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• Monte Yellow Finch Sicalis mendozae

  

  This finch lives in the dry Monte Desert of western Argentina. Breeding males are bright yellow and lack olive tones on the throat and breast.

• Seychelles Bulbul Hypsipetes crassirostris

  This bulbul is endemic to the Seychelles. It lives in forests and secondary growth, and young birds differ from adults in bill and leg color.

• Black-throated Magpie-Jay Cyanocorax colliei

  This large magpie-jay is native to Mexico. It uses tropical deciduous and secondary forest and shrubland, and is omnivorous.

• Fruithunter Chlamydochaera jefferyi

  The Fruithunter is endemic to Borneo’s montane forest. Males are glossy blue-black, while females are barred gray-brown; small groups may gather at fruiting trees.

• Pygmy Flycatcher Muscicapella hodgsoni

  This small flycatcher lives in mountain forests from the Himalayas into Southeast Asia. Males are blue and orange; females are olive-brown.

• Ayacucho Thistletail Asthenes ayacuchensis

  The Ayacucho Thistletail is recorded from a few small valleys in eastern Ayacucho, southern Peru. It inhabits elfin forest and has a long tail with olive-brown upperparts.

• Rose-fronted Parakeet Pyrrhura roseifrons

  This parakeet occurs in the western Amazon. Adults have a reddish head and a dark breast marked with white. A survey in Peru’s Tapiche–Blanco region also recorded occasional daytime feeding in the forest canopy.

• Swamp Sparrow Melospiza georgiana

  The Swamp Sparrow lives in wetlands from central Canada to the eastern United States. Its rusty cap and wings stand out, and it searches for food in shallow water.

• Short-bearded Honeyeater Melionyx nouhuysi

  This dark-plumaged honeyeater has a short, white beard-like throat tuft. It lives in high mountains of western New Guinea among trees and shrubs.

• Black-tailed Antbird Myrmoborus melanurus

  This antbird forages in dense thickets and scrub along lowland Amazonian rivers. Males are dark, while females are rufous-brown above; both sexes have a white throat, pale wing bars, and red irises.

• Chestnut-bellied Hummingbird Saucerottia castaneiventris

  A hummingbird endemic to Colombia, with a bronze-red back, chestnut belly, and iridescent green throat. It takes nectar and may defend sites where flowers are abundant.

• White-tailed Cisticola Cisticola anderseni

  A cisticola of wetlands in the Kilombero floodplain of southwestern Tanzania. Its outer tail feathers and tips are white, and its back is streaked.

• Booted Eagle Hieraaetus pennatus

  A small, long-tailed eagle with both light and dark plumage forms.

• Lesser cuckoo Cuculus poliocephalus

  A cuckoo visiting Japanese mountain forests, where the male’s loud call carries through the trees.

• White-crested Laughingthrush Garrulax leucolophus

  The White-crested Laughingthrush is a large babbler with a white crest and black facial mask. Flocks of about 6–12 birds search the forest floor for food.

• Northern Pygmy Owl Glaucidium californicum

  This small owl occurs in western North America. It hunts from a perch in open woodland and at forest clearings.

• Western Violet-backed Sunbird Anthreptes longuemarei

  The Western Violet-backed Sunbird is a small, short-billed bird. Males show violet on the head, back, and throat. It ranges across sub-Saharan Africa and uses woodland and savanna edges.

• Chinese White-browed Rosefinch Carpodacus dubius

  This rosefinch occurs in China's highlands. Species data describe shrubland and semi-open habitat at high elevation; a historical adult-male account records a silvery forehead and throat and rosy cheeks.

• Island Bronze-naped Pigeon Columba malherbii

  This pigeon occurs on São Tomé, Príncipe, and Annobón in the Gulf of Guinea. A study on São Tomé found it in shade-grown plantations and savanna as well as forest, and recorded it feeding on the ground and high in trees.

• Freckled Duck Stictonetta naevosa

  Fine white and pale buff flecks cover the dark grey-brown body of this Australian duck. The male’s bill turns red during the breeding season.

• Ahanta Francolin Pternistis ahantensis

  The Ahanta Francolin is a ground-dwelling bird of forest edges, regrowth, and streamside thickets in West Africa. Its chestnut plumage is patterned.

• Beautiful Woodpecker Melanerpes pulcher

  The Beautiful Woodpecker occurs in Colombia’s Magdalena Valley. A 2013 regional guide treats it as an endemic of that area and records it in humid forest, secondary growth and forest edges. Males have a red crown and golden-yellow nape.

• 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.

• Eastern Kingbird Tyrannus tyrannus

  The Eastern Kingbird perches in open places to catch flying insects. It breeds in North America and migrates to South America for winter.