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• Bar-throated Apalis Apalis thoracica

  

  This apalis ranges from eastern to southern Africa and is recorded in evergreen forest, valley woodland, and scrub.

• Sapphire-throated Hummingbird Chrysuronia coeruleogularis

  This hummingbird occurs in Panama and northern Colombia. Males are metallic green with a purplish-blue throat; females are green above and whitish below. It visits flowers in scrub, dry woodland, and mangroves.

• Honeyguide Greenbul Baeopogon indicator

  The Honeyguide Greenbul ranges across West Africa to western Kenya, south to northern Angola and northwestern Zambia. It is olive above with a white undertail and feeds on fruit and nectar.

• Orange-eared Tanager Chlorochrysa calliparaea

  This tanager occurs in Andean forests from Colombia to Bolivia. Males are green with orange patches around the ears and on the rump; females are duller. It forages with mixed flocks in the canopy and subcanopy.

• Spotted Towhee Pipilo maculatus

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

• Hazel Grouse Tetrastes bonasia

  In Finland, Hazel Grouse live in coniferous forests and eat buds, young shoots, and berries.

• Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna autumnalis

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

• Brown-billed Scythebill Campylorhamphus pusillus

  This woodcreeper climbs tree trunks. The eBird account describes forest as its main setting, and a 2012 checklist records one individual in Ecuador.

• Ethiopian Thrush Turdus simensis

  This thrush occurs on the Ethiopian and Eritrean highlands. Adults have gray-brown upperparts and a short tail, and forage on the ground for insects and worms. It uses open or scrubby habitats rather than dense forest.

• Ankober Serin Crithagra ankoberensis

  The Ankober Serin is a small bird of rocky slopes and escarpments in the Ethiopian highlands. It eats grass and herb seeds and can forage in flocks of several dozen.

• Yellow-billed Tit-Tyrant Anairetes flavirostris

  This small tyrant flycatcher lives in the Peruvian Andes and forages alone or in pairs in dry scrub.

• White-crested Laughingthrush Garrulax leucolophus

  The White-crested Laughingthrush is a large babbler with a white crest and black facial mask. Flocks of about 6–12 birds search the forest floor for food.

• Japanese robin Erithacus akahige

  A bird of dense mountain undergrowth that hops over the ground searching for small animals.

• Violaceous Jay Cyanocorax violaceus

  The Violaceous Jay has a black head and face contrasting with a pale nape. In Bolivia it is recorded in small flocks near rivers and forest edges.

• Rufous-backed Honeyeater Ptiloprora guisei

  During the Bishop Museum expedition to Mount Dayman in Papua New Guinea, it was recorded frequently above 1,400 m and used several forest strata.

• Uluguru Violet-backed Sunbird Anthreptes neglectus

  Males have an iridescent violet back, while females are brown above. This small sunbird lives in forests and woodland in eastern Africa.

• Green-cheeked Parakeet Pyrrhura molinae

  The Green-cheeked Parakeet is a South American forest parrot that gathers in flocks in the canopy and feeds on fruit and seeds.

• Horned Parakeet Eunymphicus cornutus

  The Horned Parakeet is endemic to New Caledonia, where pairs and small groups move through forest canopy.

• Kosrae Fruit Dove Ptilinopus hernsheimi

  This fruit-dove lives on Kosrae. Calls are often heard in rainforest, and an older comparison found higher density there than in mangroves. Micronesian forms, including the Kosrae group, have a yellow band at the tail tip.

• Amazonian Pygmy Owl Glaucidium hardyi

  The 14–15 cm Amazonian Pygmy Owl lives in the canopy of primary tropical forest across much of Amazonia. It is partly active by day; one nest in French Guiana was in an old woodpecker hole.

• Manicore Warbling Antbird Hypocnemis rondoni

  This antbird occurs in central Amazonian Brazil. Its description places the known range between the Aripuanã and Machado river systems.

• 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.

• Black-cheeked Woodpecker Melanerpes pucherani

  The sexes differ in the red on the head; this woodpecker feeds in humid lowland evergreen forest, including in the canopy.

• Black-hooded Coucal Centropus steerii

  The Black-hooded Coucal is a cuckoo relative recorded on Mindoro in the Philippines. Records describe it moving through dense lowland-forest thickets along branches.