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• Mottle-backed Elaenia Elaenia gigas

  

  This large elaenia ranges from southeastern Colombia through eastern Ecuador and Peru to western Bolivia. Its raised crest and white crown patch stand out, and it uses moist shrubland, landslides, riparian growth, and forest clearings.

• Tapajos Hermit Phaethornis aethopygus

  Phaethornis aethopygus is a hermit hummingbird recorded along the Tapajós River in Brazil. The study examined specimens and field records from the river’s eastern bank.

• Ochre-throated Foliage-gleaner Automolus ochrolaemus

  This foliage-gleaner ranges from eastern Central America into northern South America and the western Amazon. In current taxonomy it is separate from two closely related species with which it was formerly grouped.

• White-throated Redstart Phoenicurus schisticeps

  The White-throated Redstart is a mountain bird whose food changes with the season. In breeding plumage, the male is strikingly marked with a white throat patch, a dark face, and chestnut underparts.

• Spotted Imperial Pigeon Ducula carola

  This imperial pigeon occurs only in the Philippines. Males show stronger gray, white, and dark contrasts, while females are browner overall; plumage also varies among subspecies.

• Masked Mountain Tanager Tephrophilus wetmorei

  This tanager occurs in the Andes of southern Colombia, Ecuador, and northernmost Peru. It inhabits the humid ecotone between páramo and forest.

• White-rumped Sirystes Sirystes albocinereus

  The White-rumped Sirystes ranges from southwestern Venezuela to northern Bolivia in moist lowland forest. Accounts describe it foraging alone or in pairs in the canopy.

• Green Mango Anthracothorax viridis

  The Green Mango is emerald green in both sexes, with a rounded tail that has a blue sheen. It lives in Puerto Rico's mountain forests and shade-coffee plantations, feeding on nectar and small invertebrates.

• Necklaced Spinetail Synallaxis stictothorax

  This ovenbird occurs in lowlands from Ecuador into northwestern Peru. Breast spotting varies, and flank color helps distinguish it from related species.

• White-tailed Rubythroat Luscinia pectoralis

  Bangladesh’s bird Red List records this bird as a winter visitor to the country. In its photograph, the male has a greyish body, a black face and throat, and a bright red throat patch.

• Ruddy Pigeon Patagioenas subvinacea

  The Ruddy Pigeon is usually found in the canopy or subcanopy of mature forest. In Peru it is recorded in Andean foothill forest and humid forest in far northwestern Tumbes.

• Orange-eared Tanager Chlorochrysa calliparaea

  This tanager occurs in Andean forests from Colombia to Bolivia. Males are green with orange patches around the ears and on the rump; females are duller. It forages with mixed flocks in the canopy and subcanopy.

• Yellow-throated Spadebill Platyrinchus flavigularis

  The Yellow-throated Spadebill is a small bird of cloud-forest understory in the Andes. Its range is patchy; a 2002 field study recorded it at 1,370 m on the Río Rumiyaco in Colombia.

• White-booted Racket-tail Ocreatus underwoodii

  The White-booted Racket-tail is an Andean hummingbird. Males have puffy white leg feathers and a long tail that ends in racket-shaped tips.

• Pink-legged Graveteiro Acrobatornis fonsecai

  This bird occurs in humid Atlantic Forest in southeastern Bahia, Brazil. Researchers recorded it in the canopy of tall trees retained over cocoa plantations.

• Swamp Flycatcher Muscicapa aquatica

  A small African flycatcher of wetlands and waterside grass. It has dark brown upperparts and a white throat and belly; the breast patch varies in tone and extent.

• Barking Imperial Pigeon Ducula latrans

  This large pigeon lives in Fiji's forests. Its gray head and breast contrast with a reddish-brown belly. It eats fruit and uses the forest canopy.

• Medium Ground Finch Geospiza fortis

  The Medium Ground Finch is endemic to the Galapagos and mainly eats seeds. On Santa Cruz, individuals vary in beak size.

• Northern Tufted Flycatcher Mitrephanes phaeocercus

  This 12–14 cm flycatcher is active by day in mountain forest and pine-oak woodland. It catches insects in the air by darting out from a perch. It does not migrate.

• Wine-throated Hummingbird Selasphorus ellioti

  This small hummingbird lives in the highlands from southern Mexico to northern Central America. Males have a gleaming wine-red throat, and the birds use mountain forest edges and scrub where they feed on nectar.

• Freckle-breasted Thornbird Phacellodomus striaticollis

  This South American ovenbird is found in shrub cover along grasslands and wetland edges and builds its nest in shrubs.

• Daurian redstart Phoenicurus auroreus

  A small bird with a white patch on the wing, seen mainly in winter in Japan around farmland, riverbanks and open woodland edges.

• Black-banded Fruit Dove Ptilinopus alligator

  The Black-banded Fruit Dove is marked by a white head and upper chest, a black breast band, and a grey back. It has a limited range on Australia's Arnhem Land Plateau.

• Slender-billed Finch Xenospingus concolor

  It occurs in arid regions from central Peru to northern Chile, including riparian woodland and scrub near coastal wetlands.