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• Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu Uraeginthus bengalus

  

  The Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu is a small African bird notable for blue plumage and a red cheek patch. It searches for seeds on the ground and also uses open scrub and places near people.

• Black-winged Lovebird Agapornis taranta

  Males have red feathers on the head. In East African mountain forests, these lovebirds live in small groups and carry nest material tucked between their feathers.

• Chilean Pigeon Patagioenas araucana

  A large pigeon with a vinous chest and a white nape band. It uses forest and gathers in flocks, often staying quiet in foliage.

• Pied Harrier Circus melanoleucos

  The Pied Harrier has strongly different male and female plumage and flies low over open grassland to search for prey.

• Neergaard's sunbird Cinnyris neergaardi

  This sunbird occurs in southeastern Africa. Males have green upperparts with blue-violet and red bands, while females are gray-brown; it feeds on nectar and small invertebrates.

• Scarlet-and-white Tanager Chrysothlypis salmoni

  This tanager occurs in humid lowland forest in Colombia and northern Ecuador. Males are red and white, while females replace the red areas with brown; birds gather in canopy flocks.

• Lesser Elaenia Elaenia chiriquensis

  The Lesser Elaenia uses open scrub and forest edges. In Bolivia it occurs alone or in pairs and eats fruit and arthropods.

• Yellow-legged Thrush Turdus flavipes

  This thrush occurs widely in South America. An island study by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro reports it in lowlands during the coldest months and conspicuous near mountaintops in spring and summer on Bom Jesus Island.

• 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.

• Northern White-fringed Antwren Formicivora intermedia

  An antwren of lowland Colombia and western Venezuela. Males are gray-brown and black; females are pale below, and pairs forage low in dense shrubs.

• Mindoro Bulbul Hypsipetes mindorensis

  Mindoro Bulbul is endemic to Mindoro in the Philippines. Its 1890 description records dark olive-brown upperparts and a rufous-tinged breast.

• 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.

• Esmeraldas Woodstar Chaetocercus berlepschi

  This tiny hummingbird is endemic to the Pacific coast of western Ecuador. A 2007–08 survey found 11 additional localities and 26 nests; the study also corrected female descriptions that had been based on misidentified juvenile males.

• White-bellied Woodpecker Dryocopus javensis

  A large woodpecker that uses the forest canopy. In Singapore, its native population is confined to a limited area.

• Rufous Hornero Furnarius rufus

  The Rufous Hornero is a rufous bird found in open habitats, including urban areas.

• Stubble Quail Coturnix pectoralis

  Stubble quail live in pairs or small groups among grasslands and crops. When disturbed, they run first and fly only when pressed, usually for a short distance.

• Mountain Pygmy Owl Glaucidium gnoma

  This small owl has a long tail, rounded head and yellow eyes. It is active by day as well as at other times, waiting on a perch to surprise small birds and other prey; it ranges through mountains of western North America.

• Half-collared Sparrow Arremon semitorquatus

  The Half-collared Sparrow inhabits the understory of montane forest and secondary growth in southeastern Brazil. Males have a yellow lower mandible and a broken breast band. A 2022 report recorded one bird singing at a forest edge.

• Little Crake Zapornia parva

  The Little Crake is a small, secretive wetland bird. In Bulgaria its breeding sites are scattered, mainly in marshes along the Danube and the Black Sea coast.

• Orange-breasted Laughingthrush Garrulax annamensis

  This laughingthrush is restricted to a small area of southern Vietnam. It has a dark throat and an orange breast marked with dark spots, and forages near the ground.

• Yellow Chat Epthianura crocea

  This account concerns the Alligator Rivers subspecies, restricted to floodplains between the Mary and East Alligator rivers in the Northern Territory, Australia. It uses grassy wetlands and samphire shrubland, foraging on the ground or low in the vegetation.

• Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush Monticola saxatilis

  The Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush lives among mountain rocks. In breeding plumage, the male stands out in blue and orange.

• 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.

• Chestnut-breasted Chlorophonia Chlorophonia pyrrhophrys

  This Andean bird lives in humid montane forest and is often high in the canopy. Males stand out for a dark blue crown and green forehead and upper breast.