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Cuban Trogon

The Cuban Trogon is very colorful bird with a green back, blue crown, red belly and beak, and white throat and chest. It is similar to the colors of the Cuban flag which is why it was chosen to be the national bird of Cuba.

Lavender Waxbill

The Lavender Waxbill is a tiny gray finch with a red tail and rump and a purplish bill. It is a common species of estrildid finch native to Central Africa and successfully introduced on Hawaii.

Spotted Puffbird

The Spotted Puffbird is a compact, medium-sized bird with a large head and bill. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.

Red-banded Fruiteater

The Red-banded Fruiteater is a plump, medium-sized bird with red-orange bill, legs and eyes. Its known range is restricted to the humid highland forests of the tepuis in the southeast of Venezuela and western Guyana.

Western Meadowlark

The Western Meadowlark is a medium-sized icterid bird, found across western and central North America.

Rosy thrush-Tanager

The Rosy Thrush-tanager also known as the Rose-breasted Thrush-tanager is a shy, rather furtive and rarely seen ​bird of tropical lowlands and lower foothills. It is found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Panama, and Venezuela.

Green-and-black Fruiteater

The Green-and-black Fruiteater is a plump, stocky bird found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.

Chestnut-capped Puffbird

The Chestnut-capped Puffbird is a small, roundish dark brown bird with a short narrow tail and a dull whitish breast. It is found in northwestern South America in the western Amazon Basin of Brazil, in Amazonian Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, northern Bolivia, and in the eastern Orinoco River Basin of Venezuela.

Orange-cheeked Waxbill

The Orange-cheeked Waxbill is a small, slender finch with bright orange cheeks and lores, and a rosy bill. It is a common species of estrildid finch native to western and central Africa.

Yellow Oriole

The Yellow Oriole is a common resident in lowlands in northern South America.

Turquoise-browed Motmot

The Turquoise-browed Motmot also known as Torogoz, is a colorful, medium-sized bird of the motmot family, Momotidae. It is non-migratory bird, and a well-known bird in its range and has been chosen as the national bird of both El Salvador and Nicaragua.

Banded Cotinga

The Banded Cotinga is a species of bird in the family Cotingidae, endemic to south-east Brazil. It is threatened by habitat loss as its population is estimated to number 250 - 999 mature individuals.