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• Predicted Antwren Herpsilochmus praedictus

  

  The Predicted Antwren occurs mainly between the Purus and Madeira rivers in the western Brazilian Amazon; its western limit is provisional.

• Yellow-whiskered Greenbul Eurillas latirostris

  This bulbul occurs across parts of Central and East Africa. BirdLife lists moist lowland and montane forests among its major habitats.

• White-breasted Negrofinch Nigrita fusconotus

  This small bird has records from forests in western and central Africa. The historical description gives it a black head, shoulders, flight feathers, and tail, a gray-brown back, and a whitish belly. At Luki Biosphere Reserve in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, small groups were observed in the forest-edge canopy.

• Hodgson's Hawk-Cuckoo Hierococcyx fugax

  Hodgson’s Hawk-Cuckoo is an uncommon visitor to Singapore in winter and during migration.

• Fulvous Babbler Argya fulva

  The Fulvous Babbler is a resident bird of dry North African scrub. It has brown plumage, a pale neck, and a long tail.

• Sun Parakeet Aratinga solstitialis

  This South American parakeet is strikingly yellow with red-orange markings. It lives in pairs or flocks in savanna and places where fruit is abundant.

• Lesser Antillean Tanager Stilpnia cucullata

  This small tanager occurs on Grenada and Saint Vincent. Male plumage differs between the islands, and taxonomic treatments vary between one species and two.

• Turquoise Parakeet Neophema pulchella

  A parakeet of southeastern Australia. Males show a turquoise-blue face and red shoulder patch, and the birds forage near the ground for grass seeds.

• Coppery Emerald Chlorostilbon russatus

  This small hummingbird occurs in northern Colombia and western Venezuela. The male is golden green with coppery tones, while the female has gray underparts; it feeds in scrub and forest edges.

• Pacific Kingfisher Todiramphus sacer

  This kingfisher ranges across South Pacific islands. Records extend from coastal scrub to inland forest and villages, and its island subspecies differ in plumage.

• Shelley's Starling Lamprotornis shelleyi

  This starling lives in dry bushland and wooded country in East Africa. Its recorded breeding and non-breeding areas differ, and it forages in small flocks in trees and bushes.

• Temminck's Tragopan Tragopan temminckii

  Temminck’s Tragopan is a pheasant of mountain forests. Males show a blue face and spotted russet plumage, and display during courtship.

• Small-billed Elaenia Elaenia parvirostris

  This flycatcher ranges broadly across South America and uses forest habitat. Three wing bars can help distinguish it from the similar White-crested Elaenia.

• Redhead Aythya americana

  The Redhead is a diving duck of North America. In breeding plumage the male has a reddish-brown head and blue-gray bill; the female is brown with a paler face.

• Horned Coot Fulica cornuta

  This rail lives on rocky-bottom lakes in the high Andes. Adults are dark with a fleshy frontal caruncle and build stone nests that rise to the water surface.

• Barusan Cuckoo-Dove Macropygia modiglianii

  This cuckoo-dove occurs on the western Indonesian islands of Nias, Mentawai and Simeulue. A 2016 bioacoustic study lists forms from those three island groups separately.

• Rufous Owl Ninox rufa

  The Rufous Owl is a large owl with reddish-brown plumage and pale bars. It rests in leafy cover by day and is active at night.

• Cape Crow Corvus capensis

  The Cape Crow is a glossy black crow. It usually lives as a territorial pair and searches the ground for food in grasslands and dry savannas.

• Casqued Cacique Cacicus oseryi

  This cacique uses the canopy of Amazonian forests. Its regional species page describes it as rare to uncommon in várzea and terra firme forest and reports small foraging flocks of the same species.

• Fork-tailed Sunbird Aethopyga christinae

  It ranges from southern China to northern and eastern Vietnam. Males are blue-green and red; females and young birds are more yellow-olive. It also eats fruit and small insects.

• White-throated Woodpecker Piculus leucolaemus

  The White-throated Woodpecker is recorded in foothill forest of western Amazonia. It forages in the canopy and subcanopy and may join mixed-species flocks.

• Grey-backed Camaroptera Camaroptera brevicaudata

  This small bird occurs in central and northern Namibia in savanna woodland and riverine thickets. It searches for small invertebrates low down and has greenish upperparts, grayish underparts, and a short cocked tail.

• Orange Ground Thrush Geokichla gurneyi

  The Orange Ground Thrush lives in mountain forests of eastern and southeastern Africa. Its orange face and chest contrast with a white belly, and it searches for small animals and fruit in the lower forest.

• Hispaniolan Crossbill Loxia megaplaga

  The Hispaniolan Crossbill is a finch from Hispaniola that feeds on pine seeds. The sexes differ in plumage, and the tips of the bill cross.