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• Grey-breasted Flycatcher Lathrotriccus griseipectus

  

  This flycatcher lives in forest understory from southwestern Ecuador to northern Peru. It has a gray head and breast, whitish belly, and white wingbars.

• Black-headed Hemispingus Pseudospingus verticalis

  This tanager occurs on the eastern Andean slope north and west of the Marañón Valley. The species account also lists records from Colombia and Ecuador.

• Hudson's Canastero Asthenes hudsoni

  This canastero is concentrated in the humid Pampas and has black streaking on its back. A research review describes partial seasonal movement; Brazilian records include tall grass and sedges on a coastal plain.

• Indian Robin Saxicoloides fulicatus

  This small bird ranges across the Indian subcontinent and uses gardens and scrub. It searches for insects on the ground; the male is black with a rufous belly.

• Puerto Rican Emerald Riccordia maugaeus

  This small hummingbird is found only on Puerto Rico, mainly in mountain forests and shade-grown coffee plantations.

• Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata

  The Red-eyed Dove has red eyes and a pink breast. It is resident in southern Africa, where it lives from riverine forest to suburban areas.

• Sooty-crowned Flycatcher Myiarchus phaeocephalus

  A flycatcher recorded in northwestern Peru and the Marañón basin. PeruAves also lists Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, and Bolivia.

• Black-faced Dacnis Dacnis lineata

  In the lineata form described by Peru Aves, males are black and blue, while females are olive and grey. It forages in the canopy of mature forest and may join mixed-species flocks.

• Tawny Tit-Spinetail Sylviorthorhynchus yanacensis

  A small furnariid localized in high Andean Polylepis woodland and nearby scrub. Its fine bill and long tail are distinctive.

• Blackstart Oenanthe melanura

  The Blackstart is a grey-brown wheatear with a conspicuous black tail. It lives in rocky deserts and mountains and nests in rock crevices.

• Peruvian Racket-tail Ocreatus peruanus

  The Peruvian Racket-tail lives in humid mountain forest and along forest edges on the eastern Andes. Males have elongated tail feathers and leg puffs; it feeds on nectar and small insects.

• Green Imperial Pigeon Ducula aenea

  The Green Imperial Pigeon is a large pigeon of forests and mangroves in Asia. It eats fruit and spends time high in the trees.

• Amazonian Elaenia Myiopagis cinerea

  This small tyrant flycatcher lives in humid lowland forest across the Amazon Basin. Males are blue-gray above, while females have a brighter green back.

• Sooty Grassquit Asemospiza fuliginosa

  This small grassquit occurs in humid woodland and forest edges. It is recorded from several South American countries; in Bolivia, only one vagrant specimen from Amazonian forest in northern Santa Cruz is reported.

• 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.

• Ashy Flycatcher Muscicapa caerulescens

  The Ashy Flycatcher is grey to blue-grey, with a pale brow line that joins a narrow white eye-ring. It uses edges and clearings in dry and moist forest as well as moist savanna, catching mainly insects. The source uses Fraseria caerulescens and notes its former placement in Muscicapa.

• Buffy Hummingbird Leucippus fallax

  This small hummingbird occurs in northern Colombia and Venezuela. It uses dry scrub and mangroves and feeds on nectar and fruit.

• 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.

• Pelzeln's Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus inornatus

  This small tyrant flycatcher is patchily recorded around Brazil's Rio Negro basin, including white-sand campinarana.

• Fulvous Shrike-Tanager Lanio fulvus

  A tanager of humid lowland forests in northern Amazonia. It acts as a sentinel near the center of mixed-species flocks and catches insects flushed by other birds.

• White-winged Cinclodes Cinclodes atacamensis

  This bird occurs in the high Andes along clear streams. It has white on the wings, throat, eyebrow, and outer tail feathers, and forages near shallow water and mud.

• Cassin's Flycatcher Muscicapa cassini

  This flycatcher ranges from West Africa east to Uganda and northern Zambia. It catches flying insects around swamps and streams in humid lowland forest.

• Rufous-breasted Hermit Glaucis hirsutus

  This hummingbird lives in the understory of humid forests from Panama south to Bolivia, as well as on Caribbean islands. It takes nectar with a long, strongly curved bill.

• Tolima Dove Leptotila conoveri

  The Tolima Dove lives in the Colombian Andes. Its head is greyish, and it occurs in humid montane forest and along forest edges.