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• Pinsker's Hawk-Eagle Nisaetus pinskeri

  

  A forest eagle endemic to the Philippines, it is currently recognized as Nisaetus pinskeri. Adults of the southern population have a pale crown and bold black-and-white markings on the breast and legs.

• Enggano Cuckoo-Dove Macropygia cinnamomea

  This cuckoo-dove occurs on Enggano Island southwest of Sumatra. It has reddish-brown, scaly plumage and uses the middle and lower levels of forest.

• Jamaican Pewee Contopus pallidus

  This small woodland bird is endemic to Jamaica. It catches insects by flying out from exposed perches in the middle levels of the forest and may flick its tail once when it lands.

• Blue-backed Tanager Cyanicterus cyanicterus

  The Blue-backed Tanager is a resident bird recorded in northern South America. Oiseaux.net lists vocal recordings from the Guianas and northern Brazil.

• Abyssinian Wheatear Oenanthe lugubris

  This wheatear lives in rocky mountains and uplands of East Africa. Adult males of the nominate subspecies have two reported forms of belly color.

• Bahia Spinetail Synallaxis cinerea

  The Bahia Spinetail is a small bird of a restricted area of eastern Brazil. It searches for insects in the forest understory, sometimes moving with mixed flocks in pairs or family groups.

• Red-billed Streamertail Trochilus polytmus

  The Red-billed Streamertail lives across most of Jamaica. The long tail streamers belong to males, and the island's far eastern tip is occupied by a separate species.

• Black-shouldered Kite Elanus axillaris

  A small raptor with a white and grey body and a black shoulder patch. It hovers over open ground while searching for rodents.

• Brush Bronzewing Phaps elegans

  A dark brown pigeon with iridescent wing patches. In coastal South Australia it uses dense woodland and scrub and feeds mainly on plant seeds.

• Spectacled Bristle Tyrant Pogonotriccus orbitalis

  This small flycatcher uses the upper levels of humid Andean forest. A pale eye-ring and yellow wing-bars are useful identification marks.

• Red-necked Tanager Tangara cyanocephala

  In Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, this tanager feeds on fruit in the canopy and at forest edges, sometimes joining mixed-species flocks.

• Malabar Whistling Thrush Myophonus horsfieldii

  The Malabar Whistling Thrush has a dark head and back with bright blue on its body, shoulders, and forehead. It lives in riverine forest and dense undergrowth in peninsular India, where its clear whistling calls are often heard.

• Ruddy Foliage-gleaner Clibanornis rubiginosus

  This ovenbird occurs in Amazonia and along the Andean foothills. Rufous-brown plumage, a rufous tail, and a gray ear patch help distinguish it.

• Rufous-capped Thornbill Chalcostigma ruficeps

  The Rufous-capped Thornbill is a small hummingbird of mountain regions from Colombia to Bolivia. Males have dark green upperparts and reddish-green underparts and feed on nectar and insects by woodland edges.

• Maranon Pigeon Patagioenas oenops

  The Maranon Pigeon occurs in the upper Marañón Valley of the northern Andes. It feeds on plant seeds in woodland and along forest edges.

• Sclater's Tyrannulet Phyllomyias sclateri

  This roughly 12 cm tyrannulet lives in montane forests on the eastern side of the southern Andes. It forages in the middle and upper forest strata and sometimes joins mixed-species flocks.

• Drab Seedeater Sporophila simplex

  This small finch uses western Andean foothills and farmland in Peru. Males are gray and females brown; both sexes have two white wing bars and feed in shrubs at forest edges and fallow fields.

• Moussier's Redstart Phoenicurus moussieri

  A redstart of North Africa, it catches small invertebrates on the ground in open woodland and scrub.

• Streak-breasted Treehunter Thripadectes rufobrunneus

  This ovenbird inhabits montane forest in Central America. It moves through the lower and middle forest, and its orange throat and streaked breast help identify it.

• Brown Inca Coeligena wilsoni

  This hummingbird inhabits the western Andes of Colombia and Ecuador. It has brown plumage and a white spot behind the eye, and uses humid montane forest and cloud forest.

• Croaking Ground Dove Columbina cruziana

  Male Croaking Ground Doves have a bluish head and pinkish tones on the neck and breast. In Peru they feed on small seeds on the ground in open places, often in pairs or in flocks at feeding sites.

• Crowned Slaty Flycatcher Griseotyrannus aurantioatrocristatus

  This gray tyrant flycatcher uses forest canopy, edges, and semi-open habitat. In Peru, austral migrants are usually recorded from February through November.

• Gray-headed Tanager Eucometis penicillata

  This tanager has a gray head and yellow-orange underparts. Peruvian accounts place it in the middle levels of floodplain forest.

• Blue-fronted Robin Cinclidium frontale

  Males are indigo with brighter blue on the forehead and shoulders; females are olive brown. The species inhabits forests from the eastern Himalayas to southwestern China and beyond.