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• Brown-fronted Woodpecker Dendrocoptes auriceps

  

  The Brown-fronted Woodpecker lives in western Himalayan forests. White bars on its black back and the different head colors of males and females help identify it.

• Yellow-chinned Spinetail Certhiaxis cinnamomeus

  This spinetail has chestnut-brown upperparts and head, with white underparts. Its pale yellow chin can be hard to see.

• White-tailed Rubythroat Luscinia pectoralis

  Bangladesh’s bird Red List records this bird as a winter visitor to the country. In its photograph, the male has a greyish body, a black face and throat, and a bright red throat patch.

• Pale-tailed Barbthroat Threnetes leucurus

  This hummingbird lives in the understory of Amazonian forest. It has dark green plumage, a buff neck band, and a pale stripe on the cheek. Tail color varies among subspecies.

• Grey Hawk Buteo plagiatus

  It is a hawk found from the southern United States through Mexico and Central America. In the southern United States, it uses forests along rivers.

• Glossy Flowerpiercer Diglossa lafresnayii

  The Glossy Flowerpiercer has glossy black plumage and a blue shoulder patch and forages along Andean forest edges.

• Northern Tufted Flycatcher Mitrephanes phaeocercus

  This 12–14 cm flycatcher is active by day in mountain forest and pine-oak woodland. It catches insects in the air by darting out from a perch. It does not migrate.

• Ruddy Ground Dove Columbina talpacoti

  The Ruddy Ground Dove is a small dove widespread in Central and South America. Males are reddish brown, females are browner, and the birds forage for seeds on the ground.

• Red-backed Flameback Dinopium psarodes

  This Sri Lankan woodpecker is the red-backed form. It is most widespread in the wet zone, while birds in the north-central contact area can show intermediate plumage.

• Grey-flanked Cinclodes Cinclodes oustaleti

  Cinclodes oustaleti lives near Andean streams and lakes. It is dark brown, with a white eyebrow and throat, a pale-flecked dark breast, and a cinnamon wing-bar. It moves to lower elevations in winter.

• Hainan Blue Flycatcher Cyornis hainanus

  The Hainan Blue Flycatcher occurs from southern China through mainland Southeast Asia. In Hong Kong, mature forest is its main recorded breeding habitat.

• White-crested Coquette Lophornis adorabilis

  This small hummingbird occurs on the Pacific side of southern Costa Rica and in far western Panama. Males have a white crest and long green cheek tufts, and visit flowers in forest edges and secondary growth.

• Gurney's Eagle Aquila gurneyi

  Gurney's Eagle is a large forest eagle of New Guinea and nearby islands. Adults are dark brown and search for food on slow, low flights, usually alone or in pairs.

• Rufous-browed Hemispingus Poospiza rufosuperciliaris

  This small tanager inhabits high elevations in Peru's eastern Andes. Its broad rufous eyebrow contrasts with the gray plumage, and it occurs in humid montane forest and scrub.

• Brownish Twistwing Cnipodectes subbrunneus

  The Brownish Twistwing uses terra firme forest in the northern Bolivian Amazon, especially dense understory. It has shaggy plumage, a pale lower mandible, ochre edges on the wing feathers and a rufous-brown tail; it is usually solitary.

• Maranon Pigeon Patagioenas oenops

  The Maranon Pigeon occurs in the upper Marañón Valley of the northern Andes. It feeds on plant seeds in woodland and along forest edges.

• Guianan Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes albolineatus

  The Guianan Woodcreeper lives in humid forests north of the Amazon River and in the Guianas and eastern Venezuela. It climbs trunks to find insects and may join mixed-species flocks.

• Indian Chat Oenanthe fusca

  The Indian Chat is a rufous-brown bird found mainly in northern and central India, often around rocky places and old buildings. It searches for insects near the ground.

• Blue-mantled Thornbill Chalcostigma stanleyi

  This hummingbird occurs in the high Andes of Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. It uses humid scrub, Polylepis woodland and open areas with short grass.

• Long-crested Eagle Lophaetus occipitalis

  A raptor with a long crest and white wing markings. It hunts small mammals in open country with trees.

• Yellow-bridled Finch Melanodera xanthogramma

  This finch inhabits Andean rocky ground and high-altitude grassland. Males are yellow and olive, while females and young birds are brown and streaked; it searches for seeds on the ground.

• Yellow-browed Tody-Flycatcher Todirostrum chrysocrotaphum

  The Yellow-browed Tody-Flycatcher is a tiny flycatcher, about 9–10 cm long. It has a yellow stripe behind the eye, a black head, olive upperparts, and black wings.

• Cloven-feathered Dove Drepanoptila holosericea

  This green dove lives in New Caledonia. Males have a yellow belly and white wing bars, and the birds feed on fruit in trees.

• Plain Thornbird Phacellodomus inornatus

  Phacellodomus inornatus is a thornbird of the Llanos region from northeastern Colombia into Venezuela. The recent Clements treatment recognizes it as distinct from the Rufous-fronted Thornbird.