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• Red-winged Parrot Aprosmictus erythropterus

  

  This medium-sized parrot is notable for its red shoulder patches. It feeds in the canopy of open woodland and trees along watercourses.

• Black-and-yellow Tanager Chrysothlypis chrysomelas

  Males have yellow heads and underparts with black backs and wings. Females are olive above and yellow below; both use the canopy of wet forests to search for fruit and arthropods.

• Crested Goshawk Lophospiza trivirgata

  The Crested Goshawk is a raptor of forests and wooded edges from South to Southeast Asia. It hunts from concealed perches in trees.

• Black-capped Screech Owl Megascops atricapilla

  A screech-owl with dark, grey, and rufous colour morphs; every morph has a dark crown. It inhabits forests in south-eastern Brazil and nearby regions.

• Caucasian Snowcock Tetraogallus caucasicus

  A pheasant-family bird of high rocky slopes in the Caucasus, it may move lower during severe winter weather.

• Golden-collared Woodpecker Veniliornis cassini

  This small woodpecker occurs in northern Amazonia and nearby forest regions. The male's red crown and yellow wing spots, along with barred underparts in both sexes, help identify it.

• Spot-winged Grosbeak Mycerobas melanozanthos

  This large bird lives in Himalayan mountain forests. Males are black and yellow, while females are mainly olive brown, so the sexes differ in plumage.

• Flying Steamer Duck Tachyeres patachonicus

  A grey duck with a white wing patch, it lives around Patagonian lakes and rivers, with different head and bill colors by sex

• Bridled Quail-Dove Geotrygon mystacea

  This pigeon lives in forests on Caribbean islands and searches the forest floor for seeds and fruit. A white line below the eye and reddish underparts help identify it.

• Amazonian Streaked Antwren Myrmotherula multostriata

  This small antwren lives in forest along Amazonian rivers and lakes. It searches for insects in the lower and middle layers among tangled vines.

• Monk Parakeet Myiopsitta monachus

  A green-and-gray parakeet native to South America. It builds communal stick nests in trees and on poles, where groups live together.

• Scaly-throated Leaftosser Sclerurus guatemalensis

  This leaftosser ranges from southern Mexico through Central America to western Colombia and western Ecuador. It inhabits lowland and montane evergreen forest and forages for invertebrates on the ground.

• La Selle Thrush Turdus swalesi

  The La Selle Thrush lives in highland forest on Hispaniola. Its two subspecies occupy separate areas of the island; adults of the nominate subspecies have a black head and back and reddish-brown underparts.

• Saxicola ferreus

  Saxicola ferreus is a scarce winter visitor and passage migrant in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong bird account describes both sexes and their foraging in open shrubland and other cleared habitats.

• White-cheeked Tody-Flycatcher Poecilotriccus albifacies

  The White-cheeked Tody-Flycatcher is a small bird with a red crown and white cheeks. It lives in the Amazonian understory, especially in dense Guadua bamboo patches.

• Rufous-breasted Sabrewing Campylopterus hyperythrus

  The Rufous-breasted Sabrewing was recorded in the Roraima Mountains. Its nineteenth-century description was based on one adult male and notes dark rufous underparts, greenish upperparts, and feeding among flowering shrubs.

• 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.

• Short-billed Honeycreeper Cyanerpes nitidus

  This is a honeycreeper with a short bill. In 2000, one male was recorded at Brownsberg Nature Park in Suriname.

• Chilean Hawk Astur chilensis

  The Chilean Hawk is a raptor of forests in Chile and adjacent Andean areas. In northern Patagonia, one pair nested in the upper branches of Nothofagus trees over five breeding seasons.

• Pel's Fishing Owl Scotopelia peli

  Pel's Fishing Owl lives near rivers and lakes south of the Sahara in Africa and catches fish. It uses waterside trees for roosting and nesting.

• Greater Prairie Chicken Tympanuchus cupido

  This entry describes the Attwater's subspecies of the Greater Prairie-Chicken. Males perform courtship displays, and females nest in prairie grass.

• Ochre-collared Piculet Picumnus temminckii

  This small woodpecker ranges from southeastern Brazil south into Argentina. It occurs at forest edges and in secondary forest, as well as in urban parks and gardens, and mainly eats ant larvae and pupae.

• Two-barred Crossbill Loxia leucoptera

  The Two-barred Crossbill uses its crossed bill to open conifer cones and take their seeds.

• Blue-winged Teal Spatula discors

  A small duck of shallow ponds and wetlands in North America. Breeding males have blue-grey heads; females and nonbreeding males are patterned brown.