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• Barred Dove Geopelia maugeus

  

  The Barred Dove is a small dove marked by a yellow bare eye-ring and strong bars from throat to breast. It eats seeds on islands of southeastern Indonesia.

• Cinnamon Hummingbird Amazilia rutila

  The Cinnamon Hummingbird has a green head and back, a rufous tail, and cinnamon-colored underparts. It feeds at flowers and has also been observed in a protected area in northwestern Costa Rica.

• Black-and-rufous Warbling Finch Poospiza nigrorufa

  This warbling finch ranges from southern Brazil to southern Argentina and the Paraná basin of Paraguay. Its plumage and habitat differ from those of a close relative, P. whitii.

• Cocoa Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus susurrans

  This woodcreeper occurs in Central and South America, where it uses humid forests. It searches trunks for ants, spiders, and other small arthropods.

• Dark Pewee Contopus lugubris

  This pewee occurs in mountain forests of Costa Rica and extreme western Panama. It is dark gray and is recorded along forest edges and openings; it may be solitary outside the breeding period.

• White-browed Robin-Chat Cossypha heuglini

  A robin-chat of thickets and forest edges in eastern and southern Africa. Its white eyebrow and orange underparts stand out against the dark head.

• White-throated Quail-Dove Zentrygon frenata

  A dove of humid Andean forests, it has pale stripes on the face and a light throat. It may forage on the forest floor in the early morning.

• Swallow-tailed Hummingbird Eupetomena macroura

  This hummingbird has a long, forked tail. It visits flowering trees, and its blue-green plumage can flash in the light.

• Brown Tanager Orchesticus abeillei

  This tanager occurs in montane forest in southeastern Brazil. Its face, forehead and eyebrow are cinnamon-brown, while the head and back are greyer brown.

• Striolated Tit-Spinetail Leptasthenura striolata

  This furnariid was studied in montane mixed forest in southern Brazil. A 2003–2004 study observed a tendency to forage alone along shrub branches.

• Least Flycatcher Empidonax minimus

  The Least Flycatcher is a small bird with a pale eye ring that darts from a perch to catch insects.

• White-bellied Bush Chat Saxicola gutturalis

  The White-bellied Bush Chat lives on Timor and nearby islands. It uses open habitats with scattered trees, and males and females differ in plumage.

• Black Cuckoo-Dove Turacoena modesta

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

• Green-bellied Hummingbird Saucerottia viridigaster

  This hummingbird occurs in the mountains of Colombia and Venezuela. A 2000 study documents geographic variation in Andean tail color and discusses separating the related S. cupreicauda.

• Rufous-bellied Mountain Tanager Pseudosaltator rufiventris

  This Andean bird stands out for its gray upperparts and extensive rufous underparts. It searches in tree crowns and shrubs, alone or in pairs.

• Eye-ringed Thistletail Asthenes palpebralis

  This thistletail is reported as restricted to the eastern Andes of Peru’s Junín region. The pictured bird is of unknown sex; its broad white eye-ring and long graduated tail are conspicuous.

• Chilean Elaenia Elaenia chilensis

  This small South American flycatcher undertakes long-distance migration. It has been studied breeding in Patagonia, and research documents identification problems with similar Elaenias.

• Bornean Blue Flycatcher Cyornis superbus

  This flycatcher occurs on Borneo. The male is conspicuous for bright blue across the forehead and nape.

• Bar-shouldered Dove Geopelia humeralis

  The Bar-shouldered Dove ranges across northern and eastern Australia and southern New Guinea. It searches for seeds in short grass and is marked by a bronze patch on the hindneck.

• Buffy Hummingbird Leucippus fallax

  This small hummingbird occurs in northern Colombia and Venezuela. It uses dry scrub and mangroves and feeds on nectar and fruit.

• Great-billed Seed Finch Sporophila maximiliani

  The Great-billed Seed-Finch is a small seed-eating finch with an exceptionally thick, strong bill. Surveys in Brazil found it at very few marshy sites in the Cerrado.

• Pernambuco Foliage-gleaner Automolus lammi

  This foliage-gleaner occurs in states of northeastern Brazil. It has white eyes and throat and coppery plumage, and searches among leaves and vines in forest interiors near streams.

• Ochraceous Attila Attila torridus

  It lives in forests of western Ecuador and adjacent Colombia and Peru. It catches large insects and spiders in the upper forest.

• Dark-sided Flycatcher Muscicapa sibirica

  The Dark-sided Flycatcher breeds in northern Asia and winters in southern China and Southeast Asia.