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• Sulphur-bearded Reedhaunter Limnoctites sulphuriferus

  

  This reedhaunter is recorded in Argentine wet grassland. Accounts describe a yellow throat patch and a local association with sedge marshes and pampas grassland.

• Orange-chinned Parakeet Brotogeris jugularis

  The Orange-chinned Parakeet is a small green parrot with an orange chin. It ranges from southern Mexico to northern South America in dry forest.

• White-eyed Stipplethroat Epinecrophylla leucophthalma

  This small antbird occurs in Amazonian forest in Peru, Brazil, and Bolivia. Males are brown and gray, females are mainly brown, and both forage in the lower forest strata.

• Planalto Hermit Phaethornis pretrei

  This hermit hummingbird occurs in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay. Its long, slightly curved bill and long tail feathers are distinctive.

• Ashy Cisticola Cisticola cinereolus

  This cisticola is about 13–14 cm long. The account lists acacia woodland and thornbush, with ground foraging for invertebrates. Sound recordings include the Amboseli area in Kenya.

• Black-faced Hawk Leucopternis melanops

  A small, stocky hawk with a black facial marking and orange cere, it searches for small prey in wet forest.

• 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.

• Spotted Wood Owl Strix seloputo

  The Spotted Wood Owl lives in Southeast Asian forests. It is usually solitary or in pairs and feeds on rats, birds, and other animals.

• Brimstone Canary Crithagra sulphurata

  The Brimstone Canary ranges from central to southern Africa and uses thickets, forest edges, gardens, and other open places. It mainly eats seeds and fruit, along with insects and nectar.

• Philippine Green Pigeon Treron axillaris

  This pigeon is endemic to the Philippines and occurs on the islands except Palawan. It eats fruit in the forest canopy, and several birds may gather at fruiting trees.

• Lake Duck Oxyura vittata

  The Lake Duck is a small diving duck of southern South America. It is sometimes seen holding its tail upright as it swims.

• Satyr Tragopan Tragopan satyra

  A pheasant of high Himalayan forests. Males have vivid red plumage and blue facial lappets, and the birds move up and down the mountains with the seasons.

• Scarlet-backed Woodpecker Veniliornis callonotus

  This small, colorful woodpecker is described from western Ecuador to northwestern Peru. It has a red back, white underparts, and sex-specific crown colors. BirdLife’s country records also include Colombia.

• Bluebonnet Northiella haematogaster

  This Australian parrot has a blue face and throat and a gray-brown body. Its wing colors vary among subspecies.

• Gray Kingbird Tyrannus dominicensis

  The Gray Kingbird is a Caribbean bird with a gray back and white underside. Its dark eye mask and heavy bill stand out as it sallies from a perch to catch insects.

• Red-capped Cardinal Paroaria gularis

  The Red-capped Cardinal ranges from southeastern Colombia through Venezuela and the Guianas to Peru, Amazonian Brazil and northern Bolivia. It uses wetlands and waterside habitats and forages on the ground.

• Fieldfare Turdus pilaris

  A thrush that travels from northern Europe to Britain for winter, often moving through the countryside in flocks to find berries.

• Thrush Nightingale Luscinia luscinia

  This bird has a grey-brown back and a paler belly. It is active at dusk and at night, singing loudly from waterside thickets.

• Pearled Treerunner Margarornis squamiger

  This Andean bird has a yellowish-buff eyebrow, chestnut upperparts, and a cream throat. It uses upper subtropical and temperate forests and woodland and feeds mostly on arthropods.

• Vulturine Parrot Pyrilia vulturina

  The Vulturine Parrot lives in humid lowland forest in northern Brazil. Adults have a mostly bare head and a yellow collar against a green body.

• Star-throated Antwren Rhopias gularis

  This small antwren lives in the Atlantic Forest of eastern Brazil. Both sexes have grey underparts, rufescent-brown upperparts and a black throat spotted with white. It forages low in dense vegetation.

• Western Emerald Chlorostilbon melanorhynchus

  The Western Emerald is a small hummingbird of western Colombia and the Andes of Ecuador. Males glitter green, while females are green above and grey below.

• Brown Prinia Prinia polychroa

  The Brown Prinia uses dry grassland and scrubby growth at forest edges. It searches for insects and larvae close to the ground.

• Letter-winged Kite Elanus scriptus

  The Letter-winged Kite is an Australian raptor with a black mark under each wing that can look like an M or W. It is active by night as well as by day and mainly eats rodents.