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• Black-billed Seed Finch Sporophila atrirostris

  

  This small bird is recorded locally in the eastern Andean foothills. In Peru, it has been found in tall grass along rivers and oxbow lakes, and males and females have different plumage.

• Brown-eared bulbul Hypsipetes amaurotis

  A bird found among trees in Japanese woods and towns. A brown area behind the eye and across the cheek is a useful identifying feature.

• Yellow-billed Magpie Pica nutallii

  This magpie is confined to California. Its black-and-white plumage has blue-green iridescence, and its bill is yellow. It lives in open oak woodland and grassy oak savanna, often near plains, orchards or fields.

• Austral Thrush Turdus falcklandii

  This thrush is resident in northwestern Patagonia. Dark streaks mark its white throat, and ochre coloring spreads across the breast and belly.

• Palawan Flycatcher Ficedula platenae

  A tiny flycatcher endemic to Palawan and nearby islands. It occurs in lowland primary forest and some secondary growth.

• White-browed Tit-Spinetail Leptasthenura xenothorax

  This small bird lives in high-Andean Polylepis woodland in Peru. Its rufous head, long white eyebrow, and black-checkered white throat are distinctive.

• Puerto Rican Amazon Amazona vittata

  The Puerto Rican Amazon is a green parrot endemic to Puerto Rico. It feeds mainly on wild fruit; tabonuco fruit is also important in October.

• Five-striped Sparrow Amphispizopsis quinquestriata

  The Five-striped Sparrow lives on dry hillsides with dense thorny vegetation in northwestern Mexico and southeastern Arizona. Its black breast spot and striped head and throat are distinctive.

• Common Smoky Honeyeater Melipotes fumigatus

  Orange-yellow skin around the eyes and on the ear-wattle contrasts with the smoky brown back. In New Guinea's highlands, it feeds on small fruits and insects in the canopy and middle storey.

• Leaden Antwren Myrmotherula assimilis

  This small bird occurs in the Amazon region of Brazil, Peru, and Bolivia. Males are grey and females olive-grey; river-edge and flooded-forest records are documented.

• Violet-tailed Sylph Aglaiocercus coelestis

  This hummingbird lives on the western Andean slope of Colombia and Ecuador. Males have long violet-blue tails; females are smaller and lack the long tail.

• Croaking Cisticola Cisticola natalensis

  It is the largest cisticola in southern Africa. It lives in moist grasslands, where breeding males call from exposed perches and make display flights.

• Bald eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus

  A North American eagle whose head and tail become white as it matures.

• 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.

• Silver-eared Mesia Leiothrix argentauris

  Chestnut and olive feathers, a dark face, and silvery ear patches mark this small bird. It forms flocks in woodland and eats fruit, seeds, and insects.

• Luzon Scops Owl Otus longicornis

  A small scops owl found only on Luzon. Its long ear tufts are distinctive, and records come from humid foothill and mountain forest as well as pine forest.

• Southern Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris chalybeus

  Males have a narrow red breast band and pale gray belly; females are gray-brown. At Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, records describe it as common in coastal thicket, feeding mainly on insects while also taking nectar.

• Collared Grosbeak Mycerobas affinis

  The Collared Grosbeak is a large finch whose plumage differs between males and females. This account gives the Chinese part of its range described by the Kunming Institute of Zoology.

• White-throated Quail-Dove Zentrygon frenata

  A dove of humid Andean forests, it has pale stripes on the face and a light throat. It may forage on the forest floor in the early morning.

• Red-billed Teal Anas erythrorhyncha

  A duck distributed in eastern and southern Africa. It uses shallow freshwater wetlands with vegetation; the male’s bill becomes redder during breeding, according to the regional account.

• Hazel Grouse Tetrastes bonasia

  In Finland, Hazel Grouse live in coniferous forests and eat buds, young shoots, and berries.

• Helmeted Woodpecker Celeus galeatus

  The Helmeted Woodpecker lives in the Atlantic Forest of southeastern South America. A study reports that its plumage resembles that of a larger, co-occurring woodpecker, and tracked birds used cavities in large trees as roosts.

• Brehm's Tiger Parrot Psittacella brehmii

  Brehm's Tiger Parrot is a green parrot of New Guinea's mountain forests. Barred back feathers and the male's yellow facial crescent are useful field marks.

• Choco Tyrannulet Zimmerius albigularis

  This small bird occurs in humid forest in south-western Colombia and western Ecuador. It has olive upperparts, a white throat, and yellowish flanks and undertail.