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• Germain's Peacock Pheasant Polyplectron germaini

  

  Germain's Peacock-Pheasant is a pheasant of forests in southern Vietnam and eastern Cambodia. Males have blue-green ocelli on their plumage and forage on the forest floor.

• Pileated Woodpecker Dryocopus pileatus

  A large woodpecker with a red crest and white neck stripes that searches dead wood for ants.

• Tibetan Rosefinch Carpodacus roborowskii

  A rosefinch of high elevations on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau and nearby regions. It searches for food on the ground in rocky steppe and alpine meadows.

• Maccoa Duck Oxyura maccoa

  The Maccoa Duck is a diving duck with disjunct populations in eastern and southern Africa. The breeding male has a blue bill and chestnut body; the female is brown with a pale eye stripe.

• Island Imperial Pigeon Ducula pistrinaria

  The Island Imperial Pigeon is a large, pale gray pigeon of island forests with tall trees. It eats fruit and sometimes makes flights over the sea between islands.

• Plumbeous Antvireo Dysithamnus plumbeus

  This antvireo lives in the Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil. Males are gray with a blacker chest, while females are olive-brown. It searches for small arthropods in the lower forest stratum.

• Dusky-headed Parakeet Aratinga weddellii

  The Dusky-headed Parakeet is a green parrot with a grey head and white eye-ring. It uses forest edges and other partly open habitats in the western Amazon Basin.

• Red-billed Ground-Cuckoo Neomorphus pucheranii

  This large cuckoo has a greenish-brown back and a black crest, and forages on the ground. Its Amazonian lowland range is described as two subspecies in the source account.

• Pink-legged Graveteiro Acrobatornis fonsecai

  This bird occurs in humid Atlantic Forest in southeastern Bahia, Brazil. Researchers recorded it in the canopy of tall trees retained over cocoa plantations.

• Luzon Island Thrush Turdus thomassoni

  The Luzon Island Thrush inhabits mountains on Luzon. It is black with a browner, hood-like head. Current taxonomy includes the northern form and the southern subspecies mayonensis.

• Böhm's Flycatcher Muscicapa boehmi

  A flycatcher of miombo and other woodlands in south-central Africa. The sexes are similar, and the pale throat and breast carry dark triangular marks.

• Snethlage's Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus minor

  Snethlage's Tody-Tyrant occurs in dense understory in the Amazon Basin. In Peru, the account reports only a few sight records along the Yavarí River.

• Long-tailed Woodnymph Thalurania watertonii

  The male has blue-violet and metallic green plumage, while the female has a green back and gray underside. In northeastern Brazil's Atlantic Forest, it feeds on flower nectar and small arthropods.

• Violet-necked Lory Eos squamata

  This lory inhabits islands of eastern Indonesia. Purple neck bands and red wings are prominent, though plumage varies among subspecies. It feeds on nectar, pollen, and fruit, usually in pairs or small groups.

• Tawny-crested Tanager Tachyphonus delatrii

  Tawny-crested Tanagers may move in flocks through moist lowland and montane forest, usually at lower or middle levels. They can join mixed-species flocks.

• Madagascar Serpent Eagle Eutriorchis astur

  The Madagascar Serpent Eagle is a bird of prey about 66 cm long. It is active by day in forests, and northeastern Madagascar is part of its native range.

• Serendib Scops Owl Otus thilohoffmanni

  This small owl occurs in lowland forest in Sri Lanka. It is active at night and difficult to see while roosting by day.

• Chirinda Apalis Apalis chirindensis

  The Inyanga National Park survey recorded Chirinda Apalis specimens in forest on the upper slopes of Pungwe Gorge. The account notes pale yellow-brown irises and small insects in stomach contents.

• Golden pheasant Chrysolophus pictus

  A pheasant whose colourful male displays its feathers to court females.

• Japanese green woodpecker Picus awokera

  A woodpecker found only in Japan, with a green back. It taps tree trunks for insects and also eats ants on the ground.

• Ankober Serin Crithagra ankoberensis

  The Ankober Serin is a small bird of rocky slopes and escarpments in the Ethiopian highlands. It eats grass and herb seeds and can forage in flocks of several dozen.

• Cinnamon Teal Spatula cyanoptera

  A duck of shallow lakes and wetlands. In breeding plumage, the male becomes a vivid chestnut color.

• Silver-capped Fruit Dove Ptilinopus richardsii

  This fruit-eating dove lives on islands in the Solomon Islands. It stands out for its silver head and green and orange plumage.

• Black Antshrike Thamnophilus nigriceps

  The Black Antshrike occurs in eastern Panama and northern Colombia. The AOS checklist places it at lowland evergreen-forest edges and in secondary forest from 0–600 m; a species account lists its length as 16 cm.