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• Terrestrial Brownbul Phyllastrephus terrestris

  

  This bulbul forages through leaf litter in southern African forests. It is shy and may form small groups outside the breeding season.

• Turquoise-winged Parrotlet Forpus spengeli

  Forpus spengeli is a small parrot recorded in northern Colombia. A Colombian taxonomic and distribution review reports it from dry savanna, open woodland, and scrub.

• Black-capped Sparrow Arremon abeillei

  This sparrow occurs in the understory of humid Andean forests and tall scrub. Its black head and broad white eyebrow stand out, and mantle color varies between subspecies.

• Little Cuckoo Coccycua minuta

  The Little Cuckoo is a small reddish-brown cuckoo spread across Amazonia. It is often found in vine-filled thickets along water, forest edges, and cleared forest.

• Cinnamon-rumped Foliage-gleaner Philydor pyrrhodes

  This ovenbird inhabits swamps and moist lowland forest in the Amazon region. It has brown upperparts, cinnamon underparts and tail, and a long down-curved bill.

• Chattering Giant-Honeyeater Gymnomyza viridis

  This is a large honeyeater recorded in forests on Taveuni, Fiji. Field notes from 1970 describe visits to wild banana flowers and pandanus, as well as pairs feeding one another.

• Rufous-throated Solitaire Myadestes genibarbis

  The Rufous-throated Solitaire is a year-round resident of Caribbean mountain forests. It is mostly gray, with a rufous throat and white outer tail feathers; plumage varies among islands.

• Streaked Spiderhunter Arachnothera magna

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

• Grey-winged Robin-Chat Cossypha polioptera

  The Grey-winged Robin-Chat is a small African forest bird. It has a slate-grey crown, olive-brown mantle, and rufous rump. In lowland and foothill evergreen, riverine, and gallery forests, it feeds on beetles, ants, and other insects.

• Gray Kingbird Tyrannus dominicensis

  The Gray Kingbird is a Caribbean bird with a gray back and white underside. Its dark eye mask and heavy bill stand out as it sallies from a perch to catch insects.

• 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.

• Mountain Avocetbill Opisthoprora euryptera

  The Mountain Avocetbill occurs in the eastern Andes of Peru, Colombia, and Ecuador. It has green upperparts, a copper-toned head, and a bill whose tip turns upward.

• Blue Lorikeet Vini peruviana

  Adult Blue Lorikeets are dark blue-purple with white on the face and upper breast. They feed on nectar and soft fruit and move in small groups between flowering coconut palms.

• Black-legged Dacnis Dacnis nigripes

  This small bird lives in moist forests of south-eastern Brazil, and males and females have very different plumage.

• Eastern Chanting Goshawk Melierax poliopterus

  This grey raptor has a banded tail. In East African grasslands and open woodland, it searches for prey from a perch.

• Ural owl Strix uralensis

  A forest owl with mixed white and brown plumage, found in Eurasia including Japan.

• Plain Prinia Prinia inornata

  This small prinia has a long tail and hides among grass and scrub. In Hong Kong, it nests on reed stems in spring.

• Sichuan Hill Partridge Arborophila rufipectus

  The Sichuan Hill Partridge is a pheasant that lives in forests of southwestern China. Its white throat and russet breast patch help distinguish it from related hill-partridges.

• Cinnamon Woodpecker Celeus loricatus

  The Cinnamon Woodpecker has cinnamon-colored upperparts and wavy black barring. Plumage and barring vary among subspecies and individuals; males have a red throat, while females have a uniformly rufous head.

• Reichenow's Seedeater Crithagra reichenowi

  A small East African finch of open woodland and fields. Its yellow rump and streaked breast and flanks are noticeable features.

• 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.

• Spectacled Imperial Pigeon Ducula perspicillata

  The Spectacled Imperial Pigeon is a large pigeon recorded in North Maluku, Indonesia.

• Dot-backed Antbird Hylophylax punctulatus

  This small antbird inhabits Amazonian lowland forest, especially in northeastern Peru. It searches for food along stream edges and within the forest.

• Javan Bulbul Ixos virescens

  The Javan Bulbul is a bulbul of Java's highland forests. Its long, slender bill and olive-colored back and wings are distinctive.