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• Yellow-tinted Honeyeater Ptilotula flavescens

  

  A honeyeater found in northern Australia and New Guinea. It occurs in open tropical forests and woodlands, often near rivers or wetlands.

• Bates's Sunbird Cinnyris batesi

  Bates's Sunbird is a small sunbird of African forests and forest edges. Its dark olive upperparts contrast with a pale eyebrow and yellow-edged wings.

• Painted Parakeet Pyrrhura picta

  The Painted Parakeet is a South American parrot with a mostly green body, reddish-brown areas on the rump and tail, and blue outer wing feathers. It eats fruits, flowers, and seeds in humid forest.

• Superb Parrot Polytelis swainsonii

  The Superb Parrot uses woodlands and grasslands in southeastern Australia. Males have yellow foreheads and throats and a red crescent between the throat and breast.

• Amboyna Cuckoo-Dove Macropygia amboinensis

  A slender reddish-brown dove with different plumage in males and females, ranging from the Moluccas to the New Guinea region.

• Philippine Eagle-Owl Ketupa philippensis

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

• Chestnut Rail Eulabeornis castaneoventris

  The Chestnut Rail is a large, ground-dwelling rail of mangroves that eats crabs. Different plumage forms have been reported in northern Australia.

• Willis's Antbird Cercomacroides laeta

  This antbird is patchily distributed in Brazil and reaches extreme southern Guyana in the north. Its three subspecies occupy different areas.

• Bonelli's Eagle Aquila fasciata

  A medium-sized eagle. Adults have dark brown upperparts and a white, dark-streaked underside; juveniles are much paler.

• Ochre-backed Woodpecker Celeus ochraceus

  This woodpecker occurs in northern and north-eastern Brazil. Males have a red cheek stripe, and a study in Maranhão recorded the species excavating nest cavities in tree trunks.

• Great Spotted Cuckoo Clamator glandarius

  The Great Spotted Cuckoo searches for food in open areas with scattered trees and eats caterpillars and grasshoppers. It lays eggs in the nests of other birds.

• Pale-crowned Cisticola Cisticola cinnamomeus

  This cisticola occurs in eastern and southern Africa, in moist grassland and near wetlands. During the breeding season, the male has a brown crown while the female keeps streaks on hers.

• Rufous-capped Thornbill Chalcostigma ruficeps

  The Rufous-capped Thornbill is a small hummingbird of mountain regions from Colombia to Bolivia. Males have dark green upperparts and reddish-green underparts and feed on nectar and insects by woodland edges.

• Palawan Bulbul Alophoixus frater

  This bulbul is recorded only on the Palawan and Calamian islands of the Philippines. It uses forests and forest edges and feeds on insects and fruit.

• Sharp-beaked Ground Finch Geospiza difficilis

  A Darwin’s finch of the Galápagos highlands. Among related ground finches, its relatively stout, sharply pointed bill is a useful clue.

• Sagebrush Sparrow Artemisiospiza nevadensis

  This sparrow breeds in open sage-dominated shrubsteppe in western North America. During migration and winter it also uses dry scrub with creosote or saltbush.

• Cape May Warbler Setophaga tigrina

  The Cape May Warbler is a small bird that breeds in boreal forests of Canada and the northern United States. It uses varied woods and shrublands during migration and winter.

• Jungle Bush Quail Perdicula asiatica

  The Jungle Bush Quail is a small quail of dry grassland and scrub in India and Sri Lanka. It feeds on seeds and insects on the ground.

• Barrow’s Goldeneye Bucephala islandica

  This diving duck has an adult male with a purplish head and long white crescent, while females have brown heads.

• Parker's Spinetail Cranioleuca vulpecula

  A small ovenbird of islands in the Amazon river system. It uses young grass and scrub and searches trunks and branches for small arthropods.

• Pale-breasted Thrush Turdus leucomelas

  The Pale-breasted Thrush is a brownish bird with a grayish crown, streaked throat, and yellowish bill. It occurs across much of lowland South America.

• Red Siskin Spinus cucullatus

  Males are red and black, while females are much duller. This small finch eats fruit, seeds, and buds, and may move with seasonal rains.

• White-throated Tyrannulet Mecocerculus leucophrys

  The White-throated Tyrannulet is a small bird of humid Andean mountain forests. It searches the canopy and the layer below, sometimes joining mixed-species flocks.

• Scarlet-headed Blackbird Amblyramphus holosericeus

  The Scarlet-headed Blackbird ranges from Bolivia and Paraguay through Brazil and Uruguay to Argentina. It is associated with wetlands, lakes and riverbanks bordered by marsh vegetation.