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• Grey-capped Warbler Eminia lepida

  

  A warbler of East African scrub and forest. Williams and Arlott's 1980 field guide describes a green bird with a grey, black-banded crown and a dark chestnut throat patch that skulks in dense thickets, often near water.

• Greater Black Coucal Centropus menbeki

  The Greater Black Coucal is recorded from forest, scrub, and freshwater swamps on New Guinea. Adults have glossy blue-green black plumage, while juveniles look different.

• Ornate Lorikeet Saudareos ornata

  The Ornate Lorikeet has a dark violet-blue head, a red-orange face, and a green body. It occurs on Sulawesi and nearby islands and feeds on nectar, pollen, and fruit.

• Mariana Fruit Dove Ptilinopus roseicapilla

  The Mariana Fruit Dove lives in forests of the Northern Mariana Islands. It walks along branches while feeding on fruit, leaves, seeds, and flowers.

• Red-headed Vulture Sarcogyps calvus

  The Red-headed Vulture has a red to orange head as an adult; it is paler in juveniles. It occurs across India and feeds on carrion.

• Yellow-crested Tanager Loriotus rufiventer

  Adult males have a black head, back and tail, with a partly hidden yellow crown crest. The chest and belly center is rusty with yellow edging. It feeds in mature-forest canopy and subcanopy, often in mixed flocks.

• Inca Flycatcher Leptopogon taczanowskii

  It occurs in montane forest on the eastern slope of the Peruvian Andes, at 1,700–2,700 m.

• Rufous-collared Robin Turdus rufitorques

  The Rufous-collared Robin is a large thrush of Central American highlands, including forest edges near farmland and villages.

• Hardhead Aythya australis

  The Hardhead is an Australian diving duck with a dark brown body and white belly.

• Black-chinned Antbird Hypocnemoides melanopogon

  This antbird lives in lowland areas north of the Amazon and Marañón rivers and searches for food in waterside shrubs and overhanging vegetation. Males show gray and black plumage; females have a paler belly center.

• African Orange-bellied Parrot Poicephalus rufiventris

  The African Orange-bellied Parrot has an orange-red belly in males and a brown-grey abdomen in females. It eats fruits and seeds in dry scrub and acacia woodlands.

• Blue-tailed Hummingbird Saucerottia cyanura

  This hummingbird occurs in lowlands and foothills from southern Mexico through Central America. A blue tail, purplish rump, and rusty wing patch are key marks; it visits flowering trees and shrubs.

• Black-bodied Woodpecker Dryocopus schulzii

  An Argentine biodiversity page records the species in open woodland and savanna. It describes the male with a red crest, a pale throat, and a mostly black body.

• Streak-fronted Thornbird Phacellodomus striaticeps

  About 16 cm long, it has a chestnut forehead and crown, brown back and tail, and gray-ochre underparts. It lives in ravines and shrub steppe in northwestern Argentina.

• Koklass Pheasant Pucrasia macrolopha

  The Koklass Pheasant is a large forest bird with a silvery male and a streaked brown female.

• Striped Owl Asio clamator

  This owl has long ear tufts and vertical streaks on its body. It is active at dusk and night, hunting small animals in open country and along woodland edges.

• White-winged Cliff Chat Monticola semirufus

  This chat occurs in rocky parts of the Ethiopian Highlands. Both sexes have a large white patch in the middle of the wing; males have a black hood and a red-orange belly.

• Forest Canary Crithagra scotops

  The Forest Canary is a canary of southeastern Africa with a thick, conical bill and a yellow eyebrow stripe. Its upperparts are olive-yellow, with streaks on the breast and flanks.

• Grey-backed Camaroptera Camaroptera brevicaudata

  This small bird occurs in central and northern Namibia in savanna woodland and riverine thickets. It searches for small invertebrates low down and has greenish upperparts, grayish underparts, and a short cocked tail.

• Bay-breasted Cuckoo Coccyzus rufigularis

  The Bay-breasted Cuckoo has a gray back and rusty throat and breast. It searches for small animals in forests from lowlands to mountains on Hispaniola.

• Blue-winged Parrot Neophema chrysostoma

  It has an olive head and back with a large dark-blue wing patch. It uses grasslands and grassy woodland, foraging on the ground for grass seeds.

• Wonga Pigeon Leucosarcia melanoleuca

  This gray pigeon has a white V-shaped marking from the nape onto the back. It often forages on the ground for food beneath leaf litter.

• Hawaiian Hawk Buteo solitarius

  The Hawaiian Hawk is the only resident hawk in the Hawaiian Islands. It occurs only on the island of Hawai‘i and is often seen soaring over forests and open areas.

• Great Inca Finch Incaspiza pulchra

  This finch is endemic to Peru and lives in dry scrub on the western Andes. A 2016-2017 study also recorded it at lower elevations in a coastal hill reserve in La Libertad.