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• Levant Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza brevipes

  

  The Levant Sparrowhawk is a migratory hawk with gray upperparts and orange-barred underparts.

• Grey-flanked Cinclodes Cinclodes oustaleti

  Cinclodes oustaleti lives near Andean streams and lakes. It is dark brown, with a white eyebrow and throat, a pale-flecked dark breast, and a cinnamon wing-bar. It moves to lower elevations in winter.

• Yellow-faced Grassquit Tiaris olivaceus

  This small grassquit is widespread around the Caribbean. Males have a black face and chest with a yellow eyebrow and throat, while females are dull olive. It feeds on seeds in grassy and weedy open places.

• Sooty Flycatcher Artomyias fuliginosa

  This small flycatcher inhabits lowland and foothill forest in West and Central Africa. Dark chocolate-brown plumage, long pointed wings, and high perches on dead trees are characteristic.

• Olive-striped Flycatcher Mionectes galbinus

  This entry covers *Mionectes galbinus*, split from the broader *M. olivaceus*. The species account records it in moist lowland and montane forest from Central into northwestern South America.

• Downy Woodpecker Dryobates pubescens

  A small black-and-white woodpecker of North America, often seen in woodlots, parks, and at backyard feeders.

• Mexican Woodnymph Eupherusa ridgwayi

  The Mexican Woodnymph is a hummingbird found locally in western Mexico. It feeds mainly at low levels in oak woodland and shaded coffee plantations.

• Ruddy Cuckoo-Dove Macropygia emiliana

  This dove has a rusty-brown body and a paler, yellowish head. It forages quietly in the middle and lower forest, eating fruits and seeds.

• Black-collared Hawk Busarellus nigricollis

  The Black-collared Hawk is a fish-eating raptor of Central and South American wetlands. Adults have a reddish-brown body with a black crescent on the upper breast.

• Greater Thornbird Phacellodomus ruber

  This 19–21 cm thornbird occurs in wetland-edge thickets and other scrub. It searches on the ground and in dense vegetation for insects and other invertebrates.

• Cinereous Finch Piezorina cinerea

  Cinereous Finch is a finch about 16 cm long. The specialist species page lists dry scrub and dry woodland as habitat and classifies its diet as omnivorous. The same page lists several song and call recordings from Peru.

• White-fronted Black Chat Pentholaea albifrons

  The pool's older generic combination Pentholaea albifrons is updated here to Oenanthe albifrons. The appearance account is for the nominate race, while Senegal is within the range of a different form, frontalis.

• Rufous-tailed Flycatcher Myiarchus validus

  A Jamaican forest bird that darts out from cover to catch insects.

• Brown-backed Woodpecker Dendropicos obsoletus

  An African woodpecker of dry scrub and wooded grassland. The male is marked by a red nape and a white eyebrow.

• Glittering-bellied Emerald Chlorostilbon lucidus

  The Glittering-bellied Emerald occurs in South America. Males are green with a bright blue-green throat; females have grey underparts and white tips on the outer tail feathers.

• Squatter Pigeon Geophaps scripta

  This Australian pigeon has bold black-and-white facial and throat markings. It picks up seeds among sparse grass and may run rather than fly when disturbed.

• Nicobar Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza butleri

  The Nicobar Sparrowhawk occurs on India's Nicobar Islands and lives in humid lowland forest. It is listed at about 28–34 cm long, with a 50–57 cm wingspan, and is active by day, taking small animals.

• Greyish Miner Geositta maritima

  The Greyish Miner is recorded from western Peru to northern Chile. It walks through sparsely vegetated rocky desert in search of insects and seeds.

• Golden-hooded Tanager Stilpnia larvata

  A small tanager of humid tropical lowlands, it also uses evergreen-forest edges, plantations, and gardens.

• Muscicapa latirostris

  This small flycatcher breeds in East Asia and moves south to India and Southeast Asia for winter. It catches flying insects in open woodland, parks, and gardens.

• Venezuelan Flycatcher Myiarchus venezuelensis

  A Myiarchus flycatcher found in Colombia and Venezuela. It has a gray-brown back and pale yellow underparts and is recorded in forests and at woodland edges.

• Yellow-crowned Woodpecker Leiopicus mahrattensis

  The Yellow-crowned Woodpecker is found in dry woodland and scrub in South Asia.

• Amethyst-throated Hummingbird Lampornis amethystinus

  This hummingbird inhabits forests from Mexico into northern Central America. Adults have a blue-violet throat and feed among flowers in the lower and middle parts of the forest.

• Orange-bellied Fruit Dove Ptilinopus iozonus

  This forest dove lives on New Guinea and nearby islands. Adults of subspecies humeralis are mostly green, with a bright orange patch on the centre of the belly.