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• Many-spotted Hummingbird Taphrospilus hypostictus

  

  This large hummingbird inhabits forest on the eastern slope of the Andes, with records from southern Colombia to Bolivia. Green spots on the white underparts and a white mark behind the eye are key features.

• 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.

• Necklaced Spinetail Synallaxis stictothorax

  This ovenbird occurs in lowlands from Ecuador into northwestern Peru. Breast spotting varies, and flank color helps distinguish it from related species.

• Yellow-shouldered Grassquit Loxipasser anoxanthus

  The Yellow-shouldered Grassquit is found only in Jamaica, including forest edges and montane evergreen forest. It eats seeds and small fruits, foraging low in shrubs in pairs or family groups.

• Reunion Stonechat Saxicola tectes

  This stonechat lives on Réunion. Males show a white eyebrow and wing patch and an orange breast, while the sexes differ in color.

• Pale-eyed Pygmy Tyrant Atalotriccus pilaris

  This tiny tyrant flycatcher inhabits dry lowlands from Central America into northern South America. Its pale eye and yellow wing-bars help identify it.

• Short-crested Coquette Lophornis brachylophus

  This small hummingbird is restricted to a limited mountain area in Guerrero, southwestern Mexico. Adult males have an orange-rufous crest and green gorget; females lack those ornaments.

• Mindanao Bleeding-heart Gallicolumba crinigera

  A Philippine forest pigeon with a striking red breast that searches for food on the ground.

• Buff-throated Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus guttatus

  A forest woodcreeper that moves along trunks and branches, with a buff throat and long streaks below.

• Black-backed Tanager Stilpnia peruviana

  The Black-backed Tanager is about 14 cm long and endemic to Atlantic Forest along southeastern Brazil. It mainly occupies coastal sandbank forest and lowland forest.

• Silverbird Empidornis semipartitus

  This flycatcher lives in eastern African grassland and semi-arid bushland. It drops from a perch to catch insects on the ground.

• Rufous-tailed Tyrant Knipolegus poecilurus

  It is active by day in mountain forest and scrub, flying from perches to catch invertebrates in the air. Bolivian records include a historical specimen without a precise locality and a few sightings.

• Santa Marta Woodstar Chaetocercus astreans

  This small hummingbird is found in Colombia's Santa Marta Mountains. Males have a green head, dark bluish upperparts, reddish gorget, and long deeply forked tail; females have buff underparts and a shorter rounded tail.

• Shy Ground Dove Pampusana stairi

  The Shy Ground Dove is a ground-dwelling dove of Polynesian islands. It searches for seeds, fruit, and insects on the ground and in the forest understory.

• Great Xenops Megaxenops parnaguae

  This rufous arboreal furnariid has a large upturned bill and a white throat. Records from inland Brazil describe birds probing under bark for small insects in Caatinga woodland and other dry forests.

• Three-striped Hemispingus Microspingus trifasciatus

  This tanager inhabits high-elevation forest on the eastern Andes. It takes small invertebrates and sometimes joins mixed-species flocks.

• Swamp Flycatcher Muscicapa aquatica

  A small African flycatcher of wetlands and waterside grass. It has dark brown upperparts and a white throat and belly; the breast patch varies in tone and extent.

• Pacific Elaenia Myiopagis subplacens

  This small tyrant flycatcher ranges through the Tumbesian region of western Ecuador and northwestern Peru. A broad white eyebrow and yellow crown patch help identify it.

• Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris

  A tiny hummingbird that breeds in eastern North America. It hovers while taking nectar from flowers and migrates to Central America in autumn.

• Philippine Green Pigeon Treron axillaris

  This pigeon is endemic to the Philippines and occurs on the islands except Palawan. It eats fruit in the forest canopy, and several birds may gather at fruiting trees.

• Sharp-tailed Streamcreeper Lochmias nematura

  The Sharp-tailed Streamcreeper is about 15.5 cm long, with a dark brown body, a pale eyebrow, and white-scaled underparts. It uses streamside scrub and nests near water.

• White-throated Sierra Finch Idiopsar erythronotus

  The White-throated Sierra Finch forages on the ground in open Andean country. Adults are gray overall, with a white throat and a paler lower belly.

• Sunda Forktail Enicurus velatus

  The Sunda Forktail is a streamside bird with dark gray upperparts and white underparts. A short white forehead stripe and the sexes' different crown colors help identify it.

• Nutting's Flycatcher Myiarchus nuttingi

  This flycatcher inhabits dry woodland and scrub from Mexico to northwestern Central America. It resembles related Myiarchus flycatchers; the yellow on the belly helps distinguish it.