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• Buff-streaked Chat Campicoloides bifasciatus

  

  The Buff-streaked Chat lives in rocky highland grassland in southern Africa. It searches for food on the ground and on rocks, and males and females differ in plumage.

• Pale-bellied Hermit Phaethornis anthophilus

  This hummingbird is recorded from Panama, Colombia, and Venezuela. It also uses dry woodland, semi-deciduous forest, and shrubby edges.

• Barbados Bullfinch Loxigilla barbadensis

  This seed-eating bird is endemic to Barbados, where it is found in grassy areas and forests.

• Baird's Flycatcher Myiodynastes bairdii

  This tyrant flycatcher is recorded in Ecuador and northwestern Peru. It has a gray head and back, rufous wings and tail, and a pale yellow underside, and forages in semi-open places.

• Cabanis's Spinetail Synallaxis cabanisi

  Cabanis’s Spinetail occurs in forest edges, secondary growth and bamboo thickets on the eastern Andes and adjacent regions.

• Daurian redstart Phoenicurus auroreus

  A small bird with a white patch on the wing, seen mainly in winter in Japan around farmland, riverbanks and open woodland edges.

• 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.

• Golden-hooded Tanager Stilpnia larvata

  A small tanager of humid tropical lowlands, it also uses evergreen-forest edges, plantations, and gardens.

• Stub-tailed Spadebill Platyrinchus cancrominus

  The Stub-tailed Spadebill is a small bird whose nest was observed in dry lowland forest in Costa Rica. At that nest, adults carried spiders and insects to the chicks.

• Streak-headed Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes souleyetii

  A woodcreeper of Central American forests, with many pale streaks on the crown and nape and additional streaking on the back and wings.

• Mountain Wheatear Oenanthe monticola

  This bird occurs in the rocky uplands and open grasslands of southern Africa. Some current accounts use the genus combination Myrmecocichla.

• White-sided Hillstar Oreotrochilus leucopleurus

  The White-sided Hillstar is a hummingbird of rocky Andean habitats. Males have a blue throat and white underside, females a grey underside; both feed on nectar and insects.

• Coco Island Finch Pinaroloxias inornata

  A finch endemic to Cocos Island, Costa Rica, using the island's varied habitats.

• Choco Sirystes Sirystes albogriseus

  This tyrant flycatcher inhabits lowland forest in the Chocó, from eastern Panama through western Colombia to northwestern Ecuador.

• Tufted Tit-Spinetail Leptasthenura platensis

  It is a small bird of southeastern South America’s shrubland and open woodland. Its crest and long tail stand out, and it searches for food on the ground and low vegetation.

• Green-throated Mango Anthracothorax viridigula

  The Green-throated Mango ranges from northeastern Venezuela through the Guianas to northern Brazil. It is a hummingbird whose male has a green throat while the female has reddish upperparts.

• Stripe-tailed Yellow Finch Sicalis citrina

  Males are conspicuously yellow, while females have stronger dark streaks on the head and underside. At Brasília National Park, a breeding study found the finches using old mining sites and nesting close to the ground.

• Chocolate-vented Tyrant Neoxolmis rufiventris

  This tyrant flycatcher breeds in Patagonian grasslands and moves to the Pampas for winter. It walks through open grass or scrub and searches for food on the ground.

• Rufous-breasted Leaftosser Sclerurus scansor

  The Rufous-breasted Leaftosser lives in South American forests and searches leaf litter for small invertebrates. It has a dark face, a pale scaled throat and a chestnut rump.

• Crimson Topaz Topaza pella

  A brightly colored large hummingbird of lowland rainforest in northern Amazonia and the Guianan Shield.

• Lacrimose Mountain Tanager Anisognathus lacrymosus

  This tanager lives in humid Andean forests. Its blue upperparts and orange-yellow underparts stand out, and it often joins mixed-species flocks.

• Western Olivaceous Flatbill Rhynchocyclus aequinoctialis

  This flycatcher lives in lowland and foothill forests in Central and South America. Its very broad bill and faint pale eye-ring help identify it.

• Streak-capped Spinetail Cranioleuca hellmayri

  It has a long pointed tail, a rufous crown with pale streaks, and a whitish eyebrow and throat. It occurs in Colombia's mountain forests and searches for small invertebrates at forest edges and in mixed flocks.

• Black-throated Hermit Phaethornis atrimentalis

  This hermit hummingbird lives in the forest understory of Amazonian areas and along humid forest edges in the Andean foothills. Its long, slightly curved bill and black throat stand out.