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• Carbon Finch Porphyrospiza carbonaria

  

  This finch lives in shrub-rich grassland and open country in Argentina. The current IOC combination is Rhopospina carbonaria.

• Olive-headed Lorikeet Trichoglossus euteles

  The Olive-headed Lorikeet has a green body and yellow-green head and feeds on nectar, pollen, and fruit. It lives in forests and open woodland in the Lesser Sunda Islands.

• Swallow-tailed Hummingbird Eupetomena macroura

  This hummingbird has a long, forked tail. It visits flowering trees, and its blue-green plumage can flash in the light.

• Mountain Peacock Pheasant Polyplectron inopinatum

  The Mountain Peacock-Pheasant is a pheasant of montane forests in the Indomalayan region. It spends time on the forest floor and eats small animals such as insects.

• Snowy-throated Kingbird Tyrannus niveigularis

  This seasonal migrant appears in northwestern Peru from December to June. It uses semi-open woodland and scrub, and has a gray head, white throat, and yellow underparts.

• Cackling Goose Branta hutchinsii

  A species separate from the Canada Goose. It is generally small, with a short neck and bill, and varies in size and plumage among subspecies.

• Golden-spotted Ground Dove Metriopelia aymara

  The Golden-spotted Ground Dove is a small, compact, drab-brown dove with golden spots on its wings. It walks on the ground while searching for food in the high Andes.

• Palau Owl Otus podarginus

  This owl has rufous, barred plumage and a yellow bill. It occurs across the Palau islands in mangroves, rainforest, and around villages.

• White-spotted Woodpecker Veniliornis spilogaster

  This 16–20 cm woodpecker uses open forest and woodland and searches bark for invertebrates. Sound recordings include Ubatuba in São Paulo, Brazil.

• Grey-crowned Prinia Prinia cinereocapilla

  The Grey-crowned Prinia is a small bird marked by its grey crown. A study in western Nepal reported it in grassland and scrub habitats.

• Siberian Thrush Geokichla sibirica

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

• Yellow-crowned Canary Serinus flavivertex

  This canary ranges through mountain areas from Eritrea to northern Malawi and western Angola. Adult males of the nominate form show conspicuous yellow on the head and underparts, and forage for seeds among the ground and vegetation.

• Sickle-winged Chat Emarginata sinuata

  A sickle-shaped outer wing tip and a dark triangle at the end of the tail help identify this chat. It searches the ground for invertebrates and also eats fruit.

• White-breasted Hawk Accipiter chionogaster

  The White-breasted Hawk occurs in forests from southern Mexico into northern Central America. This entry follows sources that treat A. chionogaster as a species, while the 2010 life-history paper says its taxonomic status was unresolved.

• Little Thornbird Phacellodomus sibilatrix

  This ovenbird is recorded from thorny woods and open woodland in northern Argentina. It has dull olive-brown upperparts, with chestnut on the forehead and part of the wing. An old account describes a large twig-and-thorn nest placed in a tree branch.

• Jet Antbird Cercomacra nigricans

  This antbird ranges from Panama through northern South America to western Ecuador. Males are black, while females are grayish.

• Black Cuckoo Cuculus clamosus

  In southern Africa, the Black Cuckoo is a migrant that breeds in summer. It is often noticed by its call because the bird itself is hard to see. It lays its eggs in nests of other birds, including boubous.

• Ochre-marked Parakeet Pyrrhura cruentata

  The Ochre-marked Parakeet is mainly green, with red feathers on parts of its face, belly, and tail. It has a fragmented range in the Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil.

• Parodi's Hemispingus Kleinothraupis parodii

  This tanager occurs in the eastern Andes of southern Peru. It uses humid montane forest and bamboo near the treeline, where it forages in small groups.

• Black-cheeked Lovebird Agapornis nigrigenis

  The Black-cheeked Lovebird is a small green parrot. In the wild it lives in flocks that visit water and feeds mainly on grass seeds.

• Mangrove Hummingbird Amazilia boucardi

  The Mangrove Hummingbird is endemic to Costa Rica and mainly lives in Pacific-coast mangroves, especially where Pelliciera rhizophorae is abundant.

• Brown Quail Synoicus ypsilophorus

  The Brown Quail searches among ground vegetation and leaf litter for food. This account focuses on the population introduced to New Zealand.

• Dark-faced Ground Tyrant Muscisaxicola maclovianus

  This southern South American migrant reaches the coast and adjacent foothills of northwestern Peru. The Peru Aves account places its Peruvian season from April to October and describes foraging in open places such as grassland and fields.

• Smew Mergellus albellus

  A small diving duck. Males are black and white, while females have red-brown heads; some birds visit Britain in autumn and winter.