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• Buff-throated Sunbird Chalcomitra adelberti

  

  This West African sunbird uses lowland forest and flowers. Adult males have a metallic green crown and moustachial stripe, a dark head, and a pale buff-to-cream throat.

• Blue-shouldered Robin-Chat Cossypha cyanocampter

  The nominate form has a white eyebrow, blue sheen on the wings, and orange underparts. It searches for food in dense forest undergrowth, and the account describes separate western and central/eastern ranges.

• Great Kiskadee Pitangus sulphuratus

  It has a black eye-mask, yellow belly, and warm reddish-brown flashes in the wings. It inhabits open woodland and waterside areas from south Texas through Central and South America.

• Mountain Fulvetta Alcippe peracensis

  A grey head and a dark line running from above the eye toward the nape help identify this bird. It eats insects in evergreen forest and may occur in small groups.

• Eurasian magpie Pica pica

  A member of the crow family with a black-and-white body and a long tail. In Britain, its dark feathers show blue or green gloss at close range.

• White-bellied Munia Lonchura leucogastra

  The White-bellied Munia has a dark chestnut head and back that contrast sharply with its white belly. The Borneo field guide describes it moving and feeding in small flocks.

• Buff-bellied Hermit Phaethornis subochraceus

  This hermit was documented in lowland forest studies in Bolivia. It foraged in low vegetation, and researchers recorded it taking insects from foliage in the dry season.

• Red-rumped Parrot Psephotus haematonotus

  The Red-rumped Parrot is an Australian parrot whose male has a conspicuous red rump and yellow belly. Females are grey-green, so the sexes look quite different.

• Spangle-cheeked Tanager Tangara dowii

  The Spangle-cheeked Tanager lives in wet mountain forests of Costa Rica and western Panama. Adults have black-and-blue scaling on the cheeks and a rufous crown patch; immatures are duller and lack that crown patch. It eats fruit as well as insects and spiders.

• White-rumped Vulture Gyps bengalensis

  A vulture of plains and settlements on the Indian subcontinent. It circles in the air while searching for carrion.

• Cinnamon Screech Owl Megascops petersoni

  This small owl lives in humid montane forest on the eastern Andes. Its cinnamon-colored plumage has fine markings, and BirdLife describes it as highly dependent on forest.

• Black-backed Cisticola Cisticola eximius

  The Black-backed Cisticola occurs in African grasslands. It uses dry open grassland and savanna, and forages mainly for invertebrates on the ground.

• Handsome Francolin Pternistis nobilis

  The Handsome Francolin has dark reddish-brown plumage, a grey head, red bill and legs, and bare red skin around the eyes. The sexes look similar, but females are slightly smaller and young birds are duller.

• Dusky Moorhen Gallinula tenebrosa

  A dark waterbird that forages among wetland plants; when it searches on land, it flicks its tail and reveals its white undertail.

• Golden-olive Woodpecker Colaptes rubiginosus

  This woodpecker ranges from southern Mexico through Central America into northwestern South America and the Andes. It has olive plumage with fine bars, and males show a red facial stripe.

• Maui Honeycreeper Pseudonestor xanthophrys

  This Hawaiian honeycreeper lives only in high-elevation forest on east Maui. It has a large curved bill, and pairs defend territories year-round.

• Whooper swan Cygnus cygnus

  A swan widely distributed in northern Eurasia. Adults have white plumage and bills with yellow bases and black tips.

• Purple Quail-Dove Geotrygon purpurata

  This dove occurs only in western Colombia through northwestern Ecuador, in the wet rainforests of the Chocó. Adults show purple, blue, and iridescent colors, with a dark blue stripe across a white face. Females and juveniles are duller than males.

• Pearly Antshrike Megastictus margaritatus

  An antshrike of Amazonian lowland forest. The sexes have different plumage, and records also come from northeastern and east-central Peru.

• Buff-vented Bulbul Iole crypta

  The Buff-vented Bulbul is Iole crypta. A field record from Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia, places it at a lowland primary-forest edge, attracted to ripe Bridelia tomentosa fruit.

• Golden-winged Parakeet Brotogeris chrysoptera

  The Golden-winged Parakeet is a small green parakeet with a golden wing patch. Outside the breeding season it travels in flocks and may gather at fruiting trees.

• Sao Francisco Sparrow Arremon franciscanus

  This sparrow inhabits dry forest and gallery forest in central Brazil. It often forages as a pair in the lower vegetation and on the ground.

• Scale-feathered Malkoha Dasylophus cumingi

  This Philippine cuckoo lives in forest and searches for insects in trees.

• Pale-tailed Canastero Asthenes huancavelicae

  Pale-tailed Canastero occurs in central-southern Peru. The Apurimac form usheri has pale outer tail feathers, and the species account places it in arid valleys with scattered shrubs, cacti, and trees.