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• Red-cowled Cardinal Paroaria dominicana

  

  Common in northeastern Brazil, this tanager has a red head and throat, grey back, black wings and tail, and a white underside to the tail; immatures have a duller orange head.

• Rhinomyias additus

  This flycatcher is endemic to Buru. Recent accounts use the combination Eumyias additus.

• Pheasant Coucal Centropus phasianinus

  The Pheasant Coucal is a large cuckoo relative with a long tail. It lives in grassland and scrub across northern and eastern Australia.

• Purplish-backed Jay Cyanocorax beecheii

  The Purplish-backed Jay is a jay of dry woodland and scrub on Mexico's northwestern coast. Its blue-purple body and black head are distinctive.

• Chestnut-backed Owlet Glaucidium castanotum

  Adults have a chestnut back and a prominent white throat patch. Black streaks mark the underside, and the eyes are bright yellow. It lives in small groups in wet forest in southwestern Sri Lanka and hunts or calls in daylight. It mainly eats insects such as beetles, and also takes mice, small birds, and reptiles.

• Brown Wood Rail Aramides wolfi

  The Brown Wood Rail is a chicken-sized rail with a yellow bill and pink legs. It keeps to streams and marshy areas in humid forest, where paired birds may call together.

• Rufous Hummingbird Selasphorus rufus

  The Rufous Hummingbird makes long migrations through western North America. Males are notably rufous, while females are green with rufous sides.

• Black-spotted Bare-eye Phlegopsis nigromaculata

  This antbird lives in Amazonian forest. It forages in the understory and sometimes follows columns of army ants.

• Yellow-breasted Racket-tail Prioniturus flavicans

  The Yellow-breasted Racket-tail has a yellow breast and racket-shaped tips on its central tail feathers. It searches for food in the canopy of forests on Sulawesi and nearby islands, often in pairs or small groups.

• Lesser Hornero Furnarius minor

  This small ovenbird is common along Amazonian rivers. It searches for food on the ground in open places created by rivers and similar early-growth habitats made by people.

• Graceful Honeyeater Microptilotis gracilis

  This small honeyeater occurs in northern Cape York Peninsula, northeastern Australia. Adult males and females have the same plumage, although males are larger.

• Yellow-faced Amazon Alipiopsitta xanthops

  This parrot is marked by a yellow face and orange flanks or belly. In northern Bolivia it is usually seen in pairs and may form flocks in the austral winter.

• Andean Gull Chroicocephalus serranus

  This medium-sized gull changes its head pattern between breeding and non-breeding plumage. It uses Andean lakes and rivers; in Chile, some move down to the coast in winter.

• Mexican Duck Anas diazi

  The Mexican Duck is found mainly in Mexico. It uses temporary wetlands during the rainy season and agricultural areas around water in the dry season.

• Bahama Oriole Icterus northropi

  This oriole is endemic to the Andros island complex in The Bahamas. It nests in palms around settlements, and a 2020 study also documented breeding in native pine forest.

• Yellow-vented Eremomela Eremomela flavicrissalis

  The Yellow-vented Eremomela ranges from southern Ethiopia into parts of eastern Africa. It has gray-brown upperparts, pale gray sides to the head and whitish underparts, and searches for small insects in bushy savanna and semi-desert scrub.

• Magnificent Sunbird Aethopyga magnifica

  This sunbird is restricted to the Philippine Visayas, with records from Cebu, Negros, Panay, Sibuyan and Tablas. It uses forest and semi-open habitats and feeds mainly on nectar.

• Flame-throated Warbler Oreothlypis gutturalis

  This small warbler lives in cloud forest in Costa Rica and western Panama. The sexes look similar, with a grey back, orange throat and breast, and a pale belly.

• Brown-backed Woodpecker Dendropicos obsoletus

  An African woodpecker of dry scrub and wooded grassland. The male is marked by a red nape and a white eyebrow.

• Yellow-rumped Siskin Spinus uropygialis

  The Yellow-rumped Siskin is a small finch of the high Andes. Its black head and back contrast with a bright yellow rump; females and young birds are duller.

• Sumatran Bulbul Ixos sumatranus

  Sumatran Bulbul occurs in the mountains of western Sumatra. Its species account records olive-brown upperparts and a white throat and breast.

• Arabian Partridge Alectoris melanocephala

  The Arabian Partridge is native to the Arabian Peninsula and has been reported around Abha and Tanomah in southwestern Saudi Arabia.

• Rufous-vented Laughingthrush Pterorhinus gularis

  The Rufous-vented Laughingthrush ranges from the eastern Himalayas into northern Indochina. It has a black facial mask, yellow throat and rufous-chestnut on the belly and outer tail feathers.

• Cocoa Thrush Turdus fumigatus

  The Cocoa Thrush is dark rufous-brown above and paler rufous-brown below. It forages on or near the ground and uses forests and plantations.