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• White-headed Pigeon Columba leucomela

  

  Adults stand out for their white head, neck, and breast against dark wings. They feed on fruit in rainforests of eastern Australia.

• Great Black Hawk Buteogallus urubitinga

  The Great Black Hawk is a large raptor with a dark adult body and distinctive white markings on the tail. In Peru, it is recorded along lowland Amazonian rivers and in forests in the northwest.

• Apical Flycatcher Myiarchus apicalis

  This flycatcher is endemic to Colombia. It has a bushy crest and pale tips to its tail feathers. It feeds on insects and small fruits in dry-valley scrub and woodland.

• Inti Tanager Heliothraupis oneilli

  Heliothraupis oneilli was described from the lower Yungas of Peru and Bolivia. The study reports different recorded settings in the breeding season and dry season.

• Brown-breasted Flycatcher Muscicapa muttui

  The Brown-breasted Flycatcher breeds in northeastern India and Indochina and winters in southwestern India and Sri Lanka. The Singapore account lists it as a vagrant there.

• Sunda Scops Owl Otus lempiji

  A small owl with noticeable ear tufts and a pale brown collar. It is recorded as resident in Singapore.

• Glowing Puffleg Eriocnemis vestita

  This hummingbird lives in montane forests on the eastern slopes of the Andes. Males are green with a purple throat and undertail; their plumage differs from that of females.

• Rufous-backed Antvireo Dysithamnus xanthopterus

  This antvireo occurs in montane forest on Brazil's Atlantic slope. A Brazilian species account describes birds moving alone or in pairs through the middle and lower forest strata and searching live foliage for invertebrates.

• Bolivian Earthcreeper Tarphonomus harterti

  The Bolivian Earthcreeper is recorded on rocky slopes within dry scrub in Bolivia. It has a pale line above the eye and a brown underside, and the account says it favors sites with bromeliads growing at ground level.

• Javan Flameback Chrysocolaptes strictus

  The Javan Flameback is a woodpecker reported from Java and Bali. It has golden upperparts, a black band from behind the eye to the nape, a red crest in males and a yellow crest in females. Lowland moist forest is considered an important habitat.

• Plumbeous Euphonia Euphonia plumbea

  Male Plumbeous Euphonias have blue upperparts and yellow underparts. They occur in savanna with scattered trees and along woodland edges, where they eat small fruit.

• Pale-vented Pigeon Patagioenas cayennensis

  The Pale-vented Pigeon has a ruddy brown body, gray head, and pale lower belly. It perches high in trees in woodland and more open habitats and gives a low-pitched call.

• Crested Eagle Morphnus guianensis

  The Crested Eagle is a large raptor of mature forests and foothills in Central and South America. It often perches in the canopy and can be difficult to spot.

• Greenish Tyrannulet Phyllomyias virescens

  This small tyrannulet lives in humid evergreen forest in southeastern Brazil and nearby parts of South America. It is bright olive above, with dusky wings.

• Cuban Grassquit Phonipara canora

  This bird forms small flocks in Cuban grassland and scrub. Males have black faces, females have grayish faces, and a yellow band runs from behind the eye down the sides of the neck to the chest.

• Eyebrowed Jungle Flycatcher Rhinomyias gularis

  A small flycatcher of Borneo’s mountain forests. It moves alone or in small groups in the understorey, searching for insects.

• Striped Owl Asio clamator

  This owl has long ear tufts and vertical streaks on its body. It is active at dusk and night, hunting small animals in open country and along woodland edges.

• Sombre Hummingbird Eupetomena cirrochloris

  This hummingbird occurs in Brazil. Gould described its head and back as dark grass-green and its wings as purplish brown; modern species accounts place it at humid forest edges and in the understory, where it takes nectar.

• Southern Chestnut-tailed Antbird Sciaphylax hemimelaena

  This antbird lives in lowland Amazonian forest and forests along the eastern Andes. Males and females differ in color, and it forages near the ground in dense vegetation.

• Cinnamon-throated Woodcreeper Dendrexetastes rufigula

  This large woodcreeper occurs in Amazonia and is often found high in the forest canopy. It is also noted for tending to occur alone.

• Eastern Grey Woodpecker Dendropicos spodocephalus

  This woodpecker lives in eastern African forests and searches for insects on trunks and on the ground. It has a gray head and underside; adult males have a red crown.

• Red Crossbill Loxia curvirostra

  A finch of North American conifer forests. Its crossed bill opens cones to reach seeds, and it moves in search of cone crops.

• Goliath Imperial Pigeon Ducula goliath

  The Goliath Imperial Pigeon is a large pigeon of New Caledonia's humid forests. It eats fruit; seeds were found intact in digestive samples from birds studied there.

• Malagasy Marsh Harrier Circus maillardi

  This raptor is endemic to Réunion. It lives mainly in wooded mountains; females are larger than males and differ in plumage.