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• White-capped Fruit Dove Ptilinopus dupetithouarsii

  

  The White-capped Fruit Dove is endemic to the Marquesas Islands. Head and chest colors vary among islands, and it feeds mainly on fruit.

• Glossy Black Cockatoo Calyptorhynchus lathami

  The south-eastern form often feeds on she-oak seeds and raises its young in hollows in old eucalypts.

• Crimson Seedcracker Pyrenestes sanguineus

  This West African finch has red plumage and a short, thick bill. Research has documented two bill-size forms.

• Red Bird-of-paradise Paradisaea rubra

  The male displays crimson plumes in courtship; the female is mainly brown. The species inhabits the Raja Ampat Islands.

• Black-faced spoonbill Platalea minor

  A waterbird that sweeps its spoon-shaped bill from side to side in shallow water.

• Hudsonian Godwit Limosa haemastica

  The Hudsonian Godwit has long legs and a long, slightly upturned bill. It is reddish in breeding plumage and gray-brown outside the breeding season.

• Red Shoveler Spatula platalea

  The Red Shoveler filters small animals and plants from the water with its broad, flattened bill. Males are reddish brown; females and young birds are mottled brown.

• Melodious Blackbird Dives dives

  This icterid occurs in Central America. Adult males are glossy black with a blue sheen, while females and young birds are duller. In Costa Rica it is seen in pairs or small groups.

• Sand Partridge Ammoperdix heyi

  The Sand Partridge walks on rocky slopes and in valleys, feeding on seeds, berries, and insects on the ground. Males have white facial marks; females and young birds are sandy-colored.

• Black-necked Woodpecker Colaptes atricollis

  The Black-necked Woodpecker occurs on the western side of the Peruvian Andes. It has a black throat and upper breast, a barred body, and feeds mainly on ants and other insects.

• Flores Hanging-parrot Loriculus flosculus

  The Flores Hanging Parrot is a small green parrot. Males have a red mark on the throat, and the species eats fruit and nectar.

• Tanzanian Red-billed Hornbill Tockus ruahae

  This red-billed hornbill form was recorded in central and southern Tanzania. Its original description named ruahae as a subspecies of Tockus erythrorhynchus.

• Black Guillemot Cepphus grylle

  A seabird of northern rocky coasts that catches fish and other prey; its plumage changes with the season.

• Yellow-crowned Elaenia Myiopagis flavivertex

  A small flycatcher of northern Amazonian lowlands. Peru Aves describes olive upperparts, a yellow belly, and fine yellow wing-bars.

• Eastern Olivaceous Warbler Iduna pallida

  A small, pale olive-gray warbler that searches shrubs and trees for insects. It migrates between breeding and wintering areas.

• Fanti Saw-wing Psalidoprocne obscura

  The Fanti Saw-wing flies around moist woodland and water, catching small invertebrates in the air.

• Cinnamon Becard Pachyramphus cinnamomeus

  This bird lives along forest edges and in open places. It eats insects, spiders, and berries, and has cinnamon-colored plumage with a lighter throat.

• Medium Ground Finch Geospiza fortis

  The Medium Ground Finch is endemic to the Galapagos and mainly eats seeds. On Santa Cruz, individuals vary in beak size.

• Black-browed Mountain Greenbul Arizelocichla fusciceps

  The Black-browed Mountain Greenbul lives in montane forest in southeastern Africa. Its species account describes dense highland forest and fruit in its diet; a Tanzania photo page records birds in Poroto Ridge forest.

• Masked Trogon Trogon personatus

  Several subspecies occur in Central and South American mountains. Plumage varies by sex and region; the adult male is used as an example.

• Bahama Mockingbird Mimus gundlachii

  The Bahama Mockingbird is an island bird with gray-brown plumage and dark streaks on the flanks. Its song has varied notes and phrases, but it does not mimic other species.

• Melanesian Cuckooshrike Coracina caledonica

  c. caledonica in forest and savanna. Its range and life-history details here refer to that local form.

• Tataupa Tinamou Crypturellus tataupa

  This ground-dwelling tinamou occurs in South America. It walks through forest undergrowth and may use more open grassland and scrub.

• Palawan Crow Corvus pusillus

  This crow occurs on Palawan and Mindoro. It is known for short, low calls likened to a frog’s croak.