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• Yellow-crowned Canary Serinus flavivertex

  

  This canary ranges through mountain areas from Eritrea to northern Malawi and western Angola. Adult males of the nominate form show conspicuous yellow on the head and underparts, and forage for seeds among the ground and vegetation.

• Somali Crow Corvus edithae

  This crow lives in dry parts of northeastern Africa. Its black plumage has green and purple gloss, with brown on the nape and neck.

• White-throated Mountain-gem Lampornis castaneoventris

  The White-throated Mountain-gem lives in Costa Rican mountain forest. The adult description notes a white throat, pale green breast, and grayish tail.

• Violaceous Quail-Dove Geotrygon violacea

  This quail-dove often uses trees, but it also visits the ground to eat fallen fruit. The Cotinga paper reports records from humid lowland forest in Peru.

• Romblon Boobook Ninox spilonotus

  An owl recorded on Tablas and Sibuyan in the Philippines. The studied island birds had a relatively plain head pattern.

• Cinereous Tyrant Knipolegus striaticeps

  The sexes have different plumage. Males have a dark crown and tail, while females have a chestnut head and gray back. A 2019 report describes it as locally common in Paraguay’s drier Chaco.

• Malagasy Bulbul Hypsipetes madagascariensis

  This bulbul has a gray body, a black cap, and a bright orange bill. It occurs in woodland, scrub, villages, and plantations and may join mixed flocks.

• Wood Thrush Hylocichla mustelina

  A thrush that breeds in forests of eastern North America and winters in lowland forests of Central America.

• Chestnut-bellied Seedeater Sporophila castaneiventris

  A small seedeater of northern South America, using grassy places and river margins and eating seeds and fruit.

• Banded Bay Cuckoo Cacomantis sonneratii

  The Banded Bay Cuckoo lives in woodland and gardens from the Indian subcontinent into Southeast Asia. In Singapore, it is known to lay its eggs in the nest of a Common Iora.

• Arizona Woodpecker Leuconotopicus arizonae

  This woodpecker lives mainly in Mexico’s Sierra Madre and reaches only a small part of southern Arizona and New Mexico. It has a wood-brown back and spotted underparts.

• Black-bellied Antwren Formicivora melanogaster

  An antwren of woodland and dense scrub in Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay, feeding on insects and spiders.

• Cape Shoveler Spatula smithii

  The Cape Shoveler is a duck of shallow wetlands in southern Africa. Males and females differ in plumage and in the color of their eyes and legs.

• Brown Fulvetta Alcippe brunneicauda

  The Brown Fulvetta has a plain brown head, warm brown back, and rufous rump. It searches lower forest branches for insects and fruit.

• Crested Honey Buzzard Pernis ptilorhynchus

  A hawk with broad wings and a rounded tail. In Japan, it breeds in low mountain forests north of Shikoku and digs up nests of ground-nesting wasps to eat.

• Ivory-billed Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus flavigaster

  The Ivory-billed Woodcreeper has a long, pale bill and conspicuous white streaks on its back. In Mexican and Central American forests, it searches tree trunks as it climbs.

• Santa Marta Brush Finch Atlapetes melanocephalus

  Endemic to Colombia's Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, this brushfinch has a black head, silver-gray cheek patch, slate-gray upperparts, yellow underparts, and olive flanks. It uses montane forest thickets and feeds on seeds.

• Cliff Parakeet Myiopsitta luchsi

  This parakeet lives in the dry inter-Andean valleys of central Bolivia. It moves in flocks and builds large stick nests on cliff faces.

• Blue Eared Pheasant Crossoptilon auritum

  The Blue Eared Pheasant is a large pheasant of China's mountains, notable for its blue-gray body and white ear tufts.

• Blue-crowned Racket-tail Prioniturus discurus

  The Blue-crowned Racket-tail has green plumage and a blue crown and uses forests, mangroves, and cultivated areas in the Philippines.

• Brown-streaked Flycatcher Muscicapa williamsoni

  Brown-streaked Flycatcher occurs in Southeast Asia and is recorded in forests as well as parks and gardens.

• Superb Sunbird Cinnyris superbus

  The Superb Sunbird occurs in western and central Africa. Males have a blue crown and throat with maroon underparts; the species uses woodland and savanna.

• Coastal Cisticola Cisticola haematocephalus

  A cisticola of East African wetlands and moist grassland. It has a streaked back and a relatively long tail.

• Grey-necked Friarbird Philemon subcorniculatus

  The Grey-necked Friarbird is endemic to Seram Island, Indonesia. Two plumage forms have been reported, one with a grey head and throat and another with dark markings; records extend from the coast into mountain forest.