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• Philippine Magpie-Robin Copsychus mindanensis

  

  The Philippine Magpie-Robin is endemic to the Philippines. It has a white belly and all-black tail and also lives in open forest, second growth, farmland, gardens, and scrub.

• 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.

• Caatinga Cacholote Pseudoseisura cristata

  The Caatinga Cacholote lives in the dry northeast of Brazil. It is bright reddish brown, with a prominent crest and yellow iris. Pairs forage on the ground for insects and plant matter in Caatinga woodland and scrub.

• Pheasant Pigeon Otidiphaps nobilis

  The Pheasant Pigeon is a pigeon that spends much of its time on the ground and has pheasant-like habits. It eats seeds and fallen fruit.

• Cocos Tyrannulet Nesotriccus ridgwayi

  This small tyrant flycatcher is endemic to Cocos Island off Costa Rica. It has greyish olive plumage and a relatively long bill, and forages in the rainforest canopy and subcanopy. A breeding study recorded hidden nests on outer branch tips.

• Stripe-tailed Yellow Finch Sicalis citrina

  Males are conspicuously yellow, while females have stronger dark streaks on the head and underside. At Brasília National Park, a breeding study found the finches using old mining sites and nesting close to the ground.

• Grey-winged Robin-Chat Cossypha polioptera

  The Grey-winged Robin-Chat is a small African forest bird. It has a slate-grey crown, olive-brown mantle, and rufous rump. In lowland and foothill evergreen, riverine, and gallery forests, it feeds on beetles, ants, and other insects.

• Santa Marta Sabrewing Campylopterus phainopeplus

  This hummingbird is endemic to the Santa Marta Mountains of northeastern Colombia. It has been little studied, so much of its natural-history information comes from observations in this small range.

• Peruvian Treehunter Thripadectes scrutator

  This ovenbird forages in the dense understory of humid Andean montane forest. The source uses the English name “Buff-throated Treehunter” for the same scientific name and gives an eastern-Andes range in Peru and Bolivia.

• Bruce's Green Pigeon Treron waalia

  Bruce's Green Pigeon is a daytime fruit-eating pigeon of Afrotropical woodland, savanna, and riverine forest.

• Acadian Flycatcher Empidonax virescens

  Its olive back, white eye-ring, and pale wing bars are useful clues. In mature forests of the eastern United States, it darts out to catch insects.

• Masked Flowerpiercer Diglossa cyanea

  This blue Andean bird has a large black mask around its red eyes. It lives in humid high-elevation forests and feeds on flower nectar, fruit, seeds, and insects.

• Cape Rock Thrush Monticola rupestris

  The Cape Rock-Thrush lives in rocky areas and grassland in southern Africa, often in pairs or small groups. Males have a blue-gray head and throat with a brown back; females have buff underparts.

• White-bellied Emerald Chlorestes candida

  The White-bellied Emerald moves quickly among leaves, flowers and forest clearings in Guatemala’s Laguna del Tigre National Park. The local biological station also notes its role in pollination.

• Hudson's Canastero Asthenes hudsoni

  This canastero is concentrated in the humid Pampas and has black streaking on its back. A research review describes partial seasonal movement; Brazilian records include tall grass and sedges on a coastal plain.

• Picazuro Pigeon Patagioenas picazuro

  A Buenos Aires City account describes a vinous purple-brown body and a neck that shines blue-bronze in sunlight. In the city, it feeds on seeds and fruit in parks and other tree-lined places.

• Amazonian Scrub Flycatcher Sublegatus obscurior

  This small flycatcher is widespread in Amazonia. Its head, back and breast are grey, its belly yellowish, and it forages in secondary forest and scrub.

• Green-capped Tanager Stilpnia meyerdeschauenseei

  This small tanager has a thick bill, a small black mask, and blue-green wings and tail.

• Arabian Wheatear Oenanthe lugentoides

  This wheatear has a white crown and a black facial mask that extends onto the wings. It is resident in the deserts and rocky hills of southern Arabia, where it feeds mainly on fruit and insects.

• Lucifer Hummingbird Calothorax lucifer

  The Lucifer Hummingbird occurs mainly in central and northern Mexico. It hovers while taking nectar from flowers.

• Chestnut-backed Thornbird Phacellodomus dorsalis

  This ovenbird occurs in the Marañón drainage of northern Peru. It has a chestnut back and tail with a white throat, and pairs forage in scrub and sparse dry woodland.

• Ring-necked Dove Streptopelia capicola

  The Ring-necked Dove has a black half-collar on the back of its neck. It is often alone or in pairs but may form large flocks around food or water.

• Grey-bellied Shrike-Tyrant Agriornis micropterus

  This tyrant-flycatcher occurs in shrub-steppe in Patagonia and northwestern Argentina. It is solitary and has been recorded perching high on shrubs.

• Bolivian Warbling Finch Poospiza boliviana

  This finch occurs in the west-central Bolivian Andes. A research paper gives an elevational range of about 1,600–3,000 m and describes its plumage as gray, white, and rufous.