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• Green-tailed Sunbird Aethopyga nipalensis

  

  This sunbird has a long, curved bill and a long tail and lives in montane forest. Its diet is reported to include nectar and small arthropods.

• Amazonian Antshrike Thamnophilus amazonicus

  An antshrike of Amazonian forests. Males are grayish, while females have a cinnamon head and breast; birds search for insects among vines and forest-edge vegetation.

• Orange-fronted Parakeet Eupsittula canicularis

  The Orange-fronted Parakeet is a small parrot with an orange band across the forehead. In the wild it nests in arboreal termite mounds or cavities and eats fruit and seeds.

• Syrian Woodpecker Dendrocopos syriacus

  The Syrian Woodpecker is a black-and-white woodpecker with pale red feathers under its tail, and it also uses trees in gardens and parks.

• Coppery Emerald Chlorostilbon russatus

  This small hummingbird occurs in northern Colombia and western Venezuela. The male is golden green with coppery tones, while the female has gray underparts; it feeds in scrub and forest edges.

• White-crowned Pigeon Patagioenas leucocephala

  The White-crowned Pigeon is a large fruit-eating pigeon of forests in southern Florida and the Caribbean islands.

• Australian Shelduck Tadorna tadornoides

  The Australian Shelduck is a large duck with a dark head, white neck ring, and chestnut breast. It occurs in freshwater areas of southwestern and southeastern Australia.

• Verreaux's Eagle-Owl Ketupa lactea

  Verreaux's Eagle-Owl is a large African owl with a white face edged in black and prominent ear tufts.

• Hispaniolan Lizard Cuckoo Coccyzus longirostris

  A cuckoo of Hispaniola and nearby islands, it uses its long tail as it searches among branches for lizards and large insects.

• Wailing Cisticola Cisticola lais

  The Wailing Cisticola is a grassland bird with a long tail and streaked back, ranging through eastern and southern Africa.

• Hauxwell's Thrush Turdus hauxwelli

  Peru Aves' adult examples of unknown sex show rich brown plumage and a pale, dusky-spotted lower belly. The thrush forages in the forest understory and often on the ground.

• Altai Snowcock Tetraogallus altaicus

  A large pheasant-family bird of rocky alpine meadows. Breeding is recorded in the southern Altai of Kazakhstan, where details of its breeding biology remain poorly known.

• Red-fronted Serin Serinus pusillus

  The Red-fronted Serin is a small finch of mountain slopes and meadows that feeds mainly on seeds. In winter it may descend to lower valleys.

• Plain-breasted Hawk Accipiter ventralis

  This small hawk occurs in Andean mountain forest and cloud forest. Its plumage is variable; one adult-male form in the guide has reddish-brown flanks and thighs.

• Little Friarbird Philemon citreogularis

  This is the smallest friarbird, with a curved bill without a casque and a bare blue-gray face patch. It feeds on nectar and invertebrates in trees; some southeastern populations are seasonal visitors.

• Southern Long-tailed Woodcreeper Deconychura pallida

  *Deconychura pallida* is an Amazonian bird separated in research from the formerly broad *D. longicauda* group. A 2010 study reported distinct vocal characters among its lineages.

• Thick-billed Seed Finch Sporophila funerea

  This small finch has a heavy bill. The Peru species account records it in riverside grass and overgrown fallow fields; a specialist account describes it as feeding on seeds.

• Golden Bush Robin Tarsiger chrysaeus

  The Golden Bush-Robin is a small bird of the montane forest understory. The male has a golden brow, yellow underparts, and black face; the female is less contrasting but still yellowish.

• Alagoas Tyrannulet Phylloscartes ceciliae

  A small flycatcher of the Atlantic Forest in northeastern Brazil. A foraging study often recorded birds in the canopy making sallies to take prey from foliage or the air.

• Blue-crowned Lorikeet Vini australis

  This 19 cm lorikeet is active by day and feeds on nectar and fruit.

• Red-throated Sunbird Anthreptes rhodolaemus

  Male Red-throated Sunbirds show glossy green and violet plumage, while females are subdued olive. They forage for flowers and small prey in forest canopies.

• Grey Antwren Myrmotherula menetriesii

  A small bird that forages in the mid-story of Amazonian forest, it has different male and female plumages. Both sexes wag the tail from side to side. The species is recorded up to 1,100 m on the eastern Andean slope.

• Andean Parakeet Bolborhynchus orbygnesius

  This small parakeet lives in the Andes of Peru and western Bolivia. It is green with a yellowish forehead, and blue shows on the wings in flight.

• Red-necked Woodpecker Campephilus rubricollis

  The Red-necked Woodpecker has a red neck and chest and a rufous belly. In the Bolivian forests covered by the source, it occurs alone or in loose pairs and uses several forest levels.