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• Amazonian Streaked Antwren Myrmotherula multostriata

  

  This small antwren lives in forest along Amazonian rivers and lakes. It searches for insects in the lower and middle layers among tangled vines.

• Orange-spotted Bulbul Pycnonotus bimaculatus

  The Orange-spotted Bulbul lives in humid forest and mountain scrub on Sumatra, Java, and Bali. This entry follows the two subspecies listed by the current species account.

• Citril Finch Carduelis citrinella

  A small finch with a gray head and yellow-green cheeks, rump, and underparts. It feeds on plant seeds in open mountain woods and meadows.

• Green-rumped Parrotlet Forpus passerinus

  This small parrot occurs widely across northern South America. Wing colors differ by sex and subspecies, and birds feed in flocks outside the breeding season.

• Andaman Crake Rallina canningi

  This rail has chestnut head and upperparts and black-and-white bars on the belly. It hides in wet forest and marsh vegetation, so it is difficult to see.

• Spotted Nutcracker Nucifraga caryocatactes

  A mountain forest corvid with conspicuous white spots on its dark brown feathers.

• Black-lored Yellowthroat Geothlypis auricularis

  A small bird of the Tumbesian region of Ecuador and Peru. Males have black around the eye; females show a yellow brow and eyering. It occurs in low thickets and open-woodland edges.

• Red-throated Sunbird Anthreptes rhodolaemus

  Male Red-throated Sunbirds show glossy green and violet plumage, while females are subdued olive. They forage for flowers and small prey in forest canopies.

• Pectoral-patch Cisticola Cisticola brunnescens

  This small bird occurs in open, moist highland grassland in East Africa and feeds on invertebrates. A Tanzania field note records nonbreeding plumage and uncertainty about the subspecies.

• Grey-rumped Swiftlet Collocalia marginata

  A swiftlet of the Philippines, it has white-edged rump feathers, with the extent of white varying between birds and regions.

• Chestnut-bellied Starling Lamprotornis pulcher

  The Chestnut-bellied Starling lives in Sahelian savanna and shrubland. It has glossy blue-green upperparts and breast, a chestnut belly, and searches for food in small flocks on the ground.

• Ridgway's Hawk Buteo ridgwayi

  This medium-sized hawk has broad wings and a long tail. It waits for prey from low perches or open areas and is native to Hispaniola and nearby islands.

• Brown Babbler Turdoides plebejus

  The Brown Babbler's pale lores and chin stand out against its brown plumage. It searches the ground for insects and other invertebrates in scrub and acacia thickets.

• Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis

  A small diving duck that often holds its tail upright. Breeding males have a blue bill and chestnut body; the species breeds in North America.

• Tyrian Metaltail Metallura tyrianthina

  A 19th-century account describes this hummingbird in the mountains of New Granada and Ecuador and reports that it visits flowers. The plumage and behavior below come from that historical account.

• Striated Earthcreeper Geocerthia serrana

  The Striated Earthcreeper forages on or near the ground in rocky scrub on the western Andes of Peru. It occurs on high-elevation slopes.

• Congo Peacock Afropavo congensis

  Males spread their tail feathers like a fan. In the lowland forests of the Congo Basin, the species feeds on fruit and insects.

• Fiji Parrotfinch Erythrura pealii

  The Fiji Parrotfinch has a green body with a red head, rump, and tail. It comes to open grassland to feed mainly on grass seeds.

• Green-striped Brush Finch Arremon virenticeps

  A Mexico City bird guide describes this Mexican brushfinch among dense shrubs near the ground in mountain forest. Its white throat and olive back help identify it.

• Brown-crested Flycatcher Myiarchus tyrannulus

  The Brown-crested Flycatcher launches from a branch to catch insects in the air; it is a large member of the tyrant flycatchers.

• Sula Hanging Parrot Loriculus sclateri

  A small hanging parrot from islands in eastern Indonesia. Its wings make a hummingbird-like whirring sound in flight.

• Chiriqui Quail-Dove Zentrygon chiriquensis

  The Chiriqui Quail-Dove has chestnut upperparts and a slate-grey crown. It searches for food on the ground in humid montane forest in Costa Rica and western Panama.

• 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.

• 'A'o Puffinus auricularis

  Animal Diversity Web's broad treatment of Puffinus auricularis includes Newell's shearwater in Hawaii and Townsend's shearwater off Mexico. Some taxonomies split them; ʻAʻo is the Hawaiian name for the Newell's population.