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• Long-tailed Ground Dove Uropelia campestris

  

  The Long-tailed Ground Dove is a long-tailed dove of South American grasslands. Black spots on its brown wings and its V-shaped tail are distinctive.

• Mantanani Scops Owl Otus mantananensis

  This small owl lives in island forests and woodland. Its plumage varies from gray to rufous-brown, and it has a dark-edged facial disc and short ear tufts.

• Eurasian Three-toed Woodpecker Picoides tridactylus

  The Eurasian Three-toed Woodpecker has three toes and taps dead trees to find insect larvae.

• Ashy Cisticola Cisticola cinereolus

  This cisticola is about 13–14 cm long. The account lists acacia woodland and thornbush, with ground foraging for invertebrates. Sound recordings include the Amboseli area in Kenya.

• La Selle Thrush Turdus swalesi

  The La Selle Thrush lives in highland forest on Hispaniola. Its two subspecies occupy separate areas of the island; adults of the nominate subspecies have a black head and back and reddish-brown underparts.

• Andean Siskin Spinus spinescens

  A yellowish finch of the Andes, often found in flocks at forest edges and in páramo. The black head marking of females varies between northern and southern populations.

• Pale Blue Flycatcher Cyornis unicolor

  In Bangladesh, this is a rare winter visitor recorded in eastern hill forests. Its wider range extends across South, East and Southeast Asia.

• Pearl Kite Gampsonyx swainsonii

  The Pearl Kite is a small raptor with dark upperparts and a white underside. It hunts alone or in pairs, taking insects, lizards, and small birds.

• Atlantic Plain Xenops Xenops minutus

  Xenops minutus lives in the Atlantic Forest of eastern Brazil. It has an upturned bill, a long white eyebrow, and a white throat. An older regional account from southeastern Brazil uses the pre-split name Plain Xenops.

• Black-hooded Antshrike Thamnophilus bridgesi

  This antshrike occurs in Costa Rica and Panama. The male is almost entirely black with white spots on the wings, and the species uses dense, tangled undergrowth in humid forest.

• Philippine Coucal Centropus viridis

  This coucal is about 41–43 cm long. It is active on the ground by day and feeds on ground invertebrates.

• Bald Parrot Pyrilia aurantiocephala

  This parrot occurs in Brazil. Its 2002 original description used the genus name Pionopsitta aurantiocephala; the current candidate name in this dataset is Pyrilia aurantiocephala.

• Cuban Grassquit Phonipara canora

  This bird forms small flocks in Cuban grassland and scrub. Males have black faces, females have grayish faces, and a yellow band runs from behind the eye down the sides of the neck to the chest.

• Black-winged Lory Eos cyanogenia

  A lory of islands off Indonesian Papua, with a red body, blue ear patch, and black wings.

• Juan Fernandez Firecrown Sephanoides fernandensis

  This hummingbird is endemic to Robinson Crusoe Island in the Juan Fernández Islands. Males and females have very different plumage.

• Hainan Hill Partridge Arborophila ardens

  The Hainan Hill Partridge is a pheasant-family bird found only on Hainan Island, where it lives in remaining mountain evergreen forests.

• 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.

• Mandarin duck Aix galericulata

  A duck of wooded ponds and streams. Males in breeding plumage have ornamental feathers raised like sails above the back.

• Blue-eyed Ground Dove Columbina cyanopis

  The Blue-eyed Ground Dove is a small dove with striking blue eyes. It is associated with Brazil's Cerrado and was rediscovered in northern Minas Gerais in 2015.

• Arabian Eagle-Owl Bubo milesi

  An eagle-owl of southwestern Arabia. It uses wadis and other wooded places.

• White-barred Piculet Picumnus cirratus

  This tiny woodpecker is about 8.5–9 cm long. In Bolivia it occurs in dry to semi-humid forest and woodland, moving acrobatically among branches as it forages.

• Sao Tome Prinia Prinia molleri

  This prinia is endemic to São Tomé. The study reports it as common in disturbed and edge habitats such as savanna, plantations, farmland and gardens, but rare and locally distributed in the primary-forest sites surveyed. It feeds low in the vegetation, from leaf undersides or the ground.

• Cuban Solitaire Myadestes elisabeth

  The Cuban Solitaire is a forest bird endemic to Cuba. Its brown upperparts, pale gray underparts, and white eyering are distinctive.

• Streaky Seedeater Crithagra striolata

  The Streaky Seedeater is a stocky finch with heavy streaking over pale ochre to whitish underparts. It mainly picks small seeds from the ground or vegetation.