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• Guianan Red Cotinga Phoenicircus carnifex

  

  The Guianan Red Cotinga lives in northern South American rainforest. Males are conspicuously red, while females and immatures have more olive coloring. A study in Suriname observed male display sites.

• Greater Sooty Owl Tyto tenebricosa

  

  The Greater Sooty Owl is a nocturnal forest owl recorded in eastern Australia and New Guinea. It hunts vertebrate prey in dense forest.

• Arabian Babbler Argya squamiceps

  

  This brown babbler has a long tail. It searches the ground for small invertebrates by day and lives in dry scrub and other open habitats.

• Semipalmated Plover Charadrius semipalmatus

  

  The Semipalmated Plover is a small shorebird with a dark band across the chest. It migrates from North American breeding grounds toward South America.

• Tanimbar Bush Warbler Horornis carolinae

  

  The 1987 original description called this bird Cettia carolinae and reported it from two sites in southern Yamdena. The author thought it might be widespread on the island, but the records available then were limited.

• Pilbara Grasswren Amytornis whitei

  

  This long-tailed bird lives in the Pilbara of Western Australia. It runs among large spinifex clumps in dry, open country.

• 'A'o Puffinus auricularis

  Animal Diversity Web's broad treatment of Puffinus auricularis includes Newell's shearwater in Hawaii and Townsend's shearwater off Mexico. Some taxonomies split them; ʻAʻo is the Hawaiian name for the Newell's population.

• Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo Zanda funerea

  This large cockatoo has a black body set off by yellow cheek and tail markings. It feeds in flocks in eucalypt woodlands and pine plantations.

• Kashmir Nuthatch Sitta cashmirensis

  The Kashmir Nuthatch has blue-gray upperparts and reddish-buff underparts. It feeds on insects and spiders, adding seeds and nuts in winter.

• Rubeho Akalat Sheppardia aurantiithorax

  The Rubeho Akalat occurs in forest in the Eastern Arc mountains of central Tanzania. Its throat and upper breast are deep orange, and observations describe it feeding on the ground and low branches.

• Brown-capped Fantail Rhipidura diluta

  A 1996 report of a 1993 field project lists Sumbawa, Flores and Lomblen (now Lembata), in forest habitats other than dry thorn-scrub. These historical island records are not a current exhaustive range map.

• Golden Grosbeak Pheucticus chrysogaster

  Males are conspicuously yellow with black wings. The species uses dry, semi-open country and forest edges, where it eats seeds, insects, and fruit.

• Purple-throated Cuckooshrike Campephaga quiscalina

  A forest cuckooshrike of tropical Africa. Adult males have a glossy black body and a purple sheen on the throat.

• Chestnut-bellied Starling Lamprotornis pulcher

  The Chestnut-bellied Starling lives in Sahelian savanna and shrubland. It has glossy blue-green upperparts and breast, a chestnut belly, and searches for food in small flocks on the ground.

• Abdim's Stork Ciconia abdimii

  Abdim's Stork occurs in eastern and southern Africa. It eats insects, and some populations move south after breeding.

• Espanola Mockingbird Mimus macdonaldi

  This mockingbird lives only on Española in the Galápagos. It has a long tail and curved bill and eats insects, fruit, and other small prey.

• Red-winged Lark Corypha hypermetra

  A 2024 taxonomic study places the nominate form from southern Somalia through Kenya to north-eastern Tanzania, and subspecies gallarum in Ethiopia. It cautions that range boundaries remain uncertain and separates the Kidepo form as another species.

• Sandstone Shrikethrush Colluricincla woodwardi

  The Sandstone Shrike-thrush lives among sandstone rocks in northern Australia. It walks between rocks while searching for small lizards, grasshoppers, and spiders.

• Buff-banded Bushbird Buettikoferella bivittata

  This ground-dwelling bird occurs on Timor Island. Its appearance is documented in an 1862 Timor account, while its habitat is listed in a 2008 regional checklist.

• Vilcabamba Tapaculo Scytalopus urubambae

  This tapaculo occurs in the highlands of Peru's Cuzco region. Adults are gray with rufous on the flanks and rump, but voice and range are especially useful for separating it from similar species.

• White-naped Xenopsaris Xenopsaris albinucha

  This small passerine occurs in separated parts of South America, from Venezuela to the southern cone. A study found resident, partly migratory, and migratory breeding populations, with seasonal plumage change in the records.

• Yellow-billed Blue Magpie Urocissa flavirostris

  This long-tailed crow relative has pale blue plumage and a vivid yellow bill. Flocks forage noisily together.

• Red-throated Parrot-Finch Erythrura psittacea

  The Red-throated Parrotfinch is a small bird found only in New Caledonia. Its red face and tail contrast with its green body.

• Philippine Spine-tailed Swift Mearnsia picina

  This Philippine spinetail has long wings and a short tail. It catches insects while flying above forest.