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• White-eyed Buzzard Butastur teesa

  

  The White-eyed Buzzard is a raptor with conspicuously pale eyes and throat. It is recorded in the Kaiga survey area in India and eats insects as well as small vertebrates.

• Buff-browed Foliage-gleaner Syndactyla rufosuperciliata

  This foliage-gleaner lives in moist mountain forest and tall secondary growth on the eastern Andes of Bolivia. Its buff eyebrow and streaked underside help identify it.

• Black Bushbird Neoctantes niger

  This small antbird lives in Amazonian forest understory. Near Peru’s Manu National Park, a male was recorded attending a nest hung low in dense vegetation.

• Peach-fronted Parakeet Eupsittula aurea

  Its green wings have blue edges, and its face has fine markings. Pairs and small groups use open areas and wetland edges.

• Genovesa Ground Finch Geospiza acutirostris

  This ground finch occurs only on Genovesa Island in the Galápagos. It was formerly treated as a subspecies of the Sharp-beaked Ground Finch but is now listed as a separate species.

• Short-crested Coquette Lophornis brachylophus

  This small hummingbird is restricted to a limited mountain area in Guerrero, southwestern Mexico. Adult males have an orange-rufous crest and green gorget; females lack those ornaments.

• Heuglin's Francolin Pternistis icterorhynchus

  Heuglin's Francolin is a Central African gamebird found in grasslands, open woodland, and nearby farmland.

• White-rumped Monjita Xolmis velatus

  Its whitish head and white rump and tail base are distinctive. It uses open fields with scattered trees and shrubs and eats insects and spiders. It occurs in Brazil, Bolivia, and Paraguay.

• Pink-necked Green Pigeon Treron vernans

  The Pink-necked Green Pigeon eats fruits and buds from mature trees. In Singapore it is found in both wooded and urban areas.

• Northern Hawk Owl Surnia ulula

  A long-tailed owl with a white face bordered in black. It lives in northern forests and hunts from treetops during the day.

• Ashy Woodpecker Mulleripicus fulvus

  The Ashy Woodpecker is a large woodpecker of Sulawesi and nearby islands. It searches tree trunks for ants, termites, caterpillars, and other prey.

• Western Citril Crithagra frontalis

  The Western Citril is recorded in this study from western Kenya. Males have a bright yellow eyebrow that wraps around the forehead and separates the bill from the streaked crown.

• Collared Flycatcher Ficedula albicollis

  The Collared Flycatcher breeds in Europe and winters in southeastern Africa. Breeding males show a distinct white collar.

• Verreaux's Eagle Aquila verreauxii

  A large eagle with a striking white V on its black back. It lives among rocky landscapes in Africa and hunts hyraxes as its main prey.

• Western Woodhaunter Automolus virgatus

  The Western Woodhaunter is a secretive bird of humid-forest understory from Central America into northwestern South America. Birds Colombia notes that some taxonomies recognize it as a separate species while others do not.

• Large-tailed Antshrike Mackenziaena leachii

  Both sexes are dotted with white; males are mainly black and females brownish yellow. A paper reports a female carrying a frog in forest in southeastern Brazil.

• Lilac-crowned Amazon Amazona finschi

  A large green parrot native to Mexico. Adults show blue to lilac tones across the crown.

• Flame-rumped Tanager Ramphocelus flammigerus

  Male Flame-rumped Tanagers are mostly black with rumps that range from yellow to red, while females are mainly olive gray and yellow. They form small flocks in forest edges and gardens, feeding on fruit and invertebrates.

• Black-hooded Sunbeam Aglaeactis pamela

  This hummingbird has a dark head, white breast feathers, and a shining blue rump. It feeds at flowers in Bolivia's highlands.

• Rock Partridge Alectoris graeca

  The Rock Partridge is a mountain-dwelling pheasant relative with a white throat patch bordered in black. Its range is limited to European mountain regions.

• Ochraceous Pewee Contopus ochraceus

  This flycatcher occurs in the highlands of Costa Rica and far western Panama. It has a yellow-brown back, yellow belly, and pale wing bars, and catches flying insects from a perch.

• Brush Bronzewing Phaps elegans

  A dark brown pigeon with iridescent wing patches. In coastal South Australia it uses dense woodland and scrub and feeds mainly on plant seeds.

• Mountain Pygmy Owl Glaucidium gnoma

  This small owl has a long tail, rounded head and yellow eyes. It is active by day as well as at other times, waiting on a perch to surprise small birds and other prey; it ranges through mountains of western North America.

• Scarlet-backed Woodpecker Veniliornis callonotus

  This small, colorful woodpecker is described from western Ecuador to northwestern Peru. It has a red back, white underparts, and sex-specific crown colors. BirdLife’s country records also include Colombia.