blue with black wings and tail and occurs in Andean scrub and elfin forest edges.

• Beautiful Woodpecker Melanerpes pulcher

  The Beautiful Woodpecker occurs in Colombia’s Magdalena Valley. A 2013 regional guide treats it as an endemic of that area and records it in humid forest, secondary growth and forest edges. Males have a red crown and golden-yellow nape.

• Eastern buzzard Buteo japonicus

  A raptor with a brown back and paler brown underside, distributed from Siberia through Mongolia and China to Japan.

• Great Rufous Woodcreeper Xiphocolaptes major

  This woodcreeper has a large, strong bill. It climbs tree trunks while searching for insects in forests of central South America.

• Sombre Chat Oenanthe dubia

  Breeding has been confirmed in Djibouti. In 2020, family groups and recently fledged young were seen in rocky wadis with trees.

• Violet-tailed Sylph Aglaiocercus coelestis

  This hummingbird lives on the western Andean slope of Colombia and Ecuador. Males have long violet-blue tails; females are smaller and lack the long tail.

• Thick-billed Green Pigeon Treron curvirostra

  The Thick-billed Green Pigeon is a green pigeon that feeds on figs and other fruit in the forest canopy. Males and females have different plumage patterns.

• Cock-tailed Tyrant Alectrurus tricolor

  The Cock-tailed Tyrant lives in South American grasslands. The male has a white face and underside, a black patch at the side of the breast, and a long tail; the female is brown with a short tail.

• Opal-rumped Tanager Tangara velia

  This tanager lives in lowland tropical forest in northern and central South America. Its vivid blue-green body and iridescent rump give it its name.