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• Brown-backed Chat-Tyrant Ochthoeca fumicolor

  

  This chat-tyrant searches for food in humid, semi-open places and often perches high in the vegetation. It has a brown back and rufous underparts.

• Oasis Hummingbird Rhodopis vesper

  This hummingbird occurs in dry Pacific coastal areas of Peru and northern Chile. Males perform courtship displays that include close shuttle flights and repeated dives.

• Grey-bellied Spinetail Synallaxis cinerascens

  The Grey-bellied Spinetail is described in reference data as a forest bird of dense understory that eats invertebrates. A 1997 specimen study recorded streaking on the breast of a bird considered juvenile.

• 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.

• European Turtle Dove Streptopelia turtur

  A small dove seen in Britain in spring and summer. Its chestnut-and-black mottled back and ground-feeding habits make it distinctive.

• Green Honeycreeper Chlorophanes spiza

  This honeycreeper ranges from southern Mexico to Brazil and Trinidad. It takes nectar and fruit and forages in forest canopies and edges.

• Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher Myiodynastes luteiventris

  This tyrant flycatcher ranges from Mexico to Bolivia. It occurs from dry scrub to rainforest and is more often reported in the canopy or at forest edges than deep inside extensive forest.

• Vervain Hummingbird Mellisuga minima

  This very small hummingbird is 6–7 cm long and has a relatively short bill. It is active by day and feeds mainly on nectar.

• Peruvian Seaside Cinclodes Cinclodes taczanowskii

  A brown bird of Peru's coast, it stays close to the ocean and is found more often on rocky shores or artificial embankments than on sandy beaches.

• Ceylon Whistling-Thrush Myophonus blighi

  This bird lives in wet mountain forests of Sri Lanka. Males and females have different plumage, and it looks for food along streams.

• Little Green Pigeon Treron olax

  This small pigeon eats fruit in the canopy. The male has a slate-gray head and maroon wings, while the female is greener.

• Green Warbler-Finch Certhidea olivacea

  The Green Warbler-Finch is endemic to the Galápagos and has the thinnest bill among Darwin's finches. It probes leaves and moss for small arthropods.

• Brown-crested Flycatcher Myiarchus tyrannulus

  The Brown-crested Flycatcher launches from a branch to catch insects in the air; it is a large member of the tyrant flycatchers.

• 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.

• White-throated Earthcreeper Upucerthia albigula

  This earthcreeper is recorded on the western slope of the Andes in Peru. It has rufous-brown upperparts and tail, a whitish throat, and a down-curved black bill, and forages among scattered rocks and sparse scrub.

• Yellow-rumped Flycatcher Ficedula zanthopygia

  The male Yellow-rumped Flycatcher has strong black, white, and yellow contrasts, while the female is mainly brown and yellow. It feeds on insects in woodland and moves between East and Southeast Asia with the seasons.

• Collared Imperial Pigeon Ducula mullerii

  A large pigeon of forests around New Guinea, it is marked by a black collar and maroon back and may move as fruit availability changes.

• Orange-throated Tanager Wetmorethraupis sterrhopteron

  This tanager is localized in southeastern Ecuador and the Cenepa River basin of northeastern Peru. The Peru account records it in humid montane forest.

• Rufous-bellied Bush Tyrant Myiotheretes fuscorufus

  This bush tyrant is about 18–19 cm long and occurs in the high Andes. Its first detailed nest record was made at 2,985 m in Peru.

• Anna's Hummingbird Calypte anna

  Anna's Hummingbird has iridescent green plumage and a rose-pink throat. Males climb high and dive during courtship.

• Northern Long-tailed Woodcreeper Deconychura longicauda

  This woodcreeper occurs in the Guianas and in Brazil north of the Amazon. In dry-ground and periodically flooded lowland forest, it climbs trunks from the base while searching for insects.

• Bluethroat Luscinia svecica

  The Bluethroat is a small bird that searches for insects in low shrubs near water and elsewhere. A male's blue throat pattern changes with season and region.

• Barusan Cuckoo-Dove Macropygia modiglianii

  This cuckoo-dove occurs on the western Indonesian islands of Nias, Mentawai and Simeulue. A 2016 bioacoustic study lists forms from those three island groups separately.

• Rust-and-yellow Tanager Thlypopsis ruficeps

  A small tanager of humid Andean forest edges, secondary growth and shrub cover. Records span 1,200–3,600 m.