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• Charming Hummingbird Polyerata decora

  

  The Charming Hummingbird occurs on Costa Rica's southern Pacific side. It uses forest edges, riverside woodland and other open habitats such as coffee farms, and is reported to be solitary.

• Mourning Collared Dove Streptopelia decipiens

  The Mourning Collared Dove is an African dove that lives in forests and gardens. It is distinct from North America’s Mourning Dove despite the similar English name.

• Tepui Foliage-gleaner Syndactyla roraimae

  This ovenbird lives in forests around the tepuis. Adults are unstreaked, with a pale throat and eyebrow contrasting with the darker body. It probes arboreal bromeliads and bamboo node sheaths and gleans branches and vines.

• Orange-headed Tanager Thlypopsis sordida

  A small tanager with a yellow-orange head. It moves through scrub, savanna, and forest edges.

• Ceylon Whistling-Thrush Myophonus blighi

  This bird lives in wet mountain forests of Sri Lanka. Males and females have different plumage, and it looks for food along streams.

• Yellow-crowned Tyrannulet Tyrannulus elatus

  Yellow-crowned Tyrannulet is a small tyrant flycatcher about 10–11 cm long. It is recorded in river-edge forest, lowland evergreen forest, and secondary growth. The account describes catching small invertebrates in surface sallies near foliage and lists sound records from Ecuador and other countries.

• Allen's Hummingbird Selasphorus sasin

  This small hummingbird breeds along the Pacific coast of Oregon and California. Males display a reddish-orange throat and perform pendulum-like arcs followed by steep dives.

• Black-naped Fruit Dove Ptilinopus melanospilus

  This fruit-eating dove is marked by a black band on the back of the neck. It feeds in the canopy and helps disperse plant seeds.

• Planalto Foliage-gleaner Syndactyla dimidiata

  This furnariid is widely distributed in the Brazilian Cerrado and is also recorded in northeastern Paraguay. It occurs in the understory of preserved gallery and riparian forest.

• 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.

• Matinan Blue Flycatcher Cyornis sanfordi

  Matinan Blue Flycatcher is a montane flycatcher of the Minahasa Peninsula in northern Sulawesi. A study observed it in evergreen montane forest and recorded its repeated, clear song.

• Brownish Elaenia Elaenia pelzelni

  This flycatcher is restricted to riverine habitats in the Amazon basin, especially islands and forest edges along the Amazon and Napo rivers. It is often associated with early growth that includes Cecropia trees.

• White-bearded Hermit Phaethornis hispidus

  This widespread Amazonian hummingbird has gray underparts and a white stripe down the throat. A Colombian account adds forest, edge, secondary growth and seasonally flooded forest as habitats.

• White-bellied Imperial Pigeon Ducula forsteni

  The White-bellied Imperial Pigeon is a large forest pigeon of Sulawesi and nearby Indonesian islands. It feeds mainly on fruit.

• Olive-backed Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus triangularis

  This woodcreeper occurs in humid montane forest on Peru’s eastern Andes. Its rufous tail and buff spotting on the throat and chest help identify it; it forages from the midstory to the canopy.

• Buff-bellied Tanager Thlypopsis inornata

  The Buff-bellied Tanager occurs in north-western Peru, with a record from extreme south-eastern Ecuador. It feeds on small arthropods in dry highland scrub. The account says females are duller than males and juveniles resemble females.

• Philippine Jungle Flycatcher Rhinomyias ruficauda

  A Philippine forest flycatcher. The historical male description records olive-brown upperparts and a rusty tail.

• Brown-crested Flycatcher Myiarchus tyrannulus

  The Brown-crested Flycatcher launches from a branch to catch insects in the air; it is a large member of the tyrant flycatchers.

• 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.

• Yellow-vented Green Pigeon Treron seimundi

  The Yellow-vented Green Pigeon is notable for the adult male's white belly and yellow undertail. The park profile lists it in evergreen forest in central and south-central Vietnam and other parts of the region.

• Azara's Spinetail Synallaxis azarae

  Azara's Spinetail moves through scrub in Andean montane forest, at forest edges, and in second growth. Peruvian records in the account are from 1,250–3,100 m.

• Cochabamba Mountain Finch Poospiza garleppi

  This small finch occurs in the mountains around Cochabamba, Bolivia, including shrub-filled ravines and Polylepis woodland.

• Rubeho Akalat Sheppardia aurantiithorax

  The Rubeho Akalat occurs in forest in the Eastern Arc mountains of central Tanzania. Its throat and upper breast are deep orange, and observations describe it feeding on the ground and low branches.

• Ash-throated Casiornis Casiornis fuscus

  A rufous flycatcher of Brazil. Its breeding habitat differs from the open woodland and savannas used by migrants outside the breeding period.