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• Gray-spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa griseisticta

  

  The Gray-spotted Flycatcher is a small migratory bird with streaks from the breast to the belly. It sallies from an exposed perch to catch flying insects.

• Rufous-throated Tanager Ixothraupis rufigula

  A small tanager of western Colombia and western Ecuador. A foraging study near Mindo in Ecuador recorded it in the lower, drier disturbed forest and observed it searching leaf surfaces for arthropods.

• Tolima Blossomcrown Anthocephala berlepschi

  This small hummingbird lives in humid montane forest and forest edges in Colombia's Central Andes. Its crown can look golden or coppery in the light, and it feeds on nectar.

• Blackish-headed Spinetail Synallaxis tithys

  The Blackish-headed Spinetail is about 14.5 cm long. It is recorded in humid and semi-deciduous forest in Tumbes at extreme northwestern Peru and also occurs in Ecuador.

• Yellow-bellied Tyrannulet Ornithion semiflavum

  This small tyrannulet uses moist lowland forest and its edges in Central America. Accounts also record it in plantations and gardens, where it feeds mainly on insects.

• Red-knobbed Imperial Pigeon Ducula rubricera

  The Red-knobbed Imperial Pigeon has a red knob at the base of its bill. It forages mainly in trees for fruit and berries and is native to the Bismarck and Solomon Islands.

• Nilgiri Flycatcher Eumyias albicaudatus

  The Nilgiri Flycatcher occurs in India's Western Ghats. Males are greenish indigo-blue with white patches at the tail base; females are smaller and grey-brown.

• Dubois's Seedeater Sporophila ardesiaca

  This small finch is found in grassland with bushes. The name and taxonomy shown here follow the pool’s current entry.

• Saw-billed Hermit Ramphodon naevius

  This large hummingbird is endemic to Brazil. Orange throat and neck markings with a dark central stripe, and its bill shape, help identify it. A study site in southeastern Atlantic rainforest documented flower feeding.

• Strong-billed Woodcreeper Xiphocolaptes promeropirhynchus

  A large woodcreeper of Andean forests, it searches along trunks and branches with a notably stout bill.

• Northern Beardless Tyrannulet Camptostoma imberbe

  The Northern Beardless Tyrannulet is a tiny, grayish bird without bristles at the base of its bill. It hops among branches, flicks its tail, and gives whistled notes.

• Marquesan Ground Dove Pampusana rubescens

  The Marquesan Ground Dove is a ground-dwelling pigeon with a gray head and breast and a reddish-purple back. It turns through leaf litter as it searches for seeds and ants.

• White-tailed Flycatcher Cyornis concretus

  This flycatcher ranges from the eastern Himalayas through southern China and Southeast Asia. A 2021 taxonomic paper transferred it to the genus Leucoptilon; its current name is Leucoptilon concretum.

• Flame-rumped Tanager Ramphocelus flammigerus

  Male Flame-rumped Tanagers are mostly black with rumps that range from yellow to red, while females are mainly olive gray and yellow. They form small flocks in forest edges and gardens, feeding on fruit and invertebrates.

• Stripe-breasted Starthroat Heliomaster squamosus

  This hummingbird occurs in eastern Brazil. Males have a bright breeding plumage and a duller post-breeding plumage.

• Vilcabamba Thistletail Asthenes vilcabambae

  This thistletail is known from the Cordillera Vilcabamba in southern Peru. It inhabits elfin forest and high-altitude grassland, foraging in the understorey.

• Roraiman Flycatcher Myiophobus roraimae

  A solitary forager of humid Andean forest, with a concealed orange-yellow crown patch in males.

• Stephan's Emerald Dove Chalcophaps stephani

  This dove searches for food while walking across shaded, damp forest floors. When alarmed, it may pause, fly a short distance, and land close to the ground.

• Rufous-tailed Robin Luscinia sibilans

  It breeds in forests of Siberia and northeastern China and winters from southern China into northern Southeast Asia. The source uses the name Larvivora sibilans for the bird listed in the pool as Luscinia sibilans.

• Drab Seedeater Sporophila simplex

  This small finch uses western Andean foothills and farmland in Peru. Males are gray and females brown; both sexes have two white wing bars and feed in shrubs at forest edges and fallow fields.

• White-tailed Goldenthroat Polytmus guainumbi

  The White-tailed Goldenthroat has metallic green upperparts and a white-tipped tail. In eastern Colombia it uses savannas, grasslands, and forest edges, feeding on nectar and sometimes hovering at flowers.

• Uniform Treehunter Thripadectes ignobilis

  The Uniform Treehunter is a brown ovenbird of forest on the western Andean slope. It searches among branches and vines for arthropods, earthworms and larvae.

• Warbling Doradito Pseudocolopteryx flaviventris

  This small tyrant flycatcher moves in short flights through reeds and searches low vegetation for food. The Argentine national account records it from the north of the country south to Chubut.

• 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.