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• Strickland's Woodpecker Leuconotopicus stricklandi

  

  Strickland's Woodpecker lives in the mountains of Mexico. It searches the bark of pine and oak woodland for small invertebrates.

• Brown Bullfinch Pyrrhula nipalensis

  This bullfinch has a gray-brown head and mantle, gray underparts, a long tail, and a narrow white rump. In Great Himalayan National Park it uses high-elevation forest and rhododendron thickets.

• Taiga Bean Goose Anser fabalis

  This entry covers the Taiga Bean Goose, Anser fabalis, as a species separate from the Tundra Bean Goose, A. serrirostris.

• Pacific Emerald Dove Chalcophaps longirostris

  This dove ranges from the eastern Lesser Sundas through Australia and New Guinea to Vanuatu and New Caledonia. It uses forest and mangroves and feeds mainly on fallen fruit and seeds on the ground.

• Lined Antshrike Thamnophilus tenuepunctatus

  This antshrike has strongly different male and female plumage. It uses dense vegetation along humid forest edges in the eastern Andean foothills.

• White-eared Bulbul Pycnonotus leucotis

  The White-eared Bulbul has bright white cheek feathers, eats fruit, and lives in scrub and woodland from Oman to India.

• El Oro Parakeet Pyrrhura orcesi

  The El Oro Parakeet lives on forested slopes of the western Andes in Ecuador. It feeds in social groups, and some breeding pairs are helped by other birds.

• Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerina

  The Chipping Sparrow is a small North American bird with a conspicuous rufous crown as an adult. It searches for seeds in grassy places with trees and eats many insects during the breeding season.

• Sunda Brush Cuckoo Cacomantis sepulcralis

  The Sunda Brush Cuckoo ranges from the Malay Peninsula through the Sunda Islands, Sulawesi, and the Philippines. It uses forests and edges as well as mangroves, parks, and gardens.

• Chestnut-winged Hookbill Ancistrops strigilatus

  This furnariid lives in forests of the Amazon Basin. It may join mixed-species flocks in the canopy and subcanopy.

• Rufous-capped Warbler Basileuterus rufifrons

  The Rufous-capped Warbler has a striking rufous-and-white head and a yellow throat and breast. It searches for insects in low brush and builds a domed nest on the ground.

• Spotted Honeyeater Xanthotis polygrammus

  This honeyeater occurs on both the Indonesian and Papua New Guinean sides of New Guinea. It has white spots on the head and back and searches foliage, flowers, and fruit.

• Pied Thrush Geokichla wardii

  The male has striking black-and-white markings. The species breeds in Himalayan forests and moves south for the winter.

• Red-throated Sunbird Anthreptes rhodolaemus

  Male Red-throated Sunbirds show glossy green and violet plumage, while females are subdued olive. They forage for flowers and small prey in forest canopies.

• Blackthroat Luscinia obscura

  Field surveys in the Qinling Mountains in 2011-2012 confirmed breeding birds in Shaanxi nature reserves. Males have black throats and breasts, and breeding sites included dense dwarf bamboo on mountain slopes. The paper uses Calliope obscura; the pool uses Luscinia obscura.

• Bran-colored Flycatcher Myiophobus fasciatus

  This small flycatcher has a strongly streaked breast and variable brown, rufous, and intermediate plumages.

• Dusky Babbler Turdoides tenebrosa

  Its blackish-brown breast has pale scaling, and it has a white eye with dark wings and tail. In Central African moist shrubland it is usually seen in pairs or small groups and eats invertebrates and fruit.

• Bushy-crested Jay Cyanocorax melanocyaneus

  The Bushy-crested Jay has a raised crown, a black hood, and blue wings and tail. It forages in flocks for insects, seeds, and fruit.

• Orange-breasted Waxbill Amandava subflava

  A small passerine with an orange-red breast, it feeds on grass seeds in wetlands and dry savannas of equatorial Africa.

• Wedge-tailed Hillstar Oreotrochilus adela

  The Wedge-tailed Hillstar is notable for the male's glittering green throat and its visits to flowers in dry highlands. It lives in the Andes of Bolivia and adjacent Argentina.

• Blue-fronted Fig-parrot Cyclopsitta gulielmitertii

  This small green parrot has blue in its wings, a black forecrown and cheeks, and orange markings that differ by sex. Small groups use forests and edges in western New Guinea.

• Rust-and-yellow Tanager Thlypopsis ruficeps

  A small tanager of humid Andean forest edges, secondary growth and shrub cover. Records span 1,200–3,600 m.

• New Caledonian Goshawk Tachyspiza haplochroa

  The New Caledonian Goshawk is endemic to New Caledonia. It has a bluish-black head, wings, and back, a gray throat, and a white body below.

• New Britain Boobook Ninox odiosa

  Adult New Britain Boobooks have reddish-brown upperparts and yellow-orange eyes; females are larger than males. They are nocturnal, living alone or in pairs and hunting from forest perches.