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• Greater Kestrel Falco rupicoloides

  

  Adults have a reddish-brown body with black markings and search for prey from perches in open, dry country.

• Lesser Masked Weaver Ploceus intermedius

  A weaver whose male has a black facial mask and pale eye. It weaves a round grass nest and breeds in colonies.

• Maroon-fronted Parrot Rhynchopsitta terrisi

  This large parrot inhabits mountains of northeastern Mexico. It has a green body with a dark maroon forehead and wing edges, feeds mainly on pine seeds, and roosts in groups outside the breeding season. It may fly long distances to feeding areas.

• Rufous-backed Inca Finch Incaspiza personata

  This finch is recorded in dry montane scrub on Peru's western Andean slope. It has a rufous back and bright orange bill and legs.

• Corn Bunting Emberiza calandra

  The Corn Bunting is a streaked brown bunting with a sturdy yellow bill. It often uses open farmland and pasture.

• Geelvink Pygmy Parrot Micropsitta geelvinkiana

  The Geelvink Pygmy Parrot is a small parrot from Biak, Supiori, and Numfor off Papua. It uses forests and nests in arboreal termite nests.

• White-throated Manakin Corapipo gutturalis

  The White-throated Manakin is a small bird of humid forests in the northern Amazon. During breeding, males gather to display.

• Vogelkop Lophorina Lophorina superba

  The male spreads black plumage around an iridescent blue-green breast shield. It eats fruit and arthropods and performs a courtship display.

• Shining-green Hummingbird Chrysuronia goudoti

  Male Shining-green Hummingbirds are mostly green, with a slightly downcurved bill and a moderately forked tail. Females have a white chin and belly. The species uses habitats from dry forest to gallery forest; birds may gather at large flowering trees.

• Glittering Kingfisher Caridonax fulgidus

  The Glittering Kingfisher, also called the white-rumped kingfisher, has a red bill and white belly and rump. It lives in forest and wooded cultivated areas in the Lesser Sundas and eats insects.

• Fawn-breasted Wren Cantorchilus guarayanus

  The Fawn-breasted Wren is about 13 cm long. It uses lowland forest understory, thickets, and forest edges and eats invertebrates. A Paraguay study found three nests in riparian forest.

• White-headed Starling Sturnia erythropygia

  This starling is endemic to India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands. It uses forest edges and open places, where it feeds on fruit and other foods.

• Collared Plover Charadrius collaris

  This plover ranges from Mexico through Central America to central Argentina and central Chile. Adults have a black breast band.

• Whiskered Flowerpecker Dicaeum proprium

  The Whiskered Flowerpecker occurs in forest on Mindanao. The sexes are similar, with blue-black upperparts and moustachial stripes, white chin and malar stripes, and sepia-brown underparts.

• Sclater's Lark Spizocorys sclateri

  A lark of dry, open landscapes in western southern Africa. In its core range it is mostly sedentary or moves only locally.

• Cauca Guan Penelope perspicax

  The Cauca Guan has dark brown to greenish plumage and a red throat patch. It is found in humid tropical forest remnants in Colombia's Cauca and Magdalena valleys.

• Barbary Partridge Alectoris barbara

  The Barbary Partridge is marked by a broad chestnut collar and blue-grey throat and cheeks. It uses scrub and woodland and eats young leaves, shoots, seeds, and fruit.

• Hooded Robin Melanodryas cucullata

  This Australian robin lives in lightly timbered woodland. It uses exposed perches and drops to the ground or nearby to catch arthropods, mainly insects.

• White-browed Ground Tyrant Muscisaxicola albilora

  The White-browed Ground-tyrant visits the high Andes seasonally and searches for food on the ground. Peruvian records are from April to October.

• Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis

  A North American diving duck. Males are mainly black and white, females are brown, and the back of the head has a small peak.

• Chaplin's Barbet Lybius chaplini

  This Zambian barbet has a mostly white body, yellow-edged wings, and red skin around the eyes.

• White-tipped Quetzal Pharomachrus fulgidus

  This quetzal has been observed in northern Colombian montane forest. Adult males have conspicuous white tips on their tail feathers. A local nesting record describes eggs in a cavity in a dead tree.

• Spotless Crake Zapornia tabuensis

  In New Zealand, this small rail hides among dense wetland vegetation. Its red eyes stand out, and it is most active at dim times of day.

• Fulvous-chinned Nunlet Nonnula sclateri

  This bird occurs in lowland Amazonia in Peru, with many records from Ucayali and Madre de Dios. It is brown to gray-brown, has red orbital skin, and may sit motionless on a branch for long periods.