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• Cryptic Flycatcher Ficedula crypta

  

  This elusive flycatcher lives on Mindanao in mountain forest. It is recorded alone or in pairs in low vegetation on wet ravine slopes.

• African Green Pigeon Treron calvus

  The African Green Pigeon is a green fruit-eating pigeon that feeds in trees. This entry uses the West African portion of the Oiseaux.net range because that account also discusses the former broad treatment with T. delalandii.

• Lunulated Antbird Oneillornis lunulatus

  This scarce antbird inhabits lowland rainforest understory in eastern Ecuador and northeastern Peru. Males are gray and females brown, but both have a white eyebrow and throat.

• Harpy Eagle Harpia harpyja

  The Harpy Eagle is a large bird of prey of tropical forests in Central and South America. Its facial feather disk and hunting among the trees are distinctive.

• Bamboo Woodpecker Gecinulus viridis

  The Bamboo Woodpecker is a subdued green woodpecker closely associated with bamboo. It probes stems and trunks slowly for small prey.

• Green-throated Mountain-gem Lampornis viridipallens

  This hummingbird occurs in highlands from southern Mexico into northern Central America. Males have a green throat and females a white one; it uses cloud forest and other wooded habitats.

• Lined Seedeater Sporophila lineola

  This small seedeater moves seasonally within South America. In Bolivia it is recorded in open places such as savannas, forest edges, fields, and towns. A study in southeastern Brazil found age-related plumage differences among breeding males.

• Streaked Xenops Xenops rutilus

  This ovenbird searches for food as it moves along trunks and branches in the forest canopy. The Peru account records it in eastern Andean forests and southeastern lowlands.

• Maranon Tyrannulet Nesotriccus maranonicus

  This small flycatcher lives in the dry Marañón Valley of northern Peru. It has two pale wing bars and feeds on insects and fruits such as mistletoe.

• Slaty-blue Flycatcher Ficedula tricolor

  This small flycatcher lives in the Himalayas and nearby foothills. It searches for insects in forest undergrowth and thickets; some birds move to lower elevations outside the breeding season.

• Hill Pigeon Columba rupestris

  The Hill Pigeon lives in mountains from Central Asia to the Himalayas and also visits towns.

• Ihering's Antwren Myrmotherula iheringi

  This small antwren occurs in lowland eastern Peru, northern Bolivia, and the southern Amazonian region of Brazil. Males have dark breasts and white wing spots, while females are lighter grey above with yellowish-brown underparts. It searches leaves and vines for insects in the forest understory.

• White-rumped Vulture Gyps bengalensis

  A vulture of plains and settlements on the Indian subcontinent. It circles in the air while searching for carrion.

• Lesser Yellownape Picus chlorolophus

  The Lesser Yellownape is an Asian woodpecker with green upperparts and a tufted yellow nape.

• Black-breasted Puffleg Eriocnemis nigrivestis

  A hummingbird of high-elevation forest in northwestern Ecuador. It is marked by white leg puffs and feeds on flower nectar.

• Rufous-breasted Warbling Finch Poospiza rubecula

  This finch occurs in a restricted area of the western Peruvian Andes. Adult males have a slate-grey back and tail, black face, and rufous forehead, eyebrow, and breast. A 1994 field visit recorded small groups feeding in low branches and on vegetated ground.

• Scaly-throated Leaftosser Sclerurus guatemalensis

  This leaftosser ranges from southern Mexico through Central America to western Colombia and western Ecuador. It inhabits lowland and montane evergreen forest and forages for invertebrates on the ground.

• Olive-sided Flycatcher Contopus cooperi

  This large, sturdy flycatcher has gray markings on its sides. It sings from high trees and catches flying insects.

• Familiar Chat Oenanthe familiaris

  The Familiar Chat is a small African bird of rocky places and sparse woodland. Its rufous-orange rump and tail stand out against its grey-brown body.

• Band-tailed Pigeon Patagioenas fasciata

  A flocking pigeon of western North American forests. Its pale gray plumage, white neck crescent, and broad pale tail band help identify it.

• White-browed Antbird Myrmoborus leucophrys

  This antbird occurs in southern Amazonia and along the eastern Andean slope. It forages in the understory of floodplain forest and mature second growth.

• Chaco Eagle Buteogallus coronatus

  The Chaco Eagle has a prominent crest and inhabits savannas and open woodland in Argentina.

• Plain-breasted Piculet Picumnus castelnau

  This small woodpecker inhabits floodplain forest along the Amazon and Ucayali rivers. Its range is closely tied to Cecropia-rich riverside forest, river islands, and nearby secondary forest.

• Green-tailed Goldenthroat Polytmus theresiae

  This hummingbird is green overall and lacks white tail tips. Northern Bolivian records place subspecies P. t. leucorrhous in white-sand vegetation and along edges between savanna and low forest.