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• Meves's Starling Lamprotornis mevesii

  

  With blue-green and purple gloss and a long tail, this starling uses open places with trees, often in groups, and also feeds on the ground.

• Campbell Islands Teal Anas nesiotis

  A small duck of islands south of New Zealand, Campbell Island Teal is wary and mainly active at night.

• Brown Babbler Turdoides plebejus

  The Brown Babbler's pale lores and chin stand out against its brown plumage. It searches the ground for insects and other invertebrates in scrub and acacia thickets.

• Epaulet Oriole Icterus cayanensis

  This black oriole with a yellow shoulder mark is recorded in the Peruvian Amazon.

• Cape Vulture Gyps coprotheres

  A large vulture with a pale body and bare bluish-grey head and neck. It feeds on carrion in southern Africa and nests on cliffs.

• Southern Long-tailed Woodcreeper Deconychura pallida

  *Deconychura pallida* is an Amazonian bird separated in research from the formerly broad *D. longicauda* group. A 2010 study reported distinct vocal characters among its lineages.

• Apurimac Brush Finch Atlapetes forbesi

  A Peruvian brush-finch with a grey body and rufous head. It forages in Andean scrub and Polylepis woodland.

• Sulphur-breasted Parakeet Aratinga maculata

  The Sulphur-breasted Parakeet is recorded in northern Brazil. Its 2005 description used the name Aratinga pintoi; a later taxonomic paper explains that name as a synonym of Aratinga maculata.

• Red-wing Francolin Scleroptila levaillantii

  The Red-wing Francolin lives in scattered grassland populations in eastern and southern Africa. It has a rufous head and neck and mottled plumage.

• Papuan King-Parrot Alisterus chloropterus

  The Papuan King-Parrot is a long-tailed parrot of New Guinea’s forests and clearings. Males show vivid red, blue, and green, while female plumage differs between eastern and western parts of the island.

• Three-banded Warbler Basileuterus trifasciatus

  The Three-banded Warbler occurs on the western slope of the northern Andes in Peru and Ecuador. It uses the forest understory.

• Red-breasted Wheatear Oenanthe bottae

  Botta's Wheatear is a flycatcher-family bird of the highlands of southwestern Arabia. It is active by day, foraging on open grassland for small animals.

• Grey-headed Swamphen Porphyrio poliocephalus

  The Grey-headed Swamphen is a large wetland bird with purplish plumage and a massive red bill. It walks and swims through marshes, feeding on aquatic plants and small animals.

• Tsavo Sunbird Cinnyris tsavoensis

  Tsavo Sunbird occurs in Somalia, eastern Kenya, and northeastern Tanzania. Males are blue-green and black, while females are mainly gray-brown.

• Rufous-tailed Tailorbird Orthotomus sericeus

  A small bird with a long bill and often-raised tail. It moves through forest edges and garden thickets, chasing flying insects from low perches.

• Spangled Honeyeater Melipotes ater

  The Spangled Honeyeater lives in montane forest and tall secondary growth on Papua New Guinea’s Huon Peninsula. Its plumage is almost entirely black, with white spots below.

• Corsican Finch Carduelis corsicana

  A small finch endemic to Corsica and Sardinia. Males have a brighter yellow face and breast than females, with a streaky brown back.

• Piping Crow Corvus typicus

  Its head and upper back are dark, while the lower neck and underparts are white. It lives in moist forests on Sulawesi and nearby islands.

• Band-tailed Barbthroat Threnetes ruckeri

  The Band-tailed Barbthroat has green upperparts and a banded tail. It visits flowers for nectar in humid forest and ranges from Central America to northwestern South America.

• Pacific Imperial Pigeon Ducula pacifica

  A large pigeon of Pacific islands, it has a pale gray to pinkish head and underside and darker gray wings and back. It feeds on fruit.

• Black-and-white Owl Strix nigrolineata

  The Black-and-white Owl is a nocturnal owl with bold black-and-white bars across its chest and neck.

• Sclater's Tyrannulet Phyllomyias sclateri

  This roughly 12 cm tyrannulet lives in montane forests on the eastern side of the southern Andes. It forages in the middle and upper forest strata and sometimes joins mixed-species flocks.

• Javan Bulbul Ixos virescens

  The Javan Bulbul is a bulbul of Java's highland forests. Its long, slender bill and olive-colored back and wings are distinctive.

• Red-fronted Antpecker Parmoptila rubrifrons

  The Red-fronted Antpecker is a small bird that searches for ants in low forest-edge growth. Males have a red forehead, while females have a spotted underside.