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• Atlantic Canary Serinus canaria

  

  This is the wild canary of the Azores, Madeira, and the Canary Islands. The profile covers the island species, not domestic canary breeds.

• La Sagra's Flycatcher Myiarchus sagrae

  This flycatcher is native to the western Caribbean islands. It has pale underparts and a thin bill. Records in Florida are treated as vagrants.

• Güldenstädt's Redstart Phoenicurus erythrogastrus

  This redstart lives on rocky high mountains. An adult male stands out for its white crown, black throat and chest, and reddish-brown belly and tail.

• Little Blue Macaw Cyanopsitta spixii

  The Little Blue Macaw (Cyanopsitta spixii) is a medium-sized parrot with grayish-blue plumage. Its historical wild range was limited to riverine woodland in northeastern Brazil.

• Slaty-headed Parakeet Psittacula himalayana

  This parakeet lives in Himalayan forests and cultivated areas with large trees. It is often seen in small flocks or family groups; adult males have a maroon wing patch.

• White-headed Pigeon Columba leucomela

  Adults stand out for their white head, neck, and breast against dark wings. They feed on fruit in rainforests of eastern Australia.

• Barred Eagle-Owl Ketupa sumatrana

  A large owl of forests in Sumatra, the Malay Peninsula, and nearby islands, it is marked by ear-like tufts and bars across its body.

• Chestnut-backed Antshrike Thamnophilus palliatus

  The Chestnut-backed Antshrike is recorded from southeastern Peru through Bolivia and Brazil. It occurs at forest edges and in secondary growth.

• Meyer's Goshawk Astur meyerianus

  Meyer's Goshawk is a forest hawk with black upperparts, a white underside, and fine bars on its flanks. Its legs and the base of its bill are yellow.

• Sulawesi Pygmy Woodpecker Yungipicus temminckii

  The Sulawesi Pygmy Woodpecker is a small woodpecker of forests and woodland on Sulawesi. It searches tree bark for small invertebrates.

• Chestnut-breasted Malkoha Phaenicophaeus curvirostris

  The Chestnut-breasted Malkoha is a large cuckoo of forests from the Malay Peninsula to the Sunda Islands. It has a long tail and curved bill.

• Blue-headed Hummingbird Riccordia bicolor

  Males have blue-violet on the head and throat while females have green upperparts and grey-white underparts; the species uses mountain wet forest on Dominica and Martinique.

• Pardusco Nephelornis oneilli

  This bird lives in the high eastern-central Andes of Peru. It has darker upperparts, a paler underside, and pale wing-bars. It forages in humid montane scrub and grassland and may occur in family or mixed-species flocks.

• Kalij Pheasant Lophura leucomelanos

  Males are mainly black and silver, while females are reddish brown. Both have red facial skin, a crest, and a laterally compressed tail. They scratch the ground for food.

• Stejneger's Scoter Melanitta stejnegeri

  Stejneger's Scoter is a diving duck with a prominent swelling at the base of the bill. It moves from northern breeding areas to Pacific coasts for winter.

• Cipo Canastero Asthenes luizae

  This canastero is endemic to the Espinhaço Range in Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil. It is restricted to rocky campos rupestres, where researchers have studied scattered populations.

• Sao Tome Thrush Turdus olivaceofuscus

  The São Tomé Thrush lives in forests on São Tomé. It searches among leaf litter, where beetles, snails, worms, and fruit have been recorded in its diet.

• Pallas's Rosefinch Carpodacus roseus

  Pallas's Rosefinch is about 16–18 cm long. The sexes differ in plumage, and birds in forests from central Siberia to northern Mongolia eat plant seeds.

• Cinnamon Flycatcher Pyrrhomyias cinnamomeus

  In northwestern Argentina, the nominate subspecies is listed from Jujuy, Salta, and Tucumán. It has a dark chestnut head, with cinnamon-colored upper tail coverts and underparts.

• Chestnut-winged Whistling-thrush Myophonus castaneus

  This whistling thrush is endemic to Sumatra. Adult males have blue heads, breasts, and shoulders, with chestnut on the rest of the upperparts, tail, and flanks. Observers report it near forest streams.

• Scarlet-shouldered Parrotlet Touit huetii

  The Scarlet-shouldered Parrotlet is a small parrot of forests in northern South America and Trinidad, and it may move in flocks.

• Pygmy Lorikeet Charminetta wilhelminae

  The Pygmy Lorikeet is a small parrot of New Guinea's mountain forests. It feeds on nectar and pollen, often gathering in flowering tree canopies.

• Pink-necked Green Pigeon Treron vernans

  The Pink-necked Green Pigeon eats fruits and buds from mature trees. In Singapore it is found in both wooded and urban areas.

• Tropical Screech-Owl Megascops choliba

  The Tropical Screech-Owl is widespread in South America and has several plumage morphs, including gray, brown, cinnamon and rufous. A Bolivian study detected its calls just after sunset and before dawn along forest edges.