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• Elegant Euphonia Euphonia elegantissima

  

  Found from Mexico to Panama, this bird occurs in damp cloud forest and woodland edges. Males are mainly blue and orange, while females are mainly green.

• Tricolored Heron Egretta tricolor

  A slender heron with blue-gray, lavender, and white plumage and a white stripe down the neck. It searches for small fish in coastal wetlands, moving with quick turns.

• Florida Scrub Jay Aphelocoma coerulescens

  The Florida scrub-jay is blue-gray with a long tail. It lives in Florida's low oak scrub, where young birds may help their parents raise another brood.

• Speckled Hummingbird Adelomyia melanogenys

  The inornata subspecies of the Speckled Hummingbird has dark sides to the head and a bronze-green back. In Argentina's Salta and Jujuy provinces, it uses high-elevation scrub and forest.

• Yellow-green Grosbeak Caryothraustes canadensis

  The Yellow-green Grosbeak has a heavy gray bill, a black face and throat, and pale yellow-olive and yellow plumage. This account records it in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro State.

• Nicobar pigeon Caloenas nicobarica

  A pigeon with long neck feathers and gleaming blue-green plumage.

• Brown-capped Babbler Pellorneum fuscocapillus

  This babbler is endemic to Sri Lanka. It inhabits forest, well-wooded areas, and thick undergrowth, and is absent from the extremely dry north and southeast according to the local species account.

• Grey Wren Cantorchilus griseus

  A small, grey wren studied along the Brazilian side of the Javari River. The detailed published observations cover five territories and do not establish the species’ full range.

• Kloss's Leaf-warbler Phylloscopus ogilviegranti

  This leaf-warbler ranges from southern China through Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand. It is recorded in forest at 900–2,550 m during the breeding season.

• White-naped Monarch Carterornis pileatus

  It occurs on Halmahera and Buru in moist lowland forest. Salvadori's description of a male from Halmahera records a black forehead, back, wings and tail against a white crown, pale eye-area patches, white cheeks, chest and belly. A field report recorded small groups in logged forest and forest edges.

• Sunda Scops Owl Otus lempiji

  A small owl with noticeable ear tufts and a pale brown collar. It is recorded as resident in Singapore.

• Snowy Plover Anarhynchus nivosus

  The Snowy Plover is a small, sand-colored shorebird that searches open beaches and salt-lake shores for prey. It makes a well-hidden nest on sandy beaches.

• Peruvian Plantcutter Phytotoma raimondii

  It has a short, notched bill; males are mainly grey and females are brown with dark streaks. The species remains in dry forest and scrub along Peru's coast.

• Grey-hooded Attila Attila rufus

  The Grey-hooded Attila is a forest bird of Brazil, with a grey head and rufous body.

• Gray-headed Chickadee Poecile cinctus

  The Gray-headed Chickadee, called the Siberian Tit in Eurasia, lives year-round in northern forests across northern Eurasia and Alaska.

• Rosy-throated Longclaw Macronyx ameliae

  The Rosy-throated Longclaw is a shy bird of wet grassland with striking pink underparts.

• Sickle-winged Guan Chamaepetes goudotii

  This large bird stands out for its rufous breast and belly and blue bare skin on the face. In Peruvian mountain forest it searches for food in the mid-canopy and on the ground.

• Yellow-wattled Bulbul Poliolophus urostictus

  This Philippine bulbul forages for fruit along forest edges and in young woodland.

• Lesser Noddy Anous tenuirostris

  The Lesser Noddy is a seabird of islands in the Indian Ocean and nearby waters. In Seychelles, flocks catch fish and squid and nest in island trees.

• Long-tailed Widowbird Euplectes progne

  This bird lives in moist grassland. The breeding male has a long tail, while females and males outside the breeding season are brown and streaked.

• Rufous-cheeked Nightjar Caprimulgus rufigena

  The Rufous-cheeked Nightjar lives in dry country and catches flying insects at dusk. Its back is finely marked, and adult males have white tips on the outer tail feathers.

• Black-throated Munia Lonchura kelaarti

  The Black-throated Munia is a small bird whose back and belly markings vary by region. It occurs in southern Indian hills and Sri Lanka and eats grass and weed seeds, as well as rice.

• Slaty-backed Nightingale-Thrush Catharus fuscater

  The Slaty-backed Nightingale-Thrush has a pale eye-ring and orange bill. It searches for insects and fruit near the ground in wet mountain forest; underpart color varies among subspecies.

• Crimson-collared Tanager Ramphocelus sanguinolentus

  A mostly black bird with a broad crimson band across the throat and chest and a red rump. The sexes look alike. It ranges from southeastern Mexico to western Panama and uses wet forest.