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• Golden-collared Tanager Iridosornis jelskii

  

  This tanager occurs in the eastern Andes of Peru and Bolivia. A yellow band around the head and a dark facial mask stand out; it feeds on fruit and insects in the lower levels of humid montane forest.

• Orange-breasted Green Pigeon Treron bicinctus

  The Orange-breasted Green Pigeon ranges across South and Southeast Asian forests. It eats fruit from branches, and males and females differ in breast pattern.

• White-lored Spinetail Synallaxis albilora

  Field notes report this bird in the Pantanal and adjoining areas, in undergrowth of dry and gallery forests, riverine shrubs and cultivated areas. It forages among tangles and vines. Photographs show an individual with a uniformly gray crown.

• Marico Flycatcher Bradornis mariquensis

  The Marico Flycatcher is a small brown flycatcher with a pale eye-ring. It searches for insects in open acacia woodland and may drop from a perch to catch prey on the ground.

• Black-and-white Tody-Flycatcher Poecilotriccus capitalis

  At about 9.5 cm, this is a tiny flycatcher of the Amazonian understory. Peru accounts report populations in northern lowland Amazonia and a separate central Peruvian area.

• Fiery Topaz Topaza pyra

  The male has a copper-colored body and long tail feathers, and differs in color and tail shape from the female. It occurs in the canopy of northern Amazonian forest.

• Genovesa Ground Finch Geospiza acutirostris

  This ground finch occurs only on Genovesa Island in the Galápagos. It was formerly treated as a subspecies of the Sharp-beaked Ground Finch but is now listed as a separate species.

• White-fronted Ground Dove Pampusana kubaryi

  This dove occurs on Chuuk and Pohnpei. Adult males have a sooty-black crown and hindneck, with violet gloss on the upper back and parts of the wings.

• Austral Canastero Asthenes anthoides

  The Austral Canastero occurs in Patagonia in Chile and adjoining Argentina. It moves alone or in pairs through grassland and steppe with patches of shrubs.

• Indian Robin Saxicoloides fulicatus

  This small bird ranges across the Indian subcontinent and uses gardens and scrub. It searches for insects on the ground; the male is black with a rufous belly.

• Piratic Flycatcher Legatus leucophaius

  This small tyrant flycatcher ranges from Mexico through much of South America. It uses forest edges and open or cultivated places with tall trees, often staying high in the canopy.

• Brown Inca Coeligena wilsoni

  This hummingbird inhabits the western Andes of Colombia and Ecuador. It has brown plumage and a white spot behind the eye, and uses humid montane forest and cloud forest.

• Hooded Mountain Tanager Buthraupis montana

  This Andean tanager occurs in the humid upper Yungas forests of Bolivia. It has been recorded moving in small flocks.

• Black-chinned Fruit Dove Ptilinopus leclancheri

  The Black-chinned Fruit Dove occurs mainly in the Philippines and is described as a very rare resident in Taiwan. It uses forest patches.

• Northern Plain Xenops Xenops mexicanus

  The Northern Plain Xenops searches tree trunks for insects in the lower and middle levels of humid tropical forest and at forest edges. Birds Colombia describes the sexes as similar and notes that juveniles have a dark brown throat.

• Black-and-orange Flycatcher Ficedula nigrorufa

  This flycatcher is endemic to India's Western Ghats. The male has a striking black-and-orange contrast.

• Streak-throated Bush Tyrant Myiotheretes striaticollis

  This Andean flycatcher occurs at high elevations. It searches for insects and small vertebrates in scrub and along forest edges.

• Festive Coquette Lophornis chalybeus

  This small hummingbird inhabits forests and cerrado in southeastern Brazil. The male has green cheek tufts with white spots; the female lacks these tufts.

• Red-cowled Cardinal Paroaria dominicana

  Common in northeastern Brazil, this tanager has a red head and throat, grey back, black wings and tail, and a white underside to the tail; immatures have a duller orange head.

• Seram Imperial Pigeon Ducula neglecta

  The Seram Imperial Pigeon is a large pigeon of the southern Moluccas in Indonesia. It searches within lowland and mangrove forest and along forest edges, alone or in pairs.

• Black-billed Scythebill Campylorhamphus falcularius

  Its dark body is set off by a long, slender, curved bill. It probes gaps in trees and plants and feeds mainly on small invertebrates.

• Black Redstart Phoenicurus ochruros

  A small bird that also lives in British cities and industrial centres. Males have grey-black plumage and a red tail.

• Mountain Elaenia Elaenia frantzii

  A highland flycatcher found from Mexico through Central America to Colombia and Venezuela. It has subdued plumage and forages at forest edges and fruiting bushes.

• Tyrian Metaltail Metallura tyrianthina

  A 19th-century account describes this hummingbird in the mountains of New Granada and Ecuador and reports that it visits flowers. The plumage and behavior below come from that historical account.