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• Buff-throated Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus rufigularis

  

  The Buff-throated Tody-Tyrant is a small bird with a buff throat, olive-green upperparts, and a pale belly. It lives in dry tropical and tropical montane forests and catches invertebrates in bushes.

• Silver-tipped Imperial Pigeon Ducula luctuosa

  The Silver-tipped Imperial Pigeon is a large, mostly white pigeon with silvery-gray flight feathers edged in dark markings. It occurs on Sulawesi and nearby islands, using forests and mangroves.

• Gabela Akalat Sheppardia gabela

  The Gabela Akalat is a small forest bird from west-central Angola. A 2003 survey added records near Conda and Seles, including low secondary growth, forest edge, and regenerating coffee forest.

• Cinereous-breasted Spinetail Synallaxis hypospodia

  The PeruAves account also records this species in Brazil and Bolivia. It has a rufous crown and wings, a gray tail, and a black throat.

• Chestnut-throated Seedeater Sporophila telasco

  This small seedeater ranges along the Pacific slope from southern Colombia to northern Chile. In Chile it uses dry valleys and farmland, mainly below 1,000 m.

• Talamanca Hummingbird Eugenes spectabilis

  It is recorded in high-elevation oak forest in Costa Rica. An older description says the male has a brilliant violet crown and a metallic green throat.

• Venezuelan Tyrannulet Zimmerius petersi

  A small tyrant flycatcher of northern Venezuela’s wooded mountains. It has an olive back, gray crown, and contrasting black-and-white marks around the eye.

• Pemba Green Pigeon Treron pembaensis

  The Pemba Green Pigeon has an olive-green back and a gray head and underside. It lives in forests, plantations, and rural areas on Pemba, often near fruit trees.

• Bornean Whistling Thrush Myophonus borneensis

  The Bornean Whistling Thrush lives along streams in northern Borneo. Adult males have glossy dark blue on the head through the breast.

• 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.

• Spangle-cheeked Tanager Tangara dowii

  The Spangle-cheeked Tanager lives in wet mountain forests of Costa Rica and western Panama. Adults have black-and-blue scaling on the cheeks and a rufous crown patch; immatures are duller and lack that crown patch. It eats fruit as well as insects and spiders.

• Green-headed Hillstar Oreotrochilus stolzmanni

  The Green-headed Hillstar lives in the high Andes from southern Peru to southern Ecuador. It uses rocky grassland and scrub and feeds on nectar.

• Stolid Flycatcher Myiarchus stolidus

  This flycatcher has a whitish throat and upper breast, with a pale yellow lower breast and belly. It lives in forests and mangroves and feeds mainly on insects, with some fruit.

• Snowy-browed Flycatcher Ficedula hyperythra

  This small flycatcher lives in moist forests and montane forests across Asia. The male is notable for its combination of an ash-blue head and orange chest.

• 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.

• Black-billed Seed Finch Sporophila atrirostris

  This small bird is recorded locally in the eastern Andean foothills. In Peru, it has been found in tall grass along rivers and oxbow lakes, and males and females have different plumage.

• Rufous-vented Whitetip Urosticte ruficrissa

  A small hummingbird of the northern Andes in Colombia and Ecuador. In males, the white tips of the central tail feathers stand out against the green plumage.

• Southern Bentbill Oncostoma olivaceum

  This small flycatcher has yellowish-olive upperparts and yellow underparts. It occurs along lowland forest edges and in secondary forest in eastern Panama and northern Colombia.

• Blue-throated Blue Flycatcher Cyornis rubeculoides

  This small flycatcher is about 14–15 cm long. Males have blue throats and upperparts with an orange breast; females have brown upperparts and a rufous tail. It uses dense undergrowth in hill forests.

• Striped Treehunter Thripadectes holostictus

  This treehunter lives in the understory of humid montane forest on the eastern Andes. Its head, back, and breast are densely streaked with rufous, and its tail is rufous.

• St Lucia Black Finch Melanospiza richardsoni

  The St. Lucia Black Finch is a small bird native only to Saint Lucia. Males are entirely black; females have a buff-brown body and gray head. It lives in dense forest understory and is often seen in pairs feeding on the ground.

• Emerald-chinned Hummingbird Abeillia abeillei

  A small hummingbird of humid mountain forest. The male has a green crown and ear coverts, and its upper throat shines emerald green.

• Sibilant Sirystes Sirystes sibilator

  The Sibilant Sirystes is a tyrant flycatcher of South American forests. A taxonomic paper describes typical southern birds and paler populations in northern and central Brazil.

• White-bellied Blue Flycatcher Cyornis pallipes

  An endemic flycatcher of India's Western Ghats, living in dense foothill forest. Checked sources spell its scientific name Cyornis pallidipes, correcting the pool spelling Cyornis pallipes.