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• Dusky-headed Brush Finch Atlapetes fuscoolivaceus

  

  It lives on the eastern side of the Colombian Andes, moving in small groups through dense vegetation at forest edges and in second growth. The cited source does not report its diet.

• Yellow-bellied Chat-Tyrant Silvicultrix diadema

  A small Andean bird that searches for insects in pairs in the forest understory. Its yellow eyebrow and yellowish belly stand out.

• Gray-headed Parakeet Psittacula finschii

  The Grey-headed Parakeet is an Asian parrot with a grey head and yellow-green body. It eats plant foods such as seeds and fruit.

• Grey-green Fruit Dove Ptilinopus purpuratus

  The Grey-green Fruit Dove is a fruit-eating pigeon found on Tahiti and Moorea in the Society Islands. It uses forests and other wooded places.

• Sumba Myzomela Myzomela dammermani

  The Sumba Myzomela is a small bird of Sumba Island, Indonesia, where it forages from the forest mid-storey to the canopy.

• Snowy-browed Flycatcher Ficedula hyperythra

  This small flycatcher lives in moist forests and montane forests across Asia. The male is notable for its combination of an ash-blue head and orange chest.

• Cone-billed Tanager Conothraupis mesoleuca

  A field study in Chapada dos Parecis, Brazil, repeatedly recorded the species in seasonally flooded forest and grassland beside rivers. The paper also describes a female captured in the study area.

• Sulawesi Brush Cuckoo Cacomantis virescens

  The Sulawesi Brush Cuckoo occurs in wooded habitats on Sulawesi and is often noticed by its calls. eBird's identification account notes buff underparts and a barred tail.

• Crimson-bellied Woodpecker Campephilus haematogaster

  This large woodpecker has black upperparts and a red crest, rump, and underside. It chisels into wood for beetle larvae.

• Austral Pygmy Owl Glaucidium nana

  This small owl is described in a regional account for northwestern Patagonia, Argentina. It is brown to reddish, with a pale underside marked by heavy brown streaks.

• Sunda Thrush Zoothera andromedae

  The Sunda Thrush is a thrush with a scaly-looking pattern on its back. It occurs mainly on Indonesian islands and also in the Philippines, searching for food on the forest floor and in undergrowth.

• Narrow-billed Antwren Formicivora iheringi

  This small antwren inhabits Brazilian scrub and woodland. It searches foliage for small invertebrates.

• Hairy-backed Bulbul Tricholestes criniger

  This bulbul occurs in forests of the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo. Fine, hair-like feather shafts on its back give it its name. It eats fruit and insects.

• Pale Rosefinch Carpodacus stoliczkae

  The Pale Rosefinch ranges from northern and central Afghanistan into western and central China. A report also documents a bird at Turtuk, India, but its subspecies was not determined.

• Red-billed Parrot Pionus sordidus

  This parrot is mostly green, with a blue chest and a red bill. In Ecuador, it feeds on fruit and flowers in the canopy of cloudy forests and nests in tree cavities.

• Eurasian magpie Pica pica

  A member of the crow family with a black-and-white body and a long tail. In Britain, its dark feathers show blue or green gloss at close range.

• Amethyst Sunbird Chalcomitra amethystina

  This sunbird occurs in sub-Saharan Africa. It uses its long curved bill to drink nectar from flowers.

• Zitting Cisticola Cisticola juncidis

  A small grassland bird with white-tipped tail feathers; birds in northern Japan move to warmer areas in autumn and winter.

• Madagascar Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vociferoides

  The Madagascar Fish Eagle is a large raptor associated with Madagascar’s coasts and freshwater. Its wingspan is about 1.65–1.80 m, and it hunts around water by day.

• Javan Fulvetta Alcippe pyrrhoptera

  This small bird lives in evergreen broadleaf forest in western and central Java. It has a brown crown and back, rufous-chestnut rump and wings, and eats insects.

• Blue-winged Teal Spatula discors

  A small duck of shallow ponds and wetlands in North America. Breeding males have blue-grey heads; females and nonbreeding males are patterned brown.

• Wire-crested Thorntail Discosura popelairii

  This hummingbird is recorded in humid forests of southern Colombia. Breeding males have wire-like ornamental feathers.

• Coiba Spinetail Cranioleuca dissita

  The Coiba Spinetail is an island bird once treated as a subspecies of another spinetail. A 2015 AOU committee proposal recognizes Cranioleuca dissita as a separate species restricted to Coiba and nearby Rancheria Island, using forest and forest edges.

• Blue Grouse Dendragapus obscurus

  The Dusky Grouse lives in western North American mountain forests. In spring, males display their neck sacs and red eye combs.