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• 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.

• Spot-billed Ground Tyrant Muscisaxicola maculirostris

  This small tyrant flycatcher uses rocky slopes and lake margins in the high Andes. It searches for arthropods on the ground and also uses gravelly river edges during the Southern Hemisphere winter.

• Moorland Chat Pinarochroa sordida

  The plumage and behaviour below come from a 1949 account of the Ruwenzori Mountains only. It describes birds above the bamboo zone, with dark brown upperparts, a faint wingbar and white outer tail feathers.

• Brassy-breasted Tanager Tangara desmaresti

  The green plumage has black streaks, a turquoise forehead and eye area, a brassy ochre breast, and a yellow line down the belly.

• Zenaida Dove Zenaida aurita

  Zenaida Doves use low-elevation fields, forests, dense vegetation, and some suburban or urban habitats.

• Lesser Violetear Colibri cyanotus

  The Lesser Violetear is a small hummingbird, about 11 cm long, found in the Andes from Colombia to Bolivia. In Peru it occurs in humid montane forest on the eastern slope and at high forest edges in the northwest.

• Itatiaia Spinetail Asthenes moreirae

  This small ovenbird lives in high-elevation grasslands of southeastern Brazil. Its long, frayed tail is distinctive, and it forages among grass and shrubs.

• Chilean Elaenia Elaenia chilensis

  This small South American flycatcher undertakes long-distance migration. It has been studied breeding in Patagonia, and research documents identification problems with similar Elaenias.

• 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.

• Puerto Rican Bullfinch Melopyrrha portoricensis

  This finch is endemic to Puerto Rico, where it lives in forests and thickets. It mainly eats fruit and seeds and moves through dense vegetation.

• Moreno's Ground Dove Metriopelia morenoi

  This small dove is brown overall, with conspicuous yellow-orange bare skin around the eyes. It inhabits rocky shrub steppe in northwestern Argentina and nests on the ground.

• Green-fronted Lancebill Doryfera ludovicae

  A hummingbird of Andean forest near rushing streams. It uses a very long, slender bill and flies low and quickly among flowers for nectar.

• 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.

• Ochre-faced Tody-Flycatcher Poecilotriccus plumbeiceps

  This small bird ranges from the eastern Andes to southeastern South America. Its forehead and face are ochre-toned, and its wings have ochre bars. It searches dense cover for insects.

• Familiar Chat Oenanthe familiaris

  The Familiar Chat is a small African bird of rocky places and sparse woodland. Its rufous-orange rump and tail stand out against its grey-brown body.

• Rust-and-yellow Tanager Thlypopsis ruficeps

  A small tanager of humid Andean forest edges, secondary growth and shrub cover. Records span 1,200–3,600 m.

• Pink-headed Fruit Dove Ptilinopus porphyreus

  The male has a vivid pink-purple head and throat, and the dove feeds on fruit high in forest trees. It is native to mountain forests in Indonesia.

• Tumbes Hummingbird Thaumasius baeri

  A small hummingbird of dry areas in southwestern Ecuador and northwestern Peru. Its green back, gray underside and pale tail tips stand out.

• Scimitar-billed Woodcreeper Drymornis bridgesii

  It is active by day in open woodland and the Chaco, where it searches the ground for invertebrates. Its body is about 29–35 cm long.

• Gray Kingbird Tyrannus dominicensis

  The Gray Kingbird is a Caribbean bird with a gray back and white underside. Its dark eye mask and heavy bill stand out as it sallies from a perch to catch insects.

• Pale Flycatcher Bradornis pallidus

  This flycatcher occurs in African savanna and open woodland. It waits on a low perch and catches insects in the air or on the ground. eBird uses the combination Agricola pallidus for the same bird.

• Rusty Flowerpiercer Diglossa sittoides

  This Andean bird feeds on nectar. Its hooked bill is used to pierce flowers and reach the nectar, as described in the regional guide.

• Atoll Fruit Dove Ptilinopus coralensis

  The Atoll Fruit Dove has a pink to purple crown and yellow belly. It lives in Tuamotu atoll forests and coconut groves, eating fruit, leaves, flowers, and insects.

• Rufous-capped Thornbill Chalcostigma ruficeps

  The Rufous-capped Thornbill is a small hummingbird of mountain regions from Colombia to Bolivia. Males have dark green upperparts and reddish-green underparts and feed on nectar and insects by woodland edges.