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• Santa Marta Foliage-gleaner Clibanornis rufipectus

  

  This foliage-gleaner is endemic to the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in northern Colombia. It is medium-sized, with rufous-brown upperparts and paler underparts.

• Green-tailed Goldenthroat Polytmus theresiae

  This hummingbird is green overall and lacks white tail tips. Northern Bolivian records place subspecies P. t. leucorrhous in white-sand vegetation and along edges between savanna and low forest.

• Many-colored Fruit Dove Ptilinopus perousii

  The Many-colored Fruit Dove is a small, compact dove with differences between the sexes. In island forests it feeds mainly on figs and gathers at fruiting trees.

• Yellow-bellied Tyrannulet Ornithion semiflavum

  This small tyrannulet uses moist lowland forest and its edges in Central America. Accounts also record it in plantations and gardens, where it feeds mainly on insects.

• Fulvous-headed Tanager Thlypopsis fulviceps

  This tanager occurs in mountain forests of Colombia and Venezuela. It has a rufous head, gray back and tail, and gray to whitish underparts.

• Rubeho Akalat Sheppardia aurantiithorax

  The Rubeho Akalat occurs in forest in the Eastern Arc mountains of central Tanzania. Its throat and upper breast are deep orange, and observations describe it feeding on the ground and low branches.

• Amazonian Barred Woodcreeper Dendrocolaptes certhia

  A large woodcreeper with reddish-brown plumage and fine barring. It forages in mature forest and may appear near army-ant swarms.

• Coppery Metaltail Metallura theresiae

  This small hummingbird is endemic to Peru. It is recorded on the eastern Andean slopes in humid montane forest and scrub at 2,800–3,550 m.

• Palau Ground Dove Pampusana canifrons

  This ground dove lives on Palau’s islands. A male specimen was described with a grey head and breast and a bronze-toned back.

• Southern Antpipit Corythopis delalandi

  A small forest bird of central and southeastern South America, it searches for food on the ground and in the lower forest layers. A regional study documented its distribution and habitat in the Yungas of Bolivia and Argentina.

• Yellow-faced Grassquit Tiaris olivaceus

  This small grassquit is widespread around the Caribbean. Males have a black face and chest with a yellow eyebrow and throat, while females are dull olive. It feeds on seeds in grassy and weedy open places.

• Grey-winged Robin-Chat Cossypha polioptera

  The Grey-winged Robin-Chat is a small African forest bird. It has a slate-grey crown, olive-brown mantle, and rufous rump. In lowland and foothill evergreen, riverine, and gallery forests, it feeds on beetles, ants, and other insects.

• Planalto Foliage-gleaner Syndactyla dimidiata

  This furnariid is widely distributed in the Brazilian Cerrado and is also recorded in northeastern Paraguay. It occurs in the understory of preserved gallery and riparian forest.

• Shining Sunbeam Aglaeactis cupripennis

  A high-Andean hummingbird with cinnamon-rufous plumage that varies by subspecies. Both sexes have an iridescent rump. Flower nectar was the main food recorded at study sites in Peru and Ecuador.

• Key West Quail-Dove Geotrygon chrysia

  This dove occurs on Caribbean islands. It walks on the ground to forage and stays quiet beneath dense cover.

• Pied-crested Tit-Tyrant Anairetes reguloides

  The Pied-crested Tit-Tyrant can raise its crown feathers and has black-and-white mottled plumage. A 2016–2017 urban-flora survey in Trujillo, northern Peru, recorded it searching algarrobo, acacia, and ponciana branches for food.

• Golden-chevroned Tanager Thraupis ornata

  This tanager inhabits forest and forest edges in eastern Brazil. It feeds on fruit, flower buds and small animals.

• 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.

• Royal Cinclodes Cinclodes aricomae

  This large ovenbird is recorded in high-altitude woodlands of the Peruvian and Bolivian Andes, including Polylepis woodland. Its large bill is conspicuous.

• 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.

• Cinnamon Imperial Pigeon Ducula basilica

  The Cinnamon Imperial Pigeon is a large pigeon of forest on Indonesia's North Maluku Islands. It eats fruit.

• River Tyrannulet Serpophaga hypoleuca

  This small tyrant flycatcher lives along rivers in the Amazon basin. It has a gray back and pale underparts, and catches flying insects over young river-edge vegetation.

• 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.

• 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.