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• Golden-collared Honeycreeper Iridophanes pulcherrimus

  

  This tanager-family bird occurs in the Andes of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Males are strikingly patterned in black, blue, and gold.

• Cameroon Mountain Greenbul Arizelocichla montana

  This greenbul was recorded in a survey of the Tchabal Mbabo massif in Cameroon. It is uniformly yellow-olive and occurs in montane forest, secondary forest, and scrub.

• Large-billed crow Corvus macrorhynchos

  A crow with a thick bill and a raised forehead. In Japan it occurs in forests, towns and other habitats.

• Siberian Thrush Geokichla sibirica

  A thrush with different male and female plumage that breeds in mountain forests north of central Honshu.

• Little Grey Flycatcher Muscicapa epulata

  The Little Grey Flycatcher is a small flycatcher of the Afrotropics. It is reported from humid forest edges and dense cover, where it catches small invertebrates.

• Plain-mantled Tit-Spinetail Leptasthenura aegithaloides

  This small bird lives in dry scrub and woodland edges, and it is recorded hanging upside down from branches. It feeds mostly on insects.

• Golden-winged Parakeet Brotogeris chrysoptera

  The Golden-winged Parakeet is a small green parakeet with a golden wing patch. Outside the breeding season it travels in flocks and may gather at fruiting trees.

• Grasshopper Sparrow Ammodramus savannarum

  The Grasshopper Sparrow is a small bird that runs through tall grass while foraging. It can disappear among the grasses and sometimes sings an insect-like buzz from a stalk.

• Dusky Friarbird Philemon fuscicapillus

  This Morotai friarbird has drab brown plumage, pink bare skin around the eye, and a heavy black bill.

• Yellow-breasted Warbling Antbird Hypocnemis subflava

  This small antbird ranges from Peru's eastern Andean foothills into adjacent western Bolivia and Brazil. Its throat and belly are yellow, and the eyebrow differs in color between the sexes.

• Juan Fernandez Firecrown Sephanoides fernandensis

  This hummingbird is endemic to Robinson Crusoe Island in the Juan Fernández Islands. Males and females have very different plumage.

• Black-throated Prinia Prinia atrogularis

  This long-tailed prinia lives in scrub on hills and mountains. Breeding adults show a gray head, white moustachial stripe, and black throat and chest.

• Upland Buzzard Buteo hemilasius

  This large buzzard lives in open steppe and uplands and occurs in both light and dark plumage forms.

• African Cuckoo Cuculus gularis

  This cuckoo lives in open woodland and savanna across parts of sub-Saharan Africa. In southern Africa it lays its eggs in Fork-tailed Drongo nests.

• White-rumped Babbler Turdoides leucopygia

  An eastern African babbler of rocky hill woodland, scrub, riparian cover, and reedbeds. Its scaled breast and white rump and lower belly are useful field marks.

• Pel's Fishing Owl Scotopelia peli

  Pel's Fishing Owl lives near rivers and lakes south of the Sahara in Africa and catches fish. It uses waterside trees for roosting and nesting.

• Streaky-breasted Spiderhunter Arachnothera affinis

  This spiderhunter has an olive-green back and fine streaks on its grayish breast. It lives in foothill forest and forest edge on Java and gives loud, harsh calls.

• Chinese Grosbeak Eophona migratoria

  Its thick yellow bill stands out. It feeds on seeds and fruit in woodlands and orchards of East Asia.

• Plain-breasted Ground Dove Columbina minuta

  The Plain-breasted Ground Dove feeds on seeds and fruit on the ground in dry grasslands and other open habitats. Males have a blue-gray head; females are paler.

• Pink-footed Goose Anser brachyrhynchus

  A goose seen in large flocks in Britain during winter. Its pink feet and pink band on the bill are distinctive.

• Gray-striped Francolin Pternistis griseostriatus

  The Gray-striped Francolin is a ground-dwelling bird of forests and thickets in western Angola. Pairs and small groups keep to dense cover.

• Red-cockaded Woodpecker Leuconotopicus borealis

  This woodpecker lives in pine forests of the southeastern United States. A breeding pair may receive help from other family members.

• Purple-bellied Lory Lorius hypoinochrous

  This large parrot has a red body and green wings. Its head is black with a purple gloss, and its thighs and lower abdomen are blue-purple. It feeds on flowers and fruit in the mid-canopy.

• White-rumped Sirystes Sirystes albocinereus

  The White-rumped Sirystes ranges from southwestern Venezuela to northern Bolivia in moist lowland forest. Accounts describe it foraging alone or in pairs in the canopy.