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• Coopmans's Tyrannulet Zimmerius minimus

  

  Coopmans’s tyrannulet is a small bird recorded from Colombia’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and eastern Venezuela. It has yellow markings; the original type specimen had a 43 mm wing and 37 mm tail.

• White-bellied Shortwing Myiomela major

  This shortwing occurs in the hills of southern India. Its account describes a slaty-blue back and breast, white belly, and rufous-brown flanks; birds are met singly or in pairs among undergrowth and small trees.

• Puerto Rican Amazon Amazona vittata

  The Puerto Rican Amazon is a green parrot endemic to Puerto Rico. It feeds mainly on wild fruit; tabonuco fruit is also important in October.

• White-fronted Ground Dove Pampusana kubaryi

  This dove occurs on Chuuk and Pohnpei. Adult males have a sooty-black crown and hindneck, with violet gloss on the upper back and parts of the wings.

• Jamaican Owl Asio grammicus

  The Jamaican Owl lives on Jamaica. It uses habitats ranging from forest and farmland to parks, and takes small birds and animals as prey.

• Rusty-winged Antwren Herpsilochmus frater

  This antwren occurs in separated forest regions of Central and South America. Males are gray, females are olive-brownish, and both accounts describe rusty tones in the wings.

• Variable Hawk Geranoaetus polyosoma

  The Variable Hawk has several plumage forms. In Argentina's biodiversity account, a white tail with a broad black band is a shared field mark; the hawk searches open mountain habitats while soaring.

• Orange-backed Woodpecker Reinwardtipicus validus

  Males have a red crest and underparts with an orange back; females have a dark crown. It searches tree trunks for insects in forests.

• Plain-bellied Emerald Chrysuronia leucogaster

  This hummingbird has a white belly. It uses coastal mangroves and forest edges and feeds on nectar.

• Glistening-green Tanager Chlorochrysa phoenicotis

  A tanager of humid montane forests in Colombia and Ecuador. Males are vivid green; females are duller.

• Chinese Bamboo Partridge Bambusicola thoracicus

  A rounded partridge with a short tail that lives in thickets and grassy places.

• Plain-crowned Spinetail Synallaxis gujanensis

  This small bird occurs from Amazonia to the eastern Andean slope. It has a grayish head and rufous wings and tail, and forages low in young second growth and at forest edges.

• Tawny-capped Euphonia Euphonia anneae

  This euphonia occurs from Central America to northwestern Colombia. Males have a tawny crown and yellow underparts; the species feeds on small fruits in humid forest and at forest edges.

• Black-and-white Monjita Heteroxolmis dominicana

  This tyrant flycatcher uses wetlands and damp grasslands. A BirdLife regional record lists it at Serranías del Este in eastern Uruguay; males and females differ in plumage.

• Ceylon Whistling-Thrush Myophonus blighi

  This bird lives in wet mountain forests of Sri Lanka. Males and females have different plumage, and it looks for food along streams.

• 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.

• Rapa Fruit Dove Ptilinopus huttoni

  Its head, neck, chest, and upper back are blue-grey, shading into a green body. Pink on the head and throat, a rose-purple breast band, and a yellow lower belly add color. It eats fleshy fruit and flower nectar in forest remnants on Rapa Island.

• Blakiston's Fish Owl Ketupa blakistoni

  A large owl of forests along rivers and around lakes in Hokkaido. It eats fish and small mammals and nests in holes in large trees.

• Hairy-crested Antbird Rhegmatorhina melanosticta

  This antbird lives in the understory of Amazonian terra firme forest. The bare eye-ring and crest color vary among regions.

• Pacific Baza Aviceda subcristata

  A long-tailed, crested hawk that searches the canopy for large insects; females have a browner crown than males.

• Pale-crested Woodpecker Celeus lugubris

  The Pale-crested Woodpecker lives in dry forest and open woodland of south-central South America. Its pale crest stands out, and males and females differ in their red facial markings.

• Diamantina Sabrewing Campylopterus diamantinensis

  Campylopterus diamantinensis is a hummingbird from the highlands of Minas Gerais, Brazil. A 2017 study described the tail pattern of the population now treated as this species, when it was still considered a subspecies.

• Fulvous-crested Tanager Tachyphonus surinamus

  This tanager lives in forests of northern Amazonia. The male is black with a fulvous crest, while the female has an olive back and gray head.

• Cabot's Tragopan Tragopan caboti

  Cabot's Tragopan is a pheasant relative whose male has inflatable blue and red ornaments on its throat and head. Females look quite different. The species lives in mountain forests of southeastern China and eats plant foods.