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• Saffron-breasted Prinia Prinia hypoxantha

  

  This small bird lives in highland grassland in southern Africa. It has a brown back and yellowish-white, lightly streaked underparts.

• Band-tailed Barbthroat Threnetes ruckeri

  The Band-tailed Barbthroat has green upperparts and a banded tail. It visits flowers for nectar in humid forest and ranges from Central America to northwestern South America.

• Zamboanga Bulbul Hypsipetes rufigularis

  It is recorded on Basilan and the Zamboanga Peninsula in western Mindanao, Philippines.

• Puerto Rican Bullfinch Melopyrrha portoricensis

  This finch is endemic to Puerto Rico, where it lives in forests and thickets. It mainly eats fruit and seeds and moves through dense vegetation.

• Olive Finch Arremon castaneiceps

  This finch forages in the understory of humid montane forest on Peru’s eastern Andes. Its olive-green body and rufous crown stand out, while the sides of the head, throat, and breast are gray.

• Gray-breasted Francolin Pternistis rufopictus

  This ground-dwelling gamebird uses Tanzanian savannas and grassland. Its red bill, orange-red bare throat, and black-and-white facial pattern are conspicuous.

• 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.

• Point-tailed Palmcreeper Berlepschia rikeri

  This ovenbird occurs in palm groves of northern and central South America and searches among palm fronds for arthropods.

• Papuan Island Thrush Turdus papuensis

  This island thrush occurs in the mountains of New Guinea and on Goodenough Island. The New Guinea population is described as brownish black and as common in subalpine woods and alpine shrubland.

• Scottish Crossbill Loxia scotica

  The Scottish Crossbill extracts seeds from conifer cones. It has a large head and thick bill, but can be difficult to distinguish from similar crossbills.

• Mouse-colored Tyrannulet Nesotriccus murinus

  This small flycatcher ranges broadly from Central into South America, using scrub and wooded habitats. This account excludes populations assigned to the separately recognized Tumbesian and Marañón tyrannulets.

• Sunda Laughingthrush Garrulax palliatus

  This laughingthrush lives in moist forests on Sumatra and Borneo and is often seen in small groups.

• Seychelles Magpie-Robin Copsychus sechellarum

  On Cousin Island, it forages on small animals exposed as Hawksbill Turtles dig their nests. It has also been seen feeding on turtle eggs.

• Southern Nutcracker Nucifraga hemispila

  The Southern Nutcracker is a corvid of Himalayan forests. It has chestnut plumage with white spots on the head and neck. Gould’s 1831 species account places it in thick woods and lists insects, worms, and fruit as food.

• Fuscous Honeyeater Ptilotula fusca

  This olive-brown honeyeater has a yellow patch on the side of its neck and uses dry eucalypt forest and woodland in eastern Australia. Some birds move to lower elevations in winter.

• Dusky Sunbird Cinnyris fuscus

  A breeding male has a glossy black head, back, and chest with a white belly. The orange pectoral tufts may show when he is excited or displaying. The species feeds mainly on nectar.

• Blue-winged Macaw Primolius maracana

  The Blue-winged Macaw is a green macaw with a red forehead that feeds on fruits and seeds.

• Buru Racket-tail Prioniturus mada

  A parrot found only on Buru Island, with tail feathers that end in racket-shaped tips.

• Orange Dove Ptilinopus victor

  The male has an olive-yellow head and vivid orange body. It feeds on small fruits high in trees.

• Negros Scops Owl Otus nigrorum

  This small owl lives in forests on Negros and Panay in the Philippines. Its dark brown plumage, upright ear tufts, and orange-red eye rims are distinctive.

• Bolivian Slaty Antshrike Thamnophilus sticturus

  The Bolivian Slaty Antshrike occurs from eastern Bolivia into southwestern Brazil, in tropical dry forest. It has white wing spots and spots on the outer webs of many tail feathers that show from above when the tail is open.

• Greater Spotted Eagle Clanga clanga

  Adults are dark brown with broad wings; young birds have prominent white spots on the back and wings.

• Crimson-crested Woodpecker Campephilus melanoleucos

  The Crimson-crested Woodpecker is mostly black with white back stripes; the male's red crest is striking. It climbs trunks and large branches to search for insects.

• Smooth-billed Ani Crotophaga ani

  The Smooth-billed Ani lives in groups in shrubby parts of tropical South America and the Caribbean. Its glossy black plumage and oversized bill stand out.