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• Sangihe Hanging Parrot Loriculus catamene

  

  This small parrot lives on Sangihe Island, Indonesia. The male is green with red markings and feeds on nectar from coconut and other flowers. Females are also known to carry dry leaves to line their nests.

• Buff-winged Starfrontlet Coeligena lutetiae

  The Buff-winged Starfrontlet is a 14 cm hummingbird. It feeds mainly on nectar in humid Andean forest and along forest edges.

• Common Pheasant Phasianus colchicus

  In introduced North American populations, males have a red face and white neck ring, while females are brown. They search the ground for seeds and insects.

• Streamer-tailed Tyrant Gubernetes yetapa

  Adults have strikingly elongated central tail feathers. In southern Brazil, a breeding study found that fledged young first foraged independently, then joined mixed-species flocks.

• 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.

• Makatea Fruit Dove Ptilinopus chalcurus

  The Makatea Fruit Dove is confined to Makatea in French Polynesia, where it uses wooded areas and trees near villages.

• Northern boobook Ninox japonica

  An owl of woodland with large trees that hunts insects at night.

• Red-breasted Sapsucker Sphyrapicus ruber

  This woodpecker has a scarlet head and a black-and-white checkerboard back. It drills rows of shallow sap wells in trees and occurs in forests of the Sierra Nevada and Pacific Coast.

• Javan Cochoa Cochoa azurea

  A thrush relative of Java's mountain forests. Males are conspicuously blue, and the bird keeps to the middle and upper forest canopy.

• Kauai Amakihi Chlorodrepanis stejnegeri

  This Hawaiian honeycreeper lives in high-elevation native forest on Kauai. It uses its curved bill to search trunks and branches for insects and also feeds on nectar and fruit.

• White-rumped Shama Copsychus malabaricus

  A small bird of Southeast Asian forest floors and thickets. Males have rich songs and can imitate the calls of other birds.

• Gundlach's Hawk Astur gundlachi

  Gundlach's Hawk is a forest-associated hawk endemic to Cuba that preys on birds.

• Crested Spinetail Cranioleuca subcristata

  The Crested Spinetail is an ovenbird of forests in northern South America. It has a brownish face, a white eyebrow, and a slight crest, and it feeds mainly on arthropods.

• Guianan Streaked Antwren Myrmotherula surinamensis

  This small antwren inhabits riverside vine tangles and seasonally flooded forest. It gleans insects from leaves and is listed in a Smithsonian field checklist for Guyana.

• Senegal Parrot Poicephalus senegalus

  The Senegal Parrot lives along savanna edges in western and central Africa. Its gray head and green and yellow body colors stand out.

• Buff-throated Saltator Saltator maximus

  This bird lives in humid forests from Central America into northern South America. It has a green back, white eyebrow, and pale throat edged in black, and feeds on fruit and insects in the lower vegetation.

• Red-cheeked Parrot Geoffroyus geoffroyi

  Geoffroy's Parrot is a medium-sized parrot that eats fruit and flower buds. It feeds in pairs or small groups in the treetops and calls noisily around dawn and dusk.

• Grey-tailed Mountaingem Lampornis cinereicauda

  Grey-tailed Mountaingem is represented here by hummingbirds surveyed at Cloudbridge Nature Reserve, Costa Rica. The study recorded this population under an older subspecies name and described different male and female plumage.

• Clapperton's Francolin Pternistis clappertoni

  This francolin lives in sub-Saharan Africa, using grassland and dry scrub among other open habitats. It may be seen in groups and eats seeds, berries, insects, and molluscs.

• Red-billed Tyrannulet Zimmerius cinereicapilla

  The Red-billed Tyrannulet lives in humid montane forest on Peru’s eastern Andean slopes. It feeds in the canopy and subcanopy and may join mixed-species flocks.

• Indian Spot-billed Duck Anas poecilorhyncha

  This dabbling duck feeds mainly on plants in shallow wetlands. Males show an orange-red mark at the bill base and a large white wing marking.

• Ornate Fruit Dove Ptilinopus ornatus

  The Ornate Fruit Dove is a fruit-eating pigeon of New Guinea's hill and montane forests. Its crown ranges from wine-red to yellowish olive among subspecies, and the sexes look alike.

• Palawan Scops Owl Otus fuliginosus

  The Palawan Scops Owl is a small owl of lowland forest on Palawan. It has a dark brown back and warmer, paler underparts marked with black, and it is nocturnal.

• Speckled Piculet Picumnus innominatus

  The Speckled Piculet is a tiny woodpecker with fine black-and-white markings. It searches trunks and branches for insects and is also recorded in natural forests in Hong Kong.