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• Amazonian Black Tyrant Knipolegus poecilocercus

  

  Males are black, while females are olive-brown. The bird forages inconspicuously in dense understory in flooded or seasonally flooded forest.

• Yellow Cardinal Gubernatrix cristata

  The Yellow Cardinal is a yellow-and-black songbird, with different facial markings in males and females.

• Peruvian Recurvebill Syndactyla ucayalae

  It forages mainly in stands of Guadua bamboo, using a thick bill with an upturned lower mandible. In southeastern Peru it is rare and local, and is seen alone or in pairs.

• Collared Bush Robin Tarsiger johnstoniae

  This flycatcher occurs in Taiwan. Males have a white eyebrow and a reddish-orange band from the neck to the shoulder. In the breeding season it is recorded in dense shrubs in high-elevation coniferous and mixed forest; in the non-breeding season it is recorded in broadleaf and mixed forest at lower elevations.

• Blue-chinned Sapphire Chlorestes notata

  This hummingbird lives in Colombia’s humid lowlands and river-edge forest. Males show a blue-violet throat against glossy green plumage, and it feeds mainly at flowers.

• Dwarf Fruit Dove Ptilinopus nainus

  This small fruit dove lives in lowland and foothill rainforest. Males have a purple chest mark; the birds eat fruit and nectar and may be seen in pairs.

• Olivaceous Elaenia Elaenia mesoleuca

  This small tyrant flycatcher occurs in southeastern Brazil, eastern Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, and northern Uruguay. It closely resembles E. parvirostris, and voice is reported as a useful clue where field separation is difficult.

• Black-and-tawny Seedeater Sporophila nigrorufa

  The Black-and-tawny Seedeater is recorded in eastern Bolivia and west-central Brazil. Field observations found large flocks before breeding and pairs or smaller feeding groups during breeding.

• Chestnut-winged Foliage-gleaner Dendroma erythroptera

  This ovenbird forages in the mid-story and below the canopy of Amazonian forest. Its gray-brown head and back contrast with chestnut wings and tail.

• Mourning Wheatear Oenanthe lugens

  The mourning wheatear is a small bird of deserts and rocky highlands.

• Cinnamon-sided Hummingbird Leucolia wagneri

  This small hummingbird occurs in Oaxaca, southern Mexico. Cinnamon-colored feathers on its sides are a notable field mark, although checklists differ on its taxonomic rank.

• Ornate Fruit Dove Ptilinopus ornatus

  The Ornate Fruit Dove is a fruit-eating pigeon of New Guinea's hill and montane forests. Its crown ranges from wine-red to yellowish olive among subspecies, and the sexes look alike.

• Maracaibo Tody-Flycatcher Todirostrum viridanum

  A tiny tyrant-flycatcher restricted to arid northwestern Venezuela. It has subdued plumage and a long, pointed bill.

• Chestnut-headed Tanager Thlypopsis pyrrhocoma

  This small tanager occurs in eastern Paraguay, southeastern Brazil, and northeastern Argentina. It uses dense undergrowth and bamboo thickets and feeds on insects.

• Buff-breasted Earthcreeper Upucerthia validirostris

  This ovenbird relative lives in rocky parts of the high Andes. A taxonomic study describes geographic changes in size and plumage. A diet study in southern Peru's queñua forests found insects, spiders, and scorpions in examined birds.

• 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.

• Emerald-bellied Puffleg Eriocnemis aline

  This hummingbird ranges from Colombia through southwestern Ecuador to eastern Peru. It is usually solitary in the lower levels of humid cloud forest.

• Pied Imperial Pigeon Ducula bicolor

  The Pied Imperial Pigeon is a large, mostly white pigeon with black wing and tail tips. It gathers in island flocks and feeds mainly on fruit.

• Eastern Wood Pewee Contopus virens

  The Eastern Wood-Pewee is a small bird of eastern North American forests that waits on a perch and catches flying insects.

• White-throated Seedeater Sporophila albogularis

  This small bird is recorded in the Caatinga of northeastern Brazil. Males have small white patches near the eye, and the birds take grass seeds from the ground. Regional accounts describe shrubland near wet places and along dry-forest edges.

• Ochre-cheeked Spinetail Synallaxis scutata

  A furnariid of South America. In southeastern Peru it forages in dense understory along forest edges and in second growth.

• Rusty-tailed Flycatcher Muscicapa ruficauda

  This flycatcher occurs in Asia, including northern India and Nepal. Its rusty tail stands out; it breeds in open montane forest and searches for insects at forest edges and clearings in winter.

• Hook-billed Hermit Glaucis dohrnii

  The Hook-billed Hermit lives in a limited part of Brazil's eastern Atlantic Forest. It drinks flower nectar and also eats small arthropods.

• Malabar Imperial Pigeon Ducula cuprea

  This pigeon occurs in India's Western Ghats. The 2022 eBird India taxonomy update separated it from Mountain Imperial-Pigeon and notes its darker iris and narrower tail band as identification features.