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• Taiwan Green Pigeon Treron formosae

  

  In the Taiwan account, the male has a rusty-orange crown and nape, with some purple feathers on the shoulder. It eats fruit in the forest canopy.

• Plain Antvireo Dysithamnus mentalis

  The Plain Antvireo is recorded across Central and South America. In Costa Rica, it occurs in the understory of humid mountain forests, and males and females differ in plumage.

• Timneh Parrot Psittacus timneh

  A grey parrot of West African forests and adjoining habitats. It eats fruit and seeds and nests in high tree cavities.

• Bay-capped Wren-Spinetail Spartonoica maluroides

  The Bay-capped Wren-Spinetail lives in salt marshes of southeastern South America. In a measured sample, males tended to have a longer rufous cap and a more robust bill than females.

• Black Thrush Turdus infuscatus

  This thrush ranges from eastern and southern Mexico into Central America. Males are dark, while females are browner and differ in appearance.

• White-tailed Flycatcher Cyornis concretus

  This flycatcher ranges from the eastern Himalayas through southern China and Southeast Asia. A 2021 taxonomic paper transferred it to the genus Leucoptilon; its current name is Leucoptilon concretum.

• Black-fronted Ground Tyrant Muscisaxicola frontalis

  This ground tyrant moves through the southern Andes. A wintering record from rocky terrain in central Peru has been reported.

• Ecuadorian Hillstar Oreotrochilus chimborazo

  This hummingbird occurs in the Cajas highlands of Ecuador. A local guide describes it visiting Chuquiragua flowers and records different head and belly colors in males and females.

• Citrine Lorikeet Saudareos flavoviridis

  The Citrine Lorikeet has a green back and yellow, dark-scaled underparts. Small flocks gather at flowering trees along forest edges.

• Black-bellied Seedeater Sporophila melanogaster

  This seed-eating bird inhabits the highland grasslands of southern Brazil. A study recorded a rare male color form that differs from the usual plumage; it is not a separate species.

• Crane Hawk Geranospiza caerulescens

  In the Argentine account, the Crane Hawk is a raptor that walks through wetlands, grasslands, and woodland while searching for food. It has a bluish-gray back and gray-and-white barring.

• Everett's Scops Owl Otus everetti

  This small scops owl inhabits lower montane forest in the Philippines. It has a dark brown crown and ear-tufts, pale forehead, and orange-red eye rims.

• Bulwer's Pheasant Lophura bulweri

  A pheasant whose male has a blue face and large white tail. It lives in Borneo's montane tropical and highland rain forests.

• Philippine Pygmy Woodpecker Yungipicus maculatus

  A small woodpecker of Philippine forests. This entry covers the three subspecies aligned with the candidate taxon and excludes the Sulu population.

• Blue-naped Chlorophonia Chlorophonia cyanea

  The male is a small bird with vivid blue, green, and yellow plumage. It searches for fruit high in trees; the preserved account records it at nine southeastern Brazilian localities.

• Andean Teal Anas andium

  A small duck of high Andean lakes and wetlands, it has finely spotted gray-brown plumage and feeds close to the water surface.

• Barusan Cuckoo-Dove Macropygia modiglianii

  This cuckoo-dove occurs on the western Indonesian islands of Nias, Mentawai and Simeulue. A 2016 bioacoustic study lists forms from those three island groups separately.

• Banded Antbird Dichrozona cincta

  The Banded Antbird occurs in lowland Amazonian forest in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil and Bolivia. It forages on the forest floor and is recorded to about 900 m in the Andean foothills.

• Rose-faced Parrot Pyrilia pulchra

  Adults are mainly green with a rose-pink face, a dark crown, and a blue-tipped tail. Juveniles have pink confined to a smaller area around the eyes and ear coverts.

• White-chinned Thistletail Asthenes fuliginosa

  The White-chinned Thistletail occurs in the Andes. A Bogotá bird guide describes it foraging among foliage and branches, alone or in pairs.

• Bicknell's Thrush Catharus bicknelli

  Bicknell's Thrush is a small thrush that breeds in mountain forests of northeastern North America and spends the nonbreeding season in wet montane forests of the Greater Antilles.

• Sombre Chat Oenanthe dubia

  Breeding has been confirmed in Djibouti. In 2020, family groups and recently fledged young were seen in rocky wadis with trees.

• Highland Elaenia Elaenia obscura

  The Highland Elaenia inhabits mountain forest and forest edges on the eastern Andes. It has dark olive-brown upperparts and yellowish underparts, and searches the canopy for insects and berries.

• Buff-thighed Puffleg Haplophaedia assimilis

  A small hummingbird of the eastern Andes of Peru and Bolivia. Its buff leg puffs and dark blue tail are useful field marks; it uses humid montane forest understory.