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• Green-backed Eremomela Eremomela canescens

  

  Two birds were recorded foraging in open hillside woodland at Akagera National Park, Rwanda. The reported birds had green backs and wings, white throats, yellow breasts and bellies, and a dark band through the eye.

• Gorgeted Woodstar Chaetocercus heliodor

  

  A small hummingbird of the Colombian and Ecuadorian Andes; males have a long pink-violet gorget.

• Black-browed Albatross Thalassarche melanophris

  

  A large seabird named for the dark line above its eye. It breeds on Antarctic and subantarctic islands and catches krill and fish near the sea surface.

• Leaf-love Phyllastrephus scandens

  

  Leaf-love is a bulbul found from western to central Africa, where it uses woodland and thickets near water.

• Lühder's Bushshrike Laniarius luehderi

  

  A forest bushshrike of west and central Africa. Adults combine tawny-orange head and breast, a black face mask and a broad white wing stripe.

• Tropeiro Seedeater Sporophila beltoni

  

  The adult male is bluish grey with a thick, bright yellow bill. This seedeater breeds in upland grasslands of southern Brazil and moves north to the Cerrado for winter.

• Bachman's Sparrow Peucaea aestivalis

  Bachman's Sparrow lives in open pine woods and grasslands in the southeastern United States. It searches the ground for grass seeds and insects and has reddish streaks on its back.

• Olive-crowned Yellowthroat Geothlypis semiflava

  An adult male is marked by a black facial mask extending from the forehead toward the sides of the neck and by bright yellow underparts. In Costa Rica, the bird uses wet grassy places and marsh cover and is usually in pairs.

• Visayan Flowerpecker Dicaeum haematostictum

  This flowerpecker is endemic to the Philippine Visayan Islands. BirdLife's 2001 account lists Panay, Guimaras, and Negros, but records differ in age and the account notes uncertainty about status on some islands.

• Sao Tome Fiscal Lanius newtoni

  The Sao Tome Fiscal is endemic to the forests of São Tomé Island. Adults have a contrasting black back and pale underparts, and hunt for prey on the ground from a perch.

• Bokikokiko Acrocephalus aequinoctialis

  This Pacific island reed warbler was studied on Kiritimati, where it was more often found in places with taller Heliotropium and Scaevola plants.

• Black Nunbird Monasa atra

  The Black Nunbird is about 25–29 cm long. It is diurnal in northern South American humid forest and scrub, where it sallies to take small invertebrates from nearby surfaces.

• Pin-tailed Sandgrouse Pterocles alchata

  The Pin-tailed Sandgrouse is a ground-dwelling bird of dry steppe-like areas. In the European account, males have elongated central tail feathers and differ from females in breast and facial markings.

• Cape Francolin Pternistis capensis

  This southern African spurfowl has pale cheeks and a dark cap, and searches for food on the ground.

• African Pitta Pitta angolensis

  Both sexes have vivid green, blue, yellow, and red plumage, yet hide among thickets and leaf litter. Birds that migrate to southern Africa to breed forage for invertebrates in riverine woodland.

• Yellow-throated Longclaw Macronyx croceus

  The Yellow-throated Longclaw walks on the ground to search for prey. An adult male of the nominate subspecies has a conspicuous yellow throat and breast.

• Common Goldeneye Bucephala clangula

  The male has a green-black head with a round white spot, while the female's head is brown. In North America, it breeds by northern forest lakes and winters on lakes and coasts.

• Blyth's Frogmouth Batrachostomus affinis

  Blyth's Frogmouth has plumage ranging from rufous-brown to grey. It hunts insects at night from low perches in lowland and hill forests, including Borneo.

• Andean Gull Chroicocephalus serranus

  This medium-sized gull changes its head pattern between breeding and non-breeding plumage. It uses Andean lakes and rivers; in Chile, some move down to the coast in winter.

• Straight-billed Reedhaunter Limnoctites rectirostris

  A secretive ovenbird of southeastern South American wetlands. It is closely associated with stands of Eryngium, where it nests and feeds.

• Fieldfare Turdus pilaris

  A thrush that travels from northern Europe to Britain for winter, often moving through the countryside in flocks to find berries.

• Jamaican Vireo Vireo modestus

  The Jamaican Vireo is a small, rounded bird with gray-green to olive plumage, a white iris, white wing bars, pale yellow underparts, and bluish-gray legs. It hides in dense vegetation, eats insects and small fruit, and occurs at forest edges and roadsides across elevations in Jamaica.

• Amur Falcon Falco amurensis

  This small falcon breeds in East Asia and migrates to southern Africa. Plumage differs among adult males, females, and juveniles.

• Black Hornbill Anthracoceros malayanus

  The Black Hornbill has a black body with white tips on the outer tail feathers. It forages in the upper and middle canopy of lowland forests.