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• Eurasian Three-toed Woodpecker Picoides tridactylus

  

  The Eurasian Three-toed Woodpecker has three toes and taps dead trees to find insect larvae.

• Speckled Spinetail Thripophaga gutturata

  The Speckled Spinetail lives in riverside and lowland forests on the Amazonian side of the Andes. It is spotted below and is reported to eat mainly spiders and cockroaches.

• Gray Francolin Ortygornis pondicerianus

  The Gray Francolin is a ground-dwelling bird native from Iran through South Asia. It has mottled brown plumage and eats seeds and insects.

• Sulawesi Scops Owl Otus manadensis

  This nocturnal owl varies from brown to rufous and hunts moths and other insects.

• Large Blue-flycatcher Cyornis magnirostris

  The Large Blue-flycatcher breeds in eastern Himalayan foothill forests and winters in lowlands of the Thai-Malay Peninsula. The sexes have different plumage.

• Dark-breasted Rosefinch Procarduelis nipalensis

  The Dark-breasted Rosefinch has dark pink males with a pale throat and eyebrow. In Thimphu Valley it searches the ground for food in mountain forests and rocky sites.

• Red-faced Cisticola Cisticola erythrops

  The Red-faced Cisticola lives by water and in marshes, searching for insects in low vegetation. At the Namibian sites described, it has pale olive-gray upperparts and a white throat.

• Sumatran Ground Cuckoo Carpococcyx viridis

  The Sumatran ground-cuckoo is a large forest cuckoo with a long tail and sturdy green legs and bill. It lives on the ground and is thought to feed on prey found on the forest floor.

• Red-headed Lovebird Agapornis pullarius

  The Red-headed Lovebird is a small parrot with a red face and head and a green body. It moves in flocks, eats seeds and fruit, and nests in arboreal termite mounds.

• Great Cuckoo-Dove Reinwardtoena reinwardti

  The Great Cuckoo-Dove is a large pigeon with a pale blue-gray head and breast, chestnut back, and long tail. It feeds on fruit and seeds in forests and is usually seen alone or in pairs.

• Black-shouldered Kite Elanus axillaris

  A small raptor with a white and grey body and a black shoulder patch. It hovers over open ground while searching for rodents.

• Plushcap Catamblyrhynchus diadema

  This small bird lives in the upper subtropical and temperate Andes. It is gray above, rufous below, and has a yellow forecrown. It often follows mixed-species flocks near bamboo.

• Blue-billed Black Tyrant Knipolegus cyanirostris

  A tyrant flycatcher of forest edges and waterways, especially in southeastern Brazil. Males are glossy black with a pale bluish bill and red eyes.

• Bare-eyed Thrush Turdus tephronotus

  This thrush lives in dry East African scrub and other open habitats. Gray, rufous, and white plumage is set off by an orange bill and bare skin around the eye.

• African Pygmy Goose Nettapus auritus

  The African Pygmy Goose is a perching duck despite its name. A male has a white face, green markings, and a bright yellow bill.

• Rufous-faced Antbird Myrmelastes rufifacies

  The Rufous-faced Antbird occurs in Brazil south of the Amazon. Males and females have different plumage, and the species searches for invertebrates on the ground in moist forest.

• St Vincent Amazon Amazona guildingii

  A large parrot of St. Vincent's tropical rainforest. Its plumage combines blue, green, orange, and other bright colors, and it eats nuts and fruit.

• Blue-mantled Thornbill Chalcostigma stanleyi

  This hummingbird occurs in the high Andes of Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. It uses humid scrub, Polylepis woodland and open areas with short grass.

• Crimson-crested Woodpecker Campephilus melanoleucos

  The Crimson-crested Woodpecker is mostly black with white back stripes; the male's red crest is striking. It climbs trunks and large branches to search for insects.

• Chestnut-winged Hookbill Ancistrops strigilatus

  This furnariid lives in forests of the Amazon Basin. It may join mixed-species flocks in the canopy and subcanopy.

• Campbell's Hill Partridge Arborophila campbelli

  This partridge has black-and-white bands on its head, olive-brown upperparts, and a grey breast. It lives in montane rainforest on the Malay Peninsula.

• Luzon Scops Owl Otus longicornis

  A small scops owl found only on Luzon. Its long ear tufts are distinctive, and records come from humid foothill and mountain forest as well as pine forest.

• White-throated Bush Chat Saxicola insignis

  The White-throated Bushchat breeds in Mongolia and Central Asian Russia, then winters in India and Nepal. Bhutan and China are recorded during passage.

• Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch Leucosticte tephrocotis

  A pink-and-brown songbird of high North American mountains and Alaskan islands. In winter it moves lower to avoid heavy snow and may visit feeders.