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• White-browed Conebill Conirostrum ferrugineiventre

  

  This small bird occurs on the eastern Andes of Peru and Bolivia. It may forage in mixed-species flocks.

• Sulawesi Ground Dove Gallicolumba tristigmata

  The Sulawesi Ground Dove is a forest pigeon of Sulawesi, marked by a yellow forehead and green hindneck. It searches for food on the forest floor.

• Slaty Spinetail Synallaxis brachyura

  This spinetail is recorded in the humid forests of Tumbes in northwestern Peru. Adults are gray with a rufous crown, and they forage in low growth at forest edges and in secondary forest.

• Tanimbar Flycatcher Ficedula riedeli

  A flycatcher of the Tanimbar Islands, Indonesia, using both primary and secondary lowland forest. The adult's white eyebrow and richer rufous breast are noted as identification characters.

• Red-rumped Bush Tyrant Cnemarchus erythropygius

  This tyrant flycatcher is recorded in the high Andes. Gray head, back, and breast contrast with whitish markings on the forehead, throat, and sides of the face, plus rufous belly, rump, and tail. The account describes foraging in humid scrub, highland grassland shrubs, and Polylepis woodland, with perches on bushes and trees.

• Velvet-browed Brilliant Heliodoxa xanthogonys

  This hummingbird occurs in Venezuela, Guyana, and Brazil. The male has a glittering greenish-blue forehead and visits flowers for nectar.

• Bicolored Conebill Conirostrum bicolor

  This small tanager occurs in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and northern Brazil, along rivers and in coastal wetlands. Adults are bluish grey with a reddish iris.

• Mountain Imperial Pigeon Ducula badia

  The Mountain Imperial Pigeon has a dark maroon-brown back and pale purplish-grey head and underparts. In Borneo it is common in montane forest, and some birds fly to lowlands to feed.

• Junin Canastero Asthenes virgata

  This canastero occurs locally in the central and southern Peruvian Andes. Its orange-rufous throat and pale eyebrow are distinctive.

• Snowy-browed Flycatcher Ficedula hyperythra

  This small flycatcher lives in moist forests and montane forests across Asia. The male is notable for its combination of an ash-blue head and orange chest.

• Golden-crowned Flycatcher Myiodynastes chrysocephalus

  This flycatcher inhabits humid Andean montane forest. Its yellow crown patch can be concealed, while a broad white eyebrow and streaked yellow underparts are conspicuous.

• Spangled Coquette Lophornis stictolophus

  This tiny hummingbird is about 7 cm long. The male's crest and glittering throat feathers stand out, and the sexes have different patterns.

• Scarlet-thighed Dacnis Dacnis venusta

  This small bird occurs in forests from Central America to northwestern South America. Males are turquoise with scarlet thighs; females are duller green-blue, with pale underparts and no scarlet thigh patch.

• Pinon's Imperial Pigeon Ducula pinon

  Pinon's Imperial Pigeon is a large bird with a grey-lavender body, darker wings, a maroon belly and a vivid red eye region. In forests across New Guinea and nearby islands, it feeds mainly on fruit in the canopy.

• Little Thornbird Phacellodomus sibilatrix

  This ovenbird is recorded from thorny woods and open woodland in northern Argentina. It has dull olive-brown upperparts, with chestnut on the forehead and part of the wing. An old account describes a large twig-and-thorn nest placed in a tree branch.

• Whinchat Saxicola rubetra

  The Whinchat is a small migratory bird found in grassland and scrub. In Britain it breeds in summer and migrates to Africa for winter.

• Bronze-olive Pygmy Tyrant Pseudotriccus pelzelni

  The Peru species page identifies subspecies P. p. peruvianus and describes it feeding inconspicuously in the understory of humid montane forest. It is olive brown above.

• Green Thorntail Discosura conversii

  This small hummingbird occurs from Central America into western South America. Males are iridescent green with elongated pointed tail feathers; females have shorter tails and a white moustachial stripe.

• Golden-chested Tanager Bangsia rothschildi

  A tanager of humid forests on the Pacific side of the Andes from central Colombia to northwestern Ecuador. It has a black body with a yellow breast patch and may join mixed-species flocks.

• 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.

• Mouse-colored Thistletail Asthenes griseomurina

  This ovenbird has grey-brown plumage, a white eye-ring and a long rufous-brown tail. In the northern Peruvian Andes, it forages in humid scrub near forest edges.

• Desert Wheatear Oenanthe deserti

  A wheatear that searches the ground for small prey in dry country. Males show clear black-and-white markings, while females are sandier.

• Black-backed Water Tyrant Fluvicola albiventer

  This tyrant flycatcher perches near water and catches insects in short, low flights. An Argentine species account describes its black-and-white pattern and foraging at the water surface and on aquatic plants.

• Mexican Hermit Phaethornis mexicanus

  A study of the western Mexican subspecies griseoventer describes males displaying at leks in the forest understory, where females visit and choose a mate.