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• White-capped Redstart Chaimarrornis leucocephalus

  

  This streamside flycatcher breeds in Central Asia, the Himalayas and much of China. Its white crown and nape, black chest and reddish-brown belly and tail are distinctive. In winter it moves to lower elevations.

• Common Ground Dove Columbina passerina

  The Common Ground Dove is a small dove of the southern United States. It forages for seeds on the ground, where its gray-brown plumage blends with soil and grass.

• Spot-winged Antbird Myrmelastes leucostigma

  This antbird lives in Amazonian forest. Males are gray with white wing bars, females are brown with rufous wing spots, and the birds forage in wet places inside forest.

• Short-tailed Hawk Buteo brachyurus

  The Short-tailed Hawk circles above forests, looking for birds and diving to catch them.

• Black-rumped Flameback Dinopium benghalense

  A woodpecker with a striking golden-looking back.

• Gray-breasted Sabrewing Campylopterus largipennis

  This hummingbird occurs in humid lowland forest in eastern Colombia and in foothill forest east of the Andes. It feeds on nectar and also sallies from a perch to catch small insects.

• White-lined Tanager Tachyphonus rufus

  Males are black, with white lines under the wings visible in flight; females are rufous brown. In Brazil the species also occurs at forest edges, in scrub, secondary growth and gardens, where pairs forage low in the vegetation.

• Scimitar-billed Woodcreeper Drymornis bridgesii

  It is active by day in open woodland and the Chaco, where it searches the ground for invertebrates. Its body is about 29–35 cm long.

• Cassin's Kingbird Tyrannus vociferans

  Cassin's Kingbird has a gray head and breast, a white throat, and a yellow belly. It catches flying insects from perches in open country.

• Javan Shortwing Brachypteryx montana

  Males have dark olive-brown upperparts and wings, a rusty-brown throat, chest, and flanks, and a gray belly. On Java's mountains, the species uses forest and eats insects and berries.

• Golden-spotted Ground Dove Metriopelia aymara

  The Golden-spotted Ground Dove is a small, compact, drab-brown dove with golden spots on its wings. It walks on the ground while searching for food in the high Andes.

• White-lined Antbird Myrmoborus lophotes

  This antbird lives in lowland forest of southeastern Peru, chiefly in Guadua bamboo stands. Males are dark gray and females rufous, and both have a prominent crest.

• Beaudouin's Snake Eagle Circaetus beaudouini

  This snake eagle lives in the sparsely wooded Sahel. It searches from prominent perches and takes snakes and other small prey.

• Red-breasted Sapsucker Sphyrapicus ruber

  This woodpecker has a scarlet head and a black-and-white checkerboard back. It drills rows of shallow sap wells in trees and occurs in forests of the Sierra Nevada and Pacific Coast.

• Red-billed Emerald Chlorostilbon gibsoni

  This small hummingbird occurs in dry woodland and scrub in Colombia and western Venezuela. The male is emerald green with a red lower bill.

• Moss-backed Tanager Bangsia edwardsi

  This tanager inhabits humid Andean forests of Colombia and Ecuador, feeding on fruit in the canopy and insects lower in the forest.

• Rusty-fronted Canastero Asthenes ottonis

  The Rusty-fronted Canastero is endemic to Peru and lives in dry scrub of the high Andes.

• Drab-breasted Bamboo Tyrant Hemitriccus diops

  This small tyrant flycatcher has olive upperparts, a white eye-ring, a grey breast, and yellow at the bend of the wing. It occurs from south-eastern Brazil through eastern Paraguay to north-eastern Argentina, foraging in the understory of humid forest and secondary growth, especially bamboo patches.

• Blue-fronted Blue Flycatcher Cyornis hoevelli

  The Blue-fronted Blue Flycatcher is presented as endemic to Sulawesi in a local guide to Sigi Regency. The guide records it at Gimpu, Lindu, Kamarora, Rorekatimbu, Napu and Besoa, and describes it as a forest bird.

• Buff-fronted Quail-Dove Zentrygon costaricensis

  The Buff-fronted Quail-Dove has a rufous-brown back, green nape, and a black stripe on its mostly white face. It is found on the ground in montane cloud forest in Costa Rica and western Panama.

• Grey-headed Goshawk Tachyspiza poliocephala

  The Grey-headed Goshawk has a grey adult form and a much darker form. It hunts mainly lizards from a perch and occurs on New Guinea and nearby islands.

• Red-stained Woodpecker Veniliornis affinis

  This woodpecker inhabits forests of the Amazon Basin. Males have red on the head, females lack red on the head, and both sexes have red wing spots.

• Andean Emerald Uranomitra franciae

  This hummingbird occurs in Colombia's Andes, using montane forest and edges as well as flower-rich secondary growth and gardens.

• Moustached Flowerpiercer Diglossa mystacalis

  This flowerpiercer occurs in the Andes of Peru and Bolivia. The southern Peruvian form albilinea is described as mostly black, matching a field report from Abra Malaga in Cusco.