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• Smoky-fronted Tody-Flycatcher Poecilotriccus fumifrons

  

  A tiny, roughly 9 cm tyrant flycatcher. It forages inconspicuously in low bushes, and pendant pouch-like nests have been recorded in French Guiana.

• Marquesan Ground Dove Pampusana rubescens

  The Marquesan Ground Dove is a ground-dwelling pigeon with a gray head and breast and a reddish-purple back. It turns through leaf litter as it searches for seeds and ants.

• Greater Scaup Aythya marila

  The male has a glossy dark head and gray back; the female is marked by a white patch at the base of the bill.

• Blyth's Tragopan Tragopan blythii

  Blyth's Tragopan is a pheasant whose male has red, gray, and white plumage. It forages in the undergrowth of evergreen mountain forest.

• Brown-cheeked Bulbul Alophoixus bres

  A bulbul found on Java and Bali. Its white beard-like throat feathers contrast with a mostly brown body and yellow lower belly.

• Stripe-breasted Woodpecker Dendrocopos atratus

  This woodpecker is recorded in Yunnan and nearby areas. It has black-and-white barring; males have a red crown while females have a black crown.

• Blackburnian Warbler Setophaga fusca

  Breeding males have a bright orange face and throat and forage high in leafy forest canopies.

• Yellow-winged Pytilia Pytilia hypogrammica

  The Yellow-winged Pytilia is a small bird whose male has a red face and throat with a grey crown and back. It mainly eats grass seeds and also takes insects.

• Taiwan Hwamei Garrulax taewanus

  This medium-sized laughingthrush is found in Taiwan. The museum account describes it in thickets and broadleaf woodland, where it takes insects, seeds, and fruit.

• Blackish Cinclodes Cinclodes antarcticus

  The Falkland Islands nominate form of the Blackish Cinclodes is dark brown with a paler, speckled throat. On rat-free islands it forages along the coast and may follow people.

• Grey-winged Robin-Chat Cossypha polioptera

  The Grey-winged Robin-Chat is a small African forest bird. It has a slate-grey crown, olive-brown mantle, and rufous rump. In lowland and foothill evergreen, riverine, and gallery forests, it feeds on beetles, ants, and other insects.

• Echo Parakeet Psittacula eques

  This green parrot lives on Mauritius. It eats flowers, leaves, and fruit, and nests in cavities in large trees.

• Red Crossbill Loxia curvirostra

  A finch of North American conifer forests. Its crossed bill opens cones to reach seeds, and it moves in search of cone crops.

• Blue-winged Parrotlet Forpus xanthopterygius

  The Blue-winged Parrotlet is a small green parrot. Males of the nominate subspecies have blue-purple on the wings and rump, while females are green in those areas.

• Olive-spotted Hummingbird Talaphorus chlorocercus

  The Olive-spotted Hummingbird is recorded in scrub and secondary vegetation on islands along Amazonian rivers. It has green upperparts, gray underparts, and olive spots on the throat and chest.

• Channel-billed Cuckoo Scythrops novaehollandiae

  The Channel-billed Cuckoo is a large cuckoo with a massive pale, down-curved bill. It migrates to Australia from New Guinea and Indonesia and lays its eggs in other birds' nests.

• Long-billed Honeyeater Melilestes megarhynchus

  The Long-billed Honeyeater occurs on New Guinea and nearby islands. It has a long, strongly curved bill and feeds on insects, spiders, and nectar at several levels of forest.

• Seychelles Owl Otus insularis

  This small owl uses the remaining and secondary forests of Mahé. Short ear tufts, a rufous-brown back, and a low raspy call help identify it.

• Green-headed Sunbird Cyanomitra verticalis

  The Green-headed Sunbird lives in African forests and wooded habitats. Males have an iridescent green head and breast, while females have a green crown.

• Tocuyo Sparrow Arremonops tocuyensis

  A sparrow of dry scrub and forest edges in northeastern Colombia and northwestern Venezuela.

• Spotless Crake Zapornia tabuensis

  In New Zealand, this small rail hides among dense wetland vegetation. Its red eyes stand out, and it is most active at dim times of day.

• Sichuan Jay Perisoreus internigrans

  This Chinese endemic jay lives in high-altitude conifer forest. It is gray, eats nuts and insects, and may store nuts for winter.

• Jerdon's Baza Aviceda jerdoni

  A crested hawk that waits on a perch for prey, it breeds in scattered areas from India to Southeast Asia.

• Izu Thrush Turdus celaenops

  The Izu Thrush is a thrush found on the Izu Islands and other Japanese islands. Males stand out with a black head and breast and orange belly and flanks.