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• Bridled Quail-Dove Geotrygon mystacea

  

  This pigeon lives in forests on Caribbean islands and searches the forest floor for seeds and fruit. A white line below the eye and reddish underparts help identify it.

• Antillean Crested Hummingbird Orthorhyncus cristatus

  This small hummingbird differs in appearance by sex and feeds on nectar and small insects.

• Cochabamba Mountain Finch Poospiza garleppi

  This small finch occurs in the mountains around Cochabamba, Bolivia, including shrub-filled ravines and Polylepis woodland.

• Cinereous-breasted Spinetail Synallaxis hypospodia

  The PeruAves account also records this species in Brazil and Bolivia. It has a rufous crown and wings, a gray tail, and a black throat.

• Golden-faced Tyrannulet Zimmerius chrysops

  This small tyrant flycatcher forages in the canopy and subcanopy of humid montane forest on Peru's eastern Andes. Its bright yellow face contrasts with its gray-olive head and back.

• 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.

• Grey Imperial Pigeon Ducula pickeringii

  The Grey Imperial Pigeon is a large pigeon that uses forest canopies. It occurs on islands including the Sulu Archipelago and northern Borneo and is seen alone or in pairs.

• Rufous-throated Sapphire Hylocharis sapphirina

  This small hummingbird ranges across South America, including Bolivia. Its rufous throat and blue gorget help identify it.

• Tit-like Dacnis Xenodacnis parina

  This small bird inhabits Andean scrub and Polylepis woodland. Males are deep blue; females are mainly brown, with the extent of blue on the forehead and crown varying among subspecies.

• Pale-browed Treehunter Cichlocolaptes leucophrus

  A foliage-gleaner recorded in humid forests of southeastern Brazil. It searches mossy limbs and branches bearing epiphytes for food.

• Brown-crested Flycatcher Myiarchus tyrannulus

  The Brown-crested Flycatcher launches from a branch to catch insects in the air; it is a large member of the tyrant flycatchers.

• Orange-breasted Forest Robin Stiphrornis erythrothorax

  An older record from Liberia describes different male and female plumage and birds in low forest undergrowth. The IUCN assessment uses the English name Orange-breasted Forest-robin.

• Island Imperial Pigeon Ducula pistrinaria

  The Island Imperial Pigeon is a large, pale gray pigeon of island forests with tall trees. It eats fruit and sometimes makes flights over the sea between islands.

• Scintillant Hummingbird Selasphorus scintilla

  The Scintillant Hummingbird is a tiny hummingbird of highland scrub and forest edges. During breeding, males defend feeding areas with chases and steep dives.

• Small Ground Finch Geospiza fuliginosa

  The Small Ground Finch is endemic to the Galápagos Islands and eats seeds, fruit, and small arthropods. An 1841 account describes the female’s underparts as gray.

• Buff-fronted Foliage-gleaner Dendroma rufa

  This foliage-gleaner ranges across parts of Central and South America. It forages in the subcanopy and along edges of semi-open subtropical forest, moving quickly along branches in search of invertebrates.

• Orange-banded Flycatcher Nephelomyias lintoni

  This flycatcher occurs in the humid mountains of Ecuador and Peru. It has a pale eye and orange lower mandible, and takes insects from leaves or in flight.

• Common Redstart Phoenicurus phoenicurus

  A small bird with a red tail. Redstarts breed in Britain in spring and summer; British-breeding birds migrate south of the Sahara for winter.

• 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.

• Copper-rumped Hummingbird Saucerottia tobaci

  A hummingbird recorded in gardens and forest edges in Trinidad and Tobago. It feeds on flower nectar and also catches small prey near flowers.

• Rufous-throated Tanager Ixothraupis rufigula

  A small tanager of western Colombia and western Ecuador. A foraging study near Mindo in Ecuador recorded it in the lower, drier disturbed forest and observed it searching leaf surfaces for arthropods.

• Spix's Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus spixii

  This woodcreeper occurs in Amazonia. Its scaly-looking breast pattern is noted as a feature that distinguishes it from close relatives.

• 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.

• Tractrac Chat Emarginata tractrac

  A small chat of dry open country in southern Africa. The source lists five subspecies whose plumage differs.