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• Little Pied Flycatcher Ficedula westermanni

  

  Males have bold black-and-white plumage, while females are subdued gray-brown. The flycatcher sallies from forest perches to catch insects; some Himalayan populations descend to lower foothills in winter.

• Souimanga Sunbird Cinnyris sovimanga

  A small sunbird found on Madagascar and nearby western Indian Ocean islands. Males are metallic green, while females are much duller brown and yellow.

• River Prinia Prinia fluviatilis

  This prinia inhabits grassy river edges and wetlands. In a 2006 observation in Mali, twelve singing birds were recorded along riverbanks; three individuals seen well were much paler than another species.

• MacGregor's Honeyeater Macgregoria pulchra

  MacGregor's Honeyeater is a large honeyeater of New Guinea's high mountains. Its black plumage is accented by yellow-orange on the wings and around the eyes, and it feeds mainly on podocarp fruit.

• Brambling Fringilla montifringilla

  A bird with orange shoulders and breast that arrives in flocks for autumn and winter.

• Antillean Crested Hummingbird Orthorhyncus cristatus

  This small hummingbird differs in appearance by sex and feeds on nectar and small insects.

• Crested Pigeon Ocyphaps lophotes

  The Crested Pigeon is marked by a thin black crest and a whistle-like sound from its wings when startled into flight.

• Southern White-faced Owl Ptilopsis granti

  The Southern White-faced Owl is a nocturnal owl of dry habitats in eastern and southern Africa.

• White-rumped Monjita Xolmis velatus

  Its whitish head and white rump and tail base are distinctive. It uses open fields with scattered trees and shrubs and eats insects and spiders. It occurs in Brazil, Bolivia, and Paraguay.

• Icterine Greenbul Phyllastrephus icterinus

  This greenbul lives in forests from West to Central Africa. It moves in small groups and mixed flocks, gleaning arthropods from branches and thickets.

• Javan Cochoa Cochoa azurea

  A thrush relative of Java's mountain forests. Males are conspicuously blue, and the bird keeps to the middle and upper forest canopy.

• Orange-headed Tanager Thlypopsis sordida

  A small tanager with a yellow-orange head. It moves through scrub, savanna, and forest edges.

• Eastern Koel Eudynamys orientalis

  The Eastern Koel has glossy black males with a blue-green sheen and brown females with many white spots. Its loud calls are familiar around dawn, and it migrates to Australia to breed in spring.

• White-bellied Piculet Picumnus spilogaster

  The nominate form, spilogaster, occurs in the northern Guianas and Roraima in northern Brazil. BirdForum Opus describes habitats ranging from forest to thickets.

• Rufous-winged Antshrike Thamnophilus torquatus

  A sexually dimorphic antshrike found mainly in central and eastern Brazil, with records extending into northeastern Bolivia and Paraguay.

• 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.

• Plumbeous Hawk Cryptoleucopteryx plumbea

  The Plumbeous Hawk is a slate-colored raptor. Birds Colombia lists Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and Peru, and describes it ambushing small vertebrates inside forest.

• Brown-rumped Foliage-gleaner Automolus melanopezus

  The Brown-rumped Foliage-gleaner occurs in lowland forests from Colombia to Bolivia. It forages in the understory of young floodplain forest; the Peru Aves account also associates it with Guadua bamboo in southeastern Peru.

• Fuertes's Parrot Hapalopsittaca fuertesi

  Fuertes's Parrot is an Andean parrot recognized by its turquoise nape and canopy feeding. Its documented range is concentrated on the western slope of Colombia’s Central Andes.

• Snow Partridge Lerwa lerwa

  A high-altitude partridge of the Himalayas, marked by fine black-and-white barring and a red bill and legs. It may descend to lower elevations in severe winter weather.

• Green Rosella Platycercus caledonicus

  The Green Rosella is the largest rosella. Its two described subspecies differ slightly in colour pattern, with yellow head and underparts, blue-violet cheeks, a red forehead band, and a green-and-black back among the notable features.

• Rüppell's Black Chat Myrmecocichla melaena

  Rüppell's Black Chat is entirely black, with a large white wing patch that becomes conspicuous in flight. It lives in rocky northern Abyssinian highlands and feeds on invertebrates on the ground.

• Johanna's Sunbird Cinnyris johannae

  Johanna's Sunbird is a sunbird whose males and females have different plumage. The male's head and throat shine green, and a 2022 survey recorded the species at a forest edge in Salonga National Park, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

• Ethiopian Cisticola Cisticola lugubris

  This cisticola occurs in the highlands of Ethiopia and Eritrea, from marsh edges to montane heath and bracken.