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• Stripe-crowned Spinetail Cranioleuca pyrrhophia

  

  This ovenbird occurs in southern South America, where it searches for food on tree trunks and branches.

• Maracaibo Tody-Flycatcher Todirostrum viridanum

  A tiny tyrant-flycatcher restricted to arid northwestern Venezuela. It has subdued plumage and a long, pointed bill.

• Sooty Chat Myrmecocichla nigra

  The Sooty Chat is a chat whose male has black plumage and a white wing patch. Females and juveniles are brown, and the species forages on the ground in grassland.

• Pearly-breasted Conebill Conirostrum margaritae

  This conebill occurs along major rivers in Loreto, northeastern Peru, where it is found in river-created woodland and islands.

• Black Cuckoo-Dove Turacoena modesta

  This large dove occurs on Timor and Wetar and feeds almost entirely on fruit.

• Scaly-breasted Hummingbird Phaeochroa cuvierii

  A large hummingbird of Central America. Its bronze-green plumage has pale feather edges on the throat and breast that create a scaled look; it visits flowers and may catch insects in flight.

• Brown-capped Tit-Spinetail Leptasthenura fuliginiceps

  This small ovenbird-family species occurs in Bolivia and northern Argentina. It has been observed on open hillsides.

• Pale-edged Flycatcher Myiarchus cephalotes

  The back is olive-brown, the chest gray, and the belly pale yellow. On Ecuador’s eastern Andean slope it occurs along forest edges and in open places.

• Furtive Flycatcher Ficedula disposita

  A small flycatcher recorded in northern Luzon. It searches among trees for small invertebrates in lowland forest.

• Shining Honeycreeper Cyanerpes lucidus

  Males are purple with a black throat and yellow legs, while females have green upperparts and a greenish-blue head. The bird feeds on nectar, berries, and insects in the canopy and at forest edges.

• 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.

• Beautiful Hummingbird Calothorax pulcher

  A small hummingbird of dry interior scrub and brushy woodland in southwestern Mexico; cactus flowers are a frequent food source.

• Tepui Spinetail Cranioleuca demissa

  The Tepui Spinetail is a small ovenbird of the tepuis of southern Venezuela, western Guyana, and northern Brazil. It searches branches and bark for small prey in humid montane forest.

• Painted Tody-Flycatcher Todirostrum pictum

  A small flycatcher of forests and edges in the Guianas, southern Venezuela, and northern Brazil.

• White-fronted Black Chat Pentholaea albifrons

  The pool's older generic combination Pentholaea albifrons is updated here to Oenanthe albifrons. The appearance account is for the nominate race, while Senegal is within the range of a different form, frontalis.

• Chestnut Seedeater Sporophila cinnamomea

  This migratory bird lives in the grasslands of southern South America. Its breeding range includes Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and southern Brazil; after breeding it moves north to central Brazil and other areas.

• Gray-cheeked Green Pigeon Treron griseicauda

  This green pigeon has grey cheeks, and males also show a dark burgundy back. It searches for fruit in trees and may gather at fruiting trees.

• Eastern Long-tailed Hermit Phaethornis superciliosus

  The Eastern Long-tailed Hermit has a long, down-curved bill and long white-tipped tail feathers. It feeds at flowers beside tropical forest streams and also takes insects when flowers are scarce.

• 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.

• Panama Flycatcher Myiarchus panamensis

  The Panama Flycatcher is a tyrant flycatcher found from southwestern Costa Rica to northern Venezuela. It uses semi-open scrub and woodland in lowlands and foothills.

• Chestnut-winged Whistling-thrush Myophonus castaneus

  This whistling thrush is endemic to Sumatra. Adult males have blue heads, breasts, and shoulders, with chestnut on the rest of the upperparts, tail, and flanks. Observers report it near forest streams.

• Blue Finch Porphyrospiza caerulescens

  The Blue Finch is a grassland tanager. Adult males are bright blue with a yellow bill, and a field study found the species strongly associated with natural grasslands, especially upland grasslands.

• Silver-tipped Imperial Pigeon Ducula luctuosa

  The Silver-tipped Imperial Pigeon is a large, mostly white pigeon with silvery-gray flight feathers edged in dark markings. It occurs on Sulawesi and nearby islands, using forests and mangroves.

• Pale-bellied Hermit Phaethornis anthophilus

  This hummingbird is recorded from Panama, Colombia, and Venezuela. It also uses dry woodland, semi-deciduous forest, and shrubby edges.