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• Patagonian Sierra Finch Phrygilus patagonicus

  

  This finch occurs along the forest–steppe ecotone of northwestern Patagonia. Males show blue-gray and chestnut, while females are gray and olive.

• Eastern Wattled-Honeyeater Foulehaio carunculatus

  A 2017 American Samoa manual calls this bird the Polynesian Wattled-Honeyeater and prints Foulehaio carunculata. It places the species on the islands of eastern Fiji, Tonga, and Samoa. In American Samoa, birds in breeding condition were captured throughout the year.

• Olive-winged Bulbul Pycnonotus plumosus

  The Olive-winged Bulbul is marked by olive-toned wing feathers and a pale streak behind the eye. It occurs in forests and mangroves across Southeast Asia and is described as a common resident in Singapore.

• Red-billed Woodcreeper Hylexetastes perrotii

  This woodcreeper inhabits moist lowland forest in South America. It searches trunks and branches for arthropods.

• Solitary Eagle Buteogallus solitarius

  The Solitary Eagle is a large raptor of tropical forests. Adults are almost entirely black with a white band across the middle of the tail. An Argentine regional account records mammals as prey and trees as nesting sites.

• Nilgiri Flycatcher Eumyias albicaudatus

  The Nilgiri Flycatcher occurs in India's Western Ghats. Males are greenish indigo-blue with white patches at the tail base; females are smaller and grey-brown.

• Short-tailed Woodstar Myrmia micrura

  This small hummingbird lives at forest edges and in scrub in northwestern Peru. The male has a white-edged purple throat patch, and the sexes differ in tail details.

• Rusty-margined Flycatcher Myiozetetes cayanensis

  This flycatcher ranges through Central and South America. It often uses moist lowland forest and catches insects by darting from a perch.

• Orange-fronted Hanging Parrot Loriculus aurantiifrons

  A small green parrot with red on the lower throat and rump. It lives in wooded lowlands and foothills on New Guinea and nearby islands.

• Rufous-breasted Piculet Picumnus rufiventris

  This small piculet occurs in western Amazonia. A 2013 field account recorded foraging among bamboo and vines and an apparent recently fledged juvenile.

• Natal Francolin Pternistis natalensis

  The Natal Francolin is a ground-dwelling bird with red legs and bold black-and-white barring. Small groups occur around rocky ground and thickets near water in southern Africa.

• Ochre-breasted Brush Finch Atlapetes semirufus

  The Ochre-breasted Brushfinch ranges from northern Venezuela into north-central Colombia. It uses montane forest understory and edges at about 1,000–3,500 m.

• Nicobar Scops Owl Otus alius

  This scops owl is from the Nicobar Islands. The original description is based on specimens from Campbell Bay on Great Nicobar Island. Reports describe coastal forest and prey found in specimens, but ecological information remains limited.

• Bornean Treepie Dendrocitta cinerascens

  The Bornean Treepie is a long-tailed corvid with a pale grey nape and reddish-brown underparts. It moves through the canopy in small groups in Bornean forests.

• Spotted Kingfisher Actenoides lindsayi

  The Spotted Kingfisher lives in the moist lowland forests of the Philippines. It waits on low perches and catches insects and small animals.

• Aztec Rail Rallus tenuirostris

  The Aztec Rail is a rail of Mexico’s highland freshwater marshes. A 2014 taxonomic proposal describes that population as bright rufous below, with diffuse barring on the flanks.

• 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.

• Rufous-cheeked Laughingthrush Garrulax castanotis

  The Rufous-cheeked Laughingthrush occurs on Hainan in China, in northern Vietnam, and in eastern Laos. Some older treatments grouped it with the Grey Laughingthrush; this account follows the current treatment of Garrulax castanotis as a separate species.

• Rufous-throated Bronze Cuckoo Chalcites ruficollis

  The Rufous-throated Bronze Cuckoo is a small cuckoo of New Guinea's humid mountain forests. Its throat and underparts are rufous, crossed by broad dark bars.

• Andean Solitaire Myadestes ralloides

  The Andean Solitaire often lives alone in Andean forests and has a gray face and breast with a brown back.

• Philippine Tailorbird Orthotomus castaneiceps

  This tailorbird occurs in the Visayan Islands. A 1971 Philippine bird account treated castaneiceps as a subspecies and recorded a gray upper back and white underparts.

• Lesser Crested Tern Thalasseus bengalensis

  A large tern with a long, bright-orange bill. It lives along tropical and subtropical coasts and catches small fish and shrimp in shallow water.

• Red-breasted Goose Branta ruficollis

  This goose breeds in the Siberian Arctic and winters around the Black Sea. Its plumage has bold chestnut, white, and black markings.

• Brown-hooded Parrot Pyrilia haematotis

  The Brown-hooded Parrot is a medium-sized parrot that feeds on fruit in the canopy of humid tropical forest. Costa Rican observations describe pairs and small flocks.