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• Plumbeous Seedeater Sporophila plumbea

  

  The Plumbeous Seedeater is a small bird about 10.5–11 cm long. In lowland Bolivia it is recorded in wooded grassland and savanna; in Colombia, records include the eastern plains and parts of the Andes.

• Rusty-headed Spinetail Synallaxis fuscorufa

  This ovenbird is restricted to Colombia's Santa Marta mountains. It searches among branches in montane forest understory and scrub.

• Grey-headed Elaenia Myiopagis caniceps

  The Grey-headed Elaenia is a small canopy bird of eastern South America. It gleans insects from leaves and twigs and also eats small fruits; southernmost birds may move north during the austral winter. Older accounts can use a broader species concept, so this entry follows Myiopagis caniceps.

• Cyprus Wheatear Oenanthe cypriaca

  This black-and-white bird breeds only on Cyprus and migrates to Africa for winter.

• Dark-backed Imperial Pigeon Ducula lacernulata

  A forest pigeon that visits fruiting trees in the hills and mountains. It has dark wings and back, while head color varies across Java.

• Bumblebee Hummingbird Selasphorus heloisa

  The Bumblebee Hummingbird occurs in Mexico. An early naturalist account says males used forest as their main setting but also visited wildflowers.

• Bolivian Warbling Finch Poospiza boliviana

  This finch occurs in the west-central Bolivian Andes. A research paper gives an elevational range of about 1,600–3,000 m and describes its plumage as gray, white, and rufous.

• Tepui Spinetail Cranioleuca demissa

  The Tepui Spinetail is a small ovenbird of the tepuis of southern Venezuela, western Guyana, and northern Brazil. It searches branches and bark for small prey in humid montane forest.

• Acre Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus cohnhafti

  It was described near Assis Brasil in Acre, Brazil. The 2013 original description said the type locality was the only known site then; a later account also shows records from Rio Branco.

• Black Scrub Robin Cercotrichas podobe

  A Black Scrub Robin recorded in a Djibouti survey. Its sooty-black body and long, white-tipped tail are distinctive.

• Long-tailed Ground Dove Uropelia campestris

  The Long-tailed Ground Dove is a long-tailed dove of South American grasslands. Black spots on its brown wings and its V-shaped tail are distinctive.

• Bronzy Hermit Glaucis aeneus

  This hummingbird uses tangled vegetation at forest edges and streams. It is usually solitary; males display at thickets near streams and other dense vegetation.

• Mangrove Finch Camarhynchus heliobates

  The Mangrove Finch is a small bird endemic to the Galápagos. It searches mangrove leaf litter and dead wood for arthropods and nests high in trees.

• Rufous-necked Foliage-gleaner Syndactyla ruficollis

  This furnariid occurs on the western Andean slope from northwestern Peru into Ecuador. It has a rufous neck and tail and is found in dense understory with bamboo.

• Fulvous-faced Scrub Tyrant Euscarthmus fulviceps

  This small tyrant is recorded in dry scrub and deciduous forest of western Ecuador. It searches near the ground for insects and also eats fruit.

• Malabar Whistling Thrush Myophonus horsfieldii

  The Malabar Whistling Thrush has a dark head and back with bright blue on its body, shoulders, and forehead. It lives in riverine forest and dense undergrowth in peninsular India, where its clear whistling calls are often heard.

• Dwarf Fruit Dove Ptilinopus nainus

  This small fruit dove lives in lowland and foothill rainforest. Males have a purple chest mark; the birds eat fruit and nectar and may be seen in pairs.

• Red-billed Streamertail Trochilus polytmus

  The Red-billed Streamertail lives across most of Jamaica. The long tail streamers belong to males, and the island's far eastern tip is occupied by a separate species.

• White-throated Sierra Finch Idiopsar erythronotus

  The White-throated Sierra Finch forages on the ground in open Andean country. Adults are gray overall, with a white throat and a paler lower belly.

• Ceara Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus atlanticus

  A Ceará state publication records the woodcreeper in humid mountain forest and says it climbs trunks to search bark for arthropods. It lists Ceará as well as the neighboring states of Paraíba and Pernambuco.

• Rusty-backed Monjita Neoxolmis rubetra

  This tyrant flycatcher lives in Argentina’s dry shrub-steppe. It uses low shrubs and the ground, and the account also describes winter movement from breeding areas toward central Argentina.

• Mountain Robin-Chat Cossypha isabellae

  This bird has dark olive-brown upperparts, a white line in front of the eye and orange-rufous underparts. It is recorded in montane forests of western Cameroon and southeastern Nigeria; a Cameroon survey found it in primary and secondary forest.

• Azuero Dove Leptotila battyi

  This Panamanian dove is notable for the chestnut back and pale pink breast of the adult male. Its island and mainland populations belong to different subspecies.

• Great Sapphirewing Pterophanes cyanopterus

  This large hummingbird has a dark green body and blue wings in the male; the female is green above and rufous below. In Bolivia it uses highland grassland and forest edges.