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• Black-headed Siskin Spinus notatus

  

  The Black-headed Siskin is a finch ranging from Mexico into northern Central America. Breeding males stand out for a black head and yellow belly.

• Aplomado Falcon Falco femoralis

  The Aplomado Falcon lives in open country from Mexico through South America. It has a long tail and sometimes hunts with another falcon.

• Cassin's Hawk-Eagle Aquila africana

  Cassin's Hawk-Eagle is a forest eagle marked in black and white, with a short crest. In humid tropical forest it is secretive and rarely seen soaring.

• Mindoro Hornbill Penelopides mindorensis

  A small hornbill found only on Mindoro in the Philippines, it has pink facial skin in males and blue facial skin in females. It feeds on lowland-forest fruit, especially figs.

• Yellow-browed Honeyeater Melidectes rufocrissalis

  It has a long tail and a long, down-curved bill. It uses lower and middle levels of New Guinea's montane forest and gardens, feeding on insects, nectar, and fruit.

• Saffron-cowled Blackbird Xanthopsar flavus

  Males are conspicuously yellow and black, while females have dark brown where males are black. Some breeding records report extra males feeding nestlings.

• White-winged Guan Penelope albipennis

  Black plumage is set off by white wing feathers and white flecking; the throat has bare reddish-purple skin and a double-lobed dewlap. It inhabits dry forests in northwestern Peru and calls at dawn and during the breeding season.

• Spot-breasted Thornbird Phacellodomus maculipectus

  The Spot-breasted Thornbird is a furnariid of woodlands, savannas, scrub, and wetlands in northwestern Argentina. Its rufous head and pale-marked breast stand out; it builds an elongated nest of twigs.

• Black-crowned Fulvetta Schoeniparus klossi

  This fulvetta occurs on the Dalat Plateau in the southern Annamite Mountains of Vietnam and is reported only at higher elevations in Bidoup Nui Ba National Park.

• Forest Wagtail Dendronanthus indicus

  The Forest Wagtail is an olive-brown bird with a long tail. It breeds in northeast Asia and winters as far south as Singapore.

• Tatama Tapaculo Scytalopus alvarezlopezi

  This tapaculo lives in cloud forest in Colombia's western Andes. The original description covers male plumage, and an observation recorded two birds searching for arthropods while walking through leaf litter.

• Bismarck Kingfisher Ceyx websteri

  This rarely recorded kingfisher lives along lowland rivers and forest streams in the Bismarck Archipelago.

• Bright-rumped Yellow Finch Sicalis uropigyalis

  This finch occurs in high-Andean steppe and prepuna in northwestern Argentina. The male has a yellow head and underparts with a gray face.

• Rufous-tailed Robin Luscinia sibilans

  It breeds in forests of Siberia and northeastern China and winters from southern China into northern Southeast Asia. The source uses the name Larvivora sibilans for the bird listed in the pool as Luscinia sibilans.

• Lesser Moorhen Paragallinula angulata

  The Lesser Moorhen is a waterbird whose sexes differ in plumage. It is active by day, eats plant seeds and other food in wetlands, and occurs in part of the Afrotropical region.

• Orange-crested Flycatcher Myiophobus phoenicomitra

  This small flycatcher inhabits humid Andean forests. Sighting and photographic records of its subspecies are reported from Colombia's eastern Andean slope.

• Pied Crow Corvus albus

  The Pied Crow is a large crow found across much of Africa. Its black head and wings contrast with a white body patch.

• Tapajos Antpitta Myrmothera subcanescens

  This antpitta occurs south of the Amazon River in Brazil. A field account describes grayer flanks, a browner and less olive back, and shorter streaks than in a close relative.

• Uganda Woodland Warbler Phylloscopus budongoensis

  The Uganda Woodland Warbler is recorded in Uganda's Budongo Forest and Kenya's Kakamega Forest. It is olive green above and pale below and searches dense undergrowth for invertebrates.

• Budgerigar Melopsittacus undulatus

  A small Australian parrot. Wild birds have green bodies, yellow faces and dark markings on the head and wings.

• Flame-throated Bulbul Rubigula gularis

  This bulbul is endemic to the foothills of India’s Western Ghats. Its account favors semi-evergreen and moist deciduous woodland, with use of secondary growth and sacred groves.

• Tropical Scrubwren Sericornis beccarii

  The Tropical Scrubwren inhabits dense rainforest and forages in the lower canopy and on the ground. The page records female birds of subspecies minimus in north-eastern Queensland.

• Mangrove Sunbird Anthreptes gabonicus

  A small sunbird of mangroves and riverine forest, with a pale eyebrow and a short, down-curved bill. It gleans insects from foliage and also drinks nectar.

• Tapajos Fire-eye Pyriglena similis

  The Tapajos Fire-eye lives in humid forest understory in Brazil’s Amazonian lowlands between the Tapajós and Xingu rivers. Males are black and females rufous brown; both have red eyes and a white back patch that is usually hidden.