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• Spot-throated Hummingbird Thaumasius taczanowskii

  

  This roughly 12 cm hummingbird lives on the western slope of the northern Andes. Green upperparts, gray underparts, and dark throat and upper-breast speckles help identify it.

• Ring-tailed Pigeon Patagioenas caribaea

  The Ring-tailed Pigeon is a large pigeon endemic to Jamaica. Its tail has a dark band and a broad pale tip, and it lives in forest.

• Cordoba Cinclodes Cinclodes comechingonus

  This cinclodes is recorded in Córdoba Province, central Argentina. Its 1944 original description noted a ferruginous wing band and rusty tips on the outer tail feathers of the adult male type. The national parks database also lists rivers and streams among its habitat categories.

• Glossy Flowerpiercer Diglossa lafresnayii

  The Glossy Flowerpiercer has glossy black plumage and a blue shoulder patch and forages along Andean forest edges.

• Pied Bush Chat Saxicola caprata

  The Pied Bush Chat is a small bird; males are dark with a white wing patch.

• Sulphury Flycatcher Tyrannopsis sulphurea

  This flycatcher uses palm stands in the Amazon region of South America. Its olive-brown upperparts contrast with bright yellow underparts.

• Greenish Puffleg Haplophaedia aureliae

  It has green upperparts, whitish underparts densely speckled green, and white feather tufts on the legs. It inhabits humid montane forest.

• Brown Cuckoo-Dove Macropygia phasianella

  The Brown Cuckoo-Dove has a long tail and lives in woodland and forest edges in eastern Australia, where it feeds on fruit and seeds.

• Streaked Tuftedcheek Pseudocolaptes boissonneautii

  This furnariid inhabits humid Andean forests. White neck tufts and a rufous tail stand out, and it forages from the midstory to the canopy with mixed-species flocks.

• Tucuman Mountain Finch Poospiza baeri

  This finch occurs in the Tucuman Mountain area of Argentina and Bolivia. Its grayish body is marked with orange-rufous on the forehead, eyebrow, and throat.

• White-crowned Shama Copsychus stricklandii

  It occurs in northeastern Borneo and uses forests with undergrowth. It is known for loud, beautiful songs and for mimicking other birds and sounds.

• Black-throated Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus granadensis

  This small bird lives in humid Andean forests and has a black throat patch. Peru Aves records it on the eastern Andean slope, including Peru.

• White-necked Jacobin Florisuga mellivora

  The White-necked Jacobin is a large hummingbird with a white neck band and a fan-shaped tail. It visits tropical lowland forest edges, clearings, and gardens, feeding at different heights.

• 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.

• Ash-browed Spinetail Cranioleuca curtata

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

• Beryl-spangled Tanager Tangara nigroviridis

  This tanager has dark plumage covered in iridescent blue-green spots. It occurs in Andean cloud forest from Venezuela to Bolivia.

• Black Scrub Robin Cercotrichas podobe

  A Black Scrub Robin recorded in a Djibouti survey. Its sooty-black body and long, white-tipped tail are distinctive.

• Hangnest Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus nidipendulus

  This small tyrant flycatcher is endemic to Brazil. It has an olive-green head and back and eats mostly insects in humid forests.

• Tawny-bellied Hermit Phaethornis syrmatophorus

  This hummingbird occurs in the northern Andes of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. In Peru it is recorded in humid montane forest and in humid or semi-deciduous forest in western Piura.

• Sula Cuckoo-Dove Turacoena sulaensis

  Sula Cuckoo-Dove is a forest dove of the Sula and Banggai Islands. Adults show a conspicuous white face and red eye-ring.

• Rufous-banded Miner Geositta rufipennis

  A regional account from northwestern Patagonia describes it as a ground-dwelling bird of rocky high-Andean areas. It has gray-brown upperparts with rufous marks and a dark tail band. Records note that it descends to lower open country during winter snowstorms.

• White-throated Seedeater Sporophila albogularis

  This small bird is recorded in the Caatinga of northeastern Brazil. Males have small white patches near the eye, and the birds take grass seeds from the ground. Regional accounts describe shrubland near wet places and along dry-forest edges.

• Brown-breasted Flycatcher Muscicapa muttui

  The Brown-breasted Flycatcher breeds in northeastern India and Indochina and winters in southwestern India and Sri Lanka. The Singapore account lists it as a vagrant there.

• Brown-breasted Bamboo Tyrant Hemitriccus obsoletus

  One individual was documented in a bamboo patch in Misiones, northeastern Argentina. The description here follows that local observation.