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• Yellow-rumped Siskin Spinus uropygialis

  

  The Yellow-rumped Siskin is a small finch of the high Andes. Its black head and back contrast with a bright yellow rump; females and young birds are duller.

• Yellow-billed Duck Anas undulata

  The Yellow-billed Duck is an African duck with a bright yellow bill marked by a black patch.

• Galapagos Dove Zenaida galapagoensis

  Its brown wings have black-and-white bars, and its neck and chest are pinkish. It is more common in the dry lowlands of some islands.

• Streak-backed Antshrike Thamnophilus insignis

  It occurs in humid forest understory in Venezuela’s southern tepui highlands. Males and females differ in head color and wing and tail markings.

• African Red-eyed Bulbul Pycnonotus nigricans

  The African Red-eyed Bulbul is a southern African bulbul marked by a red eye wattle. It lives in dry woodland, savanna, and Karoo scrub.

• Pearly Parakeet Pyrrhura lepida

  The Pearly Parakeet is a parrot of north-central Brazil. Groups of up to about ten may gather at good food sources.

• Yellow-thighed Brushfinch Atlapetes tibialis

  This brushfinch occurs in Panama. The sexes have nearly identical plumage. It is often found at forest or scrub edges and may join mixed-species flocks.

• Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo Cercococcyx montanus

  A very long tail and heavy barring mark this cuckoo. It hides in dense woodland and is often located by its voice.

• Slender-billed Xenops Xenops tenuirostris

  This small ovenbird relative has a thin, straight bill and moves over trunks and branches. The Peru account places it in lowland Amazonian forest edges and secondary growth, with records to 500 m along the Andean foothills.

• Mountain Blackeye Chlorocharis emiliae

  This white-eye lives in scattered mountain populations on Borneo. Its black eye-ring distinguishes it from other white-eyes.

• Vitelline Warbler Setophaga vitellina

  This small warbler lives on islands in the western Caribbean. Males and females have different plumage.

• Black-eared Miner Manorina melanotis

  This stocky honeyeater has a dark face and orange-yellow bill and legs. During breeding, helpers, mostly males, may join a pair to raise the chicks.

• Ring Ouzel Turdus torquatus

  Adult males have a white breast patch, females a creamy one, and both show silvery panels on the wings.

• Javan Sunbird Aethopyga mystacalis

  A sunbird of forests and secondary growth on Java. Males are red, while females are duller grey-olive; both feed on nectar and small arthropods.

• Javan Blue Flycatcher Cyornis banyumas

  This small flycatcher has a blue back and orange breast in males, while females have a gray-brown back and rufous tail. It catches insects from perches in the undergrowth of Java's forests.

• Baird's Flycatcher Myiodynastes bairdii

  This tyrant flycatcher is recorded in Ecuador and northwestern Peru. It has a gray head and back, rufous wings and tail, and a pale yellow underside, and forages in semi-open places.

• Common Babbler Argya caudata

  A bird with fine streaks and dark eyes that moves over the ground and low scrub in small flocks.

• Malayan Black Magpie Platysmurus leucopterus

  A corvid with an all-black body, a white wing band, and a long broad tail; it forages in the forest canopy and mid-story.

• Banded Kingfisher Lacedo pulchella

  Males are blue, while females show orange-and-black barring, making the sexes look quite different. It perches and waits for prey in lowland and hill forests.

• Arabian Waxbill Estrilda rufibarba

  The Arabian Waxbill is a small bird with a noticeable red eyebrow. It feeds on grass seeds by day and is recorded in vegetated highlands near water in Saudi Arabia.

• Hyacinth Visorbearer Augastes scutatus

  This hummingbird lives in rocky and shrubby habitats of the Serra do Espinhaço. Males have green and blue plumage with a white breast band; females are mottled grayish.

• Moluccan eclectus Eclectus roratus

  A parrot of Indonesia’s Moluccan islands, with striking differences in plumage and bill colour between males and females.

• Barbados Bullfinch Loxigilla barbadensis

  This seed-eating bird is endemic to Barbados, where it is found in grassy areas and forests.

• Plumbeous Hawk Cryptoleucopteryx plumbea

  The Plumbeous Hawk is a slate-colored raptor. Birds Colombia lists Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and Peru, and describes it ambushing small vertebrates inside forest.