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• Bogota Rail Rallus semiplumbeus

  

  The Bogota Rail lives in high-elevation wetlands of the eastern Colombian Andes, often among dense reeds and other wetland plants.

• Naked-faced Barbet Gymnobucco calvus

  

  This barbet inhabits forests in western and central Africa. The skin on its face and crown is bare, and groups use trees bearing fruit.

• Sri Lanka Woodshrike Tephrodornis affinis

  

  Endemic to Sri Lanka, it is commonest in lowland dry-zone woodland and local in parts of the wet zone. It searches open woodland for insects and spiders.

• Blue-moustached Bee-eater Merops mentalis

  

  This bee-eater lives in forests of West and Central Africa. It uses forest interiors, edges, and treefall gaps.

• African penguin Spheniscus demersus

  

  A penguin of the South African and Namibian coasts that breeds in large colonies.

• Bananal Antbird Cercomacra ferdinandi

  

  An antbird recorded along the Araguaia and Tocantins river corridors of central Brazil, using dense river-edge thickets in flood-prone areas.

• Ijima's Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus ijimae

  Ijima’s Leaf Warbler is a migratory bird with a milky-white throat, chest, and belly and a yellow brow stripe. It searches forests and bamboo groves for insects and spiders, and also eats seeds.

• Long-tailed tit Aegithalos caudatus

  A tiny bird with a long tail that searches for food on fine branches.

• White-naped Tit Machlolophus nuchalis

  This small tit is 12–13 cm long. It has records in Kutch, western India, and searches for insects in dry Acacia scrub.

• Fire-tufted Barbet Psilopogon pyrolophus

  The Fire-tufted Barbet is a green forest bird with red bristles beside its bill, feeding on fruit and insects on the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra.

• Blue Manakin Chiroxiphia caudata

  Males have blue bodies, black heads and wings, red crowns, and long central tail feathers. Females are green, and the species lives in humid forests.

• Hooded crane Grus monacha

  A gray crane with a white head and neck that also winters in Japan.

• Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica

  This shorebird breeds along Arctic and subarctic coasts. Outside the breeding season, it probes coastal mud and sand with its long bill.

• Western Gerygone Gerygone fusca

  The Western Gerygone is a small bird about 10 cm long, and the sexes look alike. In Western Australia it gleans small insects from foliage in forests and woodlands.

• Barred Honey Buzzard Pernis celebensis

  The Sulawesi Honey-buzzard is a small raptor from Sulawesi and the Banggai Islands. Adults have a rufous, streaked breast and a barred belly.

• New Guinea Megapode Megapodius decollatus

  The New Guinea Megapode lives in lowland and foothill forest. It has dark plumage, a reddish face, and a pointed crest at the back of the head, with large feet adapted for digging.

• Fine-barred Piculet Picumnus subtilis

  This small woodpecker is recorded in southeastern Peru and western Amazonia. A 2009 paper reported records in Acre, Brazil, and described foraging at the edge of terra firme forest with bamboo.

• Southern Emerald Toucanet Aulacorhynchus albivitta

  It occurs in montane forests of Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador. The species-level name used here is Southern Emerald Toucanet; White-throated may refer only to the white-throated nominate subspecies and should not be generalized to every form.

• Rufous-winged Ground Cuckoo Neomorphus rufipennis

  The Rufous-winged Ground Cuckoo is a large ground cuckoo of foothill forest from southern Venezuela to northern Brazil. It has rufous wings and bare red skin around the eye.

• White-backed Night Heron Calherodius leuconotus

  The White-backed Night Heron has a white eye-ring and pale back plumes. It searches for food along riverbanks and shallows at night.

• Pale-bellied White-eye Zosterops consobrinorum

  This white-eye occurs in southeastern Sulawesi. It uses habitats from lowland forest to farms and gardens, foraging in the understorey and canopy in pairs or small groups.

• Five-colored Barbet Capito quinticolor

  The Five-colored Barbet combines a black back with a red head and yellow markings. It feeds mainly on fruit, also taking insects, in forests and at their edges.

• Chestnut-naped Antpitta Grallaria nuchalis

  This antpitta lives in humid Andean forest. In the account of its northeastern Peruvian form, it is also associated with bamboo thickets.

• Grey-capped Social Weaver Pseudonigrita arnaudi

  An adult of the nominate subspecies has a pale gray crown and sandy body, with a white eye-ring and black bill.