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• Red-shouldered Spinetail Synallaxis hellmayri

  

  This spinetail occurs in dry scrub and open woodland. A 2017 observation is documented in northeastern Brazil.

• 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.

• Scarlet-fronted Parakeet Psittacara wagleri

  The Scarlet-fronted Parakeet has a green body, red forehead, and long tail. It eats fruit and seeds and is native to Colombia and Venezuela.

• See-see Partridge Ammoperdix griseogularis

  The See-see Partridge is a small buff-colored bird recorded in agricultural fields of Pakistan’s Swat Valley.

• Blue-eared Lory Eos semilarvata

  This parrot occurs in the montane forests of Seram, Indonesia. Its dark-red body contrasts with purplish-blue cheeks and ear-coverts and black streaks on the wings. Flowers are part of its diet.

• Thyolo Alethe Pseudalethe choloensis

  This forest bird occurs around the Thyolo Highlands of southern Malawi. It has rusty upperparts and searches among leaf litter for small arthropods.

• Streaked Spiderhunter Arachnothera magna

  A large sunbird relative with a long curved bill and streaked plumage, it searches for nectar and small invertebrates.

• Stout Cisticola Cisticola robustus

  An East African bird guide describes a rufous crown and nape, a finely streaked crown, a brown blotched back and wings, and a black tail with white tips. It uses grassland and scattered bushes and sings from grass clumps or bush tops. A field survey also recorded it in south-east Angola.

• Puff-backed Honeyeater Meliphaga aruensis

  This honeyeater has an olive back and yellow ear patches. A fluffy white patch sits above the tail, and it feeds on fruit and other foods in forest.

• Desert Finch Rhodospiza obsoleta

  Rhodospiza obsoleta is a finch of dry parts of Eurasia. The Royal Commission for AlUla’s bird guide records it at Tayma in Saudi Arabia.

• Brown-necked Raven Corvus ruficollis

  The Brown-necked Raven is a crow with a bronze sheen on its neck and a long, triangular tail.

• Green Thorntail Discosura conversii

  This small hummingbird occurs from Central America into western South America. Males are iridescent green with elongated pointed tail feathers; females have shorter tails and a white moustachial stripe.

• Taiwan Green Pigeon Treron formosae

  In the Taiwan account, the male has a rusty-orange crown and nape, with some purple feathers on the shoulder. It eats fruit in the forest canopy.

• Rote Boobook Ninox rotiensis

  An owl endemic to Rote Island, Indonesia. A 2010 field study recorded it in dry woodland and around settlement trees.

• Grey-headed Elaenia Myiopagis caniceps

  The Grey-headed Elaenia is a small canopy bird of eastern South America. It gleans insects from leaves and twigs and also eats small fruits; southernmost birds may move north during the austral winter. Older accounts can use a broader species concept, so this entry follows Myiopagis caniceps.

• Zamboanga Bulbul Hypsipetes rufigularis

  It is recorded on Basilan and the Zamboanga Peninsula in western Mindanao, Philippines.

• Kurrichane Thrush Turdus libonyana

  This thrush occurs in woodlands and gardens in south-central Africa. Photographs from South Africa in 2007 show grey-brown upperparts, a reddish belly, and an orange bill. It forages mainly on the ground, searching leaf litter for insects and fruit.

• Rufous-winged Tanager Tangara lavinia

  This tanager ranges from Central America into northwestern South America. It uses the canopy and edges of moist lowland forest and may join mixed-species flocks in pairs.

• Chestnut-bellied Cuckoo Coccyzus pluvialis

  The Chestnut-bellied Cuckoo is a large Jamaican cuckoo with a chestnut belly and long, white-spotted tail. It runs along branches while searching for food.

• Mottled Piculet Picumnus nebulosus

  The Mottled Piculet is a tiny woodpecker, about 10–11 cm long. Its back is olive-brown, and its belly has dark marks. It lives in moist lowland forest in southeastern South America and also searches for food in dead bamboo.

• Slaty Antwren Myrmotherula schisticolor

  This small antwren occurs in Panama's humid forests. Males are gray and females olive-brown, and the birds search low growth for small prey.

• Cotton Pygmy-Goose Nettapus coromandelianus

  A very small duck that uses plant-rich freshwater areas in eastern Queensland, Australia.

• Striated Babbler Argya earlei

  In northern India's lowlands, this social babbler is usually found in reedbeds, wet grass, and scrub. Fine streaking on crown and back and bright yellow eyes stand out.

• Papuan Harrier Circus spilothorax

  The Papuan Harrier is a raptor of grasslands and wetlands on New Guinea. A 2009 paper reports fieldwork in Papua New Guinea under the historical subspecies name Circus spilonotus spilothorax.