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• Wing-barred Seedeater Sporophila americana

  

  This South American small bird has a black male with two clear white wing bars. Females are browner, and the species feeds mainly on grass seeds.

• Red-necked Buzzard Buteo auguralis

  The Red-necked Buzzard is a hawk with a chestnut head and neck and a reddish tail. It searches for prey from perches along woodland edges and in open areas.

• Cebu Boobook Ninox rumseyi

  An owl endemic to Cebu Island in the Philippines. A 2012 species description treated the Cebu population as distinct based on vocal and morphological differences.

• Ashy Prinia Prinia socialis

  The Ashy Prinia is a small prinia recorded widely across the Indian subcontinent. It uses open habitats such as gardens, farmland, thorn scrub, and grassland, feeding on invertebrates.

• Rufous-throated Hill Partridge Arborophila rufogularis

  This partridge is marked by its red throat and eye-ring and lives in evergreen forests from the Himalayas to Indochina.

• Striped Crake Aenigmatolimnas marginalis

  The Striped Crake is a rail with white streaks on its back and reddish underparts. It searches among seasonally flooded grassland and marsh edges, including shallow water and mud.

• Melancholy Woodpecker Dendropicos lugubris

  This woodpecker ranges from Sierra Leone to Ghana, southern Nigeria, and southwestern Cameroon. It uses open forest, clearings, edges, gallery forest, and swamp forest.

• Iiwi Vestiaria coccinea

  The iiwi is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands. Its vermilion-and-black plumage and long, deeply curved bill are distinctive. It feeds on flower nectar in mountain forest, and most of the current population is on Hawaiʻi, Maui and Kauaʻi.

• Common Eider Somateria mollissima

  A large sea duck of northern rocky coasts that dives for mussels and other shellfish.

• Grey Imperial Pigeon Ducula pickeringii

  The Grey Imperial Pigeon is a large pigeon that uses forest canopies. It occurs on islands including the Sulu Archipelago and northern Borneo and is seen alone or in pairs.

• Lunulated Antbird Oneillornis lunulatus

  This scarce antbird inhabits lowland rainforest understory in eastern Ecuador and northeastern Peru. Males are gray and females brown, but both have a white eyebrow and throat.

• 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.

• Socorro Parakeet Psittacara brevipes

  This parakeet occurs on Socorro Island off Mexico. It was recorded in the island forest, and a field study documented feeding on native fruits and seeds.

• Pale-headed Brush Finch Atlapetes pallidiceps

  A 2003 paper described this brush-finch as confined to one valley in southern Ecuador and reported variation in adult head markings.

• Hodgson's Hawk-Cuckoo Hierococcyx nisicolor

  Hodgson's Hawk-Cuckoo is a cuckoo with predominantly gray adult plumage. It moves seasonally from its breeding range to wintering areas in Southeast Asia and is recorded in forest and forest-edge habitats.

• Northern Long-tailed Woodcreeper Deconychura longicauda

  This woodcreeper occurs in the Guianas and in Brazil north of the Amazon. In dry-ground and periodically flooded lowland forest, it climbs trunks from the base while searching for insects.

• Blue-winged Warbler Vermivora cyanoptera

  The Blue-winged Warbler is a small bird with a yellow belly and bluish wings. It searches for insects in shrubland and along forest edges.

• White-plumed Honeyeater Ptilotula penicillata

  This honeyeater lives in woodland and forest on mainland Australia. A white neck plume is its key mark, and it feeds in tree crowns and shrubs.

• Red-legged Thrush Turdus plumbeus

  The Red-legged Thrush has blue-grey to slate-grey upperparts and bright reddish-orange legs. Its plumage varies among islands, and some subspecies have conspicuous white tail tips.

• Beautiful Sunbird Cinnyris pulchellus

  A small sunbird of West and East Africa, found in habitats such as savanna and dry woodland. Males have iridescent plumage and long tail streamers, and both sexes feed at flowers.

• Malay Whistling-thrush Myophonus robinsoni

  This dark thrush has a bright metallic-blue patch near the shoulder and appears along streams in moist hill forest.

• Kaempfer's Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus kaempferi

  The Kaempfer's Tody-Tyrant was observed at several sites in Santa Catarina, southern Brazil. Its head and back range from brown to olive, while the throat and belly are pale yellow. The study describes foraging in forest edges and shaded secondary growth.

• Hartlaub's Babbler Turdoides hartlaubii

  In parts of southern Africa, including Botswana’s Okavango region, Hartlaub’s Babbler moves through scrub in pairs or groups.

• Stresemann's Bush Crow Zavattariornis stresemanni

  Stresemann's Bush Crow is a crow found in a restricted area of southern Ethiopia. It has a gray body with black wings and tail, and searches the ground for insects.