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• Spot-winged Thrush Geokichla spiloptera

  

  The Spot-winged Thrush has two pale bars on its wings and brown spots across its breast and belly. It searches forest floors in Sri Lanka for insects and fallen fruit.

• Yellow-eyed Pigeon Columba eversmanni

  The Yellow-eyed Pigeon breeds in Central Asia. In winter it moves south and uses open farmland, often in flocks.

• Eastern Marsh Harrier Circus spilonotus

  The Eastern Marsh Harrier flies low over open areas such as grassland and marshes, and may perch close to the ground.

• Yucatan Flycatcher Myiarchus yucatanensis

  This flycatcher inhabits thorn forest and woodland on the Yucatan Peninsula. A Mexican field guide notes its dull wing markings and calls as identification features.

• Pin-tailed Parrot-Finch Erythrura prasina

  Males draw the eye with a green back, blue face, and red rump and tail. The species usually moves in small flocks, which can gather into larger groups when rice seeds ripen.

• Ashy-throated Bush Tanager Chlorospingus canigularis

  The species account describes olive-yellow upperparts and tail, a grey head and throat, and a yellow breast band. It notes that a white supercilium occurs only in subspecies signatus.

• Bicolored Conebill Conirostrum bicolor

  This small tanager occurs in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and northern Brazil, along rivers and in coastal wetlands. Adults are bluish grey with a reddish iris.

• White-bellied Redstart Luscinia phaenicuroides

  The White-bellied Redstart has dark blue males with a white lower belly, while females are mainly brown. In Nepal, it is recorded often in summer and rarely in lowlands in winter.

• Andaman Coucal Centropus andamanensis

  Its head and underside are gray-brown, while the back, wings, and tail show reddish-violet to bronze tones. It uses forest edges and farmland, and the species account notes it searching for food while walking through mangrove mud.

• Bismarck Crow Corvus insularis

  The Bismarck Crow is endemic to the Bismarck Archipelago off northeastern New Guinea. It has glossy black plumage and pale blue eyes and searches for varied food on the ground.

• Austral Pygmy Owl Glaucidium nana

  This small owl is described in a regional account for northwestern Patagonia, Argentina. It is brown to reddish, with a pale underside marked by heavy brown streaks.

• Black-banded Crake Rufirallus fasciatus

  The Black-banded Crake forages in river-edge thickets and fallow fields near water. A Peru account reports it as common in the northeast and rare in the southeast.

• Blue-chested Hummingbird Polyerata amabilis

  Males have a purple-blue throat and green back, while females have a spotted chest. The bird is seen low along forest edges and in shrubby second growth.

• Serra Antwren Formicivora serrana

  This small antwren occurs in southeastern Brazil. A studied coastal population of subspecies F. s. littoralis maintained territories.

• Seychelles Black Parrot Coracopsis barklyi

  Despite its name, the Seychelles Black Parrot is pale brown-grey, not black. It lives on Praslin, where native palm fruits are a preferred food.

• Tufted Tit-Spinetail Leptasthenura platensis

  It is a small bird of southeastern South America’s shrubland and open woodland. Its crest and long tail stand out, and it searches for food on the ground and low vegetation.

• Kadavu Honeyeater Meliphacator provocator

  A honeyeater from Kadavu Island, Fiji. The species account is headed Xanthotis provocator, an older combination, and notes its placement in Meliphacator under Clements.

• Cape Parrot Poicephalus robustus

  This large parrot lives in South African mountain forests. It uses its large bill to crack the hard kernels of yellowwood fruit while they are still unripe.

• African Pygmy Goose Nettapus auritus

  The African Pygmy Goose is a perching duck despite its name. A male has a white face, green markings, and a bright yellow bill.

• Red-fronted Warbler Urorhipis rufifrons

  This small bird uses dry savanna and thorn scrub, searching for food while flicking its long tail.

• Flaming Sunbird Aethopyga flagrans

  This sunbird lives in Philippine forest and feeds mainly on nectar. A 2006 preliminary taxonomic review recorded geographic differences in plumage among populations.

• Luzon Flameback Chrysocolaptes haematribon

  This woodpecker is endemic to Luzon in the Philippines. It has a red back and patterned yellowish underparts; nests were recorded in dead trees along a forest edge.

• Crimson-browed Finch Carpodacus subhimachalus

  This finch lives at high elevations in southwestern China. Males have red markings around the brow and cheeks, while females are olive or yellow-green. It may move to lower elevations in winter.

• Seychelles Bulbul Hypsipetes crassirostris

  This bulbul is endemic to the Seychelles. It lives in forests and secondary growth, and young birds differ from adults in bill and leg color.