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• Golden-bellied Starfrontlet Coeligena bonapartei

  

  The Golden-bellied Starfrontlet is a hummingbird of cloud forests and other wooded openings in Colombia's eastern Andes. It has a black head and a long, straight black bill, and feeds on nectar.

• Tullberg's Woodpecker Campethera tullbergi

  A woodpecker of montane forests from southeastern Nigeria and Cameroon east to the highlands of East Africa. Males have a red forecrown and nape and spotted or barred yellow-green underparts.

• Rusty-headed Spinetail Synallaxis fuscorufa

  This ovenbird is restricted to Colombia's Santa Marta mountains. It searches among branches in montane forest understory and scrub.

• Bar-tailed Pheasant Syrmaticus humiae

  The Bar-tailed Pheasant is a long-tailed pheasant with red wattles around the eyes. Blue and white markings stand out on males, while females are mottled brown.

• Sandy Scops Owl Otus icterorhynchus

  The Sandy Scops Owl is a small owl with a white shoulder stripe and yellow eyes and bill. It is nocturnal in lowland evergreen forest and feeds on crickets and grasshoppers.

• 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.

• Mountain Fulvetta Alcippe peracensis

  A grey head and a dark line running from above the eye toward the nape help identify this bird. It eats insects in evergreen forest and may occur in small groups.

• Elfin Myzomela Myzomela adolphinae

  A tiny honeyeater of New Guinea's mid-montane forest canopy and village edges. Males show red on the head and rump against a dark back and wings; females have red only at the chin.

• European Stonechat Saxicola rubicola

  In Britain, European Stonechats are small birds that perch on low bushes. Males and females differ in head and breast color.

• Steller's Jay Cyanocitta stelleri

  A crested jay that searches for food from the forest canopy to the ground and stores food.

• Plumbeous Euphonia Euphonia plumbea

  Male Plumbeous Euphonias have blue upperparts and yellow underparts. They occur in savanna with scattered trees and along woodland edges, where they eat small fruit.

• Luapula Cisticola Cisticola luapula

  This bird uses wetlands and seasonally flooded grasslands in south-central Africa. Its upperparts are streaked, with rufous on the crown and wings.

• Black-faced Coucal Centropus melanops

  The Black-faced Coucal is a cuckoo family bird of Philippine forests and forest edges. By day, it searches near the ground for small invertebrates.

• Black Parrot Coracopsis nigra

  A fairly large black parrot found in and around forests. Its loud calls are musical whistles.

• Western Bronze-naped Pigeon Columba iriditorques

  The Western Bronze-naped Pigeon inhabits forests in tropical Africa. It feeds on fruit and uses habitats including riparian evergreen forest.

• Cinereous vulture Aegypius monachus

  A large vulture with broad wings and a dark-brown body.

• Splendid Sunbird Cinnyris coccinigastrus

  This sunbird lives in savanna and woodland in tropical West and Central Africa. Males show metallic green, blue, violet, and scarlet; females are mainly gray with yellow on the belly.

• Gray-winged Inca-Finch Incaspiza ortizi

  This finch lives in dry scrub in the Marañón drainage of northern Peru. Its gray and brown body has a dark facial pattern, and it searches for food in low shrubs.

• Rufous Casiornis Casiornis rufus

  This rufous flycatcher is covered in a regional account for Bolivia. It has a pale lower mandible and sallies for arthropods in the upper understory and subcanopy of dry to semi-humid woodland.

• Abyssinian Ground Thrush Geokichla piaggiae

  This ground thrush is marked by an orange head and breast, olive-brown upperparts, and a white eye-ring. It searches for fruit and small prey in the lower parts of mountain forest.

• Trumpeter Swan Cygnus buccinator

  A large white swan of North America. It feeds on aquatic plants in shallow water and breeds along wetlands and lakes.

• Spix's Warbling Antbird Hypocnemis striata

  The species account classifies this antbird as a forest-dwelling invertivore. In Anapu, Pará, two nests were documented in dense terra firme forest in April 2016.

• Mauritius Bulbul Hypsipetes olivaceus

  This bulbul lives in forests on Mauritius. Its grayish body is topped by a loose, pointed dark crest. It eats insects, seeds and fruit, and its range is confined to the island.

• Maroon-tailed Parakeet Pyrrhura melanura

  The Maroon-tailed Parakeet has a green body and dark maroon tail. It occurs in forested parts of Colombia and feeds on fruit in small flocks.