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- Dusky-capped Flycatcher Myiarchus tuberculifer
Photo: Félix Uribe from Rionegro, Antioquia, Colombia · Félix Uribe from Rionegro, Antioquia, Colombia / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 2.0 · CC BY-SA 2.0 The Dusky-capped Flycatcher has a gray chest, yellow belly, and rusty highlights in the wings. It forages within tree foliage for insects.
- Chestnut-naped Forktail Enicurus ruficapillus
This streamside bird is notable for its chestnut head and black-and-white tail. It searches for insects along rivers and streams in humid Southeast Asian forests.
- Turquoise-fronted Amazon Amazona aestiva
This large parrot has a green body, blue forehead, and yellow face. It lives in South American forests and savannas, eating nuts and other plant foods.
- Sangihe Hanging Parrot Loriculus catamene
This small parrot lives on Sangihe Island, Indonesia. The male is green with red markings and feeds on nectar from coconut and other flowers. Females are also known to carry dry leaves to line their nests.
- Cinnamon-headed Green Pigeon Treron fulvicollis
The male is a green pigeon with an orange-rufous head and maroon wings, and it eats fruit. It lives in coastal forest and mangroves of the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo.
- Wallace's Scops Owl Otus silvicola
A small owl of forests on Flores and Sumbawa. Its gray-brown body has ear tufts.
- Riparian Antbird Cercomacroides fuscicauda
The Riparian Antbird uses riverside floodplain forest and dense river-island thickets. Males are gray and females brown to rufous. Habitat and voice help distinguish it from similar antbirds.
- Egyptian vulture Neophron percnopterus
A vulture known for a white body, yellow face and occasional use of stones as tools.
- Williamson's Sapsucker Sphyrapicus thyroideus
Williamson's Sapsucker is a woodpecker of western North American mountains. Males and females look very different, and the birds eat conifer sap and insects.
- Pheasant Cuckoo Dromococcyx phasianellus
The Pheasant Cuckoo has a long tail and rufous crest and searches for food on the forest floor.
- Chirping Cisticola Cisticola pipiens
The Chirping Cisticola is a small bird of wetlands and flooded grassland in south-central Africa. It has a greyish-brown back, brown head and grey throat.
- Juan Fernandez Firecrown Sephanoides fernandensis
This hummingbird is endemic to Robinson Crusoe Island in the Juan Fernández Islands. Males and females have very different plumage.
- Fire-bellied Mountain-tanager Anisognathus igniventris
The 2016 IUCN assessment treats this as a resident of Peru and Bolivia, using moist montane forest and high-altitude shrubland. A 2017 Peru tour report recorded many below Abra Malaga.
- Green-legged Partridge Tropicoperdix chloropus
The Green-legged Partridge is a forest-dwelling Asian pheasant. A study in Khao Yai National Park, Thailand, recorded ground nests with females incubating alone.
- Tundra Swan Cygnus columbianus
This entry focuses on the Eurasian Bewick’s Swan, the form that migrates to Japan. It is white, with a prominent yellow patch at the base of the bill.
- Tufted Tit-Spinetail Leptasthenura platensis
It is a small bird of southeastern South America’s shrubland and open woodland. Its crest and long tail stand out, and it searches for food on the ground and low vegetation.
- Izu Thrush Turdus celaenops
The Izu Thrush is a thrush found on the Izu Islands and other Japanese islands. Males stand out with a black head and breast and orange belly and flanks.
- Fulvous-vented Euphonia Euphonia fulvicrissa
The male has a blue back and yellow underparts. This euphonia lives in humid forests from Panama through Ecuador and mainly eats fruit.
- Slender-footed Tyrannulet Zimmerius gracilipes
The Slender-footed Tyrannulet is a small flycatcher of South America. In the current species treatment, the Guianan Tyrannulet, Zimmerius acer, is separate and is not included here. This species lives in moist lowland forest and on tepuis, feeding on insects and small fruits.
- Bocage's Robin Sheppardia bocagei
This akalat searches for small prey near the forest floor. It inhabits forest and swamp forest, and has rufous tones on the face.
- Cobalt-winged Parakeet Brotogeris cyanoptera
This small parakeet has a yellow-green body and blue-violet wings. Outside the breeding season it moves through the canopy in flocks and gathers with other parrots at clay licks.
- Vernal Hanging Parrot Loriculus vernalis
A small parrot that feeds in forest canopies on fruit, berries, figs, nectar, and seeds. It nests in tree hollows.
- Ochre-bellied Dove Leptotila ochraceiventris
The Ochre-bellied Dove is a South American pigeon that walks quietly near the forest floor. Its ochre-colored belly and use of the forest understory stand out.
- Morepork Ninox novaeseelandiae
The Morepork has dark brown, lightly spotted plumage and large yellow eyes. It is active at night and catches insects and small animals.