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• Greater Scythebill Drymotoxeres pucheranii

  

  An Andean treehunter of humid mountain forest, with a very long downcurved pale bill and a rufous body marked by pale streaks.

• Dusky Bush Tanager Chlorospingus semifuscus

  It occurs in the western Andes of Colombia and Ecuador, joins mixed flocks, and uses fruit and insects. Males may sing in clustered territories along ridges.

• Austral Parakeet Enicognathus ferrugineus

  The Austral Parakeet is green with red patches. It forms flocks in Andean and Patagonian forests and feeds on seeds and tree fruits.

• Red-necked Francolin Pternistis afer

  Red skin around the face and red legs help identify this spurfowl. Plumage varies across its range, and its diet shifts from mostly invertebrates in summer to plant matter in winter.

• Black Lory Chalcopsitta atra

  The Black Lory has several subspecies; subspecies atra is black with a violet-blue rump. This entry limits its range to subspecies atra in West Papua, Indonesia.

• Philippine Magpie-Robin Copsychus mindanensis

  The Philippine Magpie-Robin is endemic to the Philippines. It has a white belly and all-black tail and also lives in open forest, second growth, farmland, gardens, and scrub.

• Mrs. Gould's Sunbird Aethopyga gouldiae

  Mrs. Gould’s Sunbird differs in size between sexes: males have a long tail, and nominate males have a violet crown.

• Black-tailed Cisticola Cisticola melanurus

  The Black-tailed Cisticola is recorded at scattered sites from eastern Angola to western Democratic Republic of Congo. An Angolan survey found it foraging in mature miombo woodland from near the ground to the canopy.

• Western Spinebill Acanthorhynchus superciliosus

  The Western Spinebill has rufous, white, black, and grey plumage and a slender bill. It uses flowers, fruit, and small invertebrates in southwestern Australia.

• Yellow-throated Seedeater Crithagra flavigula

  This gray-brown seedeater has a pale yellow throat and a yellow rump visible in flight. It occurs locally in dry savanna, favoring rocky hillsides.

• Thick-billed Raven Corvus crassirostris

  The Thick-billed Raven is a highland corvid with glossy black plumage, a large white nape patch, and a massive bill.

• Fiery-throated Hummingbird Panterpe insignis

  This hummingbird lives in the highlands of Costa Rica and extends south into Panama. Its throat and breast can flash orange-copper and blue-violet as the viewing angle changes.

• Scaled Pigeon Patagioenas speciosa

  The Scaled Pigeon has a scaly pattern across much of its plumage. In Bolivia it is recorded mainly in humid and semi-humid forest below 1,000 m, often in the canopy.

• Cuban Pygmy Owl Glaucidium siju

  The Cuban Pygmy Owl has brown upperparts, pale underparts, and two dark spots on the back of its head. It hunts by day as well as at night.

• Western Flycatcher Empidonax difficilis

  The Western Flycatcher is a small flycatcher that breeds in mountain forests of western North America. It darts into forest gaps to catch flying insects.

• Camiguin Bulbul Hypsipetes catarmanensis

  This bulbul is found only on Camiguin Island in the Philippines. It is brown with a relatively large bill and eats fruit and insects.

• Long-tailed Thrush Zoothera dixoni

  The Long-tailed Thrush has an olive-brown back and whitish underparts marked with black scales. It spends summer in high forest and descends to lower elevations in winter.

• Hooded Tanager Nemosia pileata

  This tanager is recorded in a university project area in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Only males have a black cap, and small flocks move through the canopy.

• Guira Cuckoo Guira guira

  A cuckoo of open South American habitats that forages on the ground with others and may share a communal nest.

• Guayaquil Woodpecker Campephilus gayaquilensis

  This large woodpecker lives west of the Andes. It has a white V on its black back and searches for food under tree bark.

• Rufous-throated Antbird Gymnopithys rufigula

  An antbird of northeastern South American lowland forest, including the Guianas and northeastern Brazil. It follows army-ant swarms to catch insects fleeing from the ants.

• Mute swan Cygnus olor

  A large white waterbird with a long neck. Adults have an orange bill with a black knob at its base.

• Variegated Laughingthrush Trochalopteron variegatum

  This olive-and-buff laughingthrush has a black throat stripe and a broad gray band near the end of its tail. It searches for insects and fruit in Himalayan woodland and scrub.

• Black Hawk-Eagle Spizaetus tyrannus

  The Black Hawk-Eagle is a large eagle of lowland tropical forest in the Americas. Adults are mostly black, with bold white checkering under the wings.