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• Golden-eared Tanager Tangara chrysotis

  

  The Golden-eared Tanager is a small tanager about 11.5 cm long. In Bolivia it is recorded in humid cloud forest of the lower Yungas and is seen alone or in pairs.

• Pheasant Cuckoo Dromococcyx phasianellus

  The Pheasant Cuckoo has a long tail and rufous crest and searches for food on the forest floor.

• Mountain Kingfisher Syma megarhyncha

  The Mountain Kingfisher is a large kingfisher of New Guinea's mountain forests. It has a longer bill than its close relative, although the black marking on the upper bill is absent in the Huon Peninsula subspecies.

• Olivaceous Piculet Picumnus olivaceus

  The Olivaceous Piculet is a small piculet. The Peru account describes the subspecies there as yellow-olive, with yellow on the male's forehead.

• Cordillera Azul Antbird Myrmoderus eowilsoni

  This antbird is known from the Cordillera Azul of Peru. The describing paper reports it walking on the ground in humid montane forest and, at the time, known only from one ridge.

• Makira Starling Aplonis dichroa

  This starling lives on Makira in the Solomon Islands. Its dark body has blue and purple sheen, and it occurs in forest and along forest edges.

• Ringed Teal Callonetta leucophrys

  The Ringed Teal is a small duck of South American wetlands and ponds, with different facial patterns in males and females.

• Yellow-throated Laughingthrush Pterorhinus galbanus

  The Yellow-throated Laughingthrush has a black facial mask and yellow belly. Around northeast India, it searches the ground in forest undergrowth and scrub.

• Brown-and-yellow Marshbird Pseudoleistes virescens

  The Argentine biodiversity record lists the Brown-and-yellow Marshbird as native in Argentina. A university field account describes its brown-and-yellow plumage and ground foraging.

• White-browed Hawk Leucopternis kuhli

  This hawk lives in lowlands south of the Amazon River. A study between Brazil's Madeira and Purus rivers recorded its nesting and plumage.

• Ruddy Treerunner Margarornis rubiginosus

  This ovenbird lives in the mountain forests of Costa Rica and Panama. It has bright rufous upperparts and a white eyebrow, and eats insects and spiders.

• Horned Lark Eremophila alpestris

  A small bird of open country in North America that searches the ground for seeds and insects. Short feathers on the male’s head can rise like tiny horns.

• Islet White-eye Zosterops griseotinctus

  This white-eye occurs on Papua New Guinea's offshore islands. A 2015 study examined populations across the Louisiade and other archipelagos.

• Sooty-faced Finch Arremon crassirostris

  This brushfinch occurs from Costa Rica to Panama. It is seen in pairs or family groups in low, dense growth in dark forest.

• White-capped Parrot Pionus seniloides

  It has a white forehead and a gray-scaled crown. A field survey recorded it in montane cloud forest in southern Ecuador.

• Scaly Francolin Pternistis squamatus

  The Scaly Francolin is a ground-dwelling bird with dull-brown plumage, a red bill, and red legs. It stays in thick cover and can be hard to see.

• Red-rumped Parrot Psephotus haematonotus

  The Red-rumped Parrot is an Australian parrot whose male has a conspicuous red rump and yellow belly. Females are grey-green, so the sexes look quite different.

• Choco Warbler Myiothlypis chlorophrys

  The Choco Warbler inhabits forest and scrub in western Colombia and western Ecuador. This population responds differently to songs from the eastern Peru population and is treated as a separate species.

• Eversmann's Redstart Phoenicurus erythronotus

  The male Eversmann's Redstart has a silvery cap and orange back and underparts; the female is gray-brown with a rufous tail. It breeds in Central Asia and moves southwest for winter.

• Purple Gallinule Porphyrio martinica

  A brightly colored wetland bird with long legs and toes, it walks on floating plants while feeding in freshwater marshes from the southeastern United States southward.

• Little Spiderhunter Arachnothera longirostra

  The Little Spiderhunter probes flowers with its long, curved bill for nectar and small insects. It is often found in the lower forest storey near flowering bananas and ginger.

• Red-fronted Warbler Urorhipis rufifrons

  This small bird uses dry savanna and thorn scrub, searching for food while flicking its long tail.

• Silver-backed Needletail Hirundapus cochinchinensis

  This large swift has long, pointed wings and catches insects in flight. It is recorded in Hong Kong as a passage migrant.

• Scarlet-bibbed Myzomela Myzomela sclateri

  The Scarlet-bibbed Myzomela (called Sclater's Myzomela by BirdLife) has a red-throated male and a drabber female with little or indistinct red on the throat. It feeds on nectar, insects, fruit, and flower parts in forests on islands of Papua New Guinea.