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• Chaco Sparrow Rhynchospiza strigiceps

  

  This sparrow uses dry grassland and scrub in South America. It breeds in north-central Argentina, and some birds move seasonally into Bolivia and Paraguay.

• White-eyed Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus zosterops

  Olive upperparts, a pale iris, and two narrow wing bars help identify this small tyrant flycatcher. It forages in the understory and midstory inside forest.

• Australian Ringneck Barnardius zonarius

  The Australian Ringneck occurs in Australia. Its plumage varies by region, but much of the body is green with a yellow band on the hind-neck.

• Band-tailed Pigeon Patagioenas fasciata

  A flocking pigeon of western North American forests. Its pale gray plumage, white neck crescent, and broad pale tail band help identify it.

• Greater Streaked Honeyeater Myza sarasinorum

  The Greater Streaked Honeyeater lives in Sulawesi's montane rainforest. Fine streaks on its dark plumage and a large ear patch are useful field marks.

• Sooty Chat Myrmecocichla nigra

  The Sooty Chat is a chat whose male has black plumage and a white wing patch. Females and juveniles are brown, and the species forages on the ground in grassland.

• Sooty Grassquit Asemospiza fuliginosa

  This small grassquit occurs in humid woodland and forest edges. It is recorded from several South American countries; in Bolivia, only one vagrant specimen from Amazonian forest in northern Santa Cruz is reported.

• Pheasant Cuckoo Dromococcyx phasianellus

  The Pheasant Cuckoo has a long tail and rufous crest and searches for food on the forest floor.

• Crimson-mantled Woodpecker Colaptes rivolii

  This woodpecker lives in humid forest and cloud forest in the Andes from Bolivia to Venezuela. It has striking red upperparts and a pale face; the male and female have differently colored facial stripes.

• Pacific Pygmy Owl Glaucidium peruanum

  The Pacific Pygmy Owl occurs in gray-brown and rufous color forms. It ranges along the western Andes of South America and is most active around dusk and at night.

• Spotted Ground Thrush Geokichla guttata

  The South African race has large black spots across its white underside and searches among forest leaf litter for food.

• Rio Madeira Stipplethroat Epinecrophylla amazonica

  This antbird forages in the lower and middle forest layers of Amazonia and may join mixed-species flocks. Males and females differ in throat and wing markings.

• Streaked Bulbul Ixos malaccensis

  Adults are olive above, with whitish streaks on the grayish throat and breast and a pale belly. They use broadleaf evergreen forests and edges, eating fruit and insects.

• Yellow-rumped Seedeater Crithagra xanthopygia

  This finch is reported as common in dry, open scrub in the highlands of Eritrea and Ethiopia. A 2020 expedition also recorded 12 birds in Djibouti and described their plumage.

• Blue-winged Parrotlet Forpus xanthopterygius

  The Blue-winged Parrotlet is a small green parrot. Males of the nominate subspecies have blue-purple on the wings and rump, while females are green in those areas.

• Piapiac Ptilostomus afer

  This corvid has a long graduated tail and a stout, curved bill. Its black plumage has a blue-purple sheen, and its eyes are purple.

• Usambara Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris usambaricus

  This sunbird lives in Tanzania’s Usambara Mountains. A study around Mazumbai Forest Reserve found it mainly in areas with limited crown cover; most recorded food came from non-native plants.

• Wing-snapping Cisticola Cisticola ayresii

  This small cisticola has fine streaks on its head and back. It forages in short grassland; males sing in high flight and sometimes dive with wing-snapping sounds.

• Black-faced Hawk Leucopternis melanops

  A small, stocky hawk with a black facial marking and orange cere, it searches for small prey in wet forest.

• Common Babbler Argya caudata

  A bird with fine streaks and dark eyes that moves over the ground and low scrub in small flocks.

• Cotton Pygmy-Goose Nettapus coromandelianus

  A very small duck that uses plant-rich freshwater areas in eastern Queensland, Australia.

• Peruvian Sheartail Thaumastura cora

  This hummingbird is recorded from the Pacific side of Peru and Ecuador to northern Chile. It uses coastal scrub and vegetation along seasonal river valleys; adult males have very long tail feathers.

• Lesser Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus fuscus

  Lesser Woodcreeper is about 15–19 cm long. Oiseaux.net lists forest as its habitat and invertebrates as food. The account also includes song and call recordings from several Brazilian localities.

• Mikado Pheasant Syrmaticus mikado

  The Mikado Pheasant lives in Taiwan's mountain forests. Males have blue-purple plumage and a long tail.