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• White-capped Fruit Dove Ptilinopus dupetithouarsii

  

  The White-capped Fruit Dove is endemic to the Marquesas Islands. Head and chest colors vary among islands, and it feeds mainly on fruit.

• Green-backed Flycatcher Ficedula elisae

  This flycatcher breeds in eastern China and winters in southern Thailand and the Malay Peninsula. It is recorded mainly during autumn passage in Hong Kong.

• Freckle-breasted Thornbird Phacellodomus striaticollis

  This South American ovenbird is found in shrub cover along grasslands and wetland edges and builds its nest in shrubs.

• Gray-winged Inca-Finch Incaspiza ortizi

  This finch lives in dry scrub in the Marañón drainage of northern Peru. Its gray and brown body has a dark facial pattern, and it searches for food in low shrubs.

• Ecuadorian Hillstar Oreotrochilus chimborazo

  This hummingbird occurs in the Cajas highlands of Ecuador. A local guide describes it visiting Chuquiragua flowers and records different head and belly colors in males and females.

• American Grey Flycatcher Empidonax wrightii

  This small flycatcher lives in dry highland shrublands and open woods, where it waits for insects from a perch. Its slow downward tail dip helps distinguish it from similar flycatchers.

• Island Imperial Pigeon Ducula pistrinaria

  The Island Imperial Pigeon is a large, pale gray pigeon of island forests with tall trees. It eats fruit and sometimes makes flights over the sea between islands.

• Hainan Blue Flycatcher Cyornis hainanus

  The Hainan Blue Flycatcher occurs from southern China through mainland Southeast Asia. In Hong Kong, mature forest is its main recorded breeding habitat.

• 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.

• Thick-billed Saltator Saltator maxillosus

  It has a yellow bill base and a white eyebrow. The source account lists Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina; an Argentina study reports records in secondary and regenerating forests in Misiones Province.

• Black-thighed Puffleg Eriocnemis derbyi

  The Black-thighed Puffleg is an Andean hummingbird with metallic green and bronze plumage. The sexes differ in their leg feathers and underparts, and detailed breeding records remain limited.

• Highland Elaenia Elaenia obscura

  The Highland Elaenia inhabits mountain forest and forest edges on the eastern Andes. It has dark olive-brown upperparts and yellowish underparts, and searches the canopy for insects and berries.

• Madagascar Turtle Dove Nesoenas picturatus

  The Madagascar Turtle Dove varies among Indian Ocean islands. In Seychelles, a smaller native form with a purple head occurs alongside a larger, grey-headed form introduced from Madagascar.

• White-tailed Blue Robin Myiomela leucura

  This shy forest robin forages near the ground in dense cover. Males are blue, females brown, and both have white patches near the base of the tail.

• Ochre-throated Foliage-gleaner Automolus ochrolaemus

  This foliage-gleaner ranges from eastern Central America into northern South America and the western Amazon. In current taxonomy it is separate from two closely related species with which it was formerly grouped.

• Pardusco Nephelornis oneilli

  This bird lives in the high eastern-central Andes of Peru. It has darker upperparts, a paler underside, and pale wing-bars. It forages in humid montane scrub and grassland and may occur in family or mixed-species flocks.

• Velvet-purple Coronet Boissonneaua jardini

  The Velvet-purple Coronet is a hummingbird of wet montane forest in western Colombia. Its iridescent purple, blue, and green plumage, slightly curved bill, and white leg patch are noted in the account.

• Eye-ringed Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus orbitatus

  This small tyrant flycatcher lives in lowland forest in southeastern Brazil. It is about 11 cm long, with a white ring around each eye.

• Peaceful Dove Geopelia placida

  The Peaceful Dove is a small grey-brown dove with barred plumage. In South Australia it feeds on the ground for seeds and usually occurs in pairs or small flocks.

• Javan Whistling Thrush Myophonus glaucinus

  Myophonus glaucinus is now called the Javan Whistling Thrush. A 2004 species-limits study describes glossy dark blue on the male’s head and upperparts, and reports birds mostly on the ground and ridges at Gunung Gede, Java.

• Cactus Canastero Pseudasthenes cactorum

  A furnariid of Peru's western Andean slope, using open areas with shrubs and cacti. Some populations also occur in low-elevation lomas.

• Scarlet-browed Tanager Heterospingus xanthopygius

  This tanager occurs from Panama through Colombia to Ecuador. Males are mostly black with a white eyebrow and scarlet eyebrow tufts; the species uses humid lowland forest and its edges.

• Peruvian Piedtail Phlogophilus harterti

  The Peruvian Piedtail is a hummingbird endemic to Peru. Its account places it in montane forest on the eastern slope of the Andes.

• Yellowish Flycatcher Empidonax flavescens

  The Yellowish Flycatcher is marked by its yellowish belly and a pale eye-ring that broadens behind the eye. In Costa Rica, it uses the canopy and edges of moist mountain forest.