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• Crimson-bellied Woodpecker Campephilus haematogaster

  

  This large woodpecker has black upperparts and a red crest, rump, and underside. It chisels into wood for beetle larvae.

• Papuan Lorikeet Charmosyna papou

  A long-tailed parrot of montane forest in northwestern New Guinea, with a red body and green wings.

• Apical Flycatcher Myiarchus apicalis

  This flycatcher is endemic to Colombia. It has a bushy crest and pale tips to its tail feathers. It feeds on insects and small fruits in dry-valley scrub and woodland.

• Fawn-breasted Tanager Pipraeidea melanonota

  The Fawn-breasted Tanager has a blue crown and dark facial markings. A São Paulo city account describes males with a blue crown, bluish-black back and wings, and fawn underparts; females and young birds are duller. It eats insects and fruit.

• Indian Blackbird Turdus simillimus

  The Indian Blackbird sings from foothill forests, forest edges, and orchards.

• Common Stonechat Saxicola torquatus

  A southern African species account says male and female African Stonechats differ in plumage. The adult male has a black head and throat with white neck patches.

• Rufous-breasted Spinetail Synallaxis erythrothorax

  The Rufous-breasted Spinetail uses secondary forest and second-growth scrub, gleaning invertebrates from vegetation. A historical museum account describes plumage of specimens from southern Mexico and Central America.

• Brown-hooded Parrot Pyrilia haematotis

  The Brown-hooded Parrot is a medium-sized parrot that feeds on fruit in the canopy of humid tropical forest. Costa Rican observations describe pairs and small flocks.

• Black Antbird Cercomacroides serva

  The Black Antbird lives along edges and in the understory of humid evergreen forests in the western Amazon. The male is black to dark grey with a white patch between the shoulders.

• Rainbow Starfrontlet Coeligena iris

  It is about 15 cm long. Six subspecies are listed from southern Ecuador to northern Peru.

• Olive-green Camaroptera Camaroptera chloronota

  An East African bird guide places the Olive-green Camaroptera in forest undergrowth in Uganda and western Kenya. Its upperparts are dull olive-green; the underparts are grayish-white, with dusky buff on the chest and flanks.

• Indian Vulture Gyps indicus

  Adult Indian Vultures have a heavy pale bill and a rounded head covered with fine pale feathers.

• Bay Coucal Centropus celebensis

  The Bay Coucal has a mostly rufous body, with a gray crown and reddish wings. It moves through forest undergrowth on Sulawesi and nearby islands while searching for insects.

• Great Gray Owl Strix nebulosa

  A large, round-faced owl of northern forests that hunts small mammals in nearby meadows and openings.

• Red Crossbill Loxia curvirostra

  A finch of North American conifer forests. Its crossed bill opens cones to reach seeds, and it moves in search of cone crops.

• Grey-chested Dove Leptotila cassinii

  Grey-chested Doves have muted gray-brown upperparts with a slight purplish cast and pale underparts. They usually forage on foot, alone or in pairs, in forests from southern Mexico through Central America to northern Colombia.

• Greater Scaup Aythya marila

  The male has a glossy dark head and gray back; the female is marked by a white patch at the base of the bill.

• White Eared Pheasant Crossoptilon crossoptilon

  This entry covers the drouynii subspecies of the White Eared Pheasant. Males and females have the same plumage, and it lives in high mountain forests.

• Golden-olive Woodpecker Colaptes rubiginosus

  This woodpecker ranges from southern Mexico through Central America into northwestern South America and the Andes. It has olive plumage with fine bars, and males show a red facial stripe.

• Blue-naped Parrot Tanygnathus lucionensis

  The Blue-naped Parrot is a green parrot native to Philippine islands and Indonesia's Talaud Islands. The pattern of blue on the head and back varies by subspecies.

• White-eyed Attila Attila bolivianus

  This tyrant flycatcher lives in the lowlands of northern South America. It uses riverside and swamp forest, where it sallies from a perch to catch insects.

• Black-chinned Mountain Tanager Anisognathus notabilis

  This tanager occurs on the Pacific slope of the Andes in Colombia and Ecuador. A Colombian field study suggested that it depends on humid primary montane forest.

• Mountain Bluebird Sialia currucoides

  A thrush of open habitats in western North America, it catches insects from a perch or in the air. The male is blue.

• Short-toed Rock Thrush Monticola brevipes

  The Short-toed Rock-thrush lives in dry rocky habitats of southern Africa. Males are blue-grey and rufous, while females are mainly grey-brown.