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• Snowy-throated Kingbird Tyrannus niveigularis

  

  This seasonal migrant appears in northwestern Peru from December to June. It uses semi-open woodland and scrub, and has a gray head, white throat, and yellow underparts.

• Common Emerald Dove Chalcophaps indica

  A dove with iridescent green on its wings. It searches for food along forest trails and on the forest floor, and is often seen alone in Hong Kong.

• Pink-eared Duck Malacorhynchus membranaceus

  The Pink-eared Duck is a small duck with white and dark brown bars, a large brown patch around the eye, and a small pink patch behind it.

• White Eared Pheasant Crossoptilon crossoptilon

  This entry covers the drouynii subspecies of the White Eared Pheasant. Males and females have the same plumage, and it lives in high mountain forests.

• Checker-throated Woodpecker Chrysophlegma mentale

  The Checker-throated Woodpecker is green, with a checkered pattern on its throat. It searches trunks and branches in lowland and hill forests in Borneo and nearby regions.

• Streak-backed Canastero Asthenes wyatti

  This canastero lives in high Andean grassland. It has broad dark streaks on its back and rufous outer tail feathers, and forages among bunchgrass, scattered shrubs and rocks.

• Fraser's Forest Flycatcher Fraseria ocreata

  In a survey around Korup in southwest Cameroon, Fraser’s Forest Flycatchers were found in small groups in lowland forest and at forest edges, using the middle and upper forest layers. A bird identification account describes the head and upperparts as slate-grey.

• Regent Parrot Polytelis anthopeplus

  This slim parrot has a long blue-black tail and a yellow shoulder patch. Males are mostly yellow, while females and young birds are greener. It occurs in two separated parts of southern Australia.

• Eurasian siskin Spinus spinus

  A yellow-and-brown bird that feeds on seeds of trees and grasses.

• Goias Parakeet Pyrrhura pfrimeri

  The Goias Parakeet occurs in dry forest patches on limestone in central Brazil. A 1997 field study documented dry-season feeding in this restricted habitat.

• Stripe-throated Hermit Phaethornis striigularis

  This hummingbird is described in a species account for Cundinamarca, Colombia. The account notes bronze-green upperparts, a rufous rump, and pale streaks on the throat.

• Spotted Owl Strix occidentalis

  The Spotted Owl is a large owl of western North American forests. It silently hunts small mammals at night.

• Square-tailed Kite Lophoictinia isura

  This kite has a white face with black streaks and a large white patch at the base of its long wings. It hunts small birds, especially nestlings, and insects in the canopy.

• Great Thrush Turdus fuscater

  A large thrush common in Andean highlands, it is brown with an orange bill and legs. Males have a yellow eye-ring.

• Black-bellied Tanager Ramphocelus melanogaster

  This tanager is endemic to Peru's Mayo and Upper Huallaga valleys. It forages in semi-open country, forest edges, and secondary scrub; males show red plumage with a dark central belly.

• Yellow-breasted Warbling Antbird Hypocnemis subflava

  This small antbird ranges from Peru's eastern Andean foothills into adjacent western Bolivia and Brazil. Its throat and belly are yellow, and the eyebrow differs in color between the sexes.

• Long-crested Pygmy Tyrant Lophotriccus eulophotes

  This small bird is recorded in the understory of humid western Amazonian forest, including vegetation patches after treefalls and stands of Guadua bamboo.

• Common Wood Pigeon Columba palumbus

  A large pigeon with a gray body and conspicuous white patches on its neck and wings.

• White-faced Whistling Duck Dendrocygna viduata

  Its white face, long neck, and long legs stand out, and it gives a high-pitched whistle. It gathers in wetland flocks and feeds on insects and plants from mud and shallow water.

• Cabot's Tragopan Tragopan caboti

  Cabot's Tragopan is a pheasant relative whose male has inflatable blue and red ornaments on its throat and head. Females look quite different. The species lives in mountain forests of southeastern China and eats plant foods.

• Lineated Woodpecker Dryocopus lineatus

  The Lineated Woodpecker is a large woodpecker with a black back and a white shoulder stripe. Its scarlet crest and, in males, red cheek stripe stand out. It taps into wood to find insects.

• Double-banded Greytail Xenerpestes minlosi

  The Double-banded Greytail is a small ovenbird recorded in eastern Panama and parts of Colombia. A field study in Panama documented a nest in a heavily cleared town, built in a tree fork.

• Black Scrub Robin Cercotrichas podobe

  A Black Scrub Robin recorded in a Djibouti survey. Its sooty-black body and long, white-tipped tail are distinctive.

• Blue-winged Parakeet Psittacula columboides

  This parakeet of India's Western Ghats has a long blue tail and red bill. Males have a grey head and black neck stripe, and the birds feed on fruit and seeds.