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• Grey Pileated Finch Coryphospingus pileatus

  

  The Grey Pileated Finch is a South American finch found in Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela. It searches for seeds on the ground and low shrubs; males can raise a red crest.

• Grey-cheeked Bulbul Alophoixus tephrogenys

  A bulbul of Southeast Asian forests and woodland edges. It can raise the feathers at the back of its crown and eats fruit and insects.

• Red-billed Blue Magpie Urocissa erythroryncha

  The Red-billed Blue Magpie has a blue body, black head, red bill, and long tail. It is a familiar resident bird in Hong Kong.

• Abyssinian Thrush Turdus abyssinicus

  A thrush of eastern African highlands, recorded in forest, scrub, inland wetlands and human-modified habitats. BirdLife International’s 2016 assessment classifies it as an altitudinal migrant.

• Indigo Flycatcher Eumyias indigo

  This flycatcher occurs from Indochina to islands of Indonesia and is mainly found in montane forest.

• Elegant Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus elegans

  This roughly 21 cm woodcreeper is recorded from Amazonian lowlands into foothill forest on the eastern Andes. The size and spread of its back spots vary among subspecies.

• Timneh Parrot Psittacus timneh

  A grey parrot of West African forests and adjoining habitats. It eats fruit and seeds and nests in high tree cavities.

• Field Sparrow Spizella pusilla

  The Field Sparrow is marked by a rusty crown, white eye-ring, and pink bill. It uses grassland and scrub, and males sing from early spring into summer.

• Rufous-throated Honeyeater Conopophila rufogularis

  The Rufous-throated Honeyeater is recorded in waterside woodland and semi-arid riverine forest in northern Australia. Its diet is mainly invertebrates but broader than that.

• Checker-throated Stipplethroat Epinecrophylla fulviventris

  The Checker-throated Stipplethroat ranges from Central America into northwestern South America. It is treated here as Epinecrophylla fulviventris; older sources may use Myrmotherula fulviventris for the same species. It feeds on insects and spiders in the lower storey of wet foothill forest.

• White-necked Jacobin Florisuga mellivora

  The White-necked Jacobin is a large hummingbird with a white neck band and a fan-shaped tail. It visits tropical lowland forest edges, clearings, and gardens, feeding at different heights.

• Roberts's Warbler Oreophilais robertsi

  Roberts's Warbler is a small bird of the highlands of Zimbabwe and Mozambique. Adults have olive-brown upperparts, yellow eyes, a grayish-rufous breast, a white belly, and rufous flanks. It feeds on small invertebrates in montane thickets.

• Socotra Buzzard Buteo socotraensis

  The Socotra Buzzard is resident only on Socotra Island. A 2010 paper described it as a distinct species, noting brown upperparts, pale underparts and differences from related buzzards.

• Rufous-throated Bronze Cuckoo Chalcites ruficollis

  The Rufous-throated Bronze Cuckoo is a small cuckoo of New Guinea's humid mountain forests. Its throat and underparts are rufous, crossed by broad dark bars.

• Fulvous Babbler Argya fulva

  The Fulvous Babbler is a resident bird of dry North African scrub. It has brown plumage, a pale neck, and a long tail.

• Spotted Owlet Athene brama

  A small owl with gray-brown plumage marked by white spots. It is active at night and hunts insects and small vertebrates.

• Golden-winged Sunbird Drepanorhynchus reichenowi

  The Golden-winged Sunbird lives in the mountains of East Africa. It visits flowers for nectar and may make seasonal movements between elevations.

• 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.

• Russet-crowned Quail-Dove Zentrygon goldmani

  This quail-dove was studied in Panama’s montane forest, where records show ground foraging and courtship.

• Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna autumnalis

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

• Hainan Peacock Pheasant Polyplectron katsumatae

  The Hainan Peacock Pheasant is restricted to mountain forests on Hainan Island. Males have metallic blue-green bars and eye-like spots on the wings and tail, and the birds forage for insects and worms on the ground.

• Sulawesi Pygmy Woodpecker Yungipicus temminckii

  The Sulawesi Pygmy Woodpecker is a small woodpecker of forests and woodland on Sulawesi. It searches tree bark for small invertebrates.

• Blue-fronted Lorikeet Charmosynopsis toxopei

  A small lorikeet confined to Buru Island in Indonesia, it remains poorly known in the wild.

• Noronha Elaenia Elaenia ridleyana

  The Noronha Elaenia occurs on the Fernando de Noronha islands off Brazil. It uses scrub, woodland, thickets, and gardens and eats insects and small fruit.