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• Sunda Cuckoo Cuculus lepidus

  

  The Sunda Cuckoo occurs from the Malay Peninsula through the Sunda Islands. It eats mainly caterpillars and other insects and is a brood parasite of small leaf-warblers.

• Arrow-marked Babbler Turdoides jardineii

  This social African bird inhabits woodland and savanna. White arrow-shaped marks across the breast and belly are its distinctive feature.

• Jamaican Parakeet Eupsittula nana

  The Jamaican Parakeet is a small green parakeet with olive coloring on the throat and upper breast. This account focuses on the Jamaican native form and on the habitat and food described for the species.

• Metallic-green Tanager Tangara labradorides

  This small, iridescent green tanager is recorded in the Andes of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. It uses montane forest canopy and second growth and may join mixed-species flocks.

• Maroon Shining Parrot Prosopeia tabuensis

  A parrot of Fiji's forests, notable for reddish plumage and green wings. Fine details of its coloration vary by subspecies.

• Crowned Woodnymph Thalurania colombica

  This hummingbird occurs in separate areas from Central America into northwestern South America. Males have violet or green crowns and backs, while females have grey throats and breasts; the birds feed on nectar and small invertebrates.

• Hartlaub's Francolin Pternistis hartlaubi

  This francolin lives on rocky hillsides in Namibia and Angola. Males and females differ in their underpart pattern and the feathers beneath the tail.

• Southern Beardless Tyrannulet Camptostoma obsoletum

  This small tyrannulet is recorded in wooded habitats in Argentina and Bolivia. An Argentine account gives a length of about 11 cm.

• African Pygmy Goose Nettapus auritus

  The African Pygmy Goose is a perching duck despite its name. A male has a white face, green markings, and a bright yellow bill.

• Chestnut Rail Eulabeornis castaneoventris

  The Chestnut Rail is a large, ground-dwelling rail of mangroves that eats crabs. Different plumage forms have been reported in northern Australia.

• Spot-breasted Cuckoo-Dove Macropygia mackinlayi

  This island-dwelling dove ranges from the Solomon Islands to Vanuatu. The nominate subspecies has rufous and grey color forms.

• Sangihe Scops Owl Otus collari

  This small owl lives only on Sangihe Island. It is brown with black streaks and pale wing marks, and occurs in forest, plantations, and tree patches.

• 'Alala Corvus hawaiiensis

  The ‘Alalā, or Hawaiian Crow, is a medium-sized dark crow that formerly occurred naturally in dry and semi-dry forests on Hawai‘i Island.

• Common Purple-banded Sunbird Cinnyris bifasciatus

  This sunbird is seen from forest to savanna. Males show iridescent green plumage with maroon and blue breast bands; females are paler.

• Gabon Woodpecker Dendropicos gabonensis

  It has a green back and pale yellow underparts with dark spots. Males have red on the head, while females lack red on the head.

• River Prinia Prinia fluviatilis

  This prinia inhabits grassy river edges and wetlands. In a 2006 observation in Mali, twelve singing birds were recorded along riverbanks; three individuals seen well were much paler than another species.

• White-backed Thrush Turdus kessleri

  This thrush breeds in the eastern and northeastern Tibetan Plateau of China. Males show black and chestnut markings, and winter records in the Himalayas are vagrants.

• Twite Linaria flavirostris

  A small, mostly seed-eating finch with brown plumage. In Britain and Ireland it breeds in northern uplands, and some birds move to southern coasts in winter.

• Rhinomyias brunneatus

  This flycatcher searches for insects in forest undergrowth and along edges. It has brown upperparts, a pale eye-ring, a white throat, a pale brown breast and pink legs. Its breeding range is in southern China, with wintering areas in Southeast Asia. The pool uses Rhinomyias; the consulted account uses Cyornis brunneatus.

• Sooty-capped Bush Tanager Chlorospingus pileatus

  This bird lives in mountain forest in Costa Rica and Panama. Its dark head and white eyebrow stand out as it moves in small groups through the understorey.

• Cassin's Hawk-Eagle Aquila africana

  Cassin's Hawk-Eagle is a forest eagle marked in black and white, with a short crest. In humid tropical forest it is secretive and rarely seen soaring.

• White-throated Honeyeater Melithreptus albogularis

  This honeyeater has a black head and a white nape band. It lives in woodland and forest in northern and eastern Australia and New Guinea; pairs or small groups may hold year-round territories.

• Bolivian Spinetail Cranioleuca henricae

  This ovenbird is known from the Río La Paz drainage in the northern Bolivian Andes. Its species page lists dry forest and nearby bushy vegetation as habitat.

• Chapman's Antshrike Thamnophilus zarumae

  Chapman's Antshrike is about 14–15 cm long and occurs from southwestern Ecuador into northwestern Peru. It uses forest edges and secondary woodland and gleans invertebrates in trees. The species page divides this region between two subspecies.