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• Rufous-throated Sapphire Hylocharis sapphirina

  

  This small hummingbird ranges across South America, including Bolivia. Its rufous throat and blue gorget help identify it.

• 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.

• Rock Earthcreeper Ochetorhynchus andaecola

  This earthcreeper inhabits high Andean steppe in northwestern Argentina. It has a long, slightly curved bill, cinnamon-brown upperparts and a pale eyebrow.

• Black-billed Seed Finch Sporophila atrirostris

  This small bird is recorded locally in the eastern Andean foothills. In Peru, it has been found in tall grass along rivers and oxbow lakes, and males and females have different plumage.

• Luzon Water Redstart Rhyacornis bicolor

  The main reported range is the Central Cordillera and Sierra Madre on Luzon, Philippines. It catches aquatic invertebrates beside rocky streams and riparian thickets. Males are dark slaty blue above with chestnut rump, tail and belly; females are similar but duller. The sources use Phoenicurus bicolor; this entry retains the pool name Rhyacornis bicolor.

• Jelski's Chat-Tyrant Silvicultrix jelskii

  Jelski’s Chat-Tyrant forages in the dense understory of humid montane forest. The Peru Aves page consulted here uses the older combination Ochthoeca jelskii; this entry follows the pool’s name, Silvicultrix jelskii, for the same species.

• Blue-headed Sapphire Chrysuronia grayi

  This hummingbird is recorded in dry areas of Colombia and Ecuador. A 2015 paper uses the older genus name Amazilia grayi and compares the male's tail and the female's underside with a related species.

• Band-tailed Pigeon Patagioenas fasciata

  A flocking pigeon of western North American forests. Its pale gray plumage, white neck crescent, and broad pale tail band help identify it.

• Scaled Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes squamatus

  This roughly 19 cm woodcreeper inhabits forests in northeastern and southeastern Brazil. It favors forest edges, joins mixed flocks, and searches trunks and leaves for insects.

• 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.

• European Stonechat Saxicola rubicola

  In Britain, European Stonechats are small birds that perch on low bushes. Males and females differ in head and breast color.

• 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.

• Golden-crowned Emerald Cynanthus auriceps

  This small hummingbird lives in western Mexico. Males are green with a deeply forked tail; females are paler below and have a shallower tail fork. A western Mexico study that included this species described an open-cup nest made from plant material and spider web.

• Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura

  A slim-bodied dove with a pointed tail and a habit of feeding on seeds on the ground.

• White-browed Spinetail Hellmayrea gularis

  A high-Andean spinetail recorded from Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. It occurs in montane forest and dense understory, especially Chusquea bamboo.

• White-lined Tanager Tachyphonus rufus

  Males are black, with white lines under the wings visible in flight; females are rufous brown. In Brazil the species also occurs at forest edges, in scrub, secondary growth and gardens, where pairs forage low in the vegetation.

• Indigo Flycatcher Eumyias indigo

  This flycatcher occurs from Indochina to islands of Indonesia and is mainly found in montane forest.

• Cattle Tyrant Machetornis rixosa

  Its head and back are grayish and its belly is pale yellow. When alarmed, it may show hidden red feathers on its head.

• Flame-throated Sunangel Heliangelus micraster

  The male hummingbird has a dark green body and a brilliant flame-orange throat. The species occurs in the Andes from southern Ecuador to northwestern Peru, visiting flowers in cloud forest and along forest edges.

• Golden-spotted Ground Dove Metriopelia aymara

  The Golden-spotted Ground Dove is a small, compact, drab-brown dove with golden spots on its wings. It walks on the ground while searching for food in the high Andes.

• Dark-winged Canastero Asthenes arequipae

  Dark-winged Canastero is an Andean species recognized after a former broad species was split. One bird recorded in Chile had a rufous rump and vent.

• Chestnut-bellied Mountain Tanager Dubusia castaneoventris

  This tanager ranges in the Andes of Peru and Bolivia. Its blue upperparts contrast with a chestnut belly, and it forages in the canopy of mountain forest.

• Brown Scrub Robin Erythropygia signata

  This southern African robin occurs in forest and dense scrub. South Africa and Eswatini hold most of the global population, while it is uncommon in Mozambique and reported from few sites there.

• Slaty-backed Chat-Tyrant Ochthoeca cinnamomeiventris

  This small montane flycatcher forages in vegetation overhanging streams on the eastern Andes. Chestnut on the breast and belly varies across the Marañón Valley.