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• Wompoo Fruit Dove Ptilinopus magnificus

  

  The Wompoo Fruit Dove is a large green pigeon with a purple throat and chest and a yellow belly. It feeds in rainforest canopies and moves locally between fruiting trees.

• Bare-legged Owl Margarobyas lawrencii

  This Cuban owl has large dark eyes and pale eyebrows. It hunts at night and rests in tree cavities or caves during the day.

• Black-crowned Antshrike Thamnophilus atrinucha

  The Black-crowned Antshrike forages in the understory of humid and semi-deciduous forests. Adult males are gray and black, while females are olive-brown; the species is also recorded in Tumbes, northwestern Peru.

• Upland Buzzard Buteo hemilasius

  This large buzzard lives in open steppe and uplands and occurs in both light and dark plumage forms.

• Cuban Green Woodpecker Xiphidiopicus percussus

  The Cuban Green Woodpecker is endemic to Cuba. It climbs along branches to look for insects and can excavate nest cavities in smaller trunks and branches.

• Mexican Sheartail Doricha eliza

  This small hummingbird is endemic to Mexico. Its breeding range is split between the northern Yucatan Peninsula and central Veracruz, where records include coastal scrub and dry deciduous forest.

• Burnished-buff Tanager Stilpnia cayana

  This tanager is recorded in the Restinga de Cabedelo National Forest in Paraíba, northeastern Brazil. The male's black facial pattern contrasts with the paler female.

• Light-crowned Spinetail Cranioleuca albiceps

  This ovenbird-family species occurs in humid montane forest in southeastern Peru and Bolivia. Its pale crown and dark eyebrow are distinctive.

• Yemen Serin Crithagra menachensis

  The Yemen Serin is a small finch of the southwestern Arabian highlands. It searches for seeds on the ground and rocks and is listed as a localized breeding resident in southern Oman.

• Kaempfer's Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus kaempferi

  The Kaempfer's Tody-Tyrant was observed at several sites in Santa Catarina, southern Brazil. Its head and back range from brown to olive, while the throat and belly are pale yellow. The study describes foraging in forest edges and shaded secondary growth.

• Rufous-vented Niltava Niltava sumatrana

  This flycatcher inhabits montane evergreen broad-leaved forest on Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula. Males have blue heads and upperparts; the plumage details here are specifically for males.

• Yellow-naped Amazon Amazona auropalliata

  The Yellow-naped Amazon is a parrot whose green feathers blend into forest foliage as it flies and feeds in flocks.

• Malabar Imperial Pigeon Ducula cuprea

  This pigeon occurs in India's Western Ghats. The 2022 eBird India taxonomy update separated it from Mountain Imperial-Pigeon and notes its darker iris and narrower tail band as identification features.

• Middle American Screech Owl Megascops guatemalae

  This screech-owl ranges from Mexico to northern Nicaragua. Greyish and reddish morphs occur, and it uses humid as well as drier forests and woodland from low to mid elevations.

• Yellow-breasted Warbling Antbird Hypocnemis subflava

  This small antbird ranges from Peru's eastern Andean foothills into adjacent western Bolivia and Brazil. Its throat and belly are yellow, and the eyebrow differs in color between the sexes.

• Doria's Goshawk Megatriorchis doriae

  A large raptor of New Guinea's lowland and foothill forests. It hunts birds in the forest, and a juvenile recorded at Varirata had a pale head and streaked underparts.

• Greater Yellownape Chrysophlegma flavinucha

  The Greater Yellownape is a large woodpecker that searches tree trunks for food.

• Santa Marta Sabrewing Campylopterus phainopeplus

  This hummingbird is endemic to the Santa Marta Mountains of northeastern Colombia. It has been little studied, so much of its natural-history information comes from observations in this small range.

• Temminck's Seedeater Sporophila falcirostris

  This small seedeater has a thick, curved bill; males are gray and females olive-brown. It eats bamboo seeds and moves in response to bamboo seeding.

• Steinbach's Canastero Pseudasthenes steinbachi

  Steinbach's Canastero is a small bird of dry mountains in western Argentina. It is seen alone or in pairs among scrub and ravines.

• Brown Bullfinch Pyrrhula nipalensis

  This bullfinch has a gray-brown head and mantle, gray underparts, a long tail, and a narrow white rump. In Great Himalayan National Park it uses high-elevation forest and rhododendron thickets.

• Eastern Wood Pewee Contopus virens

  The Eastern Wood-Pewee is a small bird of eastern North American forests that waits on a perch and catches flying insects.

• Rhinomyias brunneatus

  This flycatcher searches for insects in forest undergrowth and along edges. It has brown upperparts, a pale eye-ring, a white throat, a pale brown breast and pink legs. Its breeding range is in southern China, with wintering areas in Southeast Asia. The pool uses Rhinomyias; the consulted account uses Cyornis brunneatus.

• Golden-tailed Parrotlet Touit surdus

  This small parrot lives in lowland and secondary forests of eastern Brazil. It searches for fruit in the canopy and is seen in pairs or small groups.