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• Green-fronted Lancebill Doryfera ludovicae

  

  A hummingbird of Andean forest near rushing streams. It uses a very long, slender bill and flies low and quickly among flowers for nectar.

• Ural owl Strix uralensis

  A forest owl with mixed white and brown plumage, found in Eurasia including Japan.

• Chaco Eagle Buteogallus coronatus

  The Chaco Eagle has a prominent crest and inhabits savannas and open woodland in Argentina.

• Green-and-gold Tanager Tangara schrankii

  The Green-and-gold Tanager is a small bird of western Amazonian forest. Its bright colors are shared by both sexes. A National Aquarium account says it forages in the canopy and descends to lower places to nest.

• Northern White-fringed Antwren Formicivora intermedia

  An antwren of lowland Colombia and western Venezuela. Males are gray-brown and black; females are pale below, and pairs forage low in dense shrubs.

• Serra do Mar Bristle Tyrant Pogonotriccus difficilis

  This small tyrant flycatcher inhabits coastal mountain forest in southeastern Brazil. Olive-green upperparts, gray underparts, and white eye markings help identify it.

• Geelvink Imperial Pigeon Ducula geelvinkiana

  This large pigeon is resident on islands off western New Guinea in Indonesia. It has a pale gray head and breast, iridescent blue-green upperparts, and one mainland record is considered a vagrant.

• Blue Duck Hymenolaimus malacorhynchos

  The Blue Duck is endemic to New Zealand. It lives along clear rivers with forested banks and occurs on both the North and South Islands.

• Double-spurred Francolin Pternistis bicalcaratus

  A pheasant-family bird of western Africa, with a separate population in western Morocco; it uses vegetated habitats.

• Hispaniolan Woodpecker Melanerpes striatus

  This woodpecker is native only to Hispaniola. Its yellow-and-black barring, red crown, and groups around tree trunks make it conspicuous. During breeding, several pairs may nest near one another where trees offer many cavities.

• Streak-breasted Treehunter Thripadectes rufobrunneus

  This ovenbird inhabits montane forest in Central America. It moves through the lower and middle forest, and its orange throat and streaked breast help identify it.

• Blue-fronted Redstart Phoenicurus frontalis

  The Blue-fronted Redstart is a mountain bird; males show blue on the head and back and orange underparts, while females are mainly brown. It uses different elevations at different times of year.

• Biak Lorikeet Trichoglossus rosenbergii

  This lorikeet is restricted to Biak Island, Indonesia. It moves in search of flowering trees and may gather in small groups; its wild diet is not well known.

• Hawfinch Coccothraustes coccothraustes

  A bird with a thick bill that can crack hard seeds.

• Brown-throated Parakeet Eupsittula pertinax

  The Brown-throated Parakeet varies in plumage across its range. It nests in arboreal termite mounds and gathers in flocks where food is abundant.

• Snowcap Microchera albocoronata

  The male has a white crown and dark plumage with coppery reflections. Its outer tail feathers have white bases and dark terminal bands. This small hummingbird feeds on nectar near forest edges.

• Rajah Scops Owl Otus brookii

  The Rajah Scops Owl is an owl of mountain forests in central Sumatra and northern Borneo. Long ear tufts and dark markings on its brown plumage stand out.

• White-rumped Vulture Gyps bengalensis

  A vulture of plains and settlements on the Indian subcontinent. It circles in the air while searching for carrion.

• Spotted Tanager Ixothraupis punctata

  This tanager is described in a Suriname guide as a bird of the middle forest layers, seen in pairs or small groups. Its green plumage has dark edges.

• Leaden Antwren Myrmotherula assimilis

  This small bird occurs in the Amazon region of Brazil, Peru, and Bolivia. Males are grey and females olive-grey; river-edge and flooded-forest records are documented.

• Grey Monjita Nengetus cinereus

  This grey tyrant flycatcher has a white throat and a white patch below the eye. The account here describes records from a reserve in Buenos Aires.

• Flame-breasted Fruit Dove Ptilinopus marchei

  The male has a large orange-red breast patch, and the species lives in the mountain forests of northern Luzon in the Philippines. Specific food records are limited.

• Spotted Whistling Duck Dendrocygna guttata

  The Spotted Whistling Duck has a reddish-brown breast with fine dark markings and reddish-brown scaling on its white flanks. It lives in wetlands and feeds on grass seeds and snails at twilight and night.

• Painted Francolin Francolinus pictus

  The Painted Francolin has a rufous face and throat and conspicuous white-spotted feathers. In India it lives in pairs or family groups around grassland and cultivated areas.