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• White-quilled Rock Pigeon Petrophassa albipennis

  

  This ground-dwelling pigeon has a plump body and long tail. A white wing patch shows in flight, and plumage varies among individuals.

• White-tailed Hawk Geranoaetus albicaudatus

  The White-tailed Hawk uses its broad wings to hang in the wind as it searches grasslands for prey.

• Dark Pewee Contopus lugubris

  This pewee occurs in mountain forests of Costa Rica and extreme western Panama. It is dark gray and is recorded along forest edges and openings; it may be solitary outside the breeding period.

• Grassland Yellow Finch Sicalis luteola

  A finch of grassland and farmland. The population on Barbados is introduced; the account suggests an introduction around 1900.

• Chestnut-naped Forktail Enicurus ruficapillus

  This streamside bird is notable for its chestnut head and black-and-white tail. It searches for insects along rivers and streams in humid Southeast Asian forests.

• Sulawesi Cuckoo Cuculus crassirostris

  This cuckoo lives in forests on Sulawesi. It has a gray head, a barred belly, and a banded tail, and it feeds on insects.

• Luzon Lowand Scops Owl Otus megalotis

  The Luzon Lowland Scops Owl is a small owl on Luzon and nearby islands. It has large ear tufts and hunts insects at night.

• Green Hermit Phaethornis guy

  This large hummingbird has a long curved bill and white-tipped tail feathers. It feeds on nectar in the understory and edges of humid forest.

• White-shouldered Fire-eye Pyriglena leucoptera

  This antbird occurs in eastern Brazil, Paraguay, and northeastern Argentina. Males are black and females brown; both have red eyes. It searches for insects and other prey near the forest floor.

• Greater Vasa Parrot Coracopsis vasa

  This parrot feeds on fruit and seeds in Madagascar and the Comoros. Males of the nominate subspecies are grey to blackish; breeding females may lose head feathers.

• Little Thornbird Phacellodomus sibilatrix

  This ovenbird is recorded from thorny woods and open woodland in northern Argentina. It has dull olive-brown upperparts, with chestnut on the forehead and part of the wing. An old account describes a large twig-and-thorn nest placed in a tree branch.

• Vinaceous-breasted Amazon Amazona vinacea

  Adults are green with wine-red feathers on the head and breast. They feed on fruit and seeds in South America’s Atlantic Forest.

• Stejneger's Scoter Melanitta stejnegeri

  Stejneger's Scoter is a diving duck with a prominent swelling at the base of the bill. It moves from northern breeding areas to Pacific coasts for winter.

• Long-tailed Cisticola Cisticola angusticauda

  This cisticola inhabits light woodland, savanna, and grassland. A 2023 survey in Kenya's Ruma National Park recorded two birds in non-breeding plumage.

• Arabian Woodpecker Dendrocoptes dorae

  The Arabian Woodpecker is a small woodpecker of western Saudi Arabia's highlands. It opens holes in tree trunks to take insect prey.

• Yellow-collared Chlorophonia Chlorophonia flavirostris

  The Yellow-collared Chlorophonia is a small bird whose male has a green head and yellow eye-ring. It forages in the canopy of humid forest, mainly for small fruits.

• Chestnut-headed Hill Partridge Arborophila cambodiana

  A partridge of southwestern Cambodia. The Cardamom Mountains population includes a locally described subspecies.

• Grey-winged Blackbird Turdus boulboul

  This thrush inhabits forests from the Himalayas to northern Indochina. Males are black with grey wing panels; females are olive-brown with rufous on the wings.

• African Lemon Dove Columba larvata

  The Lemon Dove lives in African forests. It searches for food among leaf litter on the forest floor and eats seeds, fruit, insects, and other foods.

• Augur Buzzard Buteo augur

  The Augur Buzzard is notable for its reddish tail and variable underparts. It watches from perches or scans from the air for small prey.

• Western Kingbird Tyrannus verticalis

  The Western Kingbird has a gray back, yellow belly, and white edges on the tail. From an exposed perch in open country, it sallies after flying insects.

• Rufous-winged Tanager Tangara lavinia

  This tanager ranges from Central America into northwestern South America. It uses the canopy and edges of moist lowland forest and may join mixed-species flocks in pairs.

• Przevalski's Redstart Phoenicurus alaschanicus

  A mountain redstart recorded from northern China to northeastern Tibet. Males combine bluish-gray and reddish plumage, and the species uses rocky scrub-covered slopes and bushy river margins.

• Sunda Cuckoo Cuculus lepidus

  The Sunda Cuckoo occurs from the Malay Peninsula through the Sunda Islands. It eats mainly caterpillars and other insects and is a brood parasite of small leaf-warblers.