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• Yellow-crested Tanager Loriotus rufiventer

  

  Adult males have a black head, back and tail, with a partly hidden yellow crown crest. The chest and belly center is rusty with yellow edging. It feeds in mature-forest canopy and subcanopy, often in mixed flocks.

• Eastern Towhee Pipilo erythrophthalmus

  The Eastern Towhee is a sparrow-sized bird of woodland undergrowth and thickets. Males are black and reddish-brown; females replace the black with brown, and their leaf-litter scratching is often heard.

• Swainson's Francolin Pternistis swainsonii

  Swainson's Francolin is a southern African bird that uses grasslands, woodland edges, farmland, and watersides. It searches on the ground for seeds and insects.

• Spectacled Eider Somateria fischeri

  The Spectacled Eider is a sea duck whose breeding-plumage male has a green head and round white patches around the eyes. It breeds along Arctic coasts and gathers in openings in Bering Sea ice in winter.

• Maquis Canastero Asthenes heterura

  This canastero is recorded in scrub and woodland on Bolivia's eastern Andes. Its long tail and rufous edges on the wings and tail are useful field marks.

• Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush Catharus aurantiirostris

  The small Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush is notable for its orange bill.

• Corsican Finch Carduelis corsicana

  A small finch endemic to Corsica and Sardinia. Males have a brighter yellow face and breast than females, with a streaky brown back.

• Eye-ringed Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus orbitatus

  This small tyrant flycatcher lives in lowland forest in southeastern Brazil. It is about 11 cm long, with a white ring around each eye.

• Rusty Laughingthrush Pterorhinus poecilorhynchus

  This laughingthrush is endemic to Taiwan's mid-elevation forests. Mainland birds once included within the same species are now treated as Buffy Laughingthrush, Pterorhinus berthemyi.

• Fire-crested Alethe Alethe castanea

  A red-orange crest runs over the head. In western Uganda’s Budongo Forest, observers reported birds following people and searching disturbed leaf litter.

• Spotted Nutcracker Nucifraga caryocatactes

  A mountain forest corvid with conspicuous white spots on its dark brown feathers.

• Short-bearded Honeyeater Melionyx nouhuysi

  This dark-plumaged honeyeater has a short, white beard-like throat tuft. It lives in high mountains of western New Guinea among trees and shrubs.

• Anchieta's Sunbird Anthreptes anchietae

  Anchieta's Sunbird is 10–12 cm long. It uses open Brachystegia woodland and shrubs associated with Tacoma and Protea, and feeds on invertebrates. The page lists sound recordings from Zambia.

• Brown-backed Parrotlet Touit melanonotus

  This small parrot occurs in Brazil's Atlantic Forest. A study at Ubatuba, São Paulo, in January–February 2011 recorded birds eating unripe Clusia criuva fruit. These feeding notes come from one study area.

• Blossom-headed Parakeet Psittacula roseata

  The Blossom-headed Parakeet is an Asian parakeet with a green body and contrasting head and shoulder colors. Adult plumage differs between sexes and the two subspecies. It forms small groups in wooded places.

• Black-winged Ground Dove Metriopelia melanoptera

  This small gray-brown dove has pink skin around the eye and white shoulders. In the Argentine Andes, it uses open slopes and steppe and moves in small groups.

• Long-tufted Screech Owl Megascops sanctaecatarinae

  This owl is recorded in southern Brazil, northern Uruguay and northeastern Argentina. In Corrientes, Argentina, the first documented provincial records were reported in 2022.

• Fringe-backed Fire-eye Pyriglena atra

  Pyriglena atra is an antbird of coastal forest in northeastern Brazil. It has red eyes; males are black, while females are mainly reddish brown. It forages in dense lower vegetation along forest edges.

• Black-shouldered Kite Elanus axillaris

  A small raptor with a white and grey body and a black shoulder patch. It hovers over open ground while searching for rodents.

• Red-collared Woodpecker Picus rabieri

  Adult males show a red head and upper breast, green upperparts, and pale bars on the belly; females have a black crown. The species uses forest and bamboo-rich woodland and searches low branches or the ground for ants.

• Common Hawk-Cuckoo Hierococcyx varius

  The Common Hawk-Cuckoo uses forest and farmland edges. It feeds on invertebrates in trees and moves seasonally.

• Dark-necked Tailorbird Orthotomus atrogularis

  This small bird occurs widely in South and Southeast Asia. It has olive upperparts and a rufous crown; males have a dark throat patch.

• Black-breasted Plovercrest Stephanoxis lalandi

  This small crested hummingbird occurs in the Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil. A 2014 taxonomic study restored the boundary between two forms that earlier authors had treated as one species.

• Yellow-throated Bulbul Pycnonotus xantholaemus

  The Yellow-throated Bulbul is a breeding endemic of India and is about 20 cm long. It uses scrub and open forest on rocky hills.