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• Tawny-crested Tanager Tachyphonus delatrii

  

  Tawny-crested Tanagers may move in flocks through moist lowland and montane forest, usually at lower or middle levels. They can join mixed-species flocks.

• Palawan Bulbul Alophoixus frater

  This bulbul is recorded only on the Palawan and Calamian islands of the Philippines. It uses forests and forest edges and feeds on insects and fruit.

• Curl-crested Jay Cyanocorax cristatellus

  The Curl-crested Jay is a social bird marked by blue wings and tail and a curled crest.

• Glossy-black Thrush Turdus serranus

  The Glossy-black Thrush lives in humid Andean mountain forests. Adult males are glossy black, while females are brownish, making the sexes look quite different.

• Congo Moor Chat Myrmecocichla tholloni

  A field-guide account describes a dark brown bird with pale areas on the face, throat, upper breast and lower belly, plus a white wing patch. A Congo reserve survey found it common in open grassland.

• Itatiaia Spinetail Asthenes moreirae

  This small ovenbird lives in high-elevation grasslands of southeastern Brazil. Its long, frayed tail is distinctive, and it forages among grass and shrubs.

• Blue-and-yellow macaw Ara ararauna

  A large South American parrot with bright blue upperparts and yellow underparts.

• Saltmarsh Sparrow Ammospiza caudacuta

  The Saltmarsh Sparrow lives in coastal salt marshes in the United States. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service page uses the older name Ammodramus caudacutus; this entry retains the pool's scientific name, Ammospiza caudacuta.

• Yellow Wattlebird Anthochaera paradoxa

  This honeyeater lives on Tasmania and nearby islands. Its orange-yellow wattles on the sides of the head stand out, and it often feeds on nectar from eucalypts and other plants.

• Rio Branco Antbird Cercomacra carbonaria

  This antbird lives in gallery forest in Roraima, northern Brazil, and adjacent Guyana. Males and females differ in plumage.

• Black-billed Streamertail Trochilus scitulus

  This hummingbird occurs at the eastern end of Jamaica. The 2018 survey paper used the earlier name Trochilus polytmus scitulus for this form and described the male’s black bill and long tail plumes.

• Luapula Cisticola Cisticola luapula

  This bird uses wetlands and seasonally flooded grasslands in south-central Africa. Its upperparts are streaked, with rufous on the crown and wings.

• Western Marsh Harrier Circus aeruginosus

  A large raptor that flies low over wetlands with broad wings held in a shallow V. Many birds in Britain arrive in spring to breed and head to Africa in autumn, while some now remain there through winter.

• Pearly-breasted Cuckoo Coccyzus euleri

  The Pearly-breasted Cuckoo breeds in southern South America and moves northward. It is brown above, white below, and has a long tail patterned in black and white.

• Hoary-throated Barwing Actinodura nipalensis

  This barwing occurs in the Eastern Himalaya, including Nepal. A pale throat and faint arcs around the eye are distinctive; winter records may occur at lower elevations.

• Australian Boobook Ninox boobook

  This nocturnal owl is about 28–36 cm long. It has a dark brown back and rufous-brown underparts marked with white, and hunts small animals from elevated perches.

• Whitehead's Spiderhunter Arachnothera juliae

  A flower-visiting spiderhunter of the highlands of Borneo.

• Black-headed Siskin Spinus notatus

  The Black-headed Siskin is a finch ranging from Mexico into northern Central America. Breeding males stand out for a black head and yellow belly.

• Common Bronzewing Phaps chalcoptera

  The Common Bronzewing is a large pigeon widespread in Australia. It often searches for food on the ground and has bronze-colored iridescence on its wings.

• Common Shelduck Tadorna tadorna

  A coastal duck with a white body, a green-black head and a brown band across its chest.

• Jackson's Francolin Pternistis jacksoni

  Jackson's Francolin occurs in the highlands of western and central Kenya, using montane forest, moorland, and bamboo patches.

• Olivaceous Piculet Picumnus olivaceus

  The Olivaceous Piculet is a small piculet. The Peru account describes the subspecies there as yellow-olive, with yellow on the male's forehead.

• Emerald-collared Parakeet Psittacula calthrapae

  Layard's Parakeet is endemic to Sri Lanka and uses moist forest, tea plantations, gardens, and forest edges.

• Pearly-vented Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus margaritaceiventer

  In Peru's eastern Andes, it forages in scrub, forest edges, and secondary forest. The source identifies the regional form as subspecies rufipes.