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• Amazonian Grey Saltator Saltator coerulescens

  

  This medium-sized tanager-family bird ranges from Central America into South America. It is greyish and has been recorded in plantation weeds, secondary forest, and scrub.

• Marcapata Spinetail Cranioleuca marcapatae

  This spinetail occurs in the mountains of central Cusco, Peru. It has a rufous crown, back, wings, and tail, a grayish face, and a pale throat. It forages in humid montane forest understory, especially around bamboo.

• Sulphury Flycatcher Tyrannopsis sulphurea

  This flycatcher uses palm stands in the Amazon region of South America. Its olive-brown upperparts contrast with bright yellow underparts.

• Daurian redstart Phoenicurus auroreus

  A small bird with a white patch on the wing, seen mainly in winter in Japan around farmland, riverbanks and open woodland edges.

• Vinaceous Dove Streptopelia vinacea

  The Vinaceous Dove is marked by a black patch on the back of the neck edged in white, with a pale pink-grey head and breast. It uses dry scrub and savanna south of the Sahara, foraging on the ground for seeds and other vegetation.

• Brazilian Ruby Clytolaema rubricauda

  This hummingbird occurs in southeastern Brazil. Males have a ruby-red throat and coppery-rufous tail; females have pale cinnamon underparts.

• Red-necked Tanager Tangara cyanocephala

  In Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, this tanager feeds on fruit in the canopy and at forest edges, sometimes joining mixed-species flocks.

• Lark-like Brushrunner Coryphistera alaudina

  The Lark-like Brushrunner occurs in the Chaco, Espinal, and Monte regions of southern South America. A field study observed flock members helping to build nests and feed young.

• Large Elaenia Elaenia spectabilis

  This South American flycatcher has three white wing bars and a weak or absent crest. In Bolivia it is recorded in woodland, second growth and forest edges, where it takes insects and fruit.

• Shiny Whistling Thrush Myophonus melanurus

  This thrush is found in the mountains of Sumatra. Its black plumage has deep blue glossed spots, and it forages on the ground and in the lower levels of moist forest.

• White-tipped Dove Leptotila verreauxi

  The White-tipped Dove is marked by sandy plumage, a darker back, and white tips on the outer tail feathers. It searches for seeds on the ground in dry woods and riverside scrub.

• White-necked Jacobin Florisuga mellivora

  The White-necked Jacobin is a large hummingbird with a white neck band and a fan-shaped tail. It visits tropical lowland forest edges, clearings, and gardens, feeding at different heights.

• Rufous-chested Tanager Thlypopsis ornata

  This small tanager occurs in Andean scrub and along humid-forest edges in Peru and Ecuador.

• Ruddy Foliage-gleaner Clibanornis rubiginosus

  This ovenbird occurs in Amazonia and along the Andean foothills. Rufous-brown plumage, a rufous tail, and a gray ear patch help distinguish it.

• Black-billed Flycatcher Aphanotriccus audax

  This small flycatcher occurs locally from eastern Panama to northern Colombia. The male has an olive-grey crown.

• Sapphire Flycatcher Ficedula sapphira

  Breeding males draw attention with a vivid blue back and white belly. Females are mainly brown, and nonbreeding or young males look more like females.

• Purple-tailed Imperial Pigeon Ducula rufigaster

  The Purple-tailed Imperial Pigeon is a large pigeon with a gray head, glossy green upperparts, a chestnut belly, and a purple sheen on the tail. It feeds on fruit in the forest canopy around New Guinea.

• Black-bellied Thorntail Discosura langsdorffi

  The Black-bellied Thorntail occurs in Amazonia and in a separate range on the coast of eastern Brazil. Each region has a different subspecies.

• Morelet's Seedeater Sporophila morelleti

  A small bird that eats grass seeds in open grassy places. Breeding males vary by region, and southern birds often show a bold black breast band.

• Creamy-crested Spinetail Cranioleuca albicapilla

  The Creamy-crested Spinetail occurs in the inter-Andean valleys of central and southern Peru, where it is recorded in scrub and riparian forest.

• Rufous-tailed Flycatcher Myiarchus validus

  A Jamaican forest bird that darts out from cover to catch insects.

• Yellow-vented Green Pigeon Treron seimundi

  The Yellow-vented Green Pigeon is notable for the adult male's white belly and yellow undertail. The park profile lists it in evergreen forest in central and south-central Vietnam and other parts of the region.

• Hispaniolan Emerald Riccordia swainsonii

  The Hispaniolan Emerald is a small hummingbird of forests and scrub on Hispaniola. It feeds on flower nectar and also takes fruit. Older accounts may use the former genus Chlorostilbon; this entry keeps the candidate pool's scientific name.

• Paramo Seedeater Catamenia homochroa

  The Paramo Seedeater occurs in the Andes and on tepuis in southern Venezuela. It searches near the ground in humid scrub near the tree line, often among Chusquea bamboo.