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• Lined Quail-Dove Zentrygon linearis

  

  A ground-dwelling dove of foothill and mountain forests in Colombia, Venezuela and Trinidad.

• Great Nicobar Serpent Eagle Spilornis klossi

  The Great Nicobar Serpent Eagle is a small serpent eagle collected on Great Nicobar Island. Adults have a dark crown, grey cheeks, and pale underparts; specimen stomachs contained lizards and small mammals among other prey.

• White Monjita Xolmis irupero

  The White Monjita is a South American tyrant flycatcher. A university species page describes the male as almost entirely white, with black eyes, wings, bill, and tail tip; it notes that females are greyer on the crown and back. The bird uses open grasslands and parks with scattered trees and often perches prominently.

• Saffron-crowned Tanager Tangara xanthocephala

  This tanager is marked by an orange-yellow crown and a black facial pattern. In humid forests on the eastern Andes, it searches moss and the undersides of small branches for arthropods.

• Rufous-throated Flycatcher Ficedula rufigula

  This small flycatcher is endemic to Sulawesi, Indonesia. It searches the lower forest growth for small invertebrates.

• Scaled Ground Cuckoo Neomorphus squamiger

  This rare, terrestrial cuckoo inhabits rainforest between the Xingu and Tapajós rivers in Brazil. Its behavior is still poorly known.

• Koepcke's Screech Owl Megascops koepckeae

  This small owl lives in the Peruvian Andes. Its iris is yellow, and plumage varies from mostly grey to brown in some populations.

• Gray-chinned Hermit Phaethornis griseogularis

  This hummingbird has geographically separated subspecies; this entry focuses on zonura from northern Peru.

• Manu Antbird Cercomacra manu

  This antbird is common in bamboo patches of southeastern Peru. It forages almost exclusively in stands of Guadua bamboo.

• Naretha Bluebonnet Northiella narethae

  This parrot inhabits dry woodland in the far southeast of Western Australia and along the western edge of the Nullarbor Plain. Its brown body contrasts with a yellow belly and red undertail.

• Elegant Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus elegans

  This roughly 21 cm woodcreeper is recorded from Amazonian lowlands into foothill forest on the eastern Andes. The size and spread of its back spots vary among subspecies.

• Rusty-faced Parrot Hapalopsittaca amazonina

  A parrot of the northern Andes' montane forests. Its green plumage is accented by rusty tones on the face, whose extent and shade vary among subspecies.

• Hooded Merganser Lophodytes cucullatus

  A small duck with striking black-white and chestnut plumage in males and a cinnamon crest in females. It dives for food in North American ponds and rivers.

• Rufous-fronted Prinia Prinia buchanani

  The Rufous-fronted Prinia is a small bird of dry grassland and scrub. A 2005 field note from Dive Ghat in Maharashtra, western India, recorded birds singing from low bushes.

• Downy Woodpecker Dryobates pubescens

  A small black-and-white woodpecker of North America, often seen in woodlots, parks, and at backyard feeders.

• Yemen Serin Crithagra menachensis

  The Yemen Serin is a small finch of the southwestern Arabian highlands. It searches for seeds on the ground and rocks and is listed as a localized breeding resident in southern Oman.

• Red-necked Francolin Pternistis afer

  Red skin around the face and red legs help identify this spurfowl. Plumage varies across its range, and its diet shifts from mostly invertebrates in summer to plant matter in winter.

• 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.

• Polynesian Ground Dove Pampusana erythroptera

  The Polynesian Ground Dove is a ground-dwelling pigeon of the Tuamotu Islands. It hides in dense cover and bursts out with loud wingbeats when disturbed.

• Little Eagle Hieraaetus morphnoides

  A small eagle with a wingspan over one metre. In woodland and along rivers in the Australian Capital Territory, it watches for prey from above and then swoops down.

• Smoky Bush Tyrant Myiotheretes fumigatus

  This flycatcher inhabits Andean forests. It is dark brown with pale mottling on the throat; one nest on a dead stump was reported in Ecuador.

• 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.

• Karoo Chat Emarginata schlegelii

  This chat lives in semi-desert shrubland in southwestern Africa. It has a gray back, white underside, and white outer tail feathers, and catches insects in short flights.

• Fork-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo Surniculus dicruroides

  The Fork-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo is about 25 cm long and resembles a drongo. It occurs on the Indian Subcontinent, including Sri Lanka.