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• Isabelline Bush-hen Amaurornis isabellina

  

  This large, long-legged rail has chestnut underparts and greenish legs. It occurs in dense grassland and scrub in the lowlands and lower hills of Sulawesi.

• Christmas Imperial Pigeon Ducula whartoni

  The Christmas Island Imperial Pigeon is a large pigeon found only on Christmas Island. Flocks feed on ripe fruit in the rainforest canopy.

• Sumba Boobook Ninox rudolfi

  In the study, photographs and video showed the Sumba Boobook with dark-brown irises. Field observations found it mainly at forest edges and in mangroves, though it also crossed open areas.

• White-necked Crow Corvus leucognaphalus

  The White-necked Crow is a large corvid. Its present range is on Hispaniola and nearby islands.

• Pale Baywing Agelaioides fringillarius

  The Pale Baywing lives in semi-open habitats in northeastern Brazil. It is sandy brown with rufous wings and a heavy black bill. In a Minas Gerais study, 4–6 adults fed and defended six nests containing nestlings.

• Olive-bellied Sunbird Cinnyris chloropygius

  A small sunbird with a broad range in western and central Africa. The sexes look very different, and birds often feed at low flowers.

• Red-rumped Woodpecker Veniliornis kirkii

  The Red-rumped Woodpecker is marked by a red rump. A Peru species account reports a red crown in males and no red crown in females.

• Yellow-throated Apalis Apalis flavigularis

  This forest-associated bird is endemic to southern Malawi, where it is recorded on the Mulanje, Malosa, and Zomba massifs. A study on Mulanje found it using forest edges with understorey shrubs.

• Veery Catharus fuscescens

  It breeds in damp forests of North America and winters in South America. It hops through the forest floor while searching for insects and fruit.

• Drakensberg Siskin Crithagra symonsi

  This small bird lives in the Lesotho highlands and neighboring highlands of South Africa. It searches high-altitude grassland and shrubland for seeds, buds, and insects.

• Brown-chested Alethe Pseudalethe poliocephala

  This forest flycatcher searches for invertebrates near the forest floor. The current Oiseaux.net account uses Chamaetylas poliocephala; the pool had the older genus Pseudalethe.

• Fulvous-headed Brush Finch Atlapetes fulviceps

  This brushfinch ranges along the eastern slope of the Andes from southern Bolivia to northwestern Argentina. It uses the understorey and edges of montane forest, often close to the ground.

• African Goshawk Aerospiza tachiro

  The African Goshawk is a widespread medium-sized African hawk. Its plumage varies by sex, age, and region.

• Gibber Chat Ashbyia lovensis

  This small bird occurs in the arid interior of Australia. It has yellow cheeks, throat, and underparts, with a sandy-brown crown and upperparts.

• Choco Warbler Myiothlypis chlorophrys

  The Choco Warbler inhabits forest and scrub in western Colombia and western Ecuador. This population responds differently to songs from the eastern Peru population and is treated as a separate species.

• Russet-bellied Spinetail Synallaxis zimmeri

  This ovenbird occurs in the mountains of west-central Peru. A grey crown, rufous upper tail-coverts, and russet underparts help identify it.

• Ivory Gull Pagophila eburnea

  A gull closely tied to Arctic sea ice. Adults are white, while young birds keep dark mottling.

• Lunulated Antbird Oneillornis lunulatus

  This scarce antbird inhabits lowland rainforest understory in eastern Ecuador and northeastern Peru. Males are gray and females brown, but both have a white eyebrow and throat.

• Yellow-vented Bulbul Pycnonotus goiavier

  The Yellow-vented Bulbul has olive-brown upperparts and a yellow vent. In Singapore it occurs from coastal scrub to parks and urban areas.

• Grey-headed Munia Lonchura caniceps

  This small bird lives in grassland and cultivated areas in Papua New Guinea. Males have a gray head and throat, dark brown back, and orange rump.

• Moluccan Brush Cuckoo Cacomantis aeruginosus

  The Moluccan Brush Cuckoo has a dark gray head and throat, with chestnut underparts extending onto the breast. It is recorded in hill forest on the Maluku Islands.

• Black-hooded Laughingthrush Garrulax milleti

  The Black-hooded Laughingthrush is a large laughingthrush of the Vietnamese and Lao highlands. Dark plumage extends from the head to the breast.

• Austral Parakeet Enicognathus ferrugineus

  The Austral Parakeet is green with red patches. It forms flocks in Andean and Patagonian forests and feeds on seeds and tree fruits.

• Chestnut-bellied Mountain Tanager Dubusia castaneoventris

  This tanager ranges in the Andes of Peru and Bolivia. Its blue upperparts contrast with a chestnut belly, and it forages in the canopy of mountain forest.