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• Red-eared Fruit Dove Ptilinopus fischeri

  

  The Red-eared Fruit Dove lives in the mountains of Sulawesi. Adults are notable for a green back and a violet-red patch by the ear; they are usually solitary and discreet.

• Long-whiskered Owlet Xenoglaux loweryi

  The Long-whiskered Owlet is a tiny owl with long facial feathers like whiskers. It is recorded in humid mountain forests of northern Peru.

• Plain Antvireo Dysithamnus mentalis

  The Plain Antvireo is recorded across Central and South America. In Costa Rica, it occurs in the understory of humid mountain forests, and males and females differ in plumage.

• Barred Hawk Morphnarchus princeps

  This large hawk has a blackish-gray throat and chest, with fine black bars across its white belly. It is diurnal and lives in humid foothill and montane forest.

• Fire-bellied Woodpecker Chloropicus pyrrhogaster

  This woodpecker lives in lowland forests of West Africa. Its account gives a length of about 24 cm, but the plumage description available here is for males only.

• Indigo-capped Hummingbird Saucerottia cyanifrons

  This small hummingbird is described as endemic to Colombia. It has an iridescent indigo crown, green upperparts, and pale underparts, and feeds on nectar and small insects. The source uses the older generic combination Amazilia cyanifrons.

• Plain-colored Tanager Tangara inornata

  A small tanager that moves through the canopy and forest edges. In Costa Rica it occurs in Caribbean lowlands, including along streams.

• Delta Amacuro Softtail Thripophaga amacurensis

  A softtail known from seasonally flooded forest in the southern Orinoco Delta of Venezuela. Fine pale streaks mark its back and underparts.

• Spot-crowned Euphonia Euphonia imitans

  This euphonia occurs on the southern Pacific slope of Costa Rica. Males have a yellow forehead and underparts with blue-black upperparts; females have an olive back and rufous underparts.

• Stripe-necked Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus striaticollis

  The Stripe-necked Tody-Tyrant lives in humid secondary woodland and river-edge thickets in South America. It has a dark-striped white throat and yellow underparts.

• Turquoise Flycatcher Eumyias panayensis

  This flycatcher inhabits forests from the Philippines through Sulawesi to the Moluccas. It searches for small insects in the forest and sometimes catches them in flight.

• Goias Parakeet Pyrrhura pfrimeri

  The Goias Parakeet occurs in dry forest patches on limestone in central Brazil. A 1997 field study documented dry-season feeding in this restricted habitat.

• Red Collared Dove Streptopelia tranquebarica

  The Red Collared Dove is a small dove that feeds on seeds on the ground in open grassland. Males and females have different plumage.

• Pel's Fishing Owl Scotopelia peli

  Pel's Fishing Owl lives near rivers and lakes south of the Sahara in Africa and catches fish. It uses waterside trees for roosting and nesting.

• Black-hooded Antwren Formicivora erythronotos

  This small antwren lives in coastal forest in southeastern Brazil. Males and females have different plumage.

• Indian Vulture Gyps indicus

  Adult Indian Vultures have a heavy pale bill and a rounded head covered with fine pale feathers.

• Rusty-necked Piculet Picumnus fuscus

  This small woodpecker inhabits riverine lowland forest in northeastern Bolivia and west-central Brazil. Males have reddish-orange tips on the crown feathers.

• Violet-fronted Brilliant Heliodoxa leadbeateri

  This hummingbird lives in Colombia's Andes. Males have a violet-blue forehead, while females are paler green with green spotting.

• Black-and-tawny Seedeater Sporophila nigrorufa

  The Black-and-tawny Seedeater is recorded in eastern Bolivia and west-central Brazil. Field observations found large flocks before breeding and pairs or smaller feeding groups during breeding.

• 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.

• Chestnut-bellied Euphonia Euphonia pectoralis

  Males have a blue chest and chestnut belly while females have an olive back; the species feeds on fruit, nectar, and insects in the canopy of South American Atlantic forest and montane habitat.

• 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.

• Mangrove Blue-flycatcher Cyornis rufigastra

  This flycatcher hunts insects in mangrove forest. It has dark-blue upperparts and orange underparts, with different facial and throat colors in females.

• Red-necked Amazon Amazona arausiaca

  The Red-necked Amazon is a large green parrot with a purple-blue face and red throat. It is found only on Dominica, where it feeds on fruit and seeds in mountain rainforest canopy.