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• Pale-eyed Thrush Turdus leucops

  

  The Birds of Bolivia account describes males with a white iris and black plumage, while females are warmer brown with a dark bill. It places the species at the edges of cloud forest on the eastern Andes.

• Elegant Euphonia Euphonia elegantissima

  Found from Mexico to Panama, this bird occurs in damp cloud forest and woodland edges. Males are mainly blue and orange, while females are mainly green.

• Merida Flowerpiercer Diglossa gloriosa

  The head, throat, and much of the upperparts are black; the belly is chestnut and the wings have blue-gray coverts. It lives in highland scrub and forest edges in western Venezuela, feeding on nectar and insects.

• Blue-throated Macaw Ara glaucogularis

  The Blue-throated Macaw is a large parrot of Bolivia's Beni region, with a blue throat and golden-yellow underparts.

• Rufescent Imperial Pigeon Ducula chalconota

  The Rufescent Imperial Pigeon has glossy green upperparts and a chestnut-red belly. It feeds on fruit in the mountain forests of New Guinea.

• Black-billed Koel Eudynamys melanorhynchus

  This cuckoo occurs on Sulawesi and the Sula Islands. Males are black with a blue-violet gloss, while females include several plumage types, including barred rusty-brown forms. Some taxonomies treat it as a separate species; others combine it with related koels.

• Doria's Goshawk Megatriorchis doriae

  A large raptor of New Guinea's lowland and foothill forests. It hunts birds in the forest, and a juvenile recorded at Varirata had a pale head and streaked underparts.

• Buffy Helmetcrest Oxypogon stuebelii

  The Buffy Helmetcrest is a hummingbird of the high Andes of central Colombia. Local accounts place it in páramo around Los Nevados, among areas with frailejón plants.

• Guianan Warbling Antbird Hypocnemis cantator

  This small antbird, about 12 cm long, occurs on the Guiana Shield. It searches for insects around vine tangles and forest edges.

• Mouse-colored Thistletail Asthenes griseomurina

  This ovenbird has grey-brown plumage, a white eye-ring and a long rufous-brown tail. In the northern Peruvian Andes, it forages in humid scrub near forest edges.

• Chestnut-headed Hill Partridge Arborophila cambodiana

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

• Varied Lorikeet Psitteuteles versicolor

  This small parrot inhabits woodlands of northern Australia. It feeds on nectar and pollen and gathers in flowering trees.

• Scaled Piculet Picumnus squamulatus

  A small woodpecker of Colombia and Venezuela, found in forest edges, secondary growth, and gallery forest.

• Mountain Scops Owl Otus spilocephalus

  The Mountain Scops Owl hides in the middle and lower layers of humid mountain forests and is active at night.

• Orange-banded Flycatcher Nephelomyias lintoni

  This flycatcher occurs in the humid mountains of Ecuador and Peru. It has a pale eye and orange lower mandible, and takes insects from leaves or in flight.

• Bluethroat Luscinia svecica

  The Bluethroat is a small bird that searches for insects in low shrubs near water and elsewhere. A male's blue throat pattern changes with season and region.

• Andean Duck Oxyura ferruginea

  This diving duck lives in the Peruvian Andes. Males have a reddish-brown body and blue bill, while females are dark brown.

• Cisticola cherina

  This small cisticola occurs in Madagascar. It uses grassland, savanna, farms, wetlands, and scrub, and searches near the ground for small invertebrates.

• Siberian Thrush Geokichla sibirica

  A thrush with different male and female plumage that breeds in mountain forests north of central Honshu.

• Sao Tome Grosbeak Crithagra concolor

  The Sao Tome Grosbeak is a large finch found only on São Tomé Island. It has a large, powerful bill and rusty-brown plumage, and feeds on seeds in the forest canopy and understory.

• Orinoco Saltator Saltator orenocensis

  Orinoco Saltator is about 19 cm long. It uses dry to moist lowland forest and shrubland. The species page lists separate ranges for two subspecies across northern Colombia and Venezuela.

• Blue-cheeked Amazon Amazona dufresniana

  A green parrot with blue cheeks and a yellow crown; its wild diet and movements remain poorly known.

• Lilac-crowned Fruit Dove Ptilinopus rarotongensis

  The Lilac-crowned Fruit Dove is a forest pigeon endemic to the Cook Islands, where it occurs on Rarotonga and Atiu.

• Madagascar Coucal Centropus toulou

  In breeding plumage, the Madagascar Coucal is black with rufous-chestnut on the lower back and wings. It occurs on Madagascar and Aldabra.