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• Blue-black Grassquit Volatinia jacarina

  

  The Blue-black Grassquit is a small bird found widely in grasslands and farmland from Mexico to South America. During courtship, the male jumps upward and reveals white shoulder patches.

• Russet-mantled Softtail Cranioleuca berlepschi

  This softtail occurs in the northern Peruvian Andes. It uses montane and elfin forest near the treeline, where pairs and small groups may join mixed-species flocks.

• Many-colored Rush Tyrant Tachuris rubrigastra

  This colorful small bird lives in reedbeds at lakes and lagoons. It has a black head with a red crown and yellow eyebrow, makes short flights near the water, and nests in reeds.

• Grey-throated Tit-Flycatcher Myioparus griseigularis

  This flycatcher occurs in forests from western and central Africa to Uganda and Tanzania. Its species account uses Fraseria and lists Myioparus as a former genus placement.

• Beautiful Fruit Dove Ptilinopus pulchellus

  The Beautiful Fruit Dove is a small pigeon of rainforests on New Guinea and nearby islands. It plucks fruit from the ends of branches.

• Spot-backed Antbird Hylophylax naevius

  This antbird lives in Amazon Basin forests. Males have black streaks on a white breast, while females have buff spots across the breast and belly. It forages in low forest cover.

• Red-necked Buzzard Buteo auguralis

  The Red-necked Buzzard is a hawk with a chestnut head and neck and a reddish tail. It searches for prey from perches along woodland edges and in open areas.

• Golden-tailed Woodpecker Campethera abingoni

  It has a streaked breast and throat, with different head markings in males and females. It inhabits savanna and woodland from eastern to southern Africa.

• Sparkling-tailed Hummingbird Tilmatura dupontii

  This tiny hummingbird is about 9–10 cm long. Males have a blue-violet throat and long forked tail; females have a shorter tail and cinnamon underparts. It visits flowers in Mexican highlands.

• Buff-bridled Inca Finch Incaspiza laeta

  This Inca finch occurs in Peru’s middle and upper Marañón drainage. Its grey head, black face, and broad buff cheek stripes are distinctive.

• Azara's Spinetail Synallaxis azarae

  Azara's Spinetail moves through scrub in Andean montane forest, at forest edges, and in second growth. Peruvian records in the account are from 1,250–3,100 m.

• Pacific Elaenia Myiopagis subplacens

  This small tyrant flycatcher ranges through the Tumbesian region of western Ecuador and northwestern Peru. A broad white eyebrow and yellow crown patch help identify it.

• White-throated Robin Irania gutturalis

  Males stand out for a white throat and orange-red underparts. The species breeds in dry uplands and scrub of Southwest Asia and migrates to East Africa.

• Sunda Collared Dove Streptopelia bitorquata

  The Sunda Collared-Dove is an island dove with pale sandy-brown plumage and a black-and-white half-collar. It feeds on seeds scattered on the ground in open country and farmland.

• Scaled Antbird Drymophila squamata

  This antbird inhabits the Atlantic Forest of eastern Brazil. Males are mainly black and white, females brown and buff, and crown spotting varies among birds.

• Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis

  A common North American hawk, it circles over open country on broad wings, riding rising air.

• Scaly-bellied Woodpecker Picus squamatus

  The Scaly-bellied Woodpecker has different head colors in adult males and females and a scale-like pattern on its belly. Its range and feeding records are presented for separate regions.

• Calliope Hummingbird Selasphorus calliope

  Males have magenta streaks on the throat, while females and immature birds show peachy tones below. They breed in mountain meadows and streamside thickets and feed on nectar and small insects.

• Medium Tree Finch Camarhynchus pauper

  The Medium Tree Finch is an arboreal finch found only on Floreana Island in the Galápagos. It searches for insect larvae by prying at bark and also eats seeds, fruit, and other foods.

• Planalto Woodcreeper Dendrocolaptes platyrostris

  Two subspecies with different plumage are described: dark-form D. p. platyrostris and pale-form D. p. intermedius. The first has a blackish crown and buff streaks; the second has a browner crown and brighter rufous wings and tail. A nesting study in northeastern Argentina found nests in natural tree cavities and nest boxes.

• Hudson's Black Tyrant Knipolegus hudsoni

  This austral migrant reaches southeastern Peru. The Peru Aves account says all Peruvian sight records are from Madre de Dios and that it forages in young vegetation at river-created habitats.

• Brown-chested Alethe Pseudalethe poliocephala

  This forest flycatcher searches for invertebrates near the forest floor. The current Oiseaux.net account uses Chamaetylas poliocephala; the pool had the older genus Pseudalethe.

• White-quilled Rock Pigeon Petrophassa albipennis

  This ground-dwelling pigeon has a plump body and long tail. A white wing patch shows in flight, and plumage varies among individuals.

• Squamate Antbird Myrmoderus squamosus

  The Squamate Antbird occurs in southeastern Brazil. Males have a black throat grading into scaly marks on the white belly; females have whitish underparts with faint marks.