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• White-flanked Sunbird Aethopyga eximia

  

  This sunbird lives in the highlands of Java. Males and females differ in color, and both show white feathers on the flanks.

• Weka Gallirallus australis

  This large rail occurs in New Zealand. It uses habitats from forest and scrub to grassland and coasts, and eats invertebrates and fruit found on or near the ground.

• Plumbeous Euphonia Euphonia plumbea

  Male Plumbeous Euphonias have blue upperparts and yellow underparts. They occur in savanna with scattered trees and along woodland edges, where they eat small fruit.

• Spectacled Whitestart Myioborus melanocephalus

  The center of its crown is black, and it has yellow spectacles and underparts. It lives in humid montane forest on the eastern Andes, from south and east of the Marañón in northern Peru to central Bolivia.

• Red-knobbed Imperial Pigeon Ducula rubricera

  The Red-knobbed Imperial Pigeon has a red knob at the base of its bill. It forages mainly in trees for fruit and berries and is native to the Bismarck and Solomon Islands.

• Red-billed Firefinch Lagonosticta senegala

  Males have noticeable red plumage, while females are mostly brown. Their plumage differs by sex.

• Musk Duck Biziura lobata

  The Musk Duck occurs only in Australia. It dives in deep freshwater lakes and lagoons to search for food underwater.

• Caucasian Snowcock Tetraogallus caucasicus

  A pheasant-family bird of high rocky slopes in the Caucasus, it may move lower during severe winter weather.

• Fine-barred Piculet Picumnus subtilis

  This small woodpecker is recorded in southeastern Peru and western Amazonia. A 2009 paper reported records in Acre, Brazil, and described foraging at the edge of terra firme forest with bamboo.

• Seychelles Black Parrot Coracopsis barklyi

  Despite its name, the Seychelles Black Parrot is pale brown-grey, not black. It lives on Praslin, where native palm fruits are a preferred food.

• Sepia-capped Flycatcher Leptopogon amaurocephalus

  This small flycatcher forages in the midstory of Amazonian forest. Its dark brown cap and large black ear patch are distinctive.

• Mangrove Finch Camarhynchus heliobates

  The Mangrove Finch is a small bird endemic to the Galápagos. It searches mangrove leaf litter and dead wood for arthropods and nests high in trees.

• Plain Greenbul Eurillas curvirostris

  A bulbul found across parts of western, central, and eastern Africa. It is about 17 cm long and is described as a very plain-looking greenbul.

• Hooded Treepie Crypsirina cucullata

  A bird restricted to Myanmar's lowlands, with a long silver-gray tail and black head.

• Alpine Thrush Zoothera mollissima

  The Alpine Thrush is about 25–27 cm long. It breeds on rocky ground above the tree line and moves to lower elevations outside the breeding season.

• Bocage's Robin Sheppardia bocagei

  This akalat searches for small prey near the forest floor. It inhabits forest and swamp forest, and has rufous tones on the face.

• White-bellied Cinclodes Cinclodes palliatus

  This ovenbird lives in the high Andes of Peru. It has reddish upperparts and a white belly, and walks on the ground to forage in high-elevation bogs.

• Rufous-fronted Parakeet Bolborhynchus ferrugineifrons

  This small green parakeet lives in a restricted high-altitude range in central Colombia.

• Spotted Towhee Pipilo maculatus

  The Spotted Towhee searches leaf litter for seeds and small invertebrates in western North American thickets and forest edges.

• New Zealand Bellbird Anthornis melanura

  The New Zealand Bellbird is endemic to New Zealand and has a bell-like song. It feeds on nectar, fruit, and insects; males are olive green with a purplish head.

• Bare-crowned Antbird Gymnocichla nudiceps

  The Bare-crowned Antbird is a lowland antbird occurring from Central America into northern Colombia. The male has a bare blue area on the crown.

• Lesser Violetear Colibri cyanotus

  The Lesser Violetear is a small hummingbird, about 11 cm long, found in the Andes from Colombia to Bolivia. In Peru it occurs in humid montane forest on the eastern slope and at high forest edges in the northwest.

• White-chinned Prinia Schistolais leucopogon

  This prinia uses scrub and forest edges across tropical Africa. It has a white throat and broad tail; field observations describe it in small groups among dense vegetation.

• Himalayan Buzzard Buteo refectus

  The Himalayan Buzzard is polymorphic, with substantial variation in plumage. Some birds are resident in the Himalaya, while records document southward movement in winter to north-east India and the Indian Peninsula.