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• Olive Oropendola Psarocolius bifasciatus

  

  This large oropendola occurs in the Peruvian Amazon canopy; its red bill tip and pink cheek patch are distinctive.

• Masked Laughingthrush Pterorhinus perspicillatus

  This laughingthrush is marked by long legs and tail and a black pattern around the eyes. In Hong Kong, small flocks live among vegetation in parks and villages.

• Rufous-browed Flycatcher Anthipes solitaris

  This flycatcher lives in montane forest in Malaysia. The MyBIS account includes a record from Fraser's Hill in Pahang.

• Long-crested Myna Basilornis corythaix

  This myna lives on Seram Island. Its long crest and green sheen on black plumage are distinctive.

• Woodhouse's Scrub Jay Aphelocoma woodhouseii

  This jay occurs from Nevada south into Mexico in dry shrublands and pinyon-juniper woodland. Its muted blue plumage is set off by gray-brown and white.

• African Firefinch Lagonosticta rubricata

  It is described with dark wine-red plumage, a grayish-red crown, and a dark bluish, cone-shaped bill.

• White-naped Honeyeater Melithreptus lunatus

  A honeyeater of eastern and southeastern Australia. Its olive back, black crown and white nape band are distinctive.

• Malachite Sunbird Nectarinia famosa

  The Malachite Sunbird occurs in separate parts of East and southern Africa. It feeds mainly on nectar and has a slender body and long tail.

• Kawall's Amazon Amazona kawalli

  Pale skin at the base of the bill, a grey eye ring, and yellow-green wing edges are identifying features. Observations in Vaupés, Colombia, recorded flocks feeding on palm fruit.

• Citrine Lorikeet Saudareos flavoviridis

  The Citrine Lorikeet has a green back and yellow, dark-scaled underparts. Small flocks gather at flowering trees along forest edges.

• Claret-breasted Fruit Dove Ptilinopus viridis

  The Claret-breasted Fruit Dove eats fruit in tropical forest and gardens. The nominate subspecies has a red-purple patch from the throat onto the breast.

• Verreaux's Eagle-Owl Ketupa lactea

  Verreaux's Eagle-Owl is a large African owl with a white face edged in black and prominent ear tufts.

• Blackish Rail Pardirallus nigricans

  The Blackish Rail is about 28.5 cm long and is described as rare and local in Peru. Records there include lowland Amazonian forest in Madre de Dios and Andean foothills farther north.

• Ocellated Antbird Phaenostictus mcleannani

  The Ocellated Antbird is an antbird of humid tropical-forest understory. Its blue bare facial skin is conspicuous; at a Panama study site it followed army-ant swarms to feed.

• Bicolored Hawk Astur bicolor

  The Bicolored Hawk is a forest raptor of Central and South America. It ambushes prey from cover, and plumage varies across its range.

• Black-necked Woodpecker Colaptes atricollis

  The Black-necked Woodpecker occurs on the western side of the Peruvian Andes. It has a black throat and upper breast, a barred body, and feeds mainly on ants and other insects.

• Hodgson's Hawk-Cuckoo Hierococcyx fugax

  Hodgson’s Hawk-Cuckoo is an uncommon visitor to Singapore in winter and during migration.

• Mangrove Kingfisher Halcyon senegaloides

  The Mangrove Kingfisher has blue wings, white underparts, and a red bill. It occurs along eastern African coasts and catches fish, crabs, and other prey at waterside habitats.

• Red-pate Cisticola Cisticola ruficeps

  The Red-pate Cisticola is mainly an East African bird, with confirmed records in northeast Nigeria. The rust-red crown and gray back described below apply only to the breeding-plumaged scotoptera subspecies.

• Orange-throated Sunangel Heliangelus mavors

  Males have a throat that can glow orange in good light and a pale band across the breast. Females have a yellowish throat mottled with chestnut.

• Cabanis's Greenbul Phyllastrephus cabanisi

  Cabanis's Greenbul is about 16–19 cm long. The account lists primary and secondary forest, gallery forest, riverine scrub, and ravine vegetation among its habitats. It also lists a sound record from Kakamega Forest Reserve in Kenya.

• Grass-green Tanager Chlorornis riefferii

  This tanager is recorded in the Colombian Andes. A field guide for the Sibundoy region describes its grass-green plumage, rusty facial markings, and small-group behavior in forest.

• White-naped Brush Finch Atlapetes albinucha

  In the Guatemala account, the White-naped Brush Finch is marked by a white crown stripe and yellow throat. It searches the ground in thickets at forest edges.

• White-striped Warbler Myiothlypis leucophrys

  A Brazilian endemic warbler, recorded mainly in the Cerrado and also in transitional areas and parts of the Atlantic Forest.