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• Yellow-fronted Parrot Poicephalus flavifrons

  

  The Yellow-fronted Parrot is recognizable by its green body and yellow face and crown. Its wild diet is poorly known, though leaves, seeds, and fruit are thought to be part of it.

• Baird's Junco Junco bairdi

  This junco occurs in the mountains at the southern tip of Mexico's Baja California Peninsula. A specimen comparison cited by the AOS describes its extensive cinnamon sides and lighter, duller back.

• Black-billed Coucal Centropus bernsteini

  This medium-sized coucal skulks along lowland forest edges and grasslands, usually keeping to cover. It may perch in the open after rain.

• Chestnut-winged Cinclodes Cinclodes albidiventris

  This ovenbird relative forages on foot in open grassland and sparse scrub at high elevations. The Peru species account gives a range extending into Colombia and Ecuador.

• Hooded Yellowthroat Geothlypis nelsoni

  This yellowthroat is recorded in Mexico, where it uses brush on rather dry slopes and open pine or pine-oak woods.

• Black-chinned Honeyeater Melithreptus gularis

  This honeyeater inhabits eucalypt forest and woodland on mainland Australia. It can move locally as its food plants flower.

• Tickell's Thrush Turdus unicolor

  Tickell’s Thrush searches forest floors for food and makes partial seasonal movements in elevation and range.

• Fork-tailed Sunbird Aethopyga christinae

  It ranges from southern China to northern and eastern Vietnam. Males are blue-green and red; females and young birds are more yellow-olive. It also eats fruit and small insects.

• Grey-chested Jungle Flycatcher Rhinomyias umbratilis

  This small flycatcher lives in lowland forests of Sundaland. It has a plain brown back, a grey wash across the breast and a pale throat. It quietly searches for insects in shaded forest undergrowth.

• Golden-browed Chat-Tyrant Silvicultrix pulchella

  This chat-tyrant occurs in the Andes of Peru and western Bolivia. It uses humid montane forest and shrubby forest edges, where it feeds mainly on insects.

• Golden-winged Laughingthrush Trochalopteron ngoclinhense

  This laughingthrush is restricted to a few mountains in central Vietnam. It forages on the ground in montane evergreen forest understory and has golden wing markings.

• Alpine Chough Pyrrhocorax graculus

  Glossy black plumage, a yellow bill, and red legs distinguish this mountain corvid. In Triglav National Park it lives above the treeline and descends to valley settlements in winter.

• Swee Waxbill Coccopygia melanotis

  A small waxbill with striking red and black tail and bill colours. It feeds mainly on grass seeds and lives along woodland edges and in scrub in southern Africa.

• Buffy Hummingbird Leucippus fallax

  This small hummingbird occurs in northern Colombia and Venezuela. It uses dry scrub and mangroves and feeds on nectar and fruit.

• Yellow-crowned Parakeet Cyanoramphus auriceps

  The Yellow-crowned Parakeet is a green parrot that spends much of its time high in the forest canopy. Its yellow crown and crimson forehead band help identify it.

• Gold-ringed Tanager Bangsia aureocincta

  The Gold-ringed Tanager is restricted to the western Colombian Andes. In a Montezuma survey, most records were above 1,850 m and at forest edges, with many birds foraging alone. Nest information comes from a small number of observations.

• Besra Tachyspiza virgata

  The Besra is a small raptor found from South to Southeast Asia. It hides among dense foliage and pursues small birds and other prey with quick flight.

• Chestnut-headed Oropendola Psarocolius wagleri

  This bird ranges from Central America to Colombia and Ecuador. It has a black body, chestnut head, neck and rump, and a yellow tail with dark central feathers.

• Greater Crested Tern Thalasseus bergii

  A large tern with a shaggy black crest and cap. It feeds mainly on small fish, searching from above the water and diving head-first to catch them.

• Spotted Owlet Athene brama

  A small owl with gray-brown plumage marked by white spots. It is active at night and hunts insects and small vertebrates.

• Yellow-throated Apalis Apalis flavigularis

  This forest-associated bird is endemic to southern Malawi, where it is recorded on the Mulanje, Malosa, and Zomba massifs. A study on Mulanje found it using forest edges with understorey shrubs.

• Lesser Blue-eared Starling Lamprotornis chloropterus

  The Lesser Blue-eared Starling has glossy blue-green plumage and violet-blue areas on the flanks and belly. It searches in trees and on the ground for fruit, seeds, and insects.

• Orange-necked Hill Partridge Arborophila davidi

  Surveys in southern Vietnam found it on slopes with bamboo and deep leaf litter. Its orange neck and black eye-stripe extending down the lower neck are distinctive.

• Andean Coot Fulica ardesiaca

  A coot of high Andean lakes and ponds. Bill and frontal-shield colors vary by region, and birds feed on open water, often in flocks.