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• Santa Marta Antbird Drymophila hellmayri

  

  The Santa Marta Antbird is restricted to Colombia's Santa Marta Mountains. Its eBird species account places it in bamboo and says it is often detected first by voice.

• 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.

• Maui Honeycreeper Pseudonestor xanthophrys

  This Hawaiian honeycreeper lives only in high-elevation forest on east Maui. It has a large curved bill, and pairs defend territories year-round.

• 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.

• Spotted Rail Pardirallus maculatus

  The Spotted Rail occurs locally in marshes, wet savannas, and rice fields from Mexico and the Greater Antilles south to Argentina. In Jamaica, breeding evidence was reported after a long gap in records.

• Mexican Jay Aphelocoma wollweberi

  The Mexican Jay ranges from Mexico into the southwestern United States, inhabiting mountain woodlands in family groups.

• Painted Whitestart Myioborus pictus

  The Painted Whitestart has a bright scarlet belly and black-and-white wings. It fans its tail and moves through branches to flush and catch insects.

• Little Spiderhunter Arachnothera longirostra

  The Little Spiderhunter probes flowers with its long, curved bill for nectar and small insects. It is often found in the lower forest storey near flowering bananas and ginger.

• Rufous-winged Cisticola Cisticola galactotes

  The Rufous-winged Cisticola is a small cisticola of grassland and wetland edges in southeastern Africa. Its rufous back feathers help identify it.

• Plumbeous Hawk Cryptoleucopteryx plumbea

  The Plumbeous Hawk is a slate-colored raptor. Birds Colombia lists Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and Peru, and describes it ambushing small vertebrates inside forest.

• Black-throated Laughingthrush Pterorhinus chinensis

  The Black-throated Laughingthrush lives in forests from southern China through Indochina. It usually moves in pairs or small groups and searches for food in the lower parts of trees and shrubs.

• Fulvous Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna bicolor

  A long-legged duck with fulvous and black plumage that feeds in shallow wetlands.

• Santa Marta Sabrewing Campylopterus phainopeplus

  This hummingbird is endemic to the Santa Marta Mountains of northeastern Colombia. It has been little studied, so much of its natural-history information comes from observations in this small range.

• Chestnut-throated Spinetail Synallaxis cherriei

  This furnariid occurs in central and eastern Amazonia. Its wings are black, with chestnut upper coverts. In one northern Peruvian record, a bird called in young secondary growth and responded strongly to playback.

• Chestnut-naped Francolin Pternistis castaneicollis

  A highland francolin of Ethiopia and Somalia, it has a red bill and legs, while neck and facial markings vary by subspecies.

• Blue Waxbill Uraeginthus angolensis

  The Blue Waxbill has a blue face, underside, and tail with a brown back and wings. In southeastern Africa it forages for seeds on the ground, often in flocks.

• Tricolored Brush Finch Atlapetes tricolor

  This brushfinch is recorded in the mountains of Peru's eastern Andes, at about 1,750–3,050 m in the PeruAves account. Clements 2024 split the former Tricolored Brushfinch into two species and uses Golden-crowned Brushfinch for A. tricolor, so this entry limits the range to Peru.

• Dusky-tailed Flatbill Ramphotrigon fuscicauda

  This 15–17 cm flycatcher uses forest bamboo thickets and feeds on invertebrates. Sound recordings include sites in Peru’s Manu region.

• Papuan Lorikeet Charmosyna papou

  A long-tailed parrot of montane forest in northwestern New Guinea, with a red body and green wings.

• Red-billed Pigeon Patagioenas flavirostris

  This large pigeon is shaded in purple, pink, and blue-gray. It ranges through tropical deciduous forests and feeds on fruit and berries high in trees.

• Helmeted Friarbird Philemon buceroides

  In northeastern Australia it uses lowland forest, forest edges, woodland, and mangroves. James Cook University records it as common on its Townsville campus.

• Verditer Flycatcher Eumyias thalassinus

  The Verditer Flycatcher is a flycatcher with striking blue-green plumage. It hunts insects in the middle and upper canopy and breeds from the Himalayas into Southeast Asia.

• Chestnut-vented Conebill Conirostrum speciosum

  The male has a gray-blue back and chestnut vent and is found in forest canopy and along forest edges. Females have different brown and olive tones.

• Green-billed Coucal Centropus chlororhynchos

  This coucal lives in lowland wet forest in southwestern Sri Lanka. Its black plumage has a blue-purple sheen, and its wings are chestnut.