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• Minas Gerais Tyrannulet Phylloscartes roquettei

  

  A small tyrannulet recorded in Minas Gerais, Brazil. In the study, birds used dry and gallery forests and searched for arthropods in tall trees.

• Ecuadorian Hillstar Oreotrochilus chimborazo

  This hummingbird occurs in the Cajas highlands of Ecuador. A local guide describes it visiting Chuquiragua flowers and records different head and belly colors in males and females.

• Brown Cacholote Pseudoseisura lophotes

  This roughly 26 cm ovenbird has brown plumage with chestnut tones and a darker crest. In a study at Villa María, Córdoba, Argentina, pairs searched for food, including dry acacia pods and items on the ground.

• Rufous-tailed Shama Trichixos pyrropygus

  This shama has a warm brown body and rufous tail. It skulks alone in lowland forest understorey and searches near the ground for insects.

• 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.

• Morelet's Seedeater Sporophila morelleti

  A small bird that eats grass seeds in open grassy places. Breeding males vary by region, and southern birds often show a bold black breast band.

• Ochraceous Pewee Contopus ochraceus

  This flycatcher occurs in the highlands of Costa Rica and far western Panama. It has a yellow-brown back, yellow belly, and pale wing bars, and catches flying insects from a perch.

• Collared Inca Coeligena torquata

  This hummingbird inhabits humid Andean forests. A white chest band stands out against its dark plumage, and it feeds on nectar as well as small insects and spiders.

• 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.

• Little Pied Flycatcher Ficedula westermanni

  Males have bold black-and-white plumage, while females are subdued gray-brown. The flycatcher sallies from forest perches to catch insects; some Himalayan populations descend to lower foothills in winter.

• Blue-eyed Ground Dove Columbina cyanopis

  The Blue-eyed Ground Dove is a small dove with striking blue eyes. It is associated with Brazil's Cerrado and was rediscovered in northern Minas Gerais in 2015.

• Eyebrowed Hemispingus Thlypopsis superciliaris

  This tanager forages in the canopy of humid Andean forest, often with mixed-species flocks. Plumage varies geographically; the description here is limited to birds from southern Cusco toward Bolivia.

• Eastern Phoebe Sayornis phoebe

  A small flycatcher of eastern North America, the Eastern Phoebe often launches from a low perch to catch flying insects.

• Gray-breasted Sabrewing Campylopterus largipennis

  This hummingbird occurs in humid lowland forest in eastern Colombia and in foothill forest east of the Andes. It feeds on nectar and also sallies from a perch to catch small insects.

• Buff-winged Cinclodes Cinclodes fuscus

  A small bird recorded on Tierra del Fuego's Isla Grande, it has a brown body and a long white eyebrow. It walks along water edges searching for insects and small invertebrates.

• Chorister Robin-Chat Cossypha dichroa

  The Chorister Robin-Chat is marked by its black hood and orange underparts. In southern Africa it lives in moist forests and searches for food on the ground and in trees.

• Victoria crowned pigeon Goura victoria

  A pigeon with a large lace-like crest that searches for food on the forest floor.

• Lesser Antillean Tanager Stilpnia cucullata

  This small tanager occurs on Grenada and Saint Vincent. Male plumage differs between the islands, and taxonomic treatments vary between one species and two.

• Black-backed Water Tyrant Fluvicola albiventer

  This tyrant flycatcher perches near water and catches insects in short, low flights. An Argentine species account describes its black-and-white pattern and foraging at the water surface and on aquatic plants.

• Curve-winged Sabrewing Pampa curvipennis

  The Curve-winged Sabrewing occurs in the eastern Sierra Madre Oriental of Mexico. An 1887 regional account describes the male with a blue crown, bronze-green upperparts and iron-grey underparts.

• Araucaria Tit-Spinetail Leptasthenura setaria

  A furnariid of southern Brazil and northeastern Argentina, associated with Araucaria woodland and plantations.

• Grey-throated Tit-Flycatcher Myioparus griseigularis

  This flycatcher occurs in forests from western and central Africa to Uganda and Tanzania. Its species account uses Fraseria and lists Myioparus as a former genus placement.

• Black-billed Wood Dove Turtur abyssinicus

  A dove of dry savanna woodland and scrub that feeds on grass and other small seeds. It is also found near water.

• Golden-chested Tanager Bangsia rothschildi

  A tanager of humid forests on the Pacific side of the Andes from central Colombia to northwestern Ecuador. It has a black body with a yellow breast patch and may join mixed-species flocks.