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• Blue-backed Tanager Cyanicterus cyanicterus

  

  The Blue-backed Tanager is a resident bird recorded in northern South America. Oiseaux.net lists vocal recordings from the Guianas and northern Brazil.

• Long-tailed Cisticola Cisticola angusticauda

  This cisticola inhabits light woodland, savanna, and grassland. A 2023 survey in Kenya's Ruma National Park recorded two birds in non-breeding plumage.

• Common Pheasant Phasianus colchicus

  In introduced North American populations, males have a red face and white neck ring, while females are brown. They search the ground for seeds and insects.

• White-eyed Parakeet Psittacara leucophthalmus

  The White-eyed Parakeet is a medium-sized parrot that is mainly green. Red markings on the neck vary widely and may be barely visible. In South America, it feeds on fruit and other foods in flocks.

• Streak-throated Woodpecker Picus xanthopygaeus

  The Streak-throated Woodpecker lives in forests of South and Southeast Asia. It also uses open woodland and bamboo and feeds on small invertebrates.

• Crested Quail-Dove Geotrygon versicolor

  This dove is endemic to Jamaica. It has a grey face with a red line below the eye and green and purple iridescence on its plumage. It lives in wet limestone areas and mountains and eats fruit and seeds as well as invertebrates.

• Black-chinned Siskin Spinus barbatus

  A small finch of the Andean-Patagonian forest region, it has a black head and throat in males and olive coloring in females.

• Cliff Flycatcher Hirundinea ferruginea

  The Cliff Flycatcher is marked by deep rufous underparts and extensive rufous on the wings and tail. From exposed rocky perches it sallies after flying insects, often returning to the same perch.

• Kashmir Flycatcher Ficedula subrubra

  The Kashmir Flycatcher is a small flycatcher that moves between breeding and wintering areas. Males have orange underparts; females show a fainter orange wash on the chest.

• Southern White-faced Owl Ptilopsis granti

  The Southern White-faced Owl is a nocturnal owl of dry habitats in eastern and southern Africa.

• Stripe-breasted Spinetail Synallaxis cinnamomea

  A furnariid of forest understory, edges, and scrubby woodland. Plumage and breast streaking vary geographically.

• Flame-throated Sunangel Heliangelus micraster

  The male hummingbird has a dark green body and a brilliant flame-orange throat. The species occurs in the Andes from southern Ecuador to northwestern Peru, visiting flowers in cloud forest and along forest edges.

• Pale-breasted Thrush Turdus leucomelas

  The Pale-breasted Thrush is a brownish bird with a grayish crown, streaked throat, and yellowish bill. It occurs across much of lowland South America.

• Speckled Antshrike Xenornis setifrons

  This antshrike ranges from eastern Panama into northwestern Colombia. Males and females differ in face and underpart color, and a Panamanian record describes a nest on a streamside slope.

• Southern Pochard Netta erythrophthalma

  The Southern Pochard lives around Andean wetlands and flowing waters, often in pairs or small groups.

• Flores Hanging-parrot Loriculus flosculus

  The Flores Hanging Parrot is a small green parrot. Males have a red mark on the throat, and the species eats fruit and nectar.

• Moustached Hawk-Cuckoo Hierococcyx vagans

  The Moustached Hawk-Cuckoo lives in Southeast Asian forests. It has a hawk-like shape and a dark line behind the eye, and lays its eggs in nests of forest babblers.

• Ferruginous Hawk Buteo regalis

  The Ferruginous Hawk hunts small mammals over open country such as grasslands and deserts. It is a large North American hawk.

• Nightingale Finch Nesospiza questi

  A finch of Nightingale Island in Tristan da Cunha. A breeding study records females building nests in dense grass tussocks.

• White-tailed Cisticola Cisticola anderseni

  A cisticola of wetlands in the Kilombero floodplain of southwestern Tanzania. Its outer tail feathers and tips are white, and its back is streaked.

• Ceylon Spurfowl Galloperdix bicalcarata

  The Ceylon Spurfowl is a hard-to-see bird of Sri Lankan forests. Males and females have different plumage, and the female incubates the eggs in a ground nest.

• Meyer's Parrot Poicephalus meyeri

  Meyer's Parrot lives in woodlands and savannas of central and eastern Africa. It has several subspecies whose plumage varies across the range.

• Streak-breasted Woodpecker Picus viridanus

  It is a green woodpecker with a streaked breast, found in moist lowland forests and mangroves.

• Polynesian Imperial Pigeon Ducula aurorae

  The Polynesian Imperial Pigeon is a large pigeon still recorded on Makatea in French Polynesia. Adults have a pale grey head and green-glossed blue back, and they feed on fruit.