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• Santa Marta Foliage-gleaner Clibanornis rufipectus

  

  This foliage-gleaner is endemic to the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in northern Colombia. It is medium-sized, with rufous-brown upperparts and paler underparts.

• Chattering Giant-Honeyeater Gymnomyza viridis

  This is a large honeyeater recorded in forests on Taveuni, Fiji. Field notes from 1970 describe visits to wild banana flowers and pandanus, as well as pairs feeding one another.

• Little Blue Macaw Cyanopsitta spixii

  The Little Blue Macaw (Cyanopsitta spixii) is a medium-sized parrot with grayish-blue plumage. Its historical wild range was limited to riverine woodland in northeastern Brazil.

• Crested Duck Lophonetta specularioides

  A northwestern Patagonia account describes this duck's crest and its feeding near lakes and rivers, where it takes small aquatic animals.

• Burnt-neck Eremomela Eremomela usticollis

  A small bird that gleans prey from leaves and branches in acacia woodland. It ranges across southern Africa and also occurs in dry riverbeds.

• Olive-backed Sunbird Cinnyris jugularis

  The Olive-backed Sunbird is a small bird that uses its slender, curved bill to feed from flowers. In Queensland it also occurs in gardens and along forest edges, and males and females differ in throat color.

• Yellow-fronted Woodpecker Melanerpes flavifrons

  The Yellow-fronted Woodpecker is a woodpecker with striking yellow and red on the head. It probes bark crevices and eats mainly plant foods, as well as insects.

• Black-capped Siskin Spinus atriceps

  A siskin with a black cap and yellow-green body. It occurs in highlands from southern Mexico to Guatemala.

• Cape Bulbul Pycnonotus capensis

  The Cape Bulbul is endemic to South Africa and is recognizable by its white eye-rings and bright yellow feathers under the tail.

• Chestnut-bellied Hill Partridge Arborophila javanica

  The Chestnut-bellied Hill Partridge is a ground-dwelling pheasant of Java’s mountain forests. A study in fragmented forest found it more often inside natural high-elevation forest than near the edges.

• Slender-billed Babbler Argya longirostris

  The Slender-billed Babbler has a rufous-brown back and a slender, slightly down-curved bill. It hides in seasonally wet grassland and searches the ground for insects.

• Sooty Robin Turdus nigrescens

  A thrush of the mountains of Costa Rica and far western Panama. Males are dark brown, with yellow bill and eye-ring, and search among leaf litter for prey.

• Pompadour Green Pigeon Treron pompadora

  The Pompadour Green Pigeon is endemic to Sri Lanka. It eats fruit and seeds in rainforest and other wet woodland.

• Black-faced Hawk Leucopternis melanops

  A small, stocky hawk with a black facial marking and orange cere, it searches for small prey in wet forest.

• Orange-crested Flycatcher Myiophobus phoenicomitra

  This small flycatcher inhabits humid Andean forests. Sighting and photographic records of its subspecies are reported from Colombia's eastern Andean slope.

• Striped Sparrow Oriturus superciliosus

  This sparrow lives in the Mexican highlands. It has a bold white eyebrow, a rusty-brown crown, and dark facial markings. It searches for food on the ground in dry bunchgrass and open pine woodland.

• Magpie Tanager Cissopis leverianus

  This South American tanager has striking black-and-white plumage and broad white tips on its long tail. It is common in Amazonia, especially along forest edges and in secondary growth.

• Fiscal Flycatcher Sigelus silens

  The Fiscal Flycatcher is endemic to southern Africa. It uses open habitats with scattered trees or bushes, including grassland, fynbos, semi-arid scrub, and valley bushveld.

• Red-capped Coua Coua ruficeps

  A ground-walking cuckoo of northwestern Madagascar, it is recognizable by its red crown and searches the forest floor for insects and fruit.

• Steller's Jay Cyanocitta stelleri

  A crested jay that searches for food from the forest canopy to the ground and stores food.

• Elegant Scops Owl Otus elegans

  The Elegant Scops Owl is a small owl resident on the Ryukyu Islands. On Amami-Oshima it uses forests from near sea level to mountain tops and nests in tree hollows.

• White-vented Plumeleteer Chalybura buffonii

  The White-vented Plumeleteer is a hummingbird ranging from Central America into northwestern South America. A study in Colombia found a nest in dense understory beside a stream.

• Ferruginous-backed Antbird Myrmoderus ferrugineus

  This antbird lives in forests from the Guianas to northern Brazil. It walks on the forest floor and searches for food among leaf litter. Males and females differ in throat color.

• Long-tailed Parakeet Psittacula longicauda

  The Long-tailed Parakeet has a tail longer than its body and moves in flocks, calling to one another.