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• Swallow Tanager Tersina viridis

  

  In Bolivia, the Swallow Tanager is seen in forest canopies and feeds mainly on fruit. Females have a dark facial mask and barred flanks.

• Moustached Brush Finch Atlapetes albofrenatus

  This brush finch is recorded in Colombia’s eastern Andes. A 2014 study compared photographs and vocalizations of the Colombian nominate form, describing its white chin, green mantle and moustachial marking.

• Crested Partridge Rollulus rouloul

  The male has a striking red crest and differs greatly in color from the female; both forage on the forest floor.

• Chiloe Wigeon Mareca sibilatrix

  Males have a green, iridescent head while females are duller; they gather with other ducks in shallow water and rest on grassy banks.

• Amazonian Barred Woodcreeper Dendrocolaptes certhia

  A large woodcreeper with reddish-brown plumage and fine barring. It forages in mature forest and may appear near army-ant swarms.

• Red-and-black Thrush Geokichla mendeni

  A thrush recorded on islands of eastern Indonesia. A survey on Peleng found birds in hill forest and also documented fledglings.

• Brambling Fringilla montifringilla

  A bird with orange shoulders and breast that arrives in flocks for autumn and winter.

• Rough-legged Tyrannulet Acrochordopus burmeisteri

  Current IOC-based taxonomy treats this small bird as Acrochordopus burmeisteri. It is recorded in Argentina, with olive upperparts and a yellow belly.

• Western Black-eared Wheatear Oenanthe hispanica

  In breeding plumage, an adult male has a black facial mask, a white throat, and pale ochre upperparts. It searches for insects in dry open country and visits Europe in summer.

• Brown-necked Raven Corvus ruficollis

  The Brown-necked Raven is a crow with a bronze sheen on its neck and a long, triangular tail.

• Silver-crowned Friarbird Philemon argenticeps

  A honeyeater of northern Australia. Adults have a silvery-white crown, black bare facial skin and casque, and males are slightly larger than females.

• Eastern Miombo Sunbird Cinnyris manoensis

  This sunbird occurs in the Zambezian miombo region. Males have blue-green upperparts and a red breast band. The species tends to build a grass ball nest attached among branches or leaves.

• Red-fronted Parrot Poicephalus gulielmi

  Its dark green body has scalloped feather edges, with red-orange markings on the forehead, thighs, and wing bends. The extent of these markings varies among subspecies.

• Echo Parakeet Psittacula eques

  This green parrot lives on Mauritius. It eats flowers, leaves, and fruit, and nests in cavities in large trees.

• Black-banded Fruit Dove Ptilinopus alligator

  The Black-banded Fruit Dove is marked by a white head and upper chest, a black breast band, and a grey back. It has a limited range on Australia's Arnhem Land Plateau.

• Palawan Scops Owl Otus fuliginosus

  The Palawan Scops Owl is a small owl of lowland forest on Palawan. It has a dark brown back and warmer, paler underparts marked with black, and it is nocturnal.

• Jet Antbird Cercomacra nigricans

  This antbird ranges from Panama through northern South America to western Ecuador. Males are black, while females are grayish.

• Slender-billed Kite Helicolestes hamatus

  A kite that darts from low perches at water to catch snails; its red legs are a useful clue.

• Maroon Woodpecker Blythipicus rubiginosus

  This woodpecker is about 23 cm long and lives in humid forest. It is active by day and searches for food on trunks and branches.

• Coquerel's Coua Coua coquereli

  This cuckoo has a long tail and legs, blue bare skin around the eye, and a rufous belly. It inhabits dry deciduous forest in western and northern Madagascar.

• Mindanao Miniature-babbler Micromacronus sordidus

  This small bird lives on Mindanao in the Philippines. The Mindanao population, formerly treated as a subspecies of a close relative, is grayer above and pale yellow-gray to greenish olive below.

• White-sided Hillstar Oreotrochilus leucopleurus

  The White-sided Hillstar is a hummingbird of rocky Andean habitats. Males have a blue throat and white underside, females a grey underside; both feed on nectar and insects.

• Hairy-backed Bulbul Tricholestes criniger

  This bulbul occurs in forests of the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo. Fine, hair-like feather shafts on its back give it its name. It eats fruit and insects.

• Saffron-crowned Tanager Tangara xanthocephala

  This tanager is marked by an orange-yellow crown and a black facial pattern. In humid forests on the eastern Andes, it searches moss and the undersides of small branches for arthropods.