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• Taita Apalis Apalis fuscigularis

  

  This apalis occurs in forest fragments in the Taita Hills of southeastern Kenya. It has sooty-gray upperparts, a black throat and breast, and gleans small invertebrates from low vegetation.

• Mexican Violetear Colibri thalassinus

  A green hummingbird with shining violet-blue markings, it visits flowers along highland forest edges and clearings.

• Yellow-gorgeted Greenbul Atimastillas flavicollis

  The yellow throat helps identify this bulbul. It eats fruit and insects in woodlands and thickets of western and central Africa.

• Uluguru Bushshrike Malaconotus alius

  This bushshrike lives in forest in Tanzania's Uluguru Mountains. Its green and yellow body contrasts with a black head.

• White-shouldered Tanager Loriotus luctuosus

  This tanager occurs in Bolivia’s lowland forests. The male has a large white wing patch, and pairs or family groups move through the forest.

• Tricolored Brush Finch Atlapetes tricolor

  This brushfinch is recorded in the mountains of Peru's eastern Andes, at about 1,750–3,050 m in the PeruAves account. Clements 2024 split the former Tricolored Brushfinch into two species and uses Golden-crowned Brushfinch for A. tricolor, so this entry limits the range to Peru.

• Prothonotary Warbler Protonotaria citrea

  The Prothonotary Warbler stands out as a bright yellow bird in dim wet forests. It forages low near water and nests in holes in standing dead trees.

• Australian Reed Warbler Acrocephalus australis

  The Australian Reed Warbler is a small olive-brown bird with a pale eyebrow. It moves south in summer to breed and nests among reeds in wetlands.

• Taiwan Hill Partridge Arborophila crudigularis

  This pheasant-family bird is endemic to Taiwan's mountain forests. Its black-and-white face and red legs stand out as it forages on the forest floor.

• Ochre-breasted Pipit Anthus nattereri

  This small bird is recorded in scattered grasslands of southeastern South America. Its ochre chest is streaked, and it searches for insects on the ground.

• Green-winged Teal Anas carolinensis

  The Green-winged Teal is a small North American duck, notable for the green stripe on the male's head. It feeds near the water's surface and moves between breeding and wintering areas with the seasons.

• Black Tern Chlidonias niger

  The North American subspecies of Black Tern flies over freshwater wetlands during breeding and catches small fish and insects.

• 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.

• Varied Solitaire Myadestes coloratus

  The Varied Solitaire has a gray crown and underparts, a black face, brown back, and orange bill and legs. It lives in humid mountain forest from southern Panama to northwestern Colombia.

• Choco Vireo Vireo masteri

  It is recorded in humid montane primary cloud forest in western Colombia and northwestern Ecuador. It searches the upper forest for small invertebrates.

• Orange-breasted Falcon Falco deiroleucus

  This falcon is marked by a black back, white throat and orange upper breast. In forested parts of Central and South America, it hunts above the canopy and around rocky outcrops.

• Crowned Hornbill Lophoceros alboterminatus

  The crowned hornbill has a white eyebrow and belly and a red-orange bill. In moist evergreen forest it lives in pairs or small family groups and eats fruit and insects.

• Red-mantled Rosefinch Carpodacus rhodochlamys

  In Gilgit-Baltistan, this rosefinch uses high scrub in summer and lower brush in winter.

• Ferruginous Babbler Pellorneum bicolor

  The Ferruginous Babbler has rich rufous-brown plumage that blends into the forest floor. It searches for insects low in the understory of lowland and swamp forest.

• Cinnamon-breasted Bunting Emberiza tahapisi

  The cinnamon-breasted bunting is a bunting that searches for seeds and insects on rocky hills and mountain slopes.

• Lesser Kiskadee Philohydor lictor

  This small flycatcher occurs around slow-moving water in the lowlands of northern South America. It has a brown back and bright yellow underparts and may perch close to the water surface.

• Bobolink Dolichonyx oryzivorus

  Bobolinks breed in North American grasslands and migrate to South America for winter. In breeding plumage, males are marked by a white back and a yellow rear crown.

• Whitehead's Trogon Harpactes whiteheadi

  Whitehead's Trogon inhabits moist mountain forest on Borneo and has strongly different male and female plumage.

• Bay-vented Cotinga Doliornis sclateri

  This cotinga is restricted to the eastern slope of the central Peruvian Andes. It uses cloud forest at or near treeline and feeds largely on fruit.