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• Great-billed Seed Finch Sporophila maximiliani

  

  The Great-billed Seed-Finch is a small seed-eating finch with an exceptionally thick, strong bill. Surveys in Brazil found it at very few marshy sites in the Cerrado.

• Eye-ringed Thistletail Asthenes palpebralis

  This thistletail is reported as restricted to the eastern Andes of Peru’s Junín region. The pictured bird is of unknown sex; its broad white eye-ring and long graduated tail are conspicuous.

• White-browed Chat-Tyrant Ochthoeca leucophrys

  This chat-tyrant lives in open woodland and scrub in the high Andes. It perches upright and makes short flights to catch arthropods.

• White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher Dioptrornis fischeri

  This flycatcher lives in East African mountain forests and their edges. Active by day, it catches small invertebrates in short aerial sallies.

• Bar-shouldered Dove Geopelia humeralis

  The Bar-shouldered Dove ranges across northern and eastern Australia and southern New Guinea. It searches for seeds in short grass and is marked by a bronze patch on the hindneck.

• Violet-tailed Sylph Aglaiocercus coelestis

  This hummingbird lives on the western Andean slope of Colombia and Ecuador. Males have long violet-blue tails; females are smaller and lack the long tail.

• Black-legged Dacnis Dacnis nigripes

  This small bird lives in moist forests of south-eastern Brazil, and males and females have very different plumage.

• Pernambuco Foliage-gleaner Automolus lammi

  This foliage-gleaner occurs in states of northeastern Brazil. It has white eyes and throat and coppery plumage, and searches among leaves and vines in forest interiors near streams.

• Black-billed Shrike-Tyrant Agriornis montanus

  This tyrant flycatcher occurs in dry Andean scrub and urban areas. It has gray-brown plumage, a black bill, and a mostly white tail.

• Whinchat Saxicola rubetra

  The Whinchat is a small migratory bird found in grassland and scrub. In Britain it breeds in summer and migrates to Africa for winter.

• Western Crowned Pigeon Goura cristata

  The Western Crowned Pigeon is a large forest pigeon of New Guinea and nearby Indonesian islands. Its blue-grey body and fan-shaped crest stand out, and it feeds on the ground.

• Green-headed Hillstar Oreotrochilus stolzmanni

  The Green-headed Hillstar lives in the high Andes from southern Peru to southern Ecuador. It uses rocky grassland and scrub and feeds on nectar.

• Ruddy-breasted Seedeater Sporophila minuta

  This small seed-eater occurs from Central into South America. Males and females differ in plumage, and male coloration also varies geographically.

• Ash-browed Spinetail Cranioleuca curtata

  This ovenbird searches among mosses and epiphytes in humid montane forest on the eastern slope of the Andes.

• Tepui Elaenia Elaenia olivina

  The Tepui Elaenia is a small tyrant flycatcher of southern Venezuela and nearby tepuis, extending into adjacent Guyana and extreme northern Brazil.

• Cassin's Flycatcher Muscicapa cassini

  This flycatcher ranges from West Africa east to Uganda and northern Zambia. It catches flying insects around swamps and streams in humid lowland forest.

• Amethyst Brown Dove Phapitreron amethystinus

  The Amethyst Brown Dove is a Philippine forest endemic. A survey at Mount Makiling recorded it in the canopy and classified it as a fruit-eater.

• Violet-throated Starfrontlet Coeligena violifer

  The Violet-throated Starfrontlet has a green head and chest, with an iridescent violet throat patch in males. It belongs to a hummingbird family that uses nectar and small insects.

• Buff-bellied Tanager Thlypopsis inornata

  The Buff-bellied Tanager occurs in north-western Peru, with a record from extreme south-eastern Ecuador. It feeds on small arthropods in dry highland scrub. The account says females are duller than males and juveniles resemble females.

• Orange-breasted Thornbird Phacellodomus ferrugineigula

  This ovenbird is recorded from central-northern Uruguay to eastern Brazil. Adults have three central pairs of olive-brown tail feathers, and the reddish-chestnut chin grades into an olive-brown lower belly. A 2008 comparative study treated it as a distinct species from its close relative.

• Russet-winged Spadebill Platyrinchus leucoryphus

  The Russet-winged Spadebill is a small bird with a broad, flat bill. It lives in the Atlantic Forest.

• Canary Islands Bush Chat Saxicola dacotiae

  The Canary Islands Bush Chat is endemic to the Canary Islands and occurs in rocky, scrubby areas of Fuerteventura.

• Flores Sea Cuckoo-Dove Macropygia macassariensis

  This cuckoo-dove occurs on islands of Indonesia. A 2016 study treats the Tanahjampea and Kalaotoa populations as subspecies longa and describes its plumage separately.

• White-tipped Sicklebill Eutoxeres aquila

  The White-tipped Sicklebill inhabits humid forests from Central America to north-western South America. Its strongly downcurved bill helps it take nectar from Heliconia flowers.