Golden-winged Tody-Flycatcher

Rather drab warbler of highlands in Mexico. Dusky gray-brown overall with grayer head, bold white eyering, buffy flanks, and mustard-yellow undertail coverts. Sings from atop bushes and small trees, but otherwise rather skulking, generally staying low and well-hidden. Does not join mixed-species flocks. Breeds in oak scrub and thickets within mountainous pine-oak forest. Winters in brushy flower banks and tangles within pine-oak forest. Breeding range barely enters the U.S. in the Big Bend region of Texas.

A pale powder-blue-and-white seabird with a faint grayish dark “M” across the upperwings. Note the dark blue “thumb mark” collar, the blue eye-stripe, the white eyebrow, the white throat, and the grayish cap. Restricted to two known breeding islands, Saint Paul in the South Indian Ocean, and Gough in the South Atlantic. Almost identical to Antarctic Prion, but bulkier and more heavy-chested, with a slightly wider bill. All but inseparable from Salvin’s Prion, with which it shares the breeding island of Gough, and with which it was once considered one species; MacGillivray’s is incrementally broader-billed, but birds seen at sea may not be identifiable.

Strapping long-winged rosefinch of the northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Male is dazzling, with a raspberry-pink body and a head the color of fine wine. Female is streaky gray-brown all over with a pale belly and yellowish bill. Like other plateau finches, forages on the ground solitarily, in pairs, or in small flocks. Found in rocky open spaces such as plateau steppes and meadows at 4500-5400 meters.