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• Bornean Whistling Thrush Myophonus borneensis

  

  The Bornean Whistling Thrush lives along streams in northern Borneo. Adult males have glossy dark blue on the head through the breast.

• White-vented Violetear Colibri serrirostris

  This hummingbird lives in dry forest and dry savanna in South America. It has a violet-blue patch behind the eye and feeds on nectar.

• Chiriqui Foliage-gleaner Automolus exsertus

  The Chiriqui Foliage-gleaner occurs on the Pacific slope from southwestern Costa Rica to western Panama. It skulks in humid forest undergrowth and has a rich buff throat, broad eyebrow, and dark rusty tail.

• Ashy-headed Green Pigeon Treron phayrei

  The male has a grey head and maroon wings. The female is mostly green, and both feed on fruit in forest habitats.

• Cinnamon-breasted Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus cinnamomeipectus

  This small tyrant flycatcher occurs in the mountains of southeastern Ecuador and northern Peru. A 2004 Ecuadorian survey recorded birds searching leaf undersides in dense low vegetation.

• Black-throated Shrike-Tanager Lanio aurantius

  Males have black heads and throats against yellow bodies, while females have brown upperparts and yellow underparts. The species lives in humid Central American forest and sallies to catch insects.

• Hume's Wheatear Oenanthe albonigra

  Hume's Wheatear is a wheatear with a black head and back and a white breast and belly. The sexes look alike.

• 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.

• Rusty-fronted Canastero Asthenes ottonis

  The Rusty-fronted Canastero is endemic to Peru and lives in dry scrub of the high Andes.

• Red-eared Fruit Dove Ptilinopus fischeri

  The Red-eared Fruit Dove lives in the mountains of Sulawesi. Adults are notable for a green back and a violet-red patch by the ear; they are usually solitary and discreet.

• 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.

• Peg-billed Finch Acanthidops bairdi

  This finch lives in volcanic highlands of Costa Rica and western Panama. Its long upturned bill is distinctive, and it feeds on insects, seeds, and fruit in mountain forest and bamboo.

• Forest Rock Thrush Monticola sharpei

  This thrush lives in forest and rocky habitats in Madagascar. The 2016 guide describes different settings for eastern and northern birds and the western form formerly called bensoni.

• 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.

• Spotted Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus erythropygius

  It occurs in humid forests of Central America. In Costa Rica it uses the canopy, edges, and older secondary growth, sometimes in pairs or mixed flocks.

• Makatea Fruit Dove Ptilinopus chalcurus

  The Makatea Fruit Dove is confined to Makatea in French Polynesia, where it uses wooded areas and trees near villages.

• Brown-backed Chat-Tyrant Ochthoeca fumicolor

  This chat-tyrant searches for food in humid, semi-open places and often perches high in the vegetation. It has a brown back and rufous underparts.

• Large Ground Finch Geospiza magnirostris

  Among the ground finches of the Galápagos, this species is especially large, with a heavy bill used to handle large seeds.

• 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.

• Purple-backed Sunbeam Aglaeactis aliciae

  Male Purple-backed Sunbeams have iridescent purple backs and rumps. This hummingbird feeds on nectar and small insects on high Andean slopes in northern Peru.

• Great Xenops Megaxenops parnaguae

  This rufous arboreal furnariid has a large upturned bill and a white throat. Records from inland Brazil describe birds probing under bark for small insects in Caatinga woodland and other dry forests.

• Large Green Pigeon Treron capellei

  This large green pigeon has olive plumage and golden lines on its wings. Males have a yellow-orange breast; it feeds on figs in lowland forests.

• Forest Elaenia Myiopagis gaimardii

  The Forest Elaenia is widespread in the Amazon region. It forages in the canopy and sub-canopy of humid forest and sometimes joins mixed-species flocks.

• Fulvous-headed Tanager Thlypopsis fulviceps

  This tanager occurs in mountain forests of Colombia and Venezuela. It has a rufous head, gray back and tail, and gray to whitish underparts.