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• Short-tailed Parrot Graydidascalus brachyurus

  

  This green parrot has a short tail with a red base. It searches for fruit in the canopy of forests in northern South America.

• Black-bellied Thorntail Discosura langsdorffi

  The Black-bellied Thorntail occurs in Amazonia and in a separate range on the coast of eastern Brazil. Each region has a different subspecies.

• Philippine Eagle-Owl Ketupa philippensis

  The Philippine Eagle-Owl has yellow eyes and a streaked brown head. It is nocturnal and uses lowland forest.

• Solitary Eagle Buteogallus solitarius

  The Solitary Eagle is a large raptor of tropical forests. Adults are almost entirely black with a white band across the middle of the tail. An Argentine regional account records mammals as prey and trees as nesting sites.

• Black-billed Seed Finch Sporophila atrirostris

  This small bird is recorded locally in the eastern Andean foothills. In Peru, it has been found in tall grass along rivers and oxbow lakes, and males and females have different plumage.

• Plain-winged Antshrike Thamnophilus schistaceus

  This antshrike forages in the middle levels of Amazonian forest and often joins mixed-species flocks. Plumage differs by sex and between birds north and south of the Amazon River.

• White-fronted Ground Tyrant Muscisaxicola albifrons

  In the Peruvian Andes, this ground-tyrant is associated with high-altitude bogs and cushion plants, at 3,700–4,900 m in the Peru Aves account. It can be locally common where suitable habitat occurs.

• New Zealand Pigeon Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae

  The New Zealand Pigeon is a large pigeon endemic to New Zealand. Its green and bronze iridescent body contrasts with a white breast; it mainly eats fruit, with leaves and buds in some seasons.

• Acorn Woodpecker Melanerpes formicivorus

  The Acorn Woodpecker stores acorns in holes and raises young with other members of its group.

• Tyrannine Woodcreeper Dendrocincla tyrannina

  This woodcreeper uses the lower and middle layers of humid montane forest. Its head, back, throat and breast are reddish olive, with beige scaling on the breast.

• Herero Chat Namibornis herero

  The Herero Chat lives on rocky hills and escarpment slopes from western Namibia into south-western Angola. It often eats ants and termites.

• Taiwan Rosefinch Carpodacus formosanus

  An endemic bird of Taiwan's highlands. Nestlings of both sexes are brown; males may turn wine-red the following year, so brown plumage alone does not identify sex.

• Velvet-browed Brilliant Heliodoxa xanthogonys

  This hummingbird occurs in Venezuela, Guyana, and Brazil. The male has a glittering greenish-blue forehead and visits flowers for nectar.

• Asian Barred Owlet Glaucidium cuculoides

  The Asian Barred Owlet is a small owl with white bars across a brown to olive body. It is also active by day.

• Cinereous Harrier Circus cinereus

  This harrier has a white rump and long wings. It searches for prey over South American marshes and grasslands; a breeding-season study in southern Chile recorded males passing prey to females in the air.

• Blue-backed Tanager Cyanicterus cyanicterus

  The Blue-backed Tanager is a resident bird recorded in northern South America. Oiseaux.net lists vocal recordings from the Guianas and northern Brazil.

• Rufous-winged Antshrike Thamnophilus torquatus

  A sexually dimorphic antshrike found mainly in central and eastern Brazil, with records extending into northeastern Bolivia and Paraguay.

• Northern Bentbill Oncostoma cinereigulare

  This small flycatcher occurs in Central American forest. At Guatemala's Laguna del Tigre National Park, it appears regularly in annual bird counts.

• Zoe's Imperial Pigeon Ducula zoeae

  Zoe's Imperial Pigeon has a light grey head and a pink neck and upper breast. It inhabits moist forests on New Guinea and larger nearby islands and eats almost entirely fruit.

• Darjeeling Woodpecker Dendrocopos darjellensis

  A boldly marked woodpecker of high-elevation Himalayan foothill forest. Its belly is finely yellow-streaked, and males have a red patch on the rear crown.

• Itatiaia Spinetail Asthenes moreirae

  This small ovenbird lives in high-elevation grasslands of southeastern Brazil. Its long, frayed tail is distinctive, and it forages among grass and shrubs.

• Thyolo Alethe Pseudalethe choloensis

  This forest bird occurs around the Thyolo Highlands of southern Malawi. It has rusty upperparts and searches among leaf litter for small arthropods.

• Yemen Serin Crithagra menachensis

  The Yemen Serin is a small finch of the southwestern Arabian highlands. It searches for seeds on the ground and rocks and is listed as a localized breeding resident in southern Oman.

• Amethyst-throated Hummingbird Lampornis amethystinus

  This hummingbird inhabits forests from Mexico into northern Central America. Adults have a blue-violet throat and feed among flowers in the lower and middle parts of the forest.