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• White-naped Brush Finch Atlapetes albinucha

  

  In the Guatemala account, the White-naped Brush Finch is marked by a white crown stripe and yellow throat. It searches the ground in thickets at forest edges.

• Spectacled Tyrant Hymenops perspicillatus

  This tyrant flycatcher lives in South American grasslands and wetlands. Males are black with yellow around the eyes and on the bill. Breeding has been studied in native tall grassland in the Argentine Pampas.

• Salvadori's Fig Parrot Psittaculirostris salvadorii

  This small parrot lives in lowland forest in northwestern New Guinea. Males and females have different cheek and chest markings, and it eats figs, other fruits, and nectar.

• Purple Quail-Dove Geotrygon purpurata

  This dove occurs only in western Colombia through northwestern Ecuador, in the wet rainforests of the Chocó. Adults show purple, blue, and iridescent colors, with a dark blue stripe across a white face. Females and juveniles are duller than males.

• Black-eared Miner Manorina melanotis

  This stocky honeyeater has a dark face and orange-yellow bill and legs. During breeding, helpers, mostly males, may join a pair to raise the chicks.

• Pygmy Flycatcher Muscicapella hodgsoni

  This small flycatcher lives in mountain forests from the Himalayas into Southeast Asia. Males are blue and orange; females are olive-brown.

• Buff-bridled Inca Finch Incaspiza laeta

  This Inca finch occurs in Peru’s middle and upper Marañón drainage. Its grey head, black face, and broad buff cheek stripes are distinctive.

• Chestnut-bellied Malkoha Phaenicophaeus sumatranus

  A cuckoo with bright orange facial skin and a chestnut belly, it moves quietly through the canopy to feed on large insects and other prey.

• Red-naped Sapsucker Sphyrapicus nuchalis

  The Red-naped Sapsucker is a North American woodpecker that drills rows of holes in trees to feed on sap.

• Madagascar Scops Owl Otus rutilus

  The Madagascar Scops Owl is a small owl with reddish and gray plumage forms. It hunts small prey at night and rests on branches by day.

• Black-faced Solitaire Myadestes melanops

  This thrush has a slate-grey body, black face and chin, and a broad orange bill. It lives in mountain forests of Costa Rica and western Panama.

• Aripuana Antwren Herpsilochmus stotzi

  This antwren was described from the Aripuanã–Machado interfluvium in central Amazonian Brazil, where it occurs in campinarana forest on poor soils.

• Sjöstedt's Greenbul Baeopogon clamans

  At about 19 cm long, Sjöstedt's Greenbul is active by day and eats fruit in forest and riverside habitats.

• Azores Bullfinch Pyrrhula murina

  The Azores Bullfinch has a rounded grey-brown body with a black head, wings and tail. It is confined to eastern São Miguel, where it feeds on native fruits, seeds and flowers in laurel forest.

• Blue-fronted Parrotlet Touit dilectissimus

  This small parrotlet occurs in forests of Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and Venezuela. The ProAves article title says Blue-faced, but its text calls Touit dilectissimus the Blue-fronted Parakeet.

• 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.

• Shining Sunbird Cinnyris habessinicus

  The male has a purple forecrown and iridescent green head and upperparts. It eats nectar, fruit, insects, and spiders.

• White-eyed Prinia Schistolais leontica

  This prinia includes a documented record from the Fouta Djalon highlands of Guinea. English accounts use both White-eyed Prinia and Sierra Leone Prinia.

• Long-crested Eagle Lophaetus occipitalis

  A raptor with a long crest and white wing markings. It hunts small mammals in open country with trees.

• Steller's Eider Polysticta stelleri

  Steller's Eider is a small sea duck. Most breed in Arctic Russia, and populations molt or winter in shallow coastal waters of Alaska.

• Scale-throated Hermit Phaethornis eurynome

  A study in Brazil's Atlantic Forest recorded this hermit visiting open flowers of the bromeliad Vriesea incurvata; visit frequency changed with plant density. It generally feeds on nectar and arthropods in the forest understory.

• Cinnamon-throated Woodcreeper Dendrexetastes rufigula

  This large woodcreeper occurs in Amazonia and is often found high in the forest canopy. It is also noted for tending to occur alone.

• Caucasian Snowcock Tetraogallus caucasicus

  A pheasant-family bird of high rocky slopes in the Caucasus, it may move lower during severe winter weather.

• Tocuyo Sparrow Arremonops tocuyensis

  A sparrow of dry scrub and forest edges in northeastern Colombia and northwestern Venezuela.