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• Grey-and-white Tyrannulet Pseudelaenia leucospodia

  

  A small tyrant flycatcher of northwestern Peru and Ecuador. It forages in the canopy and subcanopy of deciduous forest and in tall scrub.

• Dusky-throated Hermit Phaethornis squalidus

  This small hermit hummingbird is endemic to southeastern Brazil, where it inhabits Atlantic Forest. It visits low flowers for nectar and also takes small insects on short flights.

• Patagonian Forest Earthcreeper Upucerthia saturatior

  This earthcreeper inhabits Patagonian forest. A primary study distinguishes it from the related open-country species by traits including its short black bill and breeding habitat.

• 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.

• Scaled Pigeon Patagioenas speciosa

  The Scaled Pigeon has a scaly pattern across much of its plumage. In Bolivia it is recorded mainly in humid and semi-humid forest below 1,000 m, often in the canopy.

• Short-billed Honeycreeper Cyanerpes nitidus

  This is a honeycreeper with a short bill. In 2000, one male was recorded at Brownsberg Nature Park in Suriname.

• Yellow-billed Tit-Tyrant Anairetes flavirostris

  This small tyrant flycatcher lives in the Peruvian Andes and forages alone or in pairs in dry scrub.

• Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris

  A tiny hummingbird that breeds in eastern North America. It hovers while taking nectar from flowers and migrates to Central America in autumn.

• Patagonian Canastero Pseudasthenes patagonica

  Patagonian Canastero inhabits dry steppe and shrubland in the southern half of Argentina. It is mostly grayish brown, with a whitish, black-speckled throat and a mainly black tail edged with rufous. It feeds in scrub and may hold its tail upright when on the ground.

• Japanese robin Erithacus akahige

  A bird of dense mountain undergrowth that hops over the ground searching for small animals.

• Coroneted Fruit Dove Ptilinopus coronulatus

  This small pigeon is mainly green with a violet-pink crown patch. It eats fruit in lowland forests of New Guinea and nearby islands.

• Bright-rumped Yellow Finch Sicalis uropigyalis

  This finch occurs in high-Andean steppe and prepuna in northwestern Argentina. The male has a yellow head and underparts with a gray face.

• Streamer-tailed Tyrant Gubernetes yetapa

  Adults have strikingly elongated central tail feathers. In southern Brazil, a breeding study found that fledged young first foraged independently, then joined mixed-species flocks.

• Brazilian Ruby Clytolaema rubricauda

  This hummingbird occurs in southeastern Brazil. Males have a ruby-red throat and coppery-rufous tail; females have pale cinnamon underparts.

• Rock Earthcreeper Ochetorhynchus andaecola

  This earthcreeper inhabits high Andean steppe in northwestern Argentina. It has a long, slightly curved bill, cinnamon-brown upperparts and a pale eyebrow.

• Tessmann's Flycatcher Muscicapa tessmanni

  This flycatcher was recorded in a Ghanaian forest survey. The 2009 paper uses the older genus Muscicapa, while a current species page lists it as Fraseria tessmanni.

• Brown Cuckoo-Dove Macropygia phasianella

  The Brown Cuckoo-Dove has a long tail and lives in woodland and forest edges in eastern Australia, where it feeds on fruit and seeds.

• Crimson-collared Tanager Ramphocelus sanguinolentus

  A mostly black bird with a broad crimson band across the throat and chest and a red rump. The sexes look alike. It ranges from southeastern Mexico to western Panama and uses wet 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.

• Slender Sheartail Doricha enicura

  This small hummingbird lives in mountains and valleys from southern Mexico into northern Central America. The male has a very long forked tail; the female’s is shorter.

• Grey-throated Leaftosser Sclerurus albigularis

  The Grey-throated Leaftosser lives near the ground in humid foothill and montane forest. It turns over leaves with its bill while searching for invertebrates.

• Andaman Shama Copsychus albiventris

  This long-tailed shama lives in the forests of the Andaman Islands. An observer describes it as similar to the mainland Oriental Magpie-Robin, but with a white belly. It has been heard singing in the lower forest.

• Sapphire Quail-Dove Geotrygon saphirina

  This dove spends much of its time near the forest floor. Its blue-gray to bronzy head and white marks around the eye stand out in evergreen forest and nearby regrowth.

• Black-headed Hemispingus Pseudospingus verticalis

  This tanager occurs on the eastern Andean slope north and west of the Marañón Valley. The species account also lists records from Colombia and Ecuador.