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- Rusty-browed Warbling Finch Microspingus erythrophrys
Photo: Leonel Roget · (c) Leonel Roget, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY 4.0 This small finch occurs along montane forest edges and in alder groves in Bolivia and Argentina. The male is marked by a blue-gray face and a long rusty eyebrow.
- Field Sparrow Spizella pusilla
The Field Sparrow is marked by a rusty crown, white eye-ring, and pink bill. It uses grassland and scrub, and males sing from early spring into summer.
- Collared Whitestart Myioborus torquatus
This warbler lives in Costa Rica's highland forests. It stays in pairs and may forage in mixed-species flocks.
- Chestnut-throated Partridge Tetraophasis obscurus
The Chestnut-throated Partridge is a pheasant-family bird with a long crest and a white band at the end of its tail. Detailed behaviour records come from observations in Lianhuashan Nature Reserve, Gansu, China.
- Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
A duck that tips forward to find food in ponds and wetlands. A male’s bright appearance changes with the season to a browner, female-like plumage.
- Relict Gull Ichthyaetus relictus
The Relict Gull breeds in Central and East Asia and moves to the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea region for winter. Wintering first-year birds have been recorded on the mudflats of Deep Bay, Hong Kong.
- Stout-billed Cinclodes Cinclodes excelsior
The Stout-billed Cinclodes is a ground-dwelling bird of the high Andes. Its thick, down-curved bill and scaled pattern across the throat and upper chest are distinctive.
- 'Oma'o Myadestes obscurus
The ‘Ōma‘o is a Hawaiian solitaire endemic to Hawaiʻi Island. Its subdued plumage is olive-brown and gray; it often perches quietly and is detected by song. It eats fruit, flowers, and invertebrates.
- Sinai Rosefinch Carpodacus synoicus
This finch is presented as an emblematic bird of Jordan. Females are brown, while males become pinkish in their second year, and the birds feed on seeds in rocky areas and wadis.
- Olive-striped Flycatcher Mionectes galbinus
This entry covers *Mionectes galbinus*, split from the broader *M. olivaceus*. The species account records it in moist lowland and montane forest from Central into northwestern South America.
- Audubon's Oriole Icterus graduacauda
Audubon's Oriole is an oriole with a strong contrast between its black head, wings, and tail and its yellow body. It lives in woodland and brush in Mexico and southern Texas.
- Black-headed Sibia Heterophasia desgodinsi
This mountain forest bird occurs from southwestern and central-southern China through Myanmar, northern Thailand and parts of Indochina. It is arboreal and searches for food in trees.
- Karoo Chat Emarginata schlegelii
This chat lives in semi-desert shrubland in southwestern Africa. It has a gray back, white underside, and white outer tail feathers, and catches insects in short flights.
- Burchell's Starling Lamprotornis australis
Burchell's Starling has glossy blue-green plumage and a purple rump. It lives in open woodland and savanna, searching mainly for insects on the ground.
- Fan-tailed Raven Corvus rhipidurus
A raven of dry cliffs, recognised by its short-looking tail in flight and agile movement in the air.
- Zebra finch Taeniopygia guttata
In Australia, this small bird forms flocks in dry grassland and eats grass seeds.
- Rufous-throated Honeyeater Conopophila rufogularis
The Rufous-throated Honeyeater is recorded in waterside woodland and semi-arid riverine forest in northern Australia. Its diet is mainly invertebrates but broader than that.
- Purple-throated Sunbird Leptocoma sperata
This sunbird occurs in the Philippines. Males have a purple throat and red belly, and feed on nectar and small insects.
- Ochre-marked Parakeet Pyrrhura cruentata
The Ochre-marked Parakeet is mainly green, with red feathers on parts of its face, belly, and tail. It has a fragmented range in the Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil.
- Jonquil Parrot Aprosmictus jonquillaceus
The Jonquil Parrot comprises two subspecies on Timor, Roti, and Wetar. A male of the nominate subspecies is green with a blue rump and red wing patches, and the species uses woodland and Acacia savanna.
- Ornate Fruit Dove Ptilinopus ornatus
The Ornate Fruit Dove is a fruit-eating pigeon of New Guinea's hill and montane forests. Its crown ranges from wine-red to yellowish olive among subspecies, and the sexes look alike.
- Eurasian Pygmy Owl Glaucidium passerinum
A small owl of northern Eurasian coniferous forests. It hunts small birds and mammals around dusk and before sunrise.
- Andean Coot Fulica ardesiaca
A coot of high Andean lakes and ponds. Bill and frontal-shield colors vary by region, and birds feed on open water, often in flocks.
- Imeri Warbling Antbird Hypocnemis flavescens
The Imeri Warbling Antbird is a tropical-forest antbird. A February 2017 paper reported range-extension records near El Encanto along Colombia's Putumayo River.