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• Yellow-billed Tern Sternula superciliaris

  

  The Yellow-billed Tern is a small tern with a yellow bill and legs, a black cap, and a white forehead. It breeds on large South American rivers and searches over the water for prey.

• Barred Forest Falcon Micrastur ruficollis

  This forest falcon is recorded in Argentina. The Argentine account describes it moving through dense foliage and taking birds and reptiles.

• New Zealand Scaup Aythya novaeseelandiae

  The New Zealand Scaup is a diving duck. Large flocks can gather along lakeshores, sometimes close to people.

• Sickle-winged Guan Chamaepetes goudotii

  This large bird stands out for its rufous breast and belly and blue bare skin on the face. In Peruvian mountain forest it searches for food in the mid-canopy and on the ground.

• Mountain Parakeet Psilopsiagon aurifrons

  The Mountain Parakeet has several subspecies with different plumages and ranges. This entry describes the nominate subspecies aurifrons. Its male is mainly green, with yellow on the face and throat and blue on the outer primary feathers.

• Yellow-throated Seedeater Crithagra flavigula

  This gray-brown seedeater has a pale yellow throat and a yellow rump visible in flight. It occurs locally in dry savanna, favoring rocky hillsides.

• Black-eared Warbler Basileuterus melanotis

  This small warbler occurs in the highlands of Costa Rica and western Panama. It has olive upperparts, pale buff underparts, and dark markings around the eye.

• Long-tailed Glossy Starling Lamprotornis caudatus

  The Long-tailed Glossy Starling is an African starling with a metallic green back and a long purple tail.

• Orange-cheeked Waxbill Estrilda melpoda

  This small bird has a grey face, orange cheeks, and a red bill. It eats seeds and insects in grasslands and scrub in western and central Africa.

• Red-eyed Scimitar Babbler Erythrogenys imberbis

  Erythrogenys imberbis is a scimitar babbler of Myanmar and Thailand. Clements' 2024 checklist treats it as a species split from the Himalayan E. erythrogenys.

• Yellow-bellied Sunbird Cinnyris venustus

  The source's main name for Cinnyris venustus is Variable Sunbird. The candidate English name Yellow-bellied Sunbird is also used for other birds, so this entry is identified by its scientific name. The source lists five subspecies and distinct male and female plumages.

• White-collared Manakin Manacus candei

  This small manakin occurs in lowland forest edges and thickets on the Caribbean side of Central America. Adult males are black, white, and yellow; females and young males are olive green with yellow bellies.

• Oriental turtle dove Streptopelia orientalis

  A dove of East Asian woods, farmland and towns. In Japan, fine striped patches on the sides of the neck help identify it.

• Speckle-breasted Wren Pheugopedius sclateri

  This wren has plain rufous-brown upperparts and a gray, black-barred tail. It forages low and midway in forests in Ecuador and Peru.

• Rufous-throated Antbird Gymnopithys rufigula

  An antbird of northeastern South American lowland forest, including the Guianas and northeastern Brazil. It follows army-ant swarms to catch insects fleeing from the ants.

• White-winged Shrike-Tanager Lanio versicolor

  In Peru, the White-winged Shrike-Tanager is reported south of the Amazon and lower Marañón rivers. Males have black heads, wings, and tails with a broad white wing patch; the rest of the body is yellow. Females are mostly olive-brown with a yellowish center to the belly.

• Noisy Friarbird Philemon corniculatus

  The Noisy Friarbird lives in forests and woodlands of eastern Australia. Its head is black and bare, with a rounded knob at the base of the bill.

• Bar-bellied Cuckooshrike Coracina striata

  This cuckooshrike lives in the humid forests and mangroves of parts of Southeast Asia. Males are grey, while females show bars on the underparts.

• Dusky-capped Greenlet Hylophilus hypoxanthus

  This small bird forages in the canopy and subcanopy of Amazonian forest, often with mixed-species flocks. Its range spans several countries.

• Ashy Bulbul Hemixos flavala

  This bulbul lives in Asian forests. A Bangladesh account reports it in pairs or mixed flocks, feeding on nectar, fruit, and insects. The museum specimen is one male of a Laos subspecies.

• Rusty-fronted Canastero Asthenes ottonis

  The Rusty-fronted Canastero is endemic to Peru and lives in dry scrub of the high Andes.

• Rock Sandpiper Calidris ptilocnemis

  A stout gray shorebird, it breeds in the Arctic and winters farther north than many other shorebirds. It searches for food on rocky shores and mudflats.

• Beaudouin's Snake Eagle Circaetus beaudouini

  This snake eagle lives in the sparsely wooded Sahel. It searches from prominent perches and takes snakes and other small prey.

• Blue rock thrush Monticola solitarius

  A bird of coastal rocks and cliffs that is also seen in Japanese towns.