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• Green-backed Hillstar Urochroa leucura

  

  The Green-backed Hillstar occurs on the northern eastern Andes of Peru and also in Colombia and Ecuador. It inhabits humid montane forest.

• Yellow-footed Green Pigeon Treron phoenicopterus

  A green pigeon with yellow legs. It uses lowland forest, orchards, and parks, and is also seen in towns across much of South Asia.

• Pale-browed Treehunter Cichlocolaptes leucophrus

  A foliage-gleaner recorded in humid forests of southeastern Brazil. It searches mossy limbs and branches bearing epiphytes for food.

• Chestnut-throated Seedeater Sporophila telasco

  This small seedeater ranges along the Pacific slope from southern Colombia to northern Chile. In Chile it uses dry valleys and farmland, mainly below 1,000 m.

• 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.

• Eastern Kingbird Tyrannus tyrannus

  The Eastern Kingbird perches in open places to catch flying insects. It breeds in North America and migrates to South America for winter.

• 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.

• Topknot Pigeon Lopholaimus antarcticus

  This large pigeon lives in rainforest and other wet forests of eastern Australia. It moves in response to seasonal fruit crops.

• Chinchipe Spinetail Synallaxis chinchipensis

  This furnariid is known from the Río Chinchipe area of northwestern Peru. A 2020 specimen comparison supported treating it as a distinct species rather than a subspecies of a close relative.

• Ash-breasted Sierra Finch Geospizopsis plebejus

  A small finch of the Andes. The male has a gray body with dark streaks on its back and searches for food on open highland ground.

• Yellow-rumped Flycatcher Ficedula zanthopygia

  The male Yellow-rumped Flycatcher has strong black, white, and yellow contrasts, while the female is mainly brown and yellow. It feeds on insects in woodland and moves between East and Southeast Asia with the seasons.

• Sepia-capped Flycatcher Leptopogon amaurocephalus

  This small flycatcher forages in the midstory of Amazonian forest. Its dark brown cap and large black ear patch are distinctive.

• Stripe-breasted Starthroat Heliomaster squamosus

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

• Maroon-chested Ground Dove Paraclaravis mondetoura

  This nomadic dove lives in dense undergrowth of montane forests and is strongly associated with bamboo. It appears when bamboo fruits and searches on the ground for seeds and fallen fruit.

• Eye-ringed Thistletail Asthenes palpebralis

  This thistletail is reported as restricted to the eastern Andes of Peru’s Junín region. The pictured bird is of unknown sex; its broad white eye-ring and long graduated tail are conspicuous.

• Black-throated Flowerpiercer Diglossa brunneiventris

  This flowerpiercer lives in the high Andes. Disjunct populations occur in northern Colombia and farther south in Peru, Bolivia and Chile, and their relationship has been studied.

• Finsch's Wheatear Oenanthe finschii

  In Kazakhstan, Finsch's Wheatear is a breeding migrant. It inhabits shrub-covered sandy hills and rocky or clay slopes, nesting among stones or in ground holes.

• 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.

• 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.

• Rapa Fruit Dove Ptilinopus huttoni

  Its head, neck, chest, and upper back are blue-grey, shading into a green body. Pink on the head and throat, a rose-purple breast band, and a yellow lower belly add color. It eats fleshy fruit and flower nectar in forest remnants on Rapa Island.

• Parker's Spinetail Cranioleuca vulpecula

  A small ovenbird of islands in the Amazon river system. It uses young grass and scrub and searches trunks and branches for small arthropods.

• Golden-collared Honeycreeper Iridophanes pulcherrimus

  This tanager-family bird occurs in the Andes of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Males are strikingly patterned in black, blue, and gold.

• Ashy-breasted Flycatcher Muscicapa randi

  This flycatcher occurs in moist lowland forest on Luzon and Negros in the Philippines. The account places it mainly below 1,000 m.

• Vermilion Flycatcher Pyrocephalus rubinus

  The male Vermilion Flycatcher has a bright red head and underparts. It perches low in open areas near water and catches flying insects.