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• Anchieta's Sunbird Anthreptes anchietae

  

  Anchieta's Sunbird is 10–12 cm long. It uses open Brachystegia woodland and shrubs associated with Tacoma and Protea, and feeds on invertebrates. The page lists sound recordings from Zambia.

• Silver-eared Mesia Leiothrix argentauris

  Chestnut and olive feathers, a dark face, and silvery ear patches mark this small bird. It forms flocks in woodland and eats fruit, seeds, and insects.

• Cape Shoveler Spatula smithii

  The Cape Shoveler is a duck of shallow wetlands in southern Africa. Males and females differ in plumage and in the color of their eyes and legs.

• Wing-snapping Cisticola Cisticola ayresii

  This small cisticola has fine streaks on its head and back. It forages in short grassland; males sing in high flight and sometimes dive with wing-snapping sounds.

• Tickell's Thrush Turdus unicolor

  Tickell’s Thrush searches forest floors for food and makes partial seasonal movements in elevation and range.

• Andean Siskin Spinus spinescens

  A yellowish finch of the Andes, often found in flocks at forest edges and in páramo. The black head marking of females varies between northern and southern populations.

• Gray-hooded Sierra Finch Phrygilus gayi

  This finch inhabits open slopes, grass steppe, and scrub in northwestern Patagonia and the Andes. It eats seeds and is also recorded around rocky ground.

• White-streaked Honeyeater Trichodere cockerelli

  This honeyeater lives in northeastern Australia. Field reports describe feeding at flowering eucalyptus and banksia in two Queensland locations.

• Cape Parrot Poicephalus robustus

  This large parrot lives in South African mountain forests. It uses its large bill to crack the hard kernels of yellowwood fruit while they are still unripe.

• Marquesan Ground Dove Pampusana rubescens

  The Marquesan Ground Dove is a ground-dwelling pigeon with a gray head and breast and a reddish-purple back. It turns through leaf litter as it searches for seeds and ants.

• Grey-olive Greenbul Phyllastrephus cerviniventris

  This greenbul occurs in eastern and south-central Africa. It is recorded in streamside thickets, gallery forest, bamboo thickets, and moist evergreen forest, and eats insects and fruit.

• Indian Cuckoo Cuculus micropterus

  The Indian Cuckoo occurs in Asia. A breeding study on a university campus in Bangladesh recorded it laying an egg in a Black Drongo nest.

• Western Banded Snake Eagle Circaetus cinerascens

  A grey-brown eagle with a large head, marked in flight by a white band across its short tail.

• Brazilian Ruby Clytolaema rubricauda

  This hummingbird occurs in southeastern Brazil. Males have a ruby-red throat and coppery-rufous tail; females have pale cinnamon underparts.

• Rondonia Bushbird Clytoctantes atrogularis

  This poorly known antbird is recorded in the Brazilian Amazon. Its large, laterally flattened black bill has a sharply upturned tip. The female type specimen was chestnut with a black throat and upper breast; males seen in the field were described as entirely black.

• Peruvian Seaside Cinclodes Cinclodes taczanowskii

  A brown bird of Peru's coast, it stays close to the ocean and is found more often on rocky shores or artificial embankments than on sandy beaches.

• Caspian Snowcock Tetraogallus caspius

  The Caspian Snowcock is a grey-brown bird with white and rusty markings that lives on rocky mountains near the snow line.

• Malherbe's Parakeet Cyanoramphus malherbi

  This small green parakeet has blue on the wings, a yellow crown, and an orange band above the eyes. Its native range is restricted to beech-forest valleys on New Zealand’s South Island.

• Malayan Black Magpie Platysmurus leucopterus

  A corvid with an all-black body, a white wing band, and a long broad tail; it forages in the forest canopy and mid-story.

• Golden-crowned Sparrow Zonotrichia atricapilla

  A sparrow of western North America, it breeds in the north during summer and winters along the Pacific Coast.

• Magellanic Woodpecker Campephilus magellanicus

  The Magellanic Woodpecker searches for food on tree trunks in Patagonian forests. The male gives resonant blows on hollow trunks.

• Tanimbar Boobook Ninox forbesi

  This owl occurs on Indonesia's Tanimbar Islands. It has buff to rufous-brown head and breast plumage and is recorded in lowland forests.

• White-bellied Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus griseipectus

  This small bird occurs in forest in southern Amazonian Peru and adjacent Bolivia. It has olive upperparts and pale, grey-streaked underparts.

• Isabelline Wheatear Oenanthe isabellina

  A pale, sandy-colored wheatear of Kazakhstan’s steppe and semi-desert. It nests in disused mammal burrows.