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• Sahyadri Sunbird Aethopyga vigorsii

  

  The Sahyadri Sunbird is an approximately 11 cm sunbird endemic to the Western Ghats of southwest India. Males have a crimson breast with yellow streaks; females have olive-green upperparts.

• Yellow-eared Parrot Ognorhynchus icterotis

  Green plumage and a yellow patch beside the ears identify this parrot. It uses cloud forest and wax-palm habitat in the Colombian Andes.

• Yellow-streaked Lory Chalcopsitta scintillata

  The Yellow-streaked Lory is a lowland parrot from the New Guinea region. Yellow streaks mark its darker plumage, while the color of the forehead and other details vary among subspecies.

• Blue-headed Quail-Dove Starnoenas cyanocephala

  This pigeon lives in Cuba's forests. Its bluish head and black-and-white facial markings stand out, and it searches for food on the ground.

• Pallid Scops Owl Otus brucei

  The Pallid Scops Owl is a small owl of dry regions. A winter study in southern Israel recorded individuals roosting in acacias growing in desert washes.

• Rouget's Rail Rougetius rougetii

  This rail lives in the highlands of Ethiopia and Eritrea and walks through grassland and marshy ground.

• Magdalena Antbird Sipia palliata

  This antbird occurs in humid forest in Colombia and Venezuela. It forages low in dense undergrowth, including around fallen logs.

• African fish eagle Icthyophaga vocifer

  A large eagle of African waterways that catches fish near the surface.

• Tullberg's Woodpecker Campethera tullbergi

  A woodpecker of montane forests from southeastern Nigeria and Cameroon east to the highlands of East Africa. Males have a red forecrown and nape and spotted or barred yellow-green underparts.

• Hispaniolan Lizard Cuckoo Coccyzus longirostris

  A cuckoo of Hispaniola and nearby islands, it uses its long tail as it searches among branches for lizards and large insects.

• Buff-breasted Paradise Kingfisher Tanysiptera sylvia

  This kingfisher has a shining blue back and long white tail feathers. It moves from New Guinea to northeastern Australia, where it nests in ground termite mounds.

• Jungle Prinia Prinia sylvatica

  This prinia occurs on the Indian Peninsula and often uses dry scrub and grassy hills.

• Greenish Puffleg Haplophaedia aureliae

  It has green upperparts, whitish underparts densely speckled green, and white feather tufts on the legs. It inhabits humid montane forest.

• Falkenstein's Greenbul Chlorocichla falkensteini

  Falkenstein's Greenbul is a bulbul ranging from southern Cameroon to western Angola. In Angola, the cited guide reports it along northern and central escarpments. That guide uses the English name Yellow-necked Greenbul.

• Buffy-fronted Seedeater Sporophila frontalis

  This finch of the Atlantic Forest region of southeastern South America moves in response to bamboo seed crops. Many records are from southeastern Brazil, where birds may gather when bamboo flowers.

• Antioquia Brush Finch Atlapetes blancae

  This bird is restricted to the Altiplano Norte de Antioquia in Colombia. Its 2007 description was based on three museum specimens; a live bird was found in the field in 2018.

• Pirre Warbler Basileuterus ignotus

  The Pirre Warbler is a small warbler recorded in the Pirre mountains of eastern Panama. Museum and current species accounts place it in humid high-elevation forest.

• Hainan Peacock Pheasant Polyplectron katsumatae

  The Hainan Peacock Pheasant is restricted to mountain forests on Hainan Island. Males have metallic blue-green bars and eye-like spots on the wings and tail, and the birds forage for insects and worms on the ground.

• American Black Duck Anas rubripes

  A duck of shallow wetlands in eastern North America. It is dark brown overall and can be hard to distinguish among Mallards.

• Saunders's Gull Chroicocephalus saundersi

  It breeds in Yellow Sea coastal saltmarshes, mainly in eastern China and occasionally on the southwestern coast of South Korea. Outside the breeding season it moves to coasts of eastern China, Japan, Taiwan and Korea.

• Line-fronted Canastero Asthenes urubambensis

  This ovenbird lives in the high Andes of Peru and western Bolivia. It forages in humid or semi-humid scrub and has a rufous-brown back with a streaked breast.

• Tristan Thrush Turdus eremita

  An island thrush endemic to the Tristan da Cunha group in the South Atlantic. On Tristan da Cunha it is mainly reported around the mountain base and gulches; on Nightingale and Inaccessible it occurs across all habitats described by the island account.

• Lawrence's Goldfinch Spinus lawrencei

  Male Lawrence’s Goldfinches are gray with black faces and lemon-yellow markings; the birds may move in search of rain, seeds, and water.

• Caribbean Elaenia Elaenia martinica

  This tyrant flycatcher occurs on Caribbean islands. It is found at forest edges and gardens and has dark olive-gray upperparts with a grayish-white underside washed yellow below.