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• White-collared Oliveback Nesocharis ansorgei

  

  The male has a white collar between its throat and breast, with olive upperparts and grey underparts. It takes small seeds in wet thickets and along streams.

• Chattering Giant-Honeyeater Gymnomyza viridis

  This is a large honeyeater recorded in forests on Taveuni, Fiji. Field notes from 1970 describe visits to wild banana flowers and pandanus, as well as pairs feeding one another.

• Bates's Sunbird Cinnyris batesi

  Bates's Sunbird is a small sunbird of African forests and forest edges. Its dark olive upperparts contrast with a pale eyebrow and yellow-edged wings.

• Black-capped Parakeet Pyrrhura rupicola

  The Black-capped Parakeet lives in humid lowland forest in Peru, Bolivia, and western Brazil. Its head and breast markings vary between two subspecies, and it feeds in the canopy on fruit.

• Great-billed Parrot Tanygnathus megalorynchos

  The Great-billed Parrot is green with a large bill. Flocks feed on fruit and seeds in forests on islands of eastern Indonesia.

• Little Cuckoo-Dove Macropygia ruficeps

  The Little Cuckoo-Dove has reddish-brown males and darker females. It uses the middle and upper canopy and is seen alone, in pairs, or in small groups.

• Eastern Screech-Owl Megascops asio

  The Eastern Screech-Owl is a small owl that hides in tree cavities and nest boxes. It lives in woods, suburbs, and parks east of the Rocky Mountains, and its calls can be heard at night.

• Chestnut Rail Eulabeornis castaneoventris

  The Chestnut Rail is a large, ground-dwelling rail of mangroves that eats crabs. Different plumage forms have been reported in northern Australia.

• Common Scale-backed Antbird Willisornis poecilinotus

  This roughly 13 cm antbird is widespread in Amazonia. Male and female plumage differ, and markings also vary among subspecies.

• Bonelli's Eagle Aquila fasciata

  A medium-sized eagle. Adults have dark brown upperparts and a white, dark-streaked underside; juveniles are much paler.

• Ochre-backed Woodpecker Celeus ochraceus

  This woodpecker occurs in northern and north-eastern Brazil. Males have a red cheek stripe, and a study in Maranhão recorded the species excavating nest cavities in tree trunks.

• Great Spotted Cuckoo Clamator glandarius

  The Great Spotted Cuckoo searches for food in open areas with scattered trees and eats caterpillars and grasshoppers. It lays eggs in the nests of other birds.

• Bubbling Cisticola Cisticola bulliens

  This small cisticola occurs along the Angolan coast and in parts of the Congo Basin. It is fairly pale and is often easier to detect by its song in grassland and savanna.

• Sooty-capped Hermit Phaethornis augusti

  The Sooty-capped Hermit has olive plumage, strong white facial lines, and a distinctive orange-rufous rump. In Venezuela it uses forest edges and undergrowth, with records of nesting in buildings.

• Palawan Bulbul Alophoixus frater

  This bulbul is recorded only on the Palawan and Calamian islands of the Philippines. It uses forests and forest edges and feeds on insects and fruit.

• Plushcap Catamblyrhynchus diadema

  This small bird lives in the upper subtropical and temperate Andes. It is gray above, rufous below, and has a yellow forecrown. It often follows mixed-species flocks near bamboo.

• Sagebrush Sparrow Artemisiospiza nevadensis

  This sparrow breeds in open sage-dominated shrubsteppe in western North America. During migration and winter it also uses dry scrub with creosote or saltbush.

• Cape May Warbler Setophaga tigrina

  The Cape May Warbler is a small bird that breeds in boreal forests of Canada and the northern United States. It uses varied woods and shrublands during migration and winter.

• Jungle Bush Quail Perdicula asiatica

  The Jungle Bush Quail is a small quail of dry grassland and scrub in India and Sri Lanka. It feeds on seeds and insects on the ground.

• Barrow’s Goldeneye Bucephala islandica

  This diving duck has an adult male with a purplish head and long white crescent, while females have brown heads.

• Orange-fronted Plushcrown Metopothrix aurantiaca

  This small bird has greenish-olive upperparts, a yellow throat, and orange legs. In Amazonian riverine forest, it searches foliage for food in pairs or small groups.

• Indian Blackbird Turdus simillimus

  The Indian Blackbird sings from foothill forests, forest edges, and orchards.

• Western Citril Crithagra frontalis

  The Western Citril is recorded in this study from western Kenya. Males have a bright yellow eyebrow that wraps around the forehead and separates the bill from the streaked crown.

• White-throated Tyrannulet Mecocerculus leucophrys

  The White-throated Tyrannulet is a small bird of humid Andean mountain forests. It searches the canopy and the layer below, sometimes joining mixed-species flocks.