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• Red-lored Amazon Amazona autumnalis

  

  The Red-lored Amazon is mostly green, with a red forehead and bluish crown. Its native range extends from eastern Mexico to northwestern South America.

• Greater Sage Grouse Centrocercus urophasianus

  The Greater Sage-Grouse lives in sagebrush plains of western North America. During the breeding season, males gather and display to females.

• Rufous-chested Flycatcher Ficedula dumetoria

  Southern Flores specimens are described with brown irises, black bills, and bluish-purple legs. A specimen from Tjeréng was collected in primary forest.

• Fulvous-vented Euphonia Euphonia fulvicrissa

  The male has a blue back and yellow underparts. This euphonia lives in humid forests from Panama through Ecuador and mainly eats fruit.

• Green-bellied Hummingbird Saucerottia viridigaster

  This hummingbird occurs in the mountains of Colombia and Venezuela. A 2000 study documents geographic variation in Andean tail color and discusses separating the related S. cupreicauda.

• Purple-tailed Imperial Pigeon Ducula rufigaster

  The Purple-tailed Imperial Pigeon is a large pigeon with a gray head, glossy green upperparts, a chestnut belly, and a purple sheen on the tail. It feeds on fruit in the forest canopy around New Guinea.

• Javan Scops Owl Otus angelinae

  This small owl is endemic to Java. It has black streaks on its brown chest and rests or forages near the forest canopy.

• Rufous-naped Ground Tyrant Muscisaxicola rufivertex

  This ground-tyrant occurs in the Peruvian Andes. The Peru Aves account describes grayish upperparts, a whitish-gray underside, a white forehead, and a rusty patch on the nape; it forages in short dry grass and other dry habitats.

• Inaccessible Finch Nesospiza acunhae

  The Inaccessible Finch lives on Inaccessible Island. Its three island subspecies differ in plumage, bill size, and foods.

• Lewis' Woodpecker Melanerpes lewis

  Lewis's Woodpecker has a green-glossed black back and red belly. It catches insects in flight and may store acorns in tree crevices.

• Bertoni's Antbird Drymophila rubricollis

  The male has a black crown, a long white supercilium and a broad black band through the eye. The species ranges from southeastern Brazil through eastern Paraguay to Misiones, Argentina, and searches for arthropods in bamboo thickets.

• Rüppell's Vulture Gyps rueppelli

  A large African vulture that soars over open country and feeds on carrion.

• Slaty Spinetail Synallaxis brachyura

  This spinetail is recorded in the humid forests of Tumbes in northwestern Peru. Adults are gray with a rufous crown, and they forage in low growth at forest edges and in secondary forest.

• Blue-and-yellow macaw Ara ararauna

  A large South American parrot with bright blue upperparts and yellow underparts.

• Elliot's Pheasant Syrmaticus ellioti

  Elliot's Pheasant is a pheasant endemic to southeastern China. The male has a long tail marked with silvery bars.

• White-winged Cliff Chat Monticola semirufus

  This chat occurs in rocky parts of the Ethiopian Highlands. Both sexes have a large white patch in the middle of the wing; males have a black hood and a red-orange belly.

• Yellow-throated Euphonia Euphonia hirundinacea

  The Yellow-throated Euphonia lives in Central American woodland. Males have blue upperparts and bright yellow underparts, while females are more subdued green.

• Collared Inca Coeligena torquata

  This hummingbird inhabits humid Andean forests. A white chest band stands out against its dark plumage, and it feeds on nectar as well as small insects and spiders.

• African Green Pigeon Treron calvus

  The African Green Pigeon is a green fruit-eating pigeon that feeds in trees. This entry uses the West African portion of the Oiseaux.net range because that account also discusses the former broad treatment with T. delalandii.

• Andean Pygmy Owl Glaucidium jardinii

  The Andean Pygmy Owl is a small owl. A Bogotá bird guide notes that it may also be seen by day; it has brown plumage with bars and spots and perches in shaded trees.

• Southern Tropical Pewee Contopus cinereus

  This small tyrant flycatcher has a short bill. The prominence of its white wing bars and the colour of its throat and breast differ between subspecies.

• Bright-rumped Yellow Finch Sicalis uropigyalis

  This finch occurs in high-Andean steppe and prepuna in northwestern Argentina. The male has a yellow head and underparts with a gray face.

• Greyish Piculet Picumnus granadensis

  This small woodpecker relative lives in forests and at forest edges in Colombia. The male has a black crown with white spots and yellow crown marks.

• Blackish Antbird Cercomacroides nigrescens

  The male and female have very different plumage. The species searches for insects in dense vines and shrubs at forest edges and in floodplain forest.