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• King Eider Somateria spectabilis

  

  Adult males have a black-and-white body, a blue-green head, and an orange-red bill; adult females are brown with black patterning. The species breeds near water in the Arctic.

• Crested Eagle Morphnus guianensis

  The Crested Eagle is a large raptor of mature forests and foothills in Central and South America. It often perches in the canopy and can be difficult to spot.

• Rufous Spinetail Synallaxis unirufa

  This long-tailed ovenbird lives in the understory of humid Andean forests. The account describes four regional forms, so the nominate form's color is distinguished from variation elsewhere.

• Mountain Parakeet Psilopsiagon aurifrons

  The Mountain Parakeet has several subspecies with different plumages and ranges. This entry describes the nominate subspecies aurifrons. Its male is mainly green, with yellow on the face and throat and blue on the outer primary feathers.

• Gray Francolin Ortygornis pondicerianus

  The Gray Francolin is a ground-dwelling bird native from Iran through South Asia. It has mottled brown plumage and eats seeds and insects.

• Moluccan eclectus Eclectus roratus

  A parrot of Indonesia’s Moluccan islands, with striking differences in plumage and bill colour between males and females.

• Little Grey Flycatcher Muscicapa epulata

  The Little Grey Flycatcher is a small flycatcher of the Afrotropics. It is reported from humid forest edges and dense cover, where it catches small invertebrates.

• Pale Prinia Prinia somalica

  This slender prinia inhabits dry grassland and scrub in East Africa. It has grey-brown upperparts, pale underparts and a long tail, and is often seen in pairs.

• Black-eared Seedeater Crithagra mennelli

  The Black-eared Seedeater is a small, streaked finch marked by a broad black band through the eye and a white eyebrow. It feeds in miombo and mopane woodland.

• Rufous-booted Racket-tail Ocreatus addae

  This hummingbird occurs on the eastern Andes from central and southern Peru to Bolivia. Males have green upperparts, long outer tail streamers with racket-shaped tips, and rufous leg puffs.

• Atoll Fruit Dove Ptilinopus coralensis

  The Atoll Fruit Dove has a pink to purple crown and yellow belly. It lives in Tuamotu atoll forests and coconut groves, eating fruit, leaves, flowers, and insects.

• Dusky Eagle-Owl Ketupa coromanda

  The Dusky Eagle-Owl has grayish plumage, rounded ear tufts, and a pale facial disc. It is nocturnal and uses open woodland near water, where it nests in trees.

• Sooty-headed Tyrannulet Phyllomyias griseiceps

  The Sooty-headed Tyrannulet forages in the canopy and subcanopy of humid montane forest. Peru Aves says its range is poorly understood and lists records in Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, and Brazil.

• Japanese Thrush Turdus cardis

  A thrush that visits mountain forests north of Kyushu; females have browner flanks.

• Pearly-breasted Conebill Conirostrum margaritae

  This conebill occurs along major rivers in Loreto, northeastern Peru, where it is found in river-created woodland and islands.

• Gray-capped Cuckoo Coccyzus lansbergi

  This cuckoo has a grey cap and rufous back. Some details of its range and seasonal movements remain poorly known.

• Buff-spotted Flameback Chrysocolaptes lucidus

  This woodpecker lives in forests of the southern Philippines. Its back is orange-red, and pale spots mark its body.

• Manu Antbird Cercomacra manu

  This antbird is common in bamboo patches of southeastern Peru. It forages almost exclusively in stands of Guadua bamboo.

• Crested Duck Lophonetta specularioides

  A northwestern Patagonia account describes this duck's crest and its feeding near lakes and rivers, where it takes small aquatic animals.

• Rufous Crab Hawk Buteogallus aequinoctialis

  The Rufous Crab-hawk has a rufous belly and yellow feet. It searches for crabs in coastal mangroves and swoops down from a branch to catch them.

• Guianan Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes albolineatus

  The Guianan Woodcreeper lives in humid forests north of the Amazon River and in the Guianas and eastern Venezuela. It climbs trunks to find insects and may join mixed-species flocks.

• Yellow-billed Amazon Amazona collaria

  A medium-sized parrot native to Jamaica. Adults are mostly green, with a red throat and a yellow bill.

• Painted Bush Quail Perdicula erythrorhyncha

  The Painted Bush Quail lives in grasslands of the Indian Peninsula. Males have a white eyebrow and throat, while the red bill and legs are conspicuous field marks. Small groups may forage in the morning and evening.

• Yellow-throated Hanging Parrot Loriculus pusillus

  This small green parrot has a yellow-orange throat mark and red rump. It occurs on Java and Bali and feeds on nectar and fruit.