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• Noisy Friarbird Philemon corniculatus

  

  The Noisy Friarbird lives in forests and woodlands of eastern Australia. Its head is black and bare, with a rounded knob at the base of the bill.

• Caatinga Antwren Radinopsyche sellowi

  An antwren of dry woodland and scrub in northeastern Brazil, especially in the Caatinga region.

• Frilled Coquette Lophornis magnificus

  The Frilled Coquette is a small hummingbird found in Brazil. At one reserve in Santa Catarina, one adult male was repeatedly recorded visiting a garden feeder and flying into nearby riparian forest.

• Brown-headed Apalis Apalis alticola

  This small bird inhabits mid- to high-elevation forest in central and eastern Africa. A Tanzanian regional account notes a dark brown crown, grey outer tail feathers, and white tail tips.

• American Goshawk Astur atricapillus

  This large forest raptor uses mature woodland. Wisconsin’s wildlife agency records it across the northern two-thirds of the state, in mature deciduous, conifer, and mixed forest.

• Chestnut-bellied Malkoha Phaenicophaeus sumatranus

  A cuckoo with bright orange facial skin and a chestnut belly, it moves quietly through the canopy to feed on large insects and other prey.

• Dark-backed Sibia Heterophasia melanoleuca

  The Dark-backed Sibia is a slender, long-tailed bird of mountains in Myanmar, northwestern and western Thailand, and northwestern Laos. It has a black head and white underparts.

• Cinnamon Screech Owl Megascops petersoni

  This small owl lives in humid montane forest on the eastern Andes. Its cinnamon-colored plumage has fine markings, and BirdLife describes it as highly dependent on forest.

• Mrs. Gould's Sunbird Aethopyga gouldiae

  Mrs. Gould’s Sunbird differs in size between sexes: males have a long tail, and nominate males have a violet crown.

• Red-necked Crake Rallina tricolor

  The Red-necked Crake ranges from eastern Indonesia through New Guinea to northeastern Australia. Adults are chestnut from the head to the breast.

• Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch Leucosticte tephrocotis

  A pink-and-brown songbird of high North American mountains and Alaskan islands. In winter it moves lower to avoid heavy snow and may visit feeders.

• Lined Quail-Dove Zentrygon linearis

  A ground-dwelling dove of foothill and mountain forests in Colombia, Venezuela and Trinidad.

• White-headed Munia Lonchura maja

  The White-headed Munia is a small bird with a white head and pale brown body that gathers seeds from the ground and grass stems.

• Philippine Duck Anas luzonica

  The Philippine Duck is endemic to the Philippines and has a cinnamon-brown head with a black crown and eye stripe. It feeds at shallow wetlands.

• Greater Sage Grouse Centrocercus urophasianus

  The Greater Sage-Grouse lives in sagebrush plains of western North America. During the breeding season, males gather and display to females.

• Williamson's Sapsucker Sphyrapicus thyroideus

  Williamson's Sapsucker is a woodpecker of western North American mountains. Males and females look very different, and the birds eat conifer sap and insects.

• Maroon Shining Parrot Prosopeia tabuensis

  A parrot of Fiji's forests, notable for reddish plumage and green wings. Fine details of its coloration vary by subspecies.

• Strange-tailed Tyrant Alectrurus risora

  This tyrant flycatcher inhabits wet grasslands near marshes. The breeding male is conspicuous for its elongated tail and bare throat, which turns red; females are brown.

• Nightingale Finch Nesospiza questi

  A finch of Nightingale Island in Tristan da Cunha. A breeding study records females building nests in dense grass tussocks.

• Orange-spotted Bulbul Pycnonotus bimaculatus

  The Orange-spotted Bulbul lives in humid forest and mountain scrub on Sumatra, Java, and Bali. This entry follows the two subspecies listed by the current species account.

• Australian Raven Corvus coronoides

  The Australian Raven is a large black corvid with conspicuous white irises.

• Brown-backed Solitaire Myadestes occidentalis

  The Brown-backed Solitaire is a thrush of mountain forests from Mexico into northern Central America. It is brown with gray markings and eats mostly fruit in forests near water.

• Gray-spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa griseisticta

  The Gray-spotted Flycatcher is a small migratory bird with streaks from the breast to the belly. It sallies from an exposed perch to catch flying insects.

• Black-tailed Leaftosser Sclerurus caudacutus

  This ovenbird ranges across northern South America and the Amazon region. It has a reddish-brown face and dark brown crown and lives in tropical lowland evergreen forest. It digs a tunnel into an earth bank and builds its nest cup at the far end.