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• Gold-ringed Tanager Bangsia aureocincta

  

  The Gold-ringed Tanager is restricted to the western Colombian Andes. In a Montezuma survey, most records were above 1,850 m and at forest edges, with many birds foraging alone. Nest information comes from a small number of observations.

• Rock Bush Quail Perdicula argoondah

  The Rock Bush Quail is a small quail of dry scrub in the western Indian subcontinent. It forages in small groups and may take dust baths.

• Meller's Duck Anas melleri

  Meller’s Duck is a duck found only on Madagascar. The sexes look alike, and its grey bill helps distinguish it from a female Mallard.

• Buff-throated Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus guttatus

  A forest woodcreeper that moves along trunks and branches, with a buff throat and long streaks below.

• Andean Solitaire Myadestes ralloides

  The Andean Solitaire often lives alone in Andean forests and has a gray face and breast with a brown back.

• Thick-billed Siskin Spinus crassirostris

  The Thick-billed Siskin is a small high-Andean bird with a very broad-based bill. Males have black heads, while females have grey heads; both have yellow rumps.

• Orange-eyed Flatbill Tolmomyias traylori

  This small flycatcher was described from the western Amazon. The original paper records sites in southern Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, and says the limits of its range were not known.

• Marico Flycatcher Bradornis mariquensis

  The Marico Flycatcher is a small brown flycatcher with a pale eye-ring. It searches for insects in open acacia woodland and may drop from a perch to catch prey on the ground.

• Golden-collared Macaw Primolius auricollis

  This green macaw has a yellow band on its neck and nests in tree cavities.

• Green Rosella Platycercus caledonicus

  The Green Rosella is the largest rosella. Its two described subspecies differ slightly in colour pattern, with yellow head and underparts, blue-violet cheeks, a red forehead band, and a green-and-black back among the notable features.

• Henderson Fruit Dove Ptilinopus insularis

  The Henderson Fruit Dove lives in forests on Henderson Island, where it is endemic. Adults have a purplish-crimson crown and eat fruit.

• New Britain Boobook Ninox odiosa

  Adult New Britain Boobooks have reddish-brown upperparts and yellow-orange eyes; females are larger than males. They are nocturnal, living alone or in pairs and hunting from forest perches.

• Rufous-tailed Stipplethroat Epinecrophylla erythrura

  The Rufous-tailed Stipplethroat lives in lowland and foothill evergreen forest in western Amazonia. Males have a gray face, whitish streaked throat, and rufous rump and tail; females are more ochre below. It gleans insects and spiders from dead leaves. Breeding biology is poorly known.

• Madagascar Harrier-Hawk Polyboroides radiatus

  This raptor is endemic to Madagascar and uses its long legs to search tree trunks and crevices. It also soars slowly between trees while looking for prey.

• White-bellied Piculet Picumnus spilogaster

  The nominate form, spilogaster, occurs in the northern Guianas and Roraima in northern Brazil. BirdForum Opus describes habitats ranging from forest to thickets.

• Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo Cercococcyx montanus

  A very long tail and heavy barring mark this cuckoo. It hides in dense woodland and is often located by its voice.

• Winding Cisticola Cisticola marginatus

  Cisticola marginatus occurs in western and eastern sub-Saharan Africa. The nominate subspecies in breeding plumage has a rufous crown and dark dorsal streaks.

• Perija Metaltail Metallura iracunda

  The Perija Metaltail is a small hummingbird restricted to the Perija Mountains on the Colombia–Venezuela border.

• Glaucous Tanager Thraupis glaucocolpa

  This blue tanager occurs from Colombia's Caribbean coast to northern Venezuela. It mainly eats fruit and is seen in pairs or small groups.

• Rock Ptarmigan Lagopus muta

  Rock Ptarmigan live in Arctic and alpine habitats and change plumage with the seasons. The population in Japan is the subspecies known as the Japanese Rock Ptarmigan.

• Velvet Scoter Melanitta fusca

  The male is black with a white marking, while the female has pale patches on the head. It breeds in northern Europe and uses coastal waters in winter.

• Grey-bellied Spinetail Synallaxis cinerascens

  The Grey-bellied Spinetail is described in reference data as a forest bird of dense understory that eats invertebrates. A 1997 specimen study recorded streaking on the breast of a bird considered juvenile.

• Finsch's Rufous Thrush Stizorhina finschi

  Finsch's Rufous Thrush lives in the lower levels of evergreen and semi-deciduous forests in West Africa, including forest near streams and swamps. It takes invertebrates from surfaces in the understory.

• Common Rosefinch Carpodacus erythrinus

  The Common Rosefinch breeds across northern Asia and parts of eastern and central Europe, then moves southeast for winter. Older males are red; females and young males are brown.