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- Rufous-webbed Bush Tyrant Cnemarchus rufipennis
Photo: Opisska · CC0 The body is gray, with a pale center to the belly and pale undertail coverts. Rufous parts of the wings and tail show clearly in flight. It forages in open scrub and grassland in the high Andes.
- Taiwan Blue Magpie Urocissa caerulea
The Taiwan Blue Magpie is a corvid of Taiwan's forests and mountains, notable for its long blue tail and red bill.
- Goldie's Lorikeet Glossoptilus goldiei
Goldie's Lorikeet is a New Guinea parrot with a red crown, blue nape, and green body. It gathers at flowering trees and moves in flocks.
- Grey-olive Greenbul Phyllastrephus cerviniventris
This greenbul occurs in eastern and south-central Africa. It is recorded in streamside thickets, gallery forest, bamboo thickets, and moist evergreen forest, and eats insects and fruit.
- Long-billed Sunbird Cinnyris notatus
A sunbird of Madagascar's forests. Males are larger and darker than females and use a long, strong bill to feed on nectar; they also take spiders and insects from flowers.
- Caatinga Antwren Radinopsyche sellowi
An antwren of dry woodland and scrub in northeastern Brazil, especially in the Caatinga region.
- Common Bush Tanager Chlorospingus flavopectus
It is 11.5–13 cm long. In Bolivia's eastern Andes, it lives in pairs or small flocks, and Bolivian subspecies differ in crown, cheek, and eye color.
- Yellow-lored Amazon Amazona xantholora
The Yellow-lored Amazon is a green parrot whose adult male has a white forehead, yellow lores, and red around the eyes. The birds live in flocks and feed mostly in treetops.
- Santa Marta Warbler Myiothlypis basilica
This warbler lives in the understory of humid forest in the Santa Marta Mountains. Its black head has white markings, its upperparts are olive, and its underside is yellow.
- Hoffmann's Woodpecker Melanerpes hoffmannii
Hoffmann's Woodpecker inhabits dry forest and also uses trees near human settlements along the Pacific slope. Males have a red crown and yellow nape; females have a white forehead and crown.
- Bronze-tailed Plumeleteer Chalybura urochrysia
The Bronze-tailed Plumeleteer is a medium-sized, mostly green hummingbird. It is usually seen alone at flowers in forests or forest edges; females have whitish underparts and duller pink feet.
- Amethyst Brown Dove Phapitreron amethystinus
The Amethyst Brown Dove is a Philippine forest endemic. A survey at Mount Makiling recorded it in the canopy and classified it as a fruit-eater.
- 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.
- Tropical Screech-Owl Megascops choliba
The Tropical Screech-Owl is widespread in South America and has several plumage morphs, including gray, brown, cinnamon and rufous. A Bolivian study detected its calls just after sunset and before dawn along forest edges.
- Madagascar Coucal Centropus toulou
In breeding plumage, the Madagascar Coucal is black with rufous-chestnut on the lower back and wings. It occurs on Madagascar and Aldabra.
- Golden-headed Cisticola Cisticola exilis
Breeding males have a golden head and build nests in grass. The bird eats insects and grass seeds and moves low among the vegetation.
- Black-headed Sibia Heterophasia desgodinsi
This mountain forest bird occurs from southwestern and central-southern China through Myanmar, northern Thailand and parts of Indochina. It is arboreal and searches for food in trees.
- Ring Ouzel Turdus torquatus
Adult males have a white breast patch, females a creamy one, and both show silvery panels on the wings.
- Black Munia Lonchura stygia
The Black Munia is a small finch of the southern New Guinea lowlands. Males are almost entirely black, and the species feeds on grass seeds in wetlands and tall grass.
- Cheer Pheasant Catreus wallichii
This pheasant is notable for its long crest and red bare facial skin. It lives on rocky western Himalayan slopes and lays its eggs in undergrowth during the breeding season.
- Sri Lanka Hill Myna Gracula ptilogenys
The Sri Lanka Hill Myna is endemic to Sri Lanka's wet forests. It eats fruit and moves through the canopy while giving loud calls.
- Reichenow's Seedeater Crithagra reichenowi
A small East African finch of open woodland and fields. Its yellow rump and streaked breast and flanks are noticeable features.
- Mantled Hawk Pseudastur polionotus
The Mantled Hawk is a large hawk with white and slate-grey plumage and a short tail. It lives in humid hilly forest and hunts reptiles, small mammals, and birds.
- New Zealand Bellbird Anthornis melanura
The New Zealand Bellbird is endemic to New Zealand and has a bell-like song. It feeds on nectar, fruit, and insects; males are olive green with a purplish head.