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• Dull-colored Grassquit Asemospiza obscura

  

  This small tanager occurs around the Andes. It has plain gray-brown plumage and a dark bill with a yellow-orange lower mandible.

• White-browed Tit-Spinetail Leptasthenura xenothorax

  This small bird lives in high-Andean Polylepis woodland in Peru. Its rufous head, long white eyebrow, and black-checkered white throat are distinctive.

• Swainson's Flycatcher Myiarchus swainsoni

  This flycatcher was documented in a study of subtropical Atlantic Forest in southeastern Paraguay. At the study site it used forest, forest edges, and riparian areas.

• Gambaga Flycatcher Muscicapa gambagae

  The Gambaga Flycatcher is a small flycatcher identified in part by faint breast streaks and a yellowish-orange lower mandible. It occurs in Africa and southwestern Arabia; breeding activity was observed in Yemen in May.

• Mindanao Brown Dove Phapitreron brunneiceps

  The Mindanao Brown Dove is known from forests on Mindanao and Basilan in the Philippines. A conservation account describes its use of upland forest and fruiting trees.

• Grey-bellied Comet Taphrolesbia griseiventris

  A long-tailed hummingbird of the dry hills of north-central Peru. One female fed insects to nestlings, while another was building a nest beneath a mossy earth overhang.

• Sayaca Tanager Thraupis sayaca

  It has a gray body with a blue cast and blue-green tail and wing tips. It uses trees in open areas, parks, and cities and eats fruit, buds, nectar, and flying insects.

• Ruddy Woodcreeper Dendrocincla homochroa

  This woodcreeper ranges from Mexico to northern Colombia and far northern Venezuela. It is mostly rufous and lives in humid forest, semi-open woodland, and clearings. It eats spiders and insects and may follow army-ant columns.

• Cuban Pewee Contopus caribaeus

  This small bird occurs in Cuba and the Bahamas. It uses a range of places with trees, from forest to scrub.

• Rufous-tailed Robin Luscinia sibilans

  It breeds in forests of Siberia and northeastern China and winters from southern China into northern Southeast Asia. The source uses the name Larvivora sibilans for the bird listed in the pool as Luscinia sibilans.

• White-crowned Pigeon Patagioenas leucocephala

  The White-crowned Pigeon is a large fruit-eating pigeon of forests in southern Florida and the Caribbean islands.

• White-bellied Mountain-gem Lampornis hemileucus

  This hummingbird lives in the mountains from Costa Rica to western Panama. Males have a purple throat; females have green throat spots.

• Black-faced Tanager Schistochlamys melanopis

  This tanager occurs in forest edges and secondary vegetation on the eastern Andes of Peru. Adults are gray with a broad black mark from the face to the upper chest.

• Pacific Hornero Furnarius cinnamomeus

  This hornero ranges from western Ecuador to southwestern Colombia and northwestern Peru. It is cinnamon-colored, with a grey-brown crown and white eyebrow and throat. It searches on the ground for arthropods and snails, and builds an oven-shaped mud nest.

• Rufous-webbed Bush Tyrant Cnemarchus rufipennis

  The body is gray, with a pale center to the belly and pale undertail coverts. Rufous parts of the wings and tail show clearly in flight. It forages in open scrub and grassland in the high Andes.

• Small Niltava Niltava macgrigoriae

  The Small Niltava has blue-purple plumage in males and mainly brown and rufous plumage in females. In Hong Kong it is a rare autumn migrant and a scarce winter visitor to wooded areas.

• Black-chinned Fruit Dove Ptilinopus leclancheri

  The Black-chinned Fruit Dove occurs mainly in the Philippines and is described as a very rare resident in Taiwan. It uses forest patches.

• Giant Hummingbird Patagona gigas

  This entry covers the southern species Patagona gigas. It looks very similar to the Northern Giant Hummingbird, P. peruviana, but differs in breeding range and vocalizations.

• Lesson's Seedeater Sporophila bouvronides

  Lesson's Seedeater is a seasonal visitor to the northern lowlands of Bolivia. The Birds of Bolivia account describes it there as a rare, local nonbreeding visitor.

• Canebrake Groundcreeper Clibanornis dendrocolaptoides

  The Canebrake Groundcreeper lives in the southern Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil, eastern Paraguay, and Misiones in Argentina. A 2025 Argentine review reports that it tunnels into vertical banks near springs or streams and that most recent Argentine records cluster in central-eastern Misiones.

• Inca Flycatcher Leptopogon taczanowskii

  It occurs in montane forest on the eastern slope of the Peruvian Andes, at 1,700–2,700 m.

• Atlas Pied Flycatcher Ficedula speculigera

  The male has conspicuous white patches on the forehead and wings in spring. It breeds in mountain forests from Morocco to Tunisia; much of its winter range is unknown.

• Jambu Fruit Dove Ptilinopus jambu

  Male Jambu Fruit Doves have a crimson face and white chest; females have a purplish face and green chest. They eat fruit and live in Southeast Asian evergreen and mangrove forests.

• Rufous-breasted Sabrewing Campylopterus hyperythrus

  The Rufous-breasted Sabrewing was recorded in the Roraima Mountains. Its nineteenth-century description was based on one adult male and notes dark rufous underparts, greenish upperparts, and feeding among flowering shrubs.