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• Black-crested Bulbul Rubigula flaviventris

  

  A bulbul with a black crest and bright yellow underparts that searches forest for fruit and insects, sometimes in small groups.

• Black-banded Woodcreeper Dendrocolaptes picumnus

  A large woodcreeper that climbs tree trunks while foraging. The subspecies casaresi is recorded in forests of northwestern Argentina.

• Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca

  A yellow-legged shorebird that often wades in deeper water than many other sandpipers.

• Black Hawk-Eagle Spizaetus tyrannus

  The Black Hawk-Eagle is a large eagle of lowland tropical forest in the Americas. Adults are mostly black, with bold white checkering under the wings.

• White-crowned Forktail Enicurus leschenaulti

  This long-tailed thrush is marked in black and white and lives along forest streams. It searches near the water for small invertebrates.

• Purple-backed Sunbeam Aglaeactis aliciae

  Male Purple-backed Sunbeams have iridescent purple backs and rumps. This hummingbird feeds on nectar and small insects on high Andean slopes in northern Peru.

• Ochre-lored Flatbill Tolmomyias flaviventris

  This small flycatcher has an olive back, yellow wing-bars, and yellow throat and belly. It ranges from Central America into northern South America.

• Colasisi Loriculus philippensis

  The Colasisi is a small parrot of the Philippine islands that feeds on nectar, blossoms, and fruit. It may forage upside down in the canopy.

• Collared Babbler Gampsorhynchus torquatus

  An older bird account treated the Collared Babbler as the subspecies Gampsorhynchus rufulus torquatus. It describes rufous-brown upperparts and records the form from bamboo and evergreen forest.

• Black-necked Woodpecker Colaptes atricollis

  The Black-necked Woodpecker occurs on the western side of the Peruvian Andes. It has a black throat and upper breast, a barred body, and feeds mainly on ants and other insects.

• Dusky Gerygone Gerygone tenebrosa

  This small bird is found on the northwestern coast of Western Australia. In the Pilbara it is recorded only in mangroves, where it gleans insects from leaves and flowers.

• White-naped Yuhina Yuhina bakeri

  A white-eye of the eastern Himalayas and nearby regions. A Bhutan government report describes a stout bill, rufous crest, white nape, and a pale, finely streaked breast.

• Chestnut-throated Partridge Tetraophasis obscurus

  The Chestnut-throated Partridge is a pheasant-family bird with a long crest and a white band at the end of its tail. Detailed behaviour records come from observations in Lianhuashan Nature Reserve, Gansu, China.

• Narcondam Hornbill Rhyticeros narcondami

  This hornbill occurs only in the forests of Narcondam Island. Males and females differ in head color, and fruit is its main food.

• Vesper Sparrow Pooecetes gramineus

  A sparrow of North American grasslands and fields. It often sings at twilight, and white tail feathers flash in flight.

• Crescent-faced Antpitta Grallaricula lineifrons

  The Crescent-faced Antpitta lives in humid montane forest in Colombia and Ecuador. Few localities are known, and it quietly forages near the forest floor.

• Chapman's Swift Chaetura chapmani

  This small, sooty-colored swift catches insects while flying above forests and forest edges.

• Central American Pygmy Owl Glaucidium griseiceps

  This entry treats Glaucidium griseiceps as the Central American Pygmy Owl. It was formerly treated as a subspecies of the Least Pygmy Owl, and sources differ on the status of its local forms.

• Common Green Magpie Cissa chinensis

  A magpie with green plumage and a red bill and legs. In Borneo it lives in lowland and hill forests.

• White-cheeked Cotinga Zaratornis stresemanni

  The White-cheeked Cotinga has a black cap, white cheeks, dark spots and streaks, and a rusty central belly. It occurs on Peru's western Andean slope and forages in Polylepis woodland.

• Blackish-blue Seedeater Amaurospiza moesta

  This small bird lives in South America's Atlantic Forest and is closely associated with bamboo. It eats bamboo buds, shoots and insects, and may move as bamboo conditions change.

• Cape Longclaw Macronyx capensis

  The adult has an orange throat and a black band across the upper breast. In Southern African grasslands it searches on the ground and among low vegetation for food.

• Archer's Lark Heteromirafra archeri

  This lark runs through high-plateau grassland; in the breeding season, the male makes a singing display flight.

• Society Kingfisher Todiramphus veneratus

  It occurs on Tahiti and Moorea in the Society Islands. The eBird account describes different male plumage forms on the two islands.