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• Humblot's Flycatcher Humblotia flavirostris

  

  This flycatcher is endemic to Grand Comoro. It is about 14 cm long, with grey-brown upperparts, pale dark-streaked underparts, and a yellow-orange bill and feet.

• Arabian Golden-winged Grosbeak Rhynchostruthus percivali

  The Arabian Golden-winged Grosbeak lives in the southwestern Saudi highlands and has a very thick black bill. White cheeks and yellow wing patches make it distinctive.

• Saw-billed Hermit Ramphodon naevius

  This large hummingbird is endemic to Brazil. Orange throat and neck markings with a dark central stripe, and its bill shape, help identify it. A study site in southeastern Atlantic rainforest documented flower feeding.

• Grey-green Fruit Dove Ptilinopus purpuratus

  The Grey-green Fruit Dove is a fruit-eating pigeon found on Tahiti and Moorea in the Society Islands. It uses forests and other wooded places.

• Tanimbar Boobook Ninox forbesi

  This owl occurs on Indonesia's Tanimbar Islands. It has buff to rufous-brown head and breast plumage and is recorded in lowland forests.

• Cinnamon Flycatcher Pyrrhomyias cinnamomeus

  In northwestern Argentina, the nominate subspecies is listed from Jujuy, Salta, and Tucumán. It has a dark chestnut head, with cinnamon-colored upper tail coverts and underparts.

• 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.

• Glossy Flowerpiercer Diglossa lafresnayii

  The Glossy Flowerpiercer has glossy black plumage and a blue shoulder patch and forages along Andean forest edges.

• White-winged Woodpecker Dendrocopos leucopterus

  The White-winged Woodpecker occurs in Central Asia, including Kyrgyzstan. Breeding-plumage males have a red nape mark, and the local account describes nesting in tree cavities in Kyrgyzstan.

• Bolivian Slaty Antshrike Thamnophilus sticturus

  The Bolivian Slaty Antshrike occurs from eastern Bolivia into southwestern Brazil, in tropical dry forest. It has white wing spots and spots on the outer webs of many tail feathers that show from above when the tail is open.

• Lesser White-fronted Goose Anser erythropus

  A small grey-brown goose with a white patch at the base of its pink bill and black belly patches. The East Asian population winters in eastern China and the Korean Peninsula.

• Upland Buzzard Buteo hemilasius

  This large buzzard lives in open steppe and uplands and occurs in both light and dark plumage forms.

• Parker's Spinetail Cranioleuca vulpecula

  A small ovenbird of islands in the Amazon river system. It uses young grass and scrub and searches trunks and branches for small arthropods.

• Golden-capped Parakeet Aratinga auricapillus

  The Golden-capped Conure lives in forests and along forest edges in eastern Brazil, where it eats fruit and seeds.

• Swinhoe's Pheasant Lophura swinhoii

  Swinhoe's Pheasant lives in Taiwan's forests. The male stands out with a white crest and back and two long white tail feathers.

• Eastern Ground Parrot Pezoporus wallicus

  This bright green parrot has black markings and moves by walking or running on the ground. It occurs in scattered coastal grasslands and wetlands of eastern Australia.

• Chestnut-bellied Rock Thrush Monticola rufiventris

  The Chestnut-bellied Rock Thrush lives in mountain forests of Asia, including the Himalayas. Adult males are blue and chestnut, while females have a different gray-brown pattern.

• Nihoa Finch Telespiza ultima

  The Nihoa Finch is naturally found only on Nihoa in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Its stout bill is suited to eating seeds and other foods.

• Bronze-tailed Comet Polyonymus caroli

  This hummingbird lives on the Pacific slope of the Peruvian Andes. It has bronzy-green upperparts and a white spot behind the eye, and takes nectar from flowering agaves and cacti.

• Chatham Islands Pigeon Hemiphaga chathamensis

  The Chatham Island pigeon is a large forest pigeon now confined to Chatham Island. Its blackish-blue head and breast contrast with maroon wings and a white belly; most birds live in the south of the island.

• Abyssinian Owl Asio abyssinicus

  The Abyssinian Owl is a medium-sized owl with brown ear tufts edged in white and orange eyes. It occurs locally in East African highlands and feeds mainly on small mammals.

• Lesser Antillean Flycatcher Myiarchus oberi

  A flycatcher recorded on Dominica. The account describes it at forest edges and fruit plantations, where it catches insects by darting from a perch.

• Yellow-backed Tanager Hemithraupis flavicollis

  This tanager occurs from eastern Panama to southeastern Brazil. eBird describes pairs feeding in the canopy, often with mixed-species flocks.

• Brown-capped Pygmy Woodpecker Yungipicus nanus

  This small woodpecker searches tree bark for invertebrates in forests and more open woodland.