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• Blue-breasted Blue Flycatcher Cyornis herioti

  

  A Luzon flycatcher whose male has dark blue upperparts. It uses forest, and one nest was reported in a shallow rock cavity beside a river in Aurora National Park in 2009.

• Araguaia Spinetail Synallaxis simoni

  This small spinetail occurs along the Araguaia River in central Brazil. Pairs search low tangles in riverside forest and scrub for food.

• 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.

• Short-toed Snake Eagle Circaetus gallicus

  An eagle with a large head and broad wings. It hovers to search for snakes and lizards on the ground.

• Palau Fruit-Dove Ptilinopus pelewensis

  This fruit-dove is widely distributed in Palau. A 1989 survey report notes that its green plumage and use of the canopy made it hard to see, so many records were of calling birds.

• Yungas Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus spodiops

  This small bird lives in humid montane forest and dense second growth on the eastern Andes. Greenish-brown upperparts and two thin yellow-edged wing bars are distinctive.

• Black-and-rufous Warbling Finch Poospiza nigrorufa

  This warbling finch ranges from southern Brazil to southern Argentina and the Paraná basin of Paraguay. Its plumage and habitat differ from those of a close relative, P. whitii.

• Hainan Blue Flycatcher Cyornis hainanus

  The Hainan Blue Flycatcher occurs from southern China through mainland Southeast Asia. In Hong Kong, mature forest is its main recorded breeding habitat.

• Henna-capped Foliage-gleaner Clibanornis rectirostris

  It is recorded in gallery forest and riparian woodland in Brazil's Cerrado.

• Blue-chinned Sapphire Chlorestes notata

  This hummingbird lives in Colombia’s humid lowlands and river-edge forest. Males show a blue-violet throat against glossy green plumage, and it feeds mainly at flowers.

• Little Eagle Hieraaetus morphnoides

  A small eagle with a wingspan over one metre. In woodland and along rivers in the Australian Capital Territory, it watches for prey from above and then swoops down.

• Claret-breasted Fruit Dove Ptilinopus viridis

  The Claret-breasted Fruit Dove eats fruit in tropical forest and gardens. The nominate subspecies has a red-purple patch from the throat onto the breast.

• Coopmans's Tyrannulet Zimmerius minimus

  Coopmans’s tyrannulet is a small bird recorded from Colombia’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and eastern Venezuela. It has yellow markings; the original type specimen had a 43 mm wing and 37 mm tail.

• Inaccessible Finch Nesospiza acunhae

  The Inaccessible Finch lives on Inaccessible Island. Its three island subspecies differ in plumage, bill size, and foods.

• Sapphire Flycatcher Ficedula sapphira

  Breeding males draw attention with a vivid blue back and white belly. Females are mainly brown, and nonbreeding or young males look more like females.

• Ocellated Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus ocellatus

  This woodcreeper is recorded from Amazonian lowlands to the eastern Andean slope. Pale, dark-edged spots mark its head, back and underparts, and it searches for food in lower and middle forest layers.

• Green-bellied Hummingbird Saucerottia viridigaster

  This hummingbird occurs in the mountains of Colombia and Venezuela. A 2000 study documents geographic variation in Andean tail color and discusses separating the related S. cupreicauda.

• Chilean Hawk Astur chilensis

  The Chilean Hawk is a raptor of forests in Chile and adjacent Andean areas. In northern Patagonia, one pair nested in the upper branches of Nothofagus trees over five breeding seasons.

• Shy Ground Dove Pampusana stairi

  The Shy Ground Dove is a ground-dwelling dove of Polynesian islands. It searches for seeds, fruit, and insects on the ground and in the forest understory.

• Southern Bentbill Oncostoma olivaceum

  This small flycatcher has yellowish-olive upperparts and yellow underparts. It occurs along lowland forest edges and in secondary forest in eastern Panama and northern Colombia.

• Amazonian Grey Saltator Saltator coerulescens

  This medium-sized tanager-family bird ranges from Central America into South America. It is greyish and has been recorded in plantation weeds, secondary forest, and scrub.

• Karoo Scrub Robin Erythropygia coryphoeus

  The Karoo Scrub Robin lives in dry shrubland in South Africa and southern Namibia. It searches for insects among low bushes and on the ground. The pool's older genus name is updated to Cercotrichas coryphaeus as used by the source.

• Ash-browed Spinetail Cranioleuca curtata

  This ovenbird searches among mosses and epiphytes in humid montane forest on the eastern slope of the Andes.

• White-tailed Emerald Microchera chionura

  The White-tailed Emerald is a small hummingbird of Pacific-slope foothills from Costa Rica to western Panama. Males contrast green plumage with white, while females show a white throat.