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• Black-headed Woodpecker Picus erythropygius

  

  A woodpecker of Southeast Asian deciduous forests. Males are marked by a black face and a red crown patch.

• Yellow Canary Crithagra flaviventris

  Adult males of the nominate subspecies are notably yellow, while females are duller and streaked. Outside the breeding season it may form flocks and feeds on seeds, flowers, and insects.

• Reeves's Pheasant Syrmaticus reevesii

  A pheasant endemic to China, living in evergreen forest and open woodland. It scratches leaf litter for seeds, berries, leaves, and invertebrates.

• Grandala Grandala coelicolor

  This thrush ranges through high country from the Himalaya to Tibet and western China. Males are blue; females are brown with a bluish rump and white wing patches.

• Picui Ground Dove Columbina picui

  This small dove lives in open areas and towns in South America and feeds on seeds on the ground. Male and female plumage looks similar to human observers.

• Long-legged Buzzard Buteo rufinus

  The Long-legged Buzzard is a large raptor with highly variable plumage. A Qatar regional account records it as a rare winter visitor.

• White-tailed Shrike-Tyrant Agriornis albicauda

  The White-tailed Shrike-Tyrant is about 25–28 cm long. This diurnal bird of the high Andes looks for prey from a perch.

• Barbados Bullfinch Loxigilla barbadensis

  This seed-eating bird is endemic to Barbados, where it is found in grassy areas and forests.

• Brown Scrub Robin Erythropygia signata

  This southern African robin occurs in forest and dense scrub. South Africa and Eswatini hold most of the global population, while it is uncommon in Mozambique and reported from few sites there.

• Chestnut-bellied Cuckoo Coccyzus pluvialis

  The Chestnut-bellied Cuckoo is a large Jamaican cuckoo with a chestnut belly and long, white-spotted tail. It runs along branches while searching for food.

• Marsh Owl Asio capensis

  The Marsh Owl is an owl of grassland and wetland. It is brown above and searches for prey while flying over open grassland.

• Black Inca Coeligena prunellei

  This hummingbird is endemic to Colombia's eastern Andes. Males have black plumage with a green-blue sheen and hover while feeding at flowers.

• Saturnine Antshrike Thamnomanes saturninus

  An antshrike with dark grey and black plumage in males and olive-brown plumage in females. It eats varied insects in South American lowland evergreen forest.

• Blue-headed Racket-tail Prioniturus platenae

  The Blue-headed Racket-tail is marked by a blue head and spatula-shaped tips on its central tail feathers. It is restricted to Palawan and nearby islands, and much of its wild ecology remains poorly known.

• Red-shouldered Spinetail Synallaxis hellmayri

  This spinetail occurs in dry scrub and open woodland. A 2017 observation is documented in northeastern Brazil.

• Drab Myzomela Myzomela blasii

  This small honeyeater lives in forests on islands in eastern Indonesia. It is drab brown, with a dark, slightly downcurved bill.

• Golden-tailed Parrotlet Touit surdus

  This small parrot lives in lowland and secondary forests of eastern Brazil. It searches for fruit in the canopy and is seen in pairs or small groups.

• Upland Goose Chloephaga picta

  A goose of Patagonian grasslands: males are white, while females have brown barred plumage, and both graze on plants.

• Black-throated Prinia Prinia atrogularis

  This long-tailed prinia lives in scrub on hills and mountains. Breeding adults show a gray head, white moustachial stripe, and black throat and chest.

• Eastern Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris mediocris

  This sunbird lives in the highlands of Kenya and Tanzania. The entry follows current Cinnyris mediocris after the related Forest Sunbird and Usambara Double-collared Sunbird were separated.

• Brown-fronted Woodpecker Dendrocoptes auriceps

  The Brown-fronted Woodpecker lives in western Himalayan forests. White bars on its black back and the different head colors of males and females help identify it.

• Maui Honeycreeper Pseudonestor xanthophrys

  This Hawaiian honeycreeper lives only in high-elevation forest on east Maui. It has a large curved bill, and pairs defend territories year-round.

• Crimson-headed Partridge Haematortyx sanguiniceps

  This partridge lives in the hills and mountains of Borneo. Its crimson head and breast stand out, while the rest of the plumage differs between males and females.

• Dusky thrush Turdus eunomus

  In Japan it arrives in woodland in autumn and also uses fields, riverbanks and lawns in winter. It runs over the ground and repeatedly pauses.