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• Vinaceous-breasted Amazon Amazona vinacea

  

  Adults are green with wine-red feathers on the head and breast. They feed on fruit and seeds in South America’s Atlantic Forest.

• Elegant Euphonia Euphonia elegantissima

  Found from Mexico to Panama, this bird occurs in damp cloud forest and woodland edges. Males are mainly blue and orange, while females are mainly green.

• Lucy's Warbler Leiothlypis luciae

  Lucy's Warbler is found in mesquite woodland along streams in the arid Southwest. Adult males show cinnamon on the crown and rump, while females and young birds can be duller.

• Long-crested Myna Basilornis corythaix

  This myna lives on Seram Island. Its long crest and green sheen on black plumage are distinctive.

• Common Waxbill Estrilda astrild

  A small African finch with a red bill and red around the eyes. It also occurs in grassy places near people.

• Purple Sunbird Cinnyris asiaticus

  The Purple Sunbird is small; breeding males are bluish-black, while females are olive-brown above and pale yellow below.

• White-winged Dove Zenaida asiatica

  A dove found from the southwestern United States through Mexico and Central America to parts of western South America. Its white wing patches form bright arcs in flight.

• Spotted Antbird Hylophylax naevioides

  This antbird lives in lowland evergreen forests in Central America, including Panama. Adult males have a black head and white throat; females differ, with a paler throat.

• Golden-crowned Tanager Iridosornis rufivertex

  This tanager lives in high-elevation scrub and elfin forest in the northern Andes. It is bright blue, with a black head and a golden crown.

• Brown Honeyeater Lichmera indistincta

  It has a long, down-curved black bill and feeds mainly on nectar. It also takes insects when flowers are scarce.

• Kikuyu Mountain Greenbul Arizelocichla kikuyuensis

  The Kikuyu Mountain Greenbul is a mountain-forest bulbul of eastern Africa. Clements separated it from Black-headed Mountain Greenbul in 2024 and treats it as ranging from eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo to central Kenya.

• White-chinned Woodcreeper Dendrocincla merula

  The White-chinned Woodcreeper lives low in humid Amazonian forest and is strongly associated with army-ant swarms, catching arthropods disturbed by the ants rather than eating the ants. A white chin is useful, but iris color varies among subspecies.

• Eastern Imperial Eagle Aquila heliaca

  A large eagle of open country from eastern Europe across parts of central Asia.

• White-bellied Blue Robin Myiomela albiventris

  A small bird of dark shola forest and gullies in India's Western Ghats. Its blue-gray upperparts contrast with a white belly, and it searches for insects near the ground.

• Gray-breasted Sabrewing Campylopterus largipennis

  This hummingbird occurs in humid lowland forest in eastern Colombia and in foothill forest east of the Andes. It feeds on nectar and also sallies from a perch to catch small insects.

• Orange-banded Flycatcher Nephelomyias lintoni

  This flycatcher occurs in the humid mountains of Ecuador and Peru. It has a pale eye and orange lower mandible, and takes insects from leaves or in flight.

• Red Lory Eos bornea

  The Red Lory is mainly red, with black on parts of the wings and blue feathers beneath the tail. It has also been recorded in lowland forest on Buru Island.

• Heart-spotted Woodpecker Hemicircus canente

  A woodpecker with a large head and short, rounded tail, it searches humid forest and bamboo for ants, termites, and other insects.

• Mindanao Pygmy Babbler Dasycrotapha plateni

  A small bird distributed on Mindanao in the Philippines. It has fine white streaks on a brown body and is described moving through forest in mixed flocks.

• Chestnut-naped Francolin Pternistis castaneicollis

  A highland francolin of Ethiopia and Somalia, it has a red bill and legs, while neck and facial markings vary by subspecies.

• Sooty Fox Sparrow Passerella unalaschcensis

  This entry concerns the Pacific Sooty group within the broader Fox Sparrow account. It has dark upperparts and uses different habitats during breeding and winter.

• Unspotted Saw-whet Owl Aegolius ridgwayi

  The Unspotted Saw-whet Owl has a rounded head without ear-tufts and a brown facial disc edged in white. It is nocturnal and occurs in mountain forests from southern Mexico into Central America. Details of its diet and breeding remain poorly known.

• Sri Lanka Blue Magpie Urocissa ornata

  The Sri Lanka blue magpie is a blue-and-chestnut bird that lives in small groups in Sri Lanka's wet forests.

• Amazon Kingfisher Chloroceryle amazona

  The Amazon Kingfisher has a green head and back and a long bill. It dives from a waterside perch to catch fish.