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• Gray-crested Finch Lophospingus griseocristatus

  

  The Gray-crested Finch searches the ground in pairs or loose groups and uses dry scrub. Juveniles are browner overall, with buffy-white eyebrows and throats.

• Mountain Imperial Pigeon Ducula badia

  The Mountain Imperial Pigeon has a dark maroon-brown back and pale purplish-grey head and underparts. In Borneo it is common in montane forest, and some birds fly to lowlands to feed.

• Levant Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza brevipes

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

• Indigo-capped Hummingbird Saucerottia cyanifrons

  This small hummingbird is described as endemic to Colombia. It has an iridescent indigo crown, green upperparts, and pale underparts, and feeds on nectar and small insects. The source uses the older generic combination Amazilia cyanifrons.

• Chestnut-crowned Foliage-gleaner Automolus rufipileatus

  This foliage-gleaner occurs in riverine forest and seasonally flooded várzea across the Amazon basin, feeding low in dense vegetation.

• Pale-bellied Mourner Rhytipterna immunda

  This tyrant flycatcher occurs in the Amazon region. A 2005 survey in Bolivia found it in the canopy of low-stature forest and in semi-open scrub with scattered trees.

• Chestnut-bellied Rock Thrush Monticola rufiventris

  The Chestnut-bellied Rock Thrush lives in mountain forests of Asia, including the Himalayas. Adult males are blue and chestnut, while females have a different gray-brown pattern.

• Mangrove Finch Camarhynchus heliobates

  The Mangrove Finch is a small bird endemic to the Galápagos. It searches mangrove leaf litter and dead wood for arthropods and nests high in trees.

• Great Cuckoo-Dove Reinwardtoena reinwardti

  The Great Cuckoo-Dove is a large pigeon with a pale blue-gray head and breast, chestnut back, and long tail. It feeds on fruit and seeds in forests and is usually seen alone or in pairs.

• Zone-tailed Hawk Buteo albonotatus

  The Zone-tailed Hawk is a slender, dark raptor with pale tail bands that hunts around canyons and arid foothills in the U.S. Southwest.

• Versicolored Emerald Chrysuronia versicolor

  The Versicolored Emerald is a hummingbird of central and eastern South America, using forest edges, gallery woodland, and other open habitats. It feeds on nectar and small insects. Plumage varies substantially, so tail pattern is useful alongside throat and forehead color.

• Lark-like Brushrunner Coryphistera alaudina

  The Lark-like Brushrunner occurs in the Chaco, Espinal, and Monte regions of southern South America. A field study observed flock members helping to build nests and feed young.

• Short-tailed Field Tyrant Muscigralla brevicauda

  It has a gray head, white wing bars, long legs, and a short tail. It searches for food on the ground in open places and occurs in western Peru and nearby areas.

• European Pied Flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca

  The European Pied Flycatcher is a woodland migrant. In British breeding areas, males are black and white with two white marks on the forehead; females are more subdued brown and white.

• Gray Warbler-Finch Certhidea fusca

  This small finch occurs in the dry and transition zones of the Galapagos. It searches foliage, epiphytes, and moss for arthropods.

• White-bellied Imperial Pigeon Ducula forsteni

  The White-bellied Imperial Pigeon is a large forest pigeon of Sulawesi and nearby Indonesian islands. It feeds mainly on fruit.

• American Swallow-tailed Kite Elanoides forficatus

  A raptor with narrow wings and a deeply forked tail. It catches prey in flight and also hunts small vertebrates during the breeding season.

• Sombre Hummingbird Eupetomena cirrochloris

  This hummingbird occurs in Brazil. Gould described its head and back as dark grass-green and its wings as purplish brown; modern species accounts place it at humid forest edges and in the understory, where it takes nectar.

• Chestnut-winged Foliage-gleaner Dendroma erythroptera

  This ovenbird forages in the mid-story and below the canopy of Amazonian forest. Its gray-brown head and back contrast with chestnut wings and tail.

• Velvety Black Tyrant Knipolegus nigerrimus

  An eastern Brazilian tyrant flycatcher found in open grassy and rocky habitats, as well as dry forest. Its range has two separated populations.

• Chapin's Flycatcher Muscicapa lendu

  This flycatcher lives in humid mountain forests and sallies from branches to catch flying insects.

• Turquoise Dacnis Dacnis hartlaubi

  The Turquoise Dacnis is endemic to Colombia’s Andes. Adult males are blue-green and black, while females are mostly brown above; its diet is still poorly known.

• Ruddy Ground Dove Columbina talpacoti

  The Ruddy Ground Dove is a small dove widespread in Central and South America. Males are reddish brown, females are browner, and the birds forage for seeds on the ground.

• Santa Marta Blossomcrown Anthocephala floriceps

  This hummingbird lives in the Santa Marta mountains. The male has a peach-toned crown and gray throat, and the bird takes nectar from small flowers low in the vegetation.