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• Buff-breasted Mountain Tanager Dubusia taeniata

  

  This mountain tanager has a dull-black central crown and back. The Bogotá guide records it in local forest and describes insects and fruit as food. Following the 2025 split, its range runs from southwestern Venezuela to far northern Peru.

• European Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus

  This raptor varies greatly in plumage. It is a summer visitor in Europe and searches for food in open woodland during the breeding season.

• Campo Flicker Colaptes campestris

  The male Campo Flicker is marked by a yellow face and breast, with a black crown and nape. At Costanera Sur Ecological Reserve in Buenos Aires, it is often recorded along paths and the outer sidewalk.

• Pink-headed Fruit Dove Ptilinopus porphyreus

  The male has a vivid pink-purple head and throat, and the dove feeds on fruit high in forest trees. It is native to mountain forests in Indonesia.

• Streak-throated Canastero Asthenes humilis

  Streak-throated Canastero occurs in the high Andes of Peru and Bolivia. Adults have fine dark streaks on the face, throat, and upper breast, plus an orange-red chin patch. They forage on the ground among bunchgrass and scattered rocks.

• Common Stonechat Saxicola torquatus

  A southern African species account says male and female African Stonechats differ in plumage. The adult male has a black head and throat with white neck patches.

• Cocos Tyrannulet Nesotriccus ridgwayi

  This small tyrant flycatcher is endemic to Cocos Island off Costa Rica. It has greyish olive plumage and a relatively long bill, and forages in the rainforest canopy and subcanopy. A breeding study recorded hidden nests on outer branch tips.

• Xantus's Hummingbird Basilinna xantusii

  This hummingbird is resident in Baja California, Mexico. It occurs in arid habitats, woodland, and scrub, and can hover with rapid wingbeats.

• Grass-green Tanager Chlorornis riefferii

  This tanager is recorded in the Colombian Andes. A field guide for the Sibundoy region describes its grass-green plumage, rusty facial markings, and small-group behavior in forest.

• Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus

  The Black-winged Kite is a small raptor with a grey back, white underparts, and black shoulder patches. It has a broad range across Africa, southern Europe, and parts of Asia.

• Gilded Flicker Colaptes chrysoides

  The Gilded Flicker lives in the Sonoran Desert and nearby areas of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. It nests in cacti and searches for ants on the ground.

• Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura

  A slim-bodied dove with a pointed tail and a habit of feeding on seeds on the ground.

• Sulphur-bearded Reedhaunter Limnoctites sulphuriferus

  This reedhaunter is recorded in Argentine wet grassland. Accounts describe a yellow throat patch and a local association with sedge marshes and pampas grassland.

• 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.

• Couch's Kingbird Tyrannus couchii

  Couch's Kingbird is a large flycatcher with yellow and gray plumage and a greenish back. It appears in southern Texas during summer.

• Green-bearded Helmetcrest Oxypogon guerinii

  The Green-bearded Helmetcrest is a hummingbird of the high páramo grasslands of Colombia's Eastern Andes. Males stand out for a crest and an iridescent green throat patch.

• 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.

• Collared Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza cirrocephala

  A small hawk of mainland Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea that uses trees or tall shrubs as cover before striking at small birds.

• Eastern Bronze-naped Pigeon Columba delegorguei

  The Eastern Bronze-naped Pigeon is an African pigeon with iridescent neck feathers. It eats fruit and may be seen in pairs.

• Tyrannine Woodcreeper Dendrocincla tyrannina

  This woodcreeper uses the lower and middle layers of humid montane forest. Its head, back, throat and breast are reddish olive, with beige scaling on the breast.

• White-chested Alethe Chamaetylas fuelleborni

  This flycatcher inhabits high forests in southeastern Africa. It searches for invertebrates near the forest floor; tracking of one bird suggests seasonal elevation changes.

• Masked Water Tyrant Fluvicola nengeta

  This small bird has a white head and a black stripe through the eye. It searches muddy river and pond edges for small arthropods.

• Slender-tailed Woodstar Microstilbon burmeisteri

  This tiny hummingbird occurs from central and southern Bolivia to northwestern Argentina along the eastern Andes. The male is notable for its slender, elongated tail.

• Buff-bridled Inca Finch Incaspiza laeta

  This Inca finch occurs in Peru’s middle and upper Marañón drainage. Its grey head, black face, and broad buff cheek stripes are distinctive.