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• 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.

• Dusky Starfrontlet Coeligena orina

  The Dusky Starfrontlet is a hummingbird recorded in high-elevation forest in western Colombia. Males and females differ in head and throat color, and the paper treats it as distinct from Coeligena bonapartei.

• Red-shouldered Spinetail Synallaxis hellmayri

  This spinetail occurs in dry scrub and open woodland. A 2017 observation is documented in northeastern Brazil.

• Equatorial Akalat Sheppardia aequatorialis

  The Equatorial Akalat is a small bird of humid mountain forests in central and eastern Africa. It is about 12–13 cm long, weighs 16.8–18 g and feeds mainly on invertebrates.

• Purplish-backed Quail-Dove Zentrygon lawrencii

  The Purplish-backed Quail-Dove is a plump gray ground dove. Its purple iridescent back, pale face with a dark moustache stripe, and reddish legs help identify it.

• Black-crested Finch Lophospingus pusillus

  This small finch occurs in South American Chaco woodland, woodland edges and grasslands. Its usual range extends from southern Bolivia through Paraguay to west-central Argentina. A bird recorded near Mendoza city in 2024 may have escaped or been released.

• Black-capped Tyrannulet Tyranniscus nigrocapillus

  This small tyrant flycatcher has a black crown and two pale wing bars. It lives in moist Andean montane forest and often joins mixed-species flocks.

• 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.

• Pale-breasted Spinetail Synallaxis albescens

  This small ovenbird ranges from Central into South America and Trinidad. It searches for insects in grassland and scrub and has rufous on the crown and shoulders.

• White-rumped Shama Copsychus malabaricus

  A small bird of Southeast Asian forest floors and thickets. Males have rich songs and can imitate the calls of other birds.

• Caribbean Dove Leptotila jamaicensis

  The Caribbean Dove lives in forests and scrub of eastern Mexico and Caribbean islands. It has an olive-brown back, a white face, and glossy neck feathers, and searches for seeds on the ground.

• Bay-headed Tanager Tangara gyrola

  The Bay-headed Tanager has a chestnut head, green back, and blue-green rump and underparts. It eats fruit in forest canopies and edges and may join mixed-species flocks.

• Straneck's Tyrannulet Serpophaga griseicapilla

  Straneck's Tyrannulet is a small bird recorded in Argentina. It has a gray, streaked head and sometimes catches prey in flight while foraging alone or in pairs.

• Black-tailed Trainbearer Lesbia victoriae

  The Black-tailed Trainbearer is a hummingbird of the Andes from Colombia to Peru. Males have long tails and search for nectar.

• Orange-eyed Thornbird Phacellodomus erythrophthalmus

  This thornbird lives along forest edges in eastern Brazil and has a chestnut-colored tail.

• Great Shortwing Heinrichia calligyna

  This flycatcher relative lives in montane forest on Sulawesi and uses dense growth near the forest floor. By day, it searches leaf litter and undergrowth for small prey.

• Torresian Imperial Pigeon Ducula spilorrhoa

  A large pigeon with a white body and black wing tips. It feeds on fruit while moving among islands and coastal forests.

• Masked Crimson Tanager Ramphocelus nigrogularis

  This tanager occurs in Colombia's lowlands and foothills. It has been recorded foraging for fruit and insects in trees.

• Choco Sirystes Sirystes albogriseus

  This tyrant flycatcher inhabits lowland forest in the Chocó, from eastern Panama through western Colombia to northwestern Ecuador.

• Tawny-bellied Hermit Phaethornis syrmatophorus

  This hummingbird occurs in the northern Andes of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. In Peru it is recorded in humid montane forest and in humid or semi-deciduous forest in western Piura.

• Plain-winged Woodcreeper Dendrocincla turdina

  This woodcreeper has olive-brown upperparts and a reddish-brown tail. In forests of eastern Paraguay and northeastern Argentina, researchers also recorded it foraging with groups of monkeys.

• Black Scrub Robin Cercotrichas podobe

  A Black Scrub Robin recorded in a Djibouti survey. Its sooty-black body and long, white-tipped tail are distinctive.

• Common Bronzewing Phaps chalcoptera

  The Common Bronzewing is a large pigeon widespread in Australia. It often searches for food on the ground and has bronze-colored iridescence on its wings.

• Palm Tanager Thraupis palmarum

  This tanager ranges widely through Central and South America. In Bolivia it occurs in forest and palm groves as well as cultivated land and urban parks.