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• Junin Canastero Asthenes virgata

  

  This canastero occurs locally in the central and southern Peruvian Andes. Its orange-rufous throat and pale eyebrow are distinctive.

• Eastern Wattled-Honeyeater Foulehaio carunculatus

  A 2017 American Samoa manual calls this bird the Polynesian Wattled-Honeyeater and prints Foulehaio carunculata. It places the species on the islands of eastern Fiji, Tonga, and Samoa. In American Samoa, birds in breeding condition were captured throughout the year.

• Yellow-billed Amazon Amazona collaria

  A medium-sized parrot native to Jamaica. Adults are mostly green, with a red throat and a yellow bill.

• Yellow-billed Pintail Anas georgica

  This duck has a yellow bill and a long neck and tail. The account here describes the subspecies recorded in the Patagonia region.

• Common Jery Neomixis tenella

  A small bird endemic to Madagascar. It uses woody habitats including forest, scrub, savanna, plantations and vegetation around villages.

• Black-throated Sunbird Aethopyga saturata

  Male Black-throated Sunbirds have a black throat and breast, a maroon back, and a purple iridescent head. They use forests and forest edges and feed mainly on nectar.

• Red-backed Flameback Dinopium psarodes

  This Sri Lankan woodpecker is the red-backed form. It is most widespread in the wet zone, while birds in the north-central contact area can show intermediate plumage.

• Reichard's Seedeater Crithagra reichardi

  Reichard's Seedeater is a small bird about 12–14 cm long. It is active by day, lives in woodland and semi-open places, and eats seeds.

• African Red-eyed Bulbul Pycnonotus nigricans

  The African Red-eyed Bulbul is a southern African bulbul marked by a red eye wattle. It lives in dry woodland, savanna, and Karoo scrub.

• Green-legged Partridge Tropicoperdix chloropus

  The Green-legged Partridge is a forest-dwelling Asian pheasant. A study in Khao Yai National Park, Thailand, recorded ground nests with females incubating alone.

• Malayan Laughingthrush Trochalopteron peninsulae

  This laughingthrush lives in montane forest on the Malay Peninsula. Its cinnamon-brown body, olive-yellow wings, and narrow white eye-ring stand out.

• Russet-tailed Thrush Zoothera heinei

  A brown, finely scaled-looking thrush, it searches among leaf litter on the floor of wet forest.

• Short-billed Pigeon Patagioenas nigrirostris

  This pigeon ranges from southeastern Mexico through Central America to northwestern Colombia. Its body is reddish purple, with a browner belly and olive-brown upperparts.

• Mantled Hawk Pseudastur polionotus

  The Mantled Hawk is a large hawk with white and slate-grey plumage and a short tail. It lives in humid hilly forest and hunts reptiles, small mammals, and birds.

• Dark-faced Ground Tyrant Muscisaxicola maclovianus

  This southern South American migrant reaches the coast and adjacent foothills of northwestern Peru. The Peru Aves account places its Peruvian season from April to October and describes foraging in open places such as grassland and fields.

• Black-throated Sparrow Amphispiza bilineata

  Two white lines frame the gray face of this North American sparrow, and a black triangular throat patch stands out. It searches for insects or seeds on the ground in dry scrub, with its diet changing by season.

• Blue-and-yellow Tanager Rauenia bonariensis

  This tanager uses scrub and forest edges in South America. The PeruAves account reports solitary or paired foraging and describes several different Peruvian habitats.

• Sulawesi Blue Flycatcher Cyornis omissus

  The Sulawesi Blue Flycatcher is restricted here to Sulawesi's main island, Indonesia. A broad species account lists moist lowland and montane forest as habitats.

• Black-hooded Coucal Centropus steerii

  The Black-hooded Coucal is a cuckoo relative recorded on Mindoro in the Philippines. Records describe it moving through dense lowland-forest thickets along branches.

• Hispaniolan Palm Crow Corvus palmarum

  The Hispaniolan Palm Crow is a small, all-black crow found on Hispaniola. It eats fruit and invertebrates and often comes down to the ground to feed.

• Halmahera Boobook Ninox hypogramma

  This owl occurs on islands of North Maluku. It has a gray-brown head and reddish-brown upperparts, and uses both lowland rainforest and mature secondary forest with large trees.

• Napo Sabrewing Campylopterus villaviscensio

  The Napo Sabrewing is a large hummingbird of cloud forest along the eastern Andes, from southern Colombia to northern Peru. Males have a blue throat-to-chest patch and bright green crown; females have gray underparts and narrow white tail tips.

• Pygmy Antwren Myrmotherula brachyura

  The Pygmy Antwren is widespread in Amazonia. Males have yellow underparts with black-and-white streaking above; females have buff-and-black streaking on the head and back. Birds forage along open forest edges and light gaps.

• Blue-crowned Hanging Parrot Loriculus galgulus

  The Blue-crowned Hanging Parrot is a small parrot of Southeast Asian forests. The sexes differ in their blue and red head markings, and the bird may rest hanging upside down from a branch.