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• Levaillant's Cisticola Cisticola tinniens

  

  In breeding plumage, an adult Levaillant’s Cisticola shows a rufous crown and a scaled-looking back. It searches for insects in wet grass and males sing during summer display flights.

• White-throated Laughingthrush Pterorhinus albogularis

  Adults are described with olive-brown upperparts, a rufous crown, and a white throat. Oiseaux.net distinguishes a western whistleri population from eastern populations.

• Chestnut-bellied Thrush Turdus fulviventris

  The male is a thrush with a black head, gray back and breast, and chestnut belly. It forages on the ground near edges of Andean montane forest.

• Kandt's Waxbill Estrilda kandti

  A small estrildid finch of a restricted part of Central and East Africa. It uses both dry tropical grassland and humid forest, searching for seeds on the ground or among trees.

• Siamese Partridge Arborophila diversa

  The Thai diversa form has a pale-brown forehead and throat and a rich chestnut breast. It has been recorded in hill and montane evergreen forest at Khao Soi Dao.

• Crested Myna Acridotheres cristatellus

  Its black crest and yellow bill stand out. It also occurs in city parks and agricultural areas in Hong Kong.

• Yemen Serin Crithagra menachensis

  The Yemen Serin is a small finch of the southwestern Arabian highlands. It searches for seeds on the ground and rocks and is listed as a localized breeding resident in southern Oman.

• Doria's Goshawk Megatriorchis doriae

  A large raptor of New Guinea's lowland and foothill forests. It hunts birds in the forest, and a juvenile recorded at Varirata had a pale head and streaked underparts.

• Sumba Myzomela Myzomela dammermani

  The Sumba Myzomela is a small bird of Sumba Island, Indonesia, where it forages from the forest mid-storey to the canopy.

• Rusty Blackbird Euphagus carolinus

  The rusty blackbird shows rusty feather edges and pale eyes in winter. It breeds in northern forests and winters in the eastern United States.

• Olive-backed Foliage-gleaner Automolus infuscatus

  This foliage-gleaner occurs in the Amazon Basin and adjoining foothills. The individual pictured in the species account is of unknown sex and shows an olive-brown back and rufous tail.

• Plain Seedeater Catamenia inornata

  This finch relative forages in dry to semi-humid montane scrub and other open habitats in the Andes. Males are grey; females are browner, and their bill colors differ.

• White-throated Bush Chat Saxicola insignis

  The White-throated Bushchat breeds in Mongolia and Central Asian Russia, then winters in India and Nepal. Bhutan and China are recorded during passage.

• Rufous-faced Crake Rufirallus xenopterus

  The Rufous-faced Crake is an elusive rail recorded in shallowly flooded grassland in South America. Its head and back are rufous, and its wings have bold black-and-white bars.

• Sharp-tailed Grass Tyrant Culicivora caudacuta

  This small tyrant flycatcher lives in the grasslands of the Cerrado, Pampa, and Chaco in South America.

• Mexican Jay Aphelocoma wollweberi

  The Mexican Jay ranges from Mexico into the southwestern United States, inhabiting mountain woodlands in family groups.

• Chattering Lory Lorius garrulus

  The Chattering Lory has a red body and green wings. In Indonesia's North Maluku Islands, it lives in lowland and secondary forest.

• Uluguru Mountain Greenbul Arizelocichla neumanni

  This bulbul is restricted to Tanzania's Uluguru Mountains. An adult photograph shows a dark gray head and gray-olive body. Species accounts record it in dense highland forest and as a fruit eater.

• Purple-throated Sunbird Leptocoma sperata

  This sunbird occurs in the Philippines. Males have a purple throat and red belly, and feed on nectar and small insects.

• Stripe-chested Antwren Myrmotherula longicauda

  The Stripe-chested Antwren is sexually dimorphic and forages in humid montane forest on the eastern Andes. It is often associated with bamboo patches; its northern Amazonian occurrence is local.

• Abert’s Towhee Melozone aberti

  Abert’s Towhee lives year-round in brush along waterways in the Sonoran Desert. Its sandy body and rusty undertail help identify it.

• Short-tailed Parrot Graydidascalus brachyurus

  This green parrot has a short tail with a red base. It searches for fruit in the canopy of forests in northern South America.

• Cerulean Warbler Setophaga cerulea

  The male is conspicuously blue with a throat band, while the female is blue-green. It breeds in eastern North American forests and winters in the Andes.

• Philippine Pygmy Woodpecker Yungipicus maculatus

  A small woodpecker of Philippine forests. This entry covers the three subspecies aligned with the candidate taxon and excludes the Sulu population.