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• 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.

• Fork-tailed Woodnymph Thalurania furcata

  This hummingbird is recorded in Argentina's humid scrub and forests. The local account describes a fork-tailed, vivid male and a greener-backed, gray-bellied female.

• Oriental turtle dove Streptopelia orientalis

  A dove of East Asian woods, farmland and towns. In Japan, fine striped patches on the sides of the neck help identify it.

• Ochre-lored Flatbill Tolmomyias flaviventris

  This small flycatcher has an olive back, yellow wing-bars, and yellow throat and belly. It ranges from Central America into northern South America.

• Black-throated Saltator Saltatricula atricollis

  This tanager lives in open grassland and savanna in eastern Bolivia, including lightly wooded and seasonally flooded areas.

• Luzon Water Redstart Rhyacornis bicolor

  The main reported range is the Central Cordillera and Sierra Madre on Luzon, Philippines. It catches aquatic invertebrates beside rocky streams and riparian thickets. Males are dark slaty blue above with chestnut rump, tail and belly; females are similar but duller. The sources use Phoenicurus bicolor; this entry retains the pool name Rhyacornis bicolor.

• Narrow-billed Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes angustirostris

  This woodcreeper occurs widely in South America. It climbs trunks and branches with its long, narrow, slightly curved bill while searching for insects and spiders.

• White-crested Coquette Lophornis adorabilis

  This small hummingbird occurs on the Pacific side of southern Costa Rica and in far western Panama. Males have a white crest and long green cheek tufts, and visit flowers in forest edges and secondary growth.

• Pink-headed Fruit Dove Ptilinopus porphyreus

  The male has a vivid pink-purple head and throat, and the dove feeds on fruit high in forest trees. It is native to mountain forests in Indonesia.

• Eastern Wood Pewee Contopus virens

  The Eastern Wood-Pewee is a small bird of eastern North American forests that waits on a perch and catches flying insects.

• White-bellied Seedeater Sporophila leucoptera

  A small bird of grassland with scattered bushes; males and females have different plumage.

• White-capped Redstart Chaimarrornis leucocephalus

  This streamside flycatcher breeds in Central Asia, the Himalayas and much of China. Its white crown and nape, black chest and reddish-brown belly and tail are distinctive. In winter it moves to lower elevations.

• Orange-eyed Thornbird Phacellodomus erythrophthalmus

  This thornbird lives along forest edges in eastern Brazil and has a chestnut-colored tail.

• White-chinned Sapphire Chlorestes cyanus

  This hummingbird uses humid forest and adjacent scrubby transitions. An Argentine biodiversity account describes distinct blue markings in males and females.

• Zebra Dove Geopelia striata

  The small Zebra Dove has fine bars across its plumage and walks on the ground to find food.

• Olive-chested Flycatcher Myiophobus cryptoxanthus

  The Olive-chested Flycatcher is a small bird recorded on the eastern Andean slopes of northern Peru and Ecuador. It feeds alone in shrubs at forest edges and in secondary growth.

• Rufous-chested Tanager Thlypopsis ornata

  This small tanager occurs in Andean scrub and along humid-forest edges in Peru and Ecuador.

• Ussher's Flycatcher Muscicapa ussheri

  This flycatcher lives in West African lowland forest. It hunts insects from high dead branches near forest edges and clearings.

• Peruvian Seaside Cinclodes Cinclodes taczanowskii

  A brown bird of Peru's coast, it stays close to the ocean and is found more often on rocky shores or artificial embankments than on sandy beaches.

• Scaled Metaltail Metallura aeneocauda

  This small hummingbird lives in humid highland forest on the eastern Andes. Adult males and females differ in tail and throat color.

• 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.

• Sibilant Sirystes Sirystes sibilator

  The Sibilant Sirystes is a tyrant flycatcher of South American forests. A taxonomic paper describes typical southern birds and paler populations in northern and central Brazil.

• Caribbean Grey Saltator Saltator olivascens

  This gray bird occurs in northern South America. It uses forest edges and thickets, and records note it feeding on morning-glory flowers.

• Blue-capped Rock Thrush Monticola cinclorhynchus

  A thrush whose male has a blue head and orange body. It is recorded in forests and edges within Great Himalayan National Park.