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• Cream-vented Bulbul Pycnonotus simplex

  

  The Cream-vented Bulbul is olive-brown with a white eye-ring. It occurs from the Thai-Malay Peninsula through Indonesia and uses forest and secondary growth.

• Brown-hooded Parrot Pyrilia haematotis

  The Brown-hooded Parrot is a medium-sized parrot that feeds on fruit in the canopy of humid tropical forest. Costa Rican observations describe pairs and small flocks.

• Golden-crowned Sparrow Zonotrichia atricapilla

  A sparrow of western North America, it breeds in the north during summer and winters along the Pacific Coast.

• Himalayan Cuckoo Cuculus saturatus

  The Himalayan Cuckoo breeds in eastern Asia and moves from Southeast Asia to northern Australia for the winter. Males are gray, with white spots on the underparts.

• White-browed Spinetail Hellmayrea gularis

  A high-Andean spinetail recorded from Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. It occurs in montane forest and dense understory, especially Chusquea bamboo.

• New Zealand Bellbird Anthornis melanura

  The New Zealand Bellbird is endemic to New Zealand and has a bell-like song. It feeds on nectar, fruit, and insects; males are olive green with a purplish head.

• Hauxwell's Thrush Turdus hauxwelli

  Peru Aves' adult examples of unknown sex show rich brown plumage and a pale, dusky-spotted lower belly. The thrush forages in the forest understory and often on the ground.

• Bates's Sunbird Cinnyris batesi

  Bates's Sunbird is a small sunbird of African forests and forest edges. Its dark olive upperparts contrast with a pale eyebrow and yellow-edged wings.

• Ashy-breasted Flycatcher Muscicapa randi

  This flycatcher occurs in moist lowland forest on Luzon and Negros in the Philippines. The account places it mainly below 1,000 m.

• Noronha Elaenia Elaenia ridleyana

  The Noronha Elaenia occurs on the Fernando de Noronha islands off Brazil. It uses scrub, woodland, thickets, and gardens and eats insects and small fruit.

• Chinese Hwamei Garrulax canorus

  A brown songbird marked by white around the eye, it forages near the ground in shrubs and bamboo and sings loudly.

• Iberian Magpie Cyanopica cooki

  The Iberian Magpie is a corvid found on the Iberian Peninsula. Its blue wings and tail and black crown are distinctive.

• Puerto Rican Emerald Riccordia maugaeus

  This small hummingbird is found only on Puerto Rico, mainly in mountain forests and shade-grown coffee plantations.

• Painted Tiger Parrot Psittacella picta

  The Painted Tiger Parrot lives in the mountains of New Guinea. Its mainly green plumage has yellow and red markings that vary by sex and among regional populations.

• Rusty-browed Warbling Finch Microspingus erythrophrys

  This small finch occurs along montane forest edges and in alder groves in Bolivia and Argentina. The male is marked by a blue-gray face and a long rusty eyebrow.

• Shikra Tachyspiza badia

  A small, long-tailed hawk whose adult males and females differ in eye and upperpart color.

• Choco Screech Owl Megascops centralis

  The Choco Screech-Owl is a small owl found from Panama through Colombia to western Ecuador. It occurs in gray and rufous phases, and a row of white spots is visible on the folded wing.

• Pale-crowned Cisticola Cisticola cinnamomeus

  This cisticola occurs in eastern and southern Africa, in moist grassland and near wetlands. During the breeding season, the male has a brown crown while the female keeps streaks on hers.

• Red junglefowl Gallus gallus

  A bird of South and Southeast Asia and the wild ancestor of domestic chickens. Males and females differ strongly in appearance.

• Buff-spotted Flameback Chrysocolaptes lucidus

  This woodpecker lives in forests of the southern Philippines. Its back is orange-red, and pale spots mark its body.

• Golden-naped Finch Pyrrhoplectes epauletta

  Male Golden-naped Finches are glossy black with an orange nape and white rump; females are yellowish-brown. They breed in Himalayan forests and are also recorded lower down in winter.

• Black-necked swan Cygnus melancoryphus

  A swan of southern South American wetlands. Adults have a white body with a black head and neck.

• Madagascar Green Pigeon Treron australis

  The Madagascar Green Pigeon is an arboreal pigeon found in forests of Madagascar. It feeds on fruit.

• Riparian Antbird Cercomacroides fuscicauda

  The Riparian Antbird uses riverside floodplain forest and dense river-island thickets. Males are gray and females brown to rufous. Habitat and voice help distinguish it from similar antbirds.