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The chestnut-breasted mountain finch (Poospizopsis caesar) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is endemic to Peru. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland. Taxonomy. The species is sometimes placed in the monotypic genus Poospizopsis. References
The Eurasian chaffinch, common chaffinch, or simply the chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs) is a common and widespread small passerine bird in the finch family. The male is brightly coloured with a blue-grey cap and rust-red underparts.
Purple sandpiper (skärsnäppa), Calidris maritima; Baird's sandpiper (gulbröstad snäppa), Calidris bairdii (A) Little stint (småsnäppa), Calidris minuta; Least sandpiper (dvärgsnäppa), Calidris minutilla (A) White-rumped sandpiper (vitgumpsnäppa), Calidris fuscicollis (A) Buff-breasted sandpiper (prärielöpare), Calidris subruficollis
Fulvous whistling-duck. Order: Anseriformes Family: Anatidae The family Anatidae includes the ducks and most duck-like waterfowl, such as geese and swans.These are birds adapted to an aquatic existence, with webbed feet, flattened bills, and feathers that are excellent at shedding water due to an oily coating.
The Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW) and the Clements taxonomy consider the black-fronted brushfinch a subspecies of yellow-breasted brushfinch (Atlapetes latinuchus) but state that "[f]uture treatments may consider this taxon a valid species". The International Ornithological Congress (IOC) has accepted it as a full species.
The yellow-breasted brushfinch (Atlapetes latinuchus), also known as the cloud-forest brushfinch, is a species of bird in the family Passerellidae. It is sometimes considered a subspecies of Atlapetes rufinucha. It is found in forest and woodland in the Andean highlands of northern Peru, through Ecuador and Colombia, to far western Venezuela.
The orange-breasted bushshrike or sulphur-breasted bushshrike (Chlorophoneus sulfureopectus) is a species of bird in the family Malaconotidae. Another bird, Braun's bushshrike , is also sometimes called the orange-breasted bushshrike.
The blue waxbill (Uraeginthus angolensis), also called southern blue waxbill, blue-breasted waxbill, southern cordon-bleu, blue-cheeked cordon-bleu, blue-breasted cordon-bleu and Angola cordon-bleu, is a common species of estrildid finch found in Southern Africa. It is also relatively commonly kept as an aviary bird. [2]