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- White-throated Bulbul Alophoixus flaveolus
Photo: Rejoice Gassah · CC BY 4.0 The White-throated Bulbul is a forest and scrub bird that feeds on fruit.
- Golden-chested Tanager Bangsia rothschildi
A tanager of humid forests on the Pacific side of the Andes from central Colombia to northwestern Ecuador. It has a black body with a yellow breast patch and may join mixed-species flocks.
- Coqui Francolin Campocolinus coqui
The Coqui Francolin lives on the ground in woodland and savanna. When alarmed it may freeze in cover, and it is often found in pairs.
- Gray Teal Anas gracilis
The Gray Teal is a small duck found in Australia and nearby islands. It uses wetlands and can nest in tree hollows.
- Slaty Spinetail Synallaxis brachyura
This spinetail is recorded in the humid forests of Tumbes in northwestern Peru. Adults are gray with a rufous crown, and they forage in low growth at forest edges and in secondary forest.
- African Thrush Turdus pelios
The African Thrush has a gray-brown back and yellow bill; its underparts range from buff and gray to rufous. It uses wooded places from forest edges to gardens.
- Spot-winged Grosbeak Mycerobas melanozanthos
This large bird lives in Himalayan mountain forests. Males are black and yellow, while females are mainly olive brown, so the sexes differ in plumage.
- Rufous-tailed Flatbill Ramphotrigon ruficauda
This flycatcher uses the lower levels of South American forests. It has a reddish-brown body and rusty tail; a Brazilian breeding record describes a nest in a cavity in a standing dead trunk.
- 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.
- Black-backed honeyeater Ptiloprora perstriata
This honeyeater lives in New Guinea's montane forests. It has dark upperparts and a streaked underside, and searches for insects, fruit, and nectar.
- Long-billed Sunbird Cinnyris notatus
A sunbird of Madagascar's forests. Males are larger and darker than females and use a long, strong bill to feed on nectar; they also take spiders and insects from flowers.
- Maroon-faced Parakeet Pyrrhura leucotis
This parakeet lives in humid lowland forest in eastern Brazil. It has a white ear patch, chestnut face, and dark-red belly and tail underside, and forages from treetops to the ground.
- Ouvea Parakeet Eunymphicus uvaeensis
The Ouvéa Parakeet is restricted to Ouvéa Island and nests in cavities in old humid forest.
- Madagascar Blue Pigeon Alectroenas madagascariensis
A pigeon of eastern Madagascar’s forests, it has a silvery blue-grey neck, dark blue body, and conspicuous red tail. It feeds in the canopy on fruit.
- Choco Screech Owl Megascops centralis
The Choco Screech-Owl is a small owl found from Panama through Colombia to western Ecuador. It occurs in gray and rufous phases, and a row of white spots is visible on the folded wing.
- Rondonia Warbling Antbird Hypocnemis ochrogyna
This antbird occurs in the Brazilian states of Rondônia and Mato Grosso and eastern Bolivia. Males have black-and-white streaks, while females have browner heads and backs.
- Letter-winged Kite Elanus scriptus
The Letter-winged Kite is an Australian raptor with a black mark under each wing that can look like an M or W. It is active by night as well as by day and mainly eats rodents.
- Golden-cheeked Woodpecker Melanerpes chrysogenys
This woodpecker lives in the lowlands of western Mexico. It has golden cheeks and a black marking around the eye. Males have a red crown; females have a gray crown.
- Raffles's Malkoha Rhinortha chlorophaea
Males are rufous while females are gray and rufous, giving the species a strong difference in appearance by sex. It searches dense vegetation for food.
- Mindanao Miniature-babbler Micromacronus sordidus
This small bird lives on Mindanao in the Philippines. The Mindanao population, formerly treated as a subspecies of a close relative, is grayer above and pale yellow-gray to greenish olive below.
- White-crested Coquette Lophornis adorabilis
This small hummingbird occurs on the Pacific side of southern Costa Rica and in far western Panama. Males have a white crest and long green cheek tufts, and visit flowers in forest edges and secondary growth.
- Asian Red-eyed Bulbul Pycnonotus brunneus
This bulbul lives in forests, at their edges, and in secondary growth. Adults are especially noticeable for their red eyes.
- Chestnut-bellied Seedeater Sporophila castaneiventris
A small seedeater of northern South America, using grassy places and river margins and eating seeds and fruit.
- Heuglin's Francolin Pternistis icterorhynchus
Heuglin's Francolin is a Central African gamebird found in grasslands, open woodland, and nearby farmland.