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• Plain-backed Sunbird Anthreptes reichenowi

  

  BirdLife International describes two separated population areas: coastal Kenya and eastern Tanzania, and another spanning Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Eswatini, and South Africa.

• Kaempfer's Woodpecker Celeus obrieni

  This woodpecker occurs in north-central Brazil's Cerrado. In a study near Pium, it used forested savanna with stands of bamboo, drilling stems to find ants.

• Black-chested Prinia Prinia flavicans

  A black chest band marks the breeding plumage of this small prinia. In Namibia it searches for insects among branches and leaves in dry acacia scrub and other shrublands.

• Mountain Robin Turdus plebejus

  Adult males and females look alike, with olive-brown upperparts and a pale buff throat. Outside the nesting period, it may forage in small flocks.

• Desert Finch Rhodospiza obsoleta

  Rhodospiza obsoleta is a finch of dry parts of Eurasia. The Royal Commission for AlUla’s bird guide records it at Tayma in Saudi Arabia.

• Buff-streaked Chat Campicoloides bifasciatus

  The Buff-streaked Chat lives in rocky highland grassland in southern Africa. It searches for food on the ground and on rocks, and males and females differ in plumage.

• Rusty Sparrow Aimophila rufescens

  This sparrow ranges from Mexico to northwestern Costa Rica. It is recorded in shrubby secondary woodland, forest edges, and pine or oak woodland.

• Papuan Harrier Circus spilothorax

  The Papuan Harrier is a raptor of grasslands and wetlands on New Guinea. A 2009 paper reports fieldwork in Papua New Guinea under the historical subspecies name Circus spilonotus spilothorax.

• Brown-headed Honeyeater Melithreptus brevirostris

  This small honeyeater lives in open eucalypt forest and woodland in Australia. Small flocks glean mainly insects from bark, branches, leaves, and flowers, and also take nectar.

• Colima Warbler Leiothlypis crissalis

  This grey-brown bird has a distinct white eyering and a brilliant yellow base to the tail. On breeding grounds it searches foliage for insects and spiders.

• Creamy-rumped Miner Geositta isabellina

  A ground-foraging bird of the high Andes. It searches the soil and spaces among rocks for arthropods.

• Bare-eyed Antbird Rhegmatorhina gymnops

  This antbird lives near the forest floor in southeastern Amazonian Brazil. Bare facial skin forms a pale eye-ring, and it follows army-ant swarms to catch small animals flushed by the ants.

• Simple Greenbul Chlorocichla simplex

  The Simple Greenbul is marked by its white throat and two white crescents around the eye. In Upper Guinea it is found in regrowth and thickets.

• Yellow-rumped Mannikin Lonchura flaviprymna

  A finch of northwestern Australia. Adults have a pale gray head and yellow-brown rump, unlike the brown head and rump of juveniles.

• Little Bronze Cuckoo Chalcites minutillus

  This small cuckoo ranges from Southeast Asia to Australia and lays its eggs in other birds' nests.

• Nilgiri Laughingthrush Montecincla cachinnans

  The Nilgiri Laughingthrush occurs in the Nilgiri Hills of southwestern India. The genus account notes a white eyebrow and olive-gray upperparts, with breast color differing among species.

• Blue-crowned Parakeet Thectocercus acuticaudatus

  The Blue-crowned Parakeet has a green body, blue on the face and crown, and a long tail. Its native range includes dry forest and scrub in South America.

• Rufous-sided Warbling Finch Poospizopsis hypocondria

  This small bird lives on dry, high Andean slopes and in scrub. It has brownish-gray upperparts, a white eyebrow and throat, and rufous sides.

• Yellow-crowned Parakeet Cyanoramphus auriceps

  The Yellow-crowned Parakeet is a green parrot that spends much of its time high in the forest canopy. Its yellow crown and crimson forehead band help identify it.

• Black-eared Fairy Heliothryx auritus

  The Black-eared Fairy is a hummingbird with a long, mostly white tail, white underparts, and a dark line behind the eye. In Bolivia it is recorded in humid forest and feeds on nectar.

• Lady Amherst’s pheasant Chrysolophus amherstiae

  A secretive pheasant whose male displays its head and neck feathers in a courtship dance.

• Olive-striped Flycatcher Mionectes galbinus

  This entry covers *Mionectes galbinus*, split from the broader *M. olivaceus*. The species account records it in moist lowland and montane forest from Central into northwestern South America.

• Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna autumnalis

  A long-legged waterbird with a pink bill that feeds on plants near shallow water and fields.

• Hawaiian Coot Fulica alai

  The Hawaiian Coot is a waterbird with a dark gray body and a white frontal shield and bill. It is found around ponds and wetlands in Hawai‘i Island's Kaloko-Honokōhau National Historical Park.