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• Yellow-breasted Forest Robin Stiphrornis mabirae

  

  Clements treats Stiphrornis mabirae as a separate species. A Salonga survey recorded individuals singing in terra firma forest.

• Purplish-mantled Tanager Iridosornis porphyrocephalus

  This tanager occurs in forests of western Colombia and Ecuador. It has a purplish-blue body and a bright yellow throat, and feeds on insects and fruit.

• Gray-chinned Hermit Phaethornis griseogularis

  This hummingbird has geographically separated subspecies; this entry focuses on zonura from northern Peru.

• White-eyed Foliage-gleaner Automolus leucophthalmus

  A pale area before the eye and a rufous tail help identify it. It searches in forest thickets and among ground litter, and has records at sites in southeastern Brazil.

• Black-throated Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus granadensis

  This small bird lives in humid Andean forests and has a black throat patch. Peru Aves records it on the eastern Andean slope, including Peru.

• Grey-headed Fruit Dove Ptilinopus hyogastrus

  The Grey-headed Fruit Dove combines green plumage with gray, claret, and yellow areas. It occurs in small groups in forest canopy and edges in the northern Moluccas.

• Przevalski's Redstart Phoenicurus alaschanicus

  A mountain redstart recorded from northern China to northeastern Tibet. Males combine bluish-gray and reddish plumage, and the species uses rocky scrub-covered slopes and bushy river margins.

• Lemon-rumped Tanager Ramphocelus icteronotus

  A tanager ranging from Colombia through Ecuador to northwestern Peru. It eats fruit in thickets and along moist forest edges.

• Black-crested Coquette Lophornis helenae

  The male's dark crest plumes and golden-green throat stand out on this small hummingbird. It visits flowers and gleans tiny arthropods along humid forest edges and coffee farms.

• Curve-billed Scythebill Campylorhamphus procurvoides

  It has a long, strongly curved red bill.

• Small-headed Elaenia Elaenia sordida

  Elaenia sordida is a small-headed, crestless elaenia. A 2022 study in northeastern Argentina recorded foraging in scrub and secondary forest, including fruit feeding.

• 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.

• Qilian Bluetail Tarsiger albocoeruleus

  The Qilian Bluetail (Tarsiger albocoeruleus) breeds in mountains of northern China, including Qinghai and Gansu. It is not separated from the Red-flanked Bluetail by an obvious plumage mark; research supports the split mainly through song and genetic evidence. Its wintering range remains unknown.

• Bright-rumped Yellow Finch Sicalis uropigyalis

  This finch occurs in high-Andean steppe and prepuna in northwestern Argentina. The male has a yellow head and underparts with a gray face.

• Sparkling Violetear Colibri coruscans

  Its green plumage is marked by violet ear feathers and a blue belly patch. It guards flower-rich feeding areas, and males perform acrobatic courtship flights between trees.

• Andean Tit-Spinetail Leptasthenura andicola

  The Andean Tit-Spinetail occurs in the Andes of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. It forages in Andean scrub and nearby shrubbery.

• Olive-streaked Flycatcher Mionectes olivaceus

  This flycatcher occurs in montane forest on the eastern Andean slope. The Peru Aves account says it forages at different heights along forest edges and in second growth.

• 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.

• Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat Cossypha niveicapilla

  The white crown and black face make this robin-chat easy to recognize. It lives in forests, thickets, and gardens across northern and central Africa, and searches for food near the undergrowth.

• Vampire Ground Finch Geospiza septentrionalis

  This small ground finch lives on Darwin and Wolf Islands in the northwestern Galápagos. It is known for pecking at the bases of seabirds' feathers and drinking blood.

• Black Metaltail Metallura phoebe

  A hummingbird of Peru's western Andes. Males have an iridescent blue-green throat patch that females lack.

• Buffy Tuftedcheek Pseudocolaptes lawrencii

  The Buffy Tuftedcheek inhabits wet mountain forests in Costa Rica and western Panama. A study in Costa Rica recorded it searching among the leaves of epiphytic bromeliads for arthropods.

• Choco Tyrannulet Zimmerius albigularis

  This small bird occurs in humid forest in south-western Colombia and western Ecuador. It has olive upperparts, a white throat, and yellowish flanks and undertail.

• Pink-spotted Fruit Dove Ptilinopus perlatus

  The Pink-spotted Fruit Dove is a fruit-eating pigeon of New Guinea and nearby islands. Pink spots on its wings stand out.