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• Black-spectacled Brush Finch Atlapetes melanopsis

  

  This brush-finch inhabits montane scrub and forest edges around Peru's upper Mantaro Valley. Adults have gray bodies, a rufous head, and black markings around the eyes.

• Red-gartered Coot Fulica armillata

  The Red-gartered Coot is a waterbird marked by a red band on each leg. It swims in lakes, ponds, and slow rivers and feeds on aquatic plants.

• White-rumped Babbler Turdoides leucopygia

  An eastern African babbler of rocky hill woodland, scrub, riparian cover, and reedbeds. Its scaled breast and white rump and lower belly are useful field marks.

• Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater Acanthagenys rufogularis

  The Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater is widespread on mainland Australia. Adults have distinctive cheek feathers, and a study in inland New South Wales recorded movements associated with flowers and fruit.

• Sentinel Rock Thrush Monticola explorator

  Males have blue-gray and orange plumage, while females are gray-brown with pale mottling. It lives in grassland and rocky slopes and forages on the ground.

• Cuban Palm Crow Corvus minutus

  This crow is endemic to western Cuba. It is reported mainly from lowland cultivation with scattered palms, where it forages on the ground for invertebrates, lizards and fruit.

• Pink-rumped Rosefinch Carpodacus waltoni

  A rosefinch found in central China and Tibet. It uses open areas such as forest edges and shrubby expanses.

• Barred Wren-Warbler Calamonastes fasciolatus

  This small bird lives in semi-arid savanna in southern Africa. Fine barring and pale cheeks help identify it, and it sings a high trill from a tree top.

• Three-striped Warbler Basileuterus tristriatus

  This warbler lives in mountain forests on the eastern Andean slope. Its yellow-olive body and black-and-white head stripes are distinctive. The Peru account notes duller birds in Puno than farther north.

• Black-eared Cuckoo Chalcites osculans

  The Black-eared Cuckoo is a brood-parasitic cuckoo found widely across mainland Australia. Its breeding records are concentrated in the southern inland half of the continent.

• Indian Silverbill Euodice malabarica

  The Indian Silverbill is a small finch with a pale rump and a black bill. It feeds on seeds and stays in flocks in both dry open country and places near people.

• Budgerigar Melopsittacus undulatus

  A small Australian parrot. Wild birds have green bodies, yellow faces and dark markings on the head and wings.

• Partridge Pigeon Geophaps smithii

  This ground-dwelling pigeon is recognized by facial skin and a white stripe along the body. In northern Australia the facial skin is red in one region and yellow in another; it feeds on seeds on the ground.

• Harris's Hawk Parabuteo unicinctus

  The Harris's Hawk is distinguished by reddish shoulders and legs and a dark tail with white bands.

• Flame-breasted Sunbird Cinnyris solaris

  The male has a glossy blue-green throat and forehead with a vivid orange breast and belly. The species lives alone or in pairs in open woodland and scrub of lowlands and low hills.

• Inaccessible Finch Nesospiza acunhae

  The Inaccessible Finch lives on Inaccessible Island. Its three island subspecies differ in plumage, bill size, and foods.

• White-crested Tyrannulet Serpophaga subcristata

  This tyrannulet has yellow-bellied and whitish-bellied forms. Both use scrub and open woodland, avoiding closed forest. It ranges from Bolivia south to Argentina.

• Austral Thrush Turdus falcklandii

  This thrush is resident in northwestern Patagonia. Dark streaks mark its white throat, and ochre coloring spreads across the breast and belly.

• Eaton's Pintail Anas eatoni

  This small duck is endemic to the Crozet and Kerguelen islands. It breeds in pairs in summer and may gather in flocks of hundreds in winter.

• Western Fire-eye Pyriglena maura

  This antbird lives in dense forest understory from northern to central South America. It searches near the ground for insects and small lizards.

• Green-tailed Bristlebill Bleda eximius

  This bulbul is recorded in forests of Sierra Leone. It has a yellow-tipped green tail and pale yellow underparts, and searches for insects in dense understory.

• Spotless Starling Sturnus unicolor

  A starling native to the Iberian Peninsula and western Mediterranean. Adults have glossy dark plumage, and bill color and pale feather tips change with season.

• Little Blue Macaw Cyanopsitta spixii

  The Little Blue Macaw (Cyanopsitta spixii) is a medium-sized parrot with grayish-blue plumage. Its historical wild range was limited to riverine woodland in northeastern Brazil.

• Straight-billed Hermit Phaethornis bourcieri

  A hummingbird of the Amazon lowlands that uses forest undergrowth and feeds on nectar.