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• White-naped Seedeater Sporophila fringilloides

  

  Males are black and white with a white nape band; females are brown. The species ranges from southern Venezuela and southeastern Colombia through northwestern Brazil to the Manaus region, and into southern Guyana.

• Double-banded Pygmy Tyrant Lophotriccus vitiosus

  This small flycatcher lives in wet lowland forest and swampy areas across the Amazon region and the Guianas. Its long, pale-edged black crest and yellow-green wing bars are distinctive.

• White-throated Wedgebill Schistes albogularis

  This hummingbird occurs on the western slope of the Andes from western Colombia south to southwestern Ecuador. A South American Classification Committee proposal describes its habitat as a humid, Choco-type Pacific-slope distribution.

• White-throated Woodpecker Piculus leucolaemus

  The White-throated Woodpecker is recorded in foothill forest of western Amazonia. It forages in the canopy and subcanopy and may join mixed-species flocks.

• White-browed Tit-Spinetail Leptasthenura xenothorax

  This small bird lives in high-Andean Polylepis woodland in Peru. Its rufous head, long white eyebrow, and black-checkered white throat are distinctive.

• Blue-capped Rock Thrush Monticola cinclorhynchus

  A thrush whose male has a blue head and orange body. It is recorded in forests and edges within Great Himalayan National Park.

• Andaman Wood Pigeon Columba palumboides

  This large pigeon lives in forests of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. It has a pale grey head and neck, dark back and wings, red bare skin around the eye and a pale yellow bill with a red base. It eats figs and other fruits.

• Long-tailed Hawk Urotriorchis macrourus

  This hawk lives in tropical forests of western and central Africa. It has a long tail, and adults occur in pale and dark forms.

• Slaty Tanager Creurgops dentatus

  This tanager uses humid Andean forests. Males are dusky gray with a rufous cap; females have rufous throat and underparts, and the species may forage in mixed flocks.

• Snethlage's Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus minor

  Snethlage's Tody-Tyrant occurs in dense understory in the Amazon Basin. In Peru, the account reports only a few sight records along the Yavarí River.

• Cinnamon Hummingbird Amazilia rutila

  The Cinnamon Hummingbird has a green head and back, a rufous tail, and cinnamon-colored underparts. It feeds at flowers and has also been observed in a protected area in northwestern Costa Rica.

• White-browed Piculet Sasia ochracea

  The White-browed Piculet is a small woodpecker with green upperparts, a rufous rump, and a white stripe behind the eye. It searches for ants and other small prey in low, dense vegetation near bamboo or water.

• White-collared Foliage-gleaner Anabazenops fuscus

  This bird is recorded in forests of southeastern Brazil. Its bill is bluish-yellow, with white markings around and above the eye. Pairs move through dense foliage and along trunks, inspecting dead leaves and epiphytes for food.

• Pale Blue Flycatcher Cyornis unicolor

  In Bangladesh, this is a rare winter visitor recorded in eastern hill forests. Its wider range extends across South, East and Southeast Asia.

• Eurasian Collared Dove Streptopelia decaocto

  A pale gray-brown dove with a black neck band. In Britain and Ireland, it is often seen in gardens, parks and farmland.

• Southern Banded Snake Eagle Circaetus fasciolatus

  A forest snake-eagle of coastal East and southeastern Africa. Its grayish face and three white bars on a relatively long tail are useful identification marks.

• Flame-crested Tanager Loriotus cristatus

  This tanager ranges through northern and eastern South America. The male is mostly black with a broad yellow-and-orange crest, and feeds on fruit and arthropods.

• Fulvous-crowned Scrub Tyrant Euscarthmus meloryphus

  This small tyrant flycatcher occurs in South America. It has a partly concealed tawny crown patch and searches for insects in low scrub.

• White-chested Emerald Chrysuronia brevirostris

  This hummingbird occurs on Trinidad and in northern South America. Its straight black bill, bronze tail, and white chest are distinctive features.

• 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.

• Blackstart Oenanthe melanura

  The Blackstart is a grey-brown wheatear with a conspicuous black tail. It lives in rocky deserts and mountains and nests in rock crevices.

• Gray-fronted Quail-Dove Geotrygon caniceps

  The Gray-fronted Quail-Dove is a secretive dove from Cuba. Its pale forehead area is diffuse rather than a crisp white patch like that of a related species.

• Eastern Chanting Goshawk Melierax poliopterus

  This grey raptor has a banded tail. In East African grasslands and open woodland, it searches for prey from a perch.

• Red-shouldered Tanager Tachyphonus phoenicius

  This tanager lives in white-sand areas and low woodland in Amazonia. Males are mostly black with a small red-and-white shoulder patch; females are grayish brown and pale below.