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• White-tipped Dove Leptotila verreauxi

  

  The White-tipped Dove is marked by sandy plumage, a darker back, and white tips on the outer tail feathers. It searches for seeds on the ground in dry woods and riverside scrub.

• Miombo scrub-robin Erythropygia barbata

  A bird of broadleaf miombo woodland, with a brown back and a rufous chest.

• Black-striped Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus lachrymosus

  A woodcreeper of humid lowland and mangrove forests that searches bark for small animals.

• Lacrimose Mountain Tanager Anisognathus lacrymosus

  This tanager lives in humid Andean forests. Its blue upperparts and orange-yellow underparts stand out, and it often joins mixed-species flocks.

• Bronze-tailed Plumeleteer Chalybura urochrysia

  The Bronze-tailed Plumeleteer is a medium-sized, mostly green hummingbird. It is usually seen alone at flowers in forests or forest edges; females have whitish underparts and duller pink feet.

• Rufous-tailed Attila Attila phoenicurus

  It has a grey head and a chestnut body. It occurs in southern South America and moves north toward the central Amazon during the austral winter.

• Mindanao Brown Dove Phapitreron brunneiceps

  The Mindanao Brown Dove is known from forests on Mindanao and Basilan in the Philippines. A conservation account describes its use of upland forest and fruiting trees.

• Spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa striata

  This small bird darts from a perch to catch insects. It visits the UK in summer, and adult males and females look alike.

• Tawny-winged Woodcreeper Dendrocincla anabatina

  This woodcreeper lives in Central American forest. Tawny flight feathers and a rufous tail stand out, and it may forage near army-ant swarms.

• Many-colored Chaco Finch Saltatricula multicolor

  This finch is recorded in Argentina’s low woods and grasslands. Adult males have a striking gray, orange, and white pattern, and the birds may hide among dense plants.

• Vervain Hummingbird Mellisuga minima

  This very small hummingbird is 6–7 cm long and has a relatively short bill. It is active by day and feeds mainly on nectar.

• Citron-bellied Attila Attila citriniventris

  The Citron-bellied Attila has a yellow belly and lives in Amazonian forests. It searches for prey in the canopy and middle levels of forest across northern and western parts of South America.

• Luzon Bleeding-heart Gallicolumba luzonica

  The Luzon Bleeding-heart is a ground-dwelling dove of forests on Luzon and Polillo. It has a red breast patch against pale plumage, and the sexes look alike.

• White-fronted Black Chat Pentholaea albifrons

  The pool's older generic combination Pentholaea albifrons is updated here to Oenanthe albifrons. The appearance account is for the nominate race, while Senegal is within the range of a different form, frontalis.

• Red-billed Scythebill Campylorhamphus trochilirostris

  The Red-billed Scythebill is a forest bird with a very long, down-curved bill and fine streaks on the face and breast.

• Green-capped Tanager Stilpnia meyerdeschauenseei

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

• White-tufted Sunbeam Aglaeactis castelnaudii

  The White-tufted Sunbeam lives in humid scrub in valleys of central and southern Peru. Its white breast feathers stand out; intermediate-plumaged birds are reported where it overlaps another sunbeam.

• 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.

• Rose-crowned Fruit Dove Ptilinopus regina

  The Rose-crowned Fruit Dove has a pink crown and green back and feeds on fruit. It swallows fruit whole in the canopy, where it may be detected by its call or by fruit dropping below.

• Przevalski's Redstart Phoenicurus alaschanicus

  A mountain redstart recorded from northern China to northeastern Tibet. Males combine bluish-gray and reddish plumage, and the species uses rocky scrub-covered slopes and bushy river margins.

• Scaled Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes squamatus

  This roughly 19 cm woodcreeper inhabits forests in northeastern and southeastern Brazil. It favors forest edges, joins mixed flocks, and searches trunks and leaves for insects.

• Ash-breasted Sierra Finch Geospizopsis plebejus

  A small finch of the Andes. The male has a gray body with dark streaks on its back and searches for food on open highland ground.

• Fawn-breasted Brilliant Heliodoxa rubinoides

  This hummingbird occurs in Andean cloud forest. Females resemble males but have more green spotting below, and their pink throat patch may be smaller or absent.

• 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.