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• Cricket Warbler Spiloptila clamans

  

  The Cricket Warbler is a pale, long-tailed bird of the Sahel. It lives in dry acacia scrub and savanna, often in pairs or small family groups.

• Wedge-tailed Hillstar Oreotrochilus adela

  The Wedge-tailed Hillstar is notable for the male's glittering green throat and its visits to flowers in dry highlands. It lives in the Andes of Bolivia and adjacent Argentina.

• White-eared Bulbul Pycnonotus leucotis

  The White-eared Bulbul has bright white cheek feathers, eats fruit, and lives in scrub and woodland from Oman to India.

• Vampire Ground Finch Geospiza septentrionalis

  This small ground finch lives on Darwin and Wolf Islands in the northwestern Galápagos. It is known for pecking at the bases of seabirds' feathers and drinking blood.

• Lark Sparrow Chondestes grammacus

  The lark sparrow walks through open grassland and scrub, searching on the ground for seeds and insects.

• Greater Prairie Chicken Tympanuchus cupido

  This entry describes the Attwater's subspecies of the Greater Prairie-Chicken. Males perform courtship displays, and females nest in prairie grass.

• Comb Duck Sarkidiornis melanotos

  The male Comb Duck develops a large knob at the base of its bill. It feeds mainly on aquatic plants and seeds and nests in tree hollows near water.

• Tawny-throated Leaftosser Sclerurus mexicanus

  The Tawny-throated Leaftosser lives in humid Central American forests, walking through leaf litter to find food. It has dark brown upperparts and a rusty throat extending onto the breast. It is seen alone or in pairs; local records describe a burrow nest near the ground.

• Abyssinian Ground Thrush Geokichla piaggiae

  This ground thrush is marked by an orange head and breast, olive-brown upperparts, and a white eye-ring. It searches for fruit and small prey in the lower parts of mountain forest.

• Oriental greenfinch Chloris sinica

  A small bird of Japanese woodland, grassland and fields. It has a thick bill and eats seeds of grasses and other plants.

• Peruvian Tyrannulet Zimmerius viridiflavus

  This small tyrant flycatcher lives in Peru's montane forests. Its yellow face, eyebrow, and washed-yellow underparts stand out as it forages high in the forest.

• Chestnut-capped Laughingthrush Pterorhinus mitratus

  A laughingthrush of forests from southern Thailand through the Malay Peninsula to Sumatra. It searches for food in montane and secondary forest.

• Blue-fronted Redstart Phoenicurus frontalis

  The Blue-fronted Redstart is a mountain bird; males show blue on the head and back and orange underparts, while females are mainly brown. It uses different elevations at different times of year.

• Cuban Palm Crow Corvus minutus

  This crow is endemic to western Cuba. It is reported mainly from lowland cultivation with scattered palms, where it forages on the ground for invertebrates, lizards and fruit.

• Timor Friarbird Philemon inornatus

  This honeyeater occurs on Timor. A study in West Timor recorded it taking nectar at forest edges in the morning.

• 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.

• Maroon-bellied Parakeet Pyrrhura frontalis

  The Maroon-bellied Parakeet is a green parrot with a reddish-brown forehead and maroon belly. It forms flocks in forests and along their edges.

• Collared Lory Vini solitaria

  This red-and-green parrot occurs in Fiji and has a short tail and purple-black crown. It feeds on flowers and fruit and nests in tree cavities.

• Pale-vented Pigeon Patagioenas cayennensis

  The Pale-vented Pigeon has a ruddy brown body, gray head, and pale lower belly. It perches high in trees in woodland and more open habitats and gives a low-pitched call.

• Pacific Screech-Owl Megascops cooperi

  The Pacific Screech-Owl is a medium-sized owl of the Pacific Slope lowland edge. Short ear tufts, yellow eyes, and pale gray plumage help identify it.

• Ancient Antwren Herpsilochmus gentryi

  The Ancient Antwren occurs in lowland forest in southeastern Ecuador and northern Peru. It has yellowish sides of the head and underside, with white wing bars on a gray back.

• Besra Tachyspiza virgata

  The Besra is a small raptor found from South to Southeast Asia. It hides among dense foliage and pursues small birds and other prey with quick flight.

• Rufous-headed Woodpecker Celeus spectabilis

  This woodpecker often uses bamboo stands in western Amazonian lowland forest. One observation records it feeding in a non-bamboo tree.

• Black Cuckoo Cuculus clamosus

  In southern Africa, the Black Cuckoo is a migrant that breeds in summer. It is often noticed by its call because the bird itself is hard to see. It lays its eggs in nests of other birds, including boubous.