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• Three-striped Flycatcher Conopias trivirgatus

  

  Adults show a dark crown, white eyebrow, black eye-mask, and yellow throat and belly. The Peru Aves account describes them feeding in the canopy of seasonally flooded forest and along forest edges.

• Barbados Bullfinch Loxigilla barbadensis

  This seed-eating bird is endemic to Barbados, where it is found in grassy areas and forests.

• Creamy-crested Spinetail Cranioleuca albicapilla

  The Creamy-crested Spinetail occurs in the inter-Andean valleys of central and southern Peru, where it is recorded in scrub and riparian forest.

• Rufous-bellied Niltava Niltava sundara

  The male Rufous-bellied Niltava has a blue crown, face, throat, and back with sandy-brown underparts. It lives in forest bushes and undergrowth and feeds on small invertebrates.

• Plain-bellied Emerald Chrysuronia leucogaster

  This hummingbird has a white belly. It uses coastal mangroves and forest edges and feeds on nectar.

• Buff-fronted Quail-Dove Zentrygon costaricensis

  The Buff-fronted Quail-Dove has a rufous-brown back, green nape, and a black stripe on its mostly white face. It is found on the ground in montane cloud forest in Costa Rica and western Panama.

• Spectacled Tyrannulet Zimmerius improbus

  This small tyrant flycatcher occurs in northern Colombia and northwestern Venezuela. It uses mid-elevation forest and edges and searches for food in the middle to upper canopy.

• Scrub Tanager Stilpnia vitriolina

  The Scrub Tanager occurs in the northern Andes of Colombia and Ecuador and uses scrub and forest edges.

• Scaly-throated Foliage-gleaner Anabacerthia variegaticeps

  A foliage-gleaner ranging from Central America to the western Andes, where it searches branches and leaves for small invertebrates.

• Spotted Forktail Enicurus maculatus

  The Spotted Forktail forages beside streams in mountain forest. Its long tail is deeply forked.

• Blue-capped Puffleg Eriocnemis glaucopoides

  This resident hummingbird is recorded in Argentina and Bolivia, at elevations of 1,500–3,400 m.

• Bare-faced Ground Dove Metriopelia ceciliae

  A 17–18 cm dove with extensive orange bare skin around the eye and pale scaling on the back and wings. In Bolivia it uses dry slopes and grasslands and searches for food on the ground.

• Scale-crested Pygmy Tyrant Lophotriccus pileatus

  This small tyrant is about 10 cm long. It has yellow-olive upperparts and a scaly-looking crest edged in rufous.

• Paradise Tanager Tangara chilensis

  The Paradise Tanager forages in the upper canopy of Amazonian forest in pairs or family groups, often joining mixed-species flocks. Its plumage combines green, black, blue, and a red or yellow-red rump.

• Rufous-tailed Xenops Microxenops milleri

  This xenops lives in Amazonian forest canopy. It has buff streaks from the head to the underparts and creeps along trunks and branches while searching for food.

• Blue-fronted Robin Cinclidium frontale

  Males are indigo with brighter blue on the forehead and shoulders; females are olive brown. The species inhabits forests from the eastern Himalayas to southwestern China and beyond.

• Long-tailed Woodnymph Thalurania watertonii

  The male has blue-violet and metallic green plumage, while the female has a green back and gray underside. In northeastern Brazil's Atlantic Forest, it feeds on flower nectar and small arthropods.

• Namaqua Dove Oena capensis

  The Namaqua Dove is a small, long-tailed dove that searches for seeds on the ground in dry, open country.

• Northern Beardless Tyrannulet Camptostoma imberbe

  The Northern Beardless Tyrannulet is a tiny, grayish bird without bristles at the base of its bill. It hops among branches, flicks its tail, and gives whistled notes.

• Monte Yellow Finch Sicalis mendozae

  This finch lives in the dry Monte Desert of western Argentina. Breeding males are bright yellow and lack olive tones on the throat and breast.

• Dark-winged Canastero Asthenes arequipae

  Dark-winged Canastero is an Andean species recognized after a former broad species was split. One bird recorded in Chile had a rufous rump and vent.

• Mangrove Blue-flycatcher Cyornis rufigastra

  This flycatcher hunts insects in mangrove forest. It has dark-blue upperparts and orange underparts, with different facial and throat colors in females.

• Esmeraldas Woodstar Chaetocercus berlepschi

  This tiny hummingbird is endemic to the Pacific coast of western Ecuador. A 2007–08 survey found 11 additional localities and 26 nests; the study also corrected female descriptions that had been based on misidentified juvenile males.

• Western Bronze-naped Pigeon Columba iriditorques

  The Western Bronze-naped Pigeon inhabits forests in tropical Africa. It feeds on fruit and uses habitats including riparian evergreen forest.