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• Rufous-sided Scrub Tyrant Euscarthmus rufomarginatus

  

  This small flycatcher is recorded in campo cerrado in northern Bolivia. It searches tall grass and bushes for arthropods, making short sallies to catch them.

• Rufous-shafted Woodstar Chaetocercus jourdanii

  This small hummingbird occurs in the mountains of Colombia and Venezuela. The male has a rosy-magenta or purple throat above a white breast band.

• Cabanis's Spinetail Synallaxis cabanisi

  Cabanis’s Spinetail occurs in forest edges, secondary growth and bamboo thickets on the eastern Andes and adjacent regions.

• White-gorgeted Flycatcher Anthipes monileger

  A forest flycatcher with a bright white throat, it searches for small invertebrates low in the undergrowth.

• 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.

• African Cuckoo-Hawk Aviceda cuculoides

  A raptor of woodland and forest across sub-Saharan Africa. It has a gray crest and broad rufous bars below, and searches for prey from one perch to another.

• Blue-browed Tanager Tangara cyanotis

  The blue-green eyebrow contrasts with the black mask, crown, and back. This tanager lives in humid lower Yungas forest and mainly eats fruit.

• White-rumped Monjita Xolmis velatus

  Its whitish head and white rump and tail base are distinctive. It uses open fields with scattered trees and shrubs and eats insects and spiders. It occurs in Brazil, Bolivia, and Paraguay.

• Long-tailed Woodnymph Thalurania watertonii

  The male has blue-violet and metallic green plumage, while the female has a green back and gray underside. In northeastern Brazil's Atlantic Forest, it feeds on flower nectar and small arthropods.

• Bolivian Spinetail Cranioleuca henricae

  This ovenbird is known from the Río La Paz drainage in the northern Bolivian Andes. Its species page lists dry forest and nearby bushy vegetation as habitat.

• Chat Flycatcher Bradornis infuscatus

  This flycatcher is common in dry savannas and scrublands of southern Africa. It drops from a low perch to catch insects and other prey on the ground.

• Olive-backed Quail-Dove Leptotrygon veraguensis

  The Olive-backed Quail-Dove lives in wet forests from Central America to Colombia and Ecuador, foraging on or near the forest floor.

• Red-shouldered Hawk Buteo lineatus

  The Red-shouldered Hawk hunts from trees in forests and wetlands. Adult plumage varies by region, and juveniles have a different pattern.

• Masked Tanager Stilpnia nigrocincta

  The Masked Tanager occurs in humid forest and at forest edges in northern South America. Males have a lavender-blue head, neck and throat with black lores. The account says it mainly eats fruit, with arthropods also taken.

• Western Wood Pewee Contopus sordidulus

  Western Wood-Pewees spend summer in open woodlands across western North America. They sally from exposed branches to catch flying insects; their exact winter range remains unclear.

• Black-throated Mango Anthracothorax nigricollis

  The Black-throated Mango has a black throat and chest in the male, while the female has a dark stripe down her white underparts. It takes nectar and flying insects and also visits gardens.

• White-striped Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes leucogaster

  A Mexican woodcreeper. The Sonora subspecies was described with grayer wing coverts; the species account lists pine and tropical deciduous forests among its habitats.

• Spotted Forktail Enicurus maculatus

  The Spotted Forktail forages beside streams in mountain forest. Its long tail is deeply forked.

• Western Crowned Pigeon Goura cristata

  The Western Crowned Pigeon is a large forest pigeon of New Guinea and nearby Indonesian islands. Its blue-grey body and fan-shaped crest stand out, and it feeds on the ground.

• Chaco Eagle Buteogallus coronatus

  The Chaco Eagle has a prominent crest and inhabits savannas and open woodland in Argentina.

• 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.

• Ashy-headed Tyrannulet Tyranniscus cinereiceps

  The Ashy-headed Tyrannulet occurs in the Andes from Venezuela to Peru. It forages in middle and upper forest levels and may join mixed-species flocks.

• Bronzy Hermit Glaucis aeneus

  This hummingbird uses tangled vegetation at forest edges and streams. It is usually solitary; males display at thickets near streams and other dense vegetation.

• Steinbach's Canastero Pseudasthenes steinbachi

  Steinbach's Canastero is a small bird of dry mountains in western Argentina. It is seen alone or in pairs among scrub and ravines.