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• Great Kiskadee Pitangus sulphuratus

  

  It has a black eye-mask, yellow belly, and warm reddish-brown flashes in the wings. It inhabits open woodland and waterside areas from south Texas through Central and South America.

• Chestnut Teal Anas castanea

  In breeding plumage, the male has a chestnut head and neck with a green sheen on the crown, while the female is mottled brown. The species searches shallow water in Australian wetlands and estuaries.

• Spectacled Imperial Pigeon Ducula perspicillata

  The Spectacled Imperial Pigeon is a large pigeon recorded in North Maluku, Indonesia.

• Mindanao Boobook Ninox spilocephala

  This boobook occurs on Mindanao. It has long ear-covert extensions, while breast barring and belly streaks vary among individuals. Researchers recorded long solo songs and shorter duets.

• Fire-bellied Woodpecker Chloropicus pyrrhogaster

  This woodpecker lives in lowland forests of West Africa. Its account gives a length of about 24 cm, but the plumage description available here is for males only.

• Olive-backed Euphonia Euphonia gouldi

  Olive tones and a chestnut belly mark this euphonia. Adult males have a yellow forehead and females a rufous one; the bird uses the upper layers and edges of wet forest.

• Furtive Flycatcher Ficedula disposita

  A small flycatcher recorded in northern Luzon. It searches among trees for small invertebrates in lowland forest.

• Grey Goshawk Tachyspiza novaehollandiae

  In Tasmania, this large raptor is described as white. It nests in mature wet forest near waterways and looks for prey from trees.

• Junin Canastero Asthenes virgata

  This canastero occurs locally in the central and southern Peruvian Andes. Its orange-rufous throat and pale eyebrow are distinctive.

• White-shouldered Antbird Akletos melanoceps

  This antbird occurs in the western Amazon. The male is black with a concealed white shoulder patch; the female is rufous with a black head.

• White-fronted Amazon Amazona albifrons

  A small Amazon parrot marked by a white forehead and red face, it feeds on different plants as local and seasonal conditions change.

• Gray-headed Tanager Eucometis penicillata

  This tanager has a gray head and yellow-orange underparts. Peruvian accounts place it in the middle levels of floodplain forest.

• Pesquet's Parrot Psittrichas fulgidus

  Pesquet’s Parrot has a mostly bare face, dark upperparts, and red lower belly and underwings. Adult males have a red mark behind the eye.

• Black-billed Streamertail Trochilus scitulus

  This hummingbird occurs at the eastern end of Jamaica. The 2018 survey paper used the earlier name Trochilus polytmus scitulus for this form and described the male’s black bill and long tail plumes.

• Stubble Quail Coturnix pectoralis

  Stubble quail live in pairs or small groups among grasslands and crops. When disturbed, they run first and fly only when pressed, usually for a short distance.

• Variegated Bristle Tyrant Pogonotriccus poecilotis

  This small tyrant flycatcher occurs in humid Andean mountain forest from Colombia to Peru.

• American Black Duck Anas rubripes

  A duck of shallow wetlands in eastern North America. It is dark brown overall and can be hard to distinguish among Mallards.

• Lilac-crowned Fruit Dove Ptilinopus rarotongensis

  The Lilac-crowned Fruit Dove is a forest pigeon endemic to the Cook Islands, where it occurs on Rarotonga and Atiu.

• Sulawesi Scops Owl Otus manadensis

  This nocturnal owl varies from brown to rufous and hunts moths and other insects.

• Pileated Woodpecker Dryocopus pileatus

  A large woodpecker with a red crest and white neck stripes that searches dead wood for ants.

• Cape Canary Serinus canicollis

  The Cape Canary is a small finch of open habitats and gardens in southern Africa. It eats seeds and nests in shrubs and other vegetation during the breeding season.

• Slaty-backed Jungle Flycatcher Rhinomyias goodfellowi

  This flycatcher lives in montane forest understory on Mindanao. An early description of the female records dark slate-gray upperparts with white and buff underparts.

• Mantled Hawk Pseudastur polionotus

  The Mantled Hawk is a large hawk with white and slate-grey plumage and a short tail. It lives in humid hilly forest and hunts reptiles, small mammals, and birds.

• Olive Spinetail Cranioleuca obsoleta

  This small ovenbird occurs in eastern Paraguay, southeastern Brazil, and northeastern Argentina. Its rufous tail and wings and pale eyebrow are noticeable.