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• White-throated Sierra Finch Idiopsar erythronotus

  

  The White-throated Sierra Finch forages on the ground in open Andean country. Adults are gray overall, with a white throat and a paler lower belly.

• Bar-backed Hill Partridge Arborophila brunneopectus

  A hill partridge of evergreen forest and bamboo. The nominate subspecies recorded in China has a barred back and chestnut breast.

• Lilac-tailed Parrotlet Touit batavicus

  This small parrot occurs in northern South America and Trinidad. Its yellow forehead and short lilac tail are distinctive, and it feeds on plant foods in forest canopies.

• Acorn Woodpecker Melanerpes formicivorus

  The Acorn Woodpecker stores acorns in holes and raises young with other members of its group.

• White-eared Brown Dove Phapitreron leucotis

  The White-eared Brown Dove is a small dove endemic to the Philippines. It has a gray crown, green or violet iridescence, a brown breast, and a pale belly.

• Collared Grosbeak Mycerobas affinis

  The Collared Grosbeak is a large finch whose plumage differs between males and females. This account gives the Chinese part of its range described by the Kunming Institute of Zoology.

• Crowned Slaty Flycatcher Griseotyrannus aurantioatrocristatus

  This gray tyrant flycatcher uses forest canopy, edges, and semi-open habitat. In Peru, austral migrants are usually recorded from February through November.

• Arnot's Chat Pentholaea arnotti

  This bird inhabits woodlands of central and southern Africa. In the nominate subspecies, the male is black with a white crown and wing patch; small groups search for insects beneath large trees.

• Rusty-barred Owl Strix hylophila

  The Rusty-barred Owl inhabits Atlantic Forest in southern and southeastern Brazil and nearby parts of Paraguay and Argentina. It is nocturnal and hunts small animals in forest.

• Puna Thistletail Asthenes helleri

  This ovenbird occurs in humid scrub and forest edges near treeline in southeastern Peru and is also recorded in Bolivia.

• Band-tailed Barbthroat Threnetes ruckeri

  The Band-tailed Barbthroat has green upperparts and a banded tail. It visits flowers for nectar in humid forest and ranges from Central America to northwestern South America.

• Hermit Thrush Catharus guttatus

  The Hermit Thrush is a forest bird with a brown back, spotted breast and reddish tail. It searches for insects on the ground and eats more fruit in winter.

• Dusky-tailed Antbird Drymophila malura

  This long-tailed antbird is associated with dense understory in humid forest, as well as woodland and forest edges.

• Common Eider Somateria mollissima

  A large sea duck of northern rocky coasts that dives for mussels and other shellfish.

• Pohnpei Lorikeet Trichoglossus rubiginosus

  The adult Pohnpei Lorikeet has deep maroon plumage, with olive to yellow on the wings and tail. It visits flowering trees in small groups.

• White-backed vulture Gyps africanus

  A vulture that gathers with others and searches for carcasses in African savannas.

• Wing-barred Seedeater Sporophila americana

  This South American small bird has a black male with two clear white wing bars. Females are browner, and the species feeds mainly on grass seeds.

• Black-billed Capercaillie Tetrao urogalloides

  This grouse has strongly different male and female plumage. In Siberian taiga, males gather at visible display sites in spring, calling and fanning their tails during courtship.

• 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.

• Fine-banded Woodpecker Campethera taeniolaema

  An East African montane woodpecker. The 2023 Clements Checklist treats it as a distinct species based on plumage and genetic evidence.

• Pied Cuckoo-Dove Reinwardtoena browni

  This large dove contrasts a silvery head, neck, and chest with a pale belly and dark wings and tail. It lives in forests on islands northeast of New Guinea.

• Azores Bullfinch Pyrrhula murina

  The Azores Bullfinch has a rounded grey-brown body with a black head, wings and tail. It is confined to eastern São Miguel, where it feeds on native fruits, seeds and flowers in laurel forest.

• Yellow-crowned Elaenia Myiopagis flavivertex

  A small flycatcher of northern Amazonian lowlands. Peru Aves describes olive upperparts, a yellow belly, and fine yellow wing-bars.

• Nilgiri Flycatcher Eumyias albicaudatus

  The Nilgiri Flycatcher occurs in India's Western Ghats. Males are greenish indigo-blue with white patches at the tail base; females are smaller and grey-brown.