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• Thick-billed Miner Geositta crassirostris

  

  This miner lives in dry western Peruvian slopes and coastal lomas. It has gray-brown upperparts, a stout bill, and a pale eyebrow, and searches the ground among rocks.

• Scarlet Myzomela Myzomela sanguinolenta

  This small honeyeater occurs in eastern Australia. Males are red and black, while females and immature birds are mainly brown. It often visits flowers for nectar.

• Golden-plumed Parakeet Leptosittaca branickii

  The Golden-plumed Parakeet lives in Andean forests from Colombia south to Peru. Adults are mostly green, with yellow plumes behind the eyes and orange tones on the belly.

• Long-tailed Duck Clangula hyemalis

  An Arctic-breeding sea duck that spends winter along coasts and on large lakes, where it dives for aquatic animals.

• Black-throated Apalis Apalis jacksoni

  A small apalis of African highlands and other parts of the continent. Its bright yellow underside and long, graduated tail are useful field marks.

• Shelley's Sunbird Cinnyris shelleyi

  This African sunbird visits flowering trees in damp highland forest. A historical account records metallic green breeding plumage and a vivid red breast band in the adult male.

• Black-necked Woodpecker Colaptes atricollis

  The Black-necked Woodpecker occurs on the western side of the Peruvian Andes. It has a black throat and upper breast, a barred body, and feeds mainly on ants and other insects.

• Red-fronted Rosefinch Carpodacus puniceus

  The Red-fronted Rosefinch is about 20 cm long and eats plant seeds on rocky, shrub-covered high slopes by day. Call-recording sites in western China, including Qinghai and Sichuan, show only part of its range.

• Himalayan Bulbul Pycnonotus leucogenys

  The Himalayan Bulbul is a bulbul with a black face and throat set off by a white cheek patch. It uses foothill woodland, scrub, gardens, and towns.

• Ferruginous Partridge Caloperdix oculeus

  This partridge is striking for its orange head and breast and black-and-white scaling on the back and sides. It forages on the ground in lowland and middle-elevation forests.

• Snowy-cheeked Laughingthrush Ianthocincla sukatschewi

  This laughingthrush occurs around the Min Shan, from southern Gansu into northern Sichuan, China. BirdLife reports records at 2,000–3,500 m.

• Sri Lanka Thrush Zoothera imbricata

  The Sri Lanka Thrush is endemic to Sri Lanka. Black scale-like markings pattern its pale plumage, and a black band shows across the white underwing in flight. A Sri Lankan study treated it as a ground-layer species and found higher density in forest than in buffer habitat.

• Crimson-crowned Fruit Dove Ptilinopus porphyraceus

  The Crimson-crowned Fruit Dove has a gray-green head and breast set against a violet crown patch.

• Western Banded Snake Eagle Circaetus cinerascens

  A grey-brown eagle with a large head, marked in flight by a white band across its short tail.

• White-eyed Attila Attila bolivianus

  This tyrant flycatcher lives in the lowlands of northern South America. It uses riverside and swamp forest, where it sallies from a perch to catch insects.

• California Towhee Melozone crissalis

  The California Towhee is a sparrow-like bird of scrub in California and Oregon. It forages on the ground and stays near low shrubs.

• Temminck's Seedeater Sporophila falcirostris

  This small seedeater has a thick, curved bill; males are gray and females olive-brown. It eats bamboo seeds and moves in response to bamboo seeding.

• White-crowned Shama Copsychus stricklandii

  It occurs in northeastern Borneo and uses forests with undergrowth. It is known for loud, beautiful songs and for mimicking other birds and sounds.

• Kai Coucal Centropus spilopterus

  The Kai Coucal is endemic to the Kai Islands. A field account records it mainly singly or in pairs, in tall alang-alang grass, village gardens, coconut plantations, and mangrove edges.

• Turquoise Jay Cyanolyca turcosa

  This jay ranges through the Andes from southwestern Colombia, across Ecuador, to northern Peru. It has a black face and turquoise-blue plumage and forages in small flocks in the forest canopy and subcanopy.

• Black-capped Screech Owl Megascops atricapilla

  A screech-owl with dark, grey, and rufous colour morphs; every morph has a dark crown. It inhabits forests in south-eastern Brazil and nearby regions.

• Blue-fronted Lancebill Doryfera johannae

  This hummingbird occurs in wet forest in the northern Andes. The male has a blue forehead, the female a green one, and it feeds from deep tubular flowers.

• Spotted Antbird Hylophylax naevioides

  This antbird lives in lowland evergreen forests in Central America, including Panama. Adult males have a black head and white throat; females differ, with a paler throat.

• Reischek's Parakeet Cyanoramphus hochstetteri

  Reischek's Parakeet is a parakeet of New Zealand's Antipodes Islands.