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• Black-bellied Sandgrouse Pterocles orientalis

  

  This sandgrouse feeds on seeds in dry, open country. The black belly belongs to the male; females have fine barred and speckled plumage.

• Rock Partridge Alectoris graeca

  

  The Rock Partridge is a mountain-dwelling pheasant relative with a white throat patch bordered in black. Its range is limited to European mountain regions.

• Superb Pitta Pitta superba

  

  This pitta is endemic to Manus Island, Papua New Guinea. Its glossy black plumage has bright red feathers beneath the tail and pale blue on the upperwing. A 1990 survey observed it calling from forest perches.

• Madagascar Wagtail Motacilla flaviventris

  

  The Madagascar Wagtail has a gray head and back, a white eyebrow, and a narrow black breast band. It forages on the ground near water in Madagascar.

• Red-crested Pochard Netta rufina

  

  In breeding plumage, the male has an orange head and reddish bill; the female is brown. This diving duck feeds on aquatic plants and algae.

• Swallow-tailed Gull Creagrus furcatus

  

  An unusual gull that catches small fish and squid over the sea at night. Breeding adults show a red eye-ring, and head color changes outside the breeding plumage.

• Crested Hornero Furnarius cristatus

  The Crested Hornero is recorded in central Argentina. Observations from Córdoba describe mud nests built on tree branches.

• Tibetan Blackbird Turdus maximus

  The Tibetan Blackbird is a high-altitude Himalayan thrush. This entry uses Turdus maximus, while noting that some taxonomic references place it within a broader blackbird grouping. Nepal is one part of its range.

• Yellow-browed Shrike-Vireo Vireolanius eximius

  This shrike-vireo occurs from eastern Panama through northern Colombia to northwestern Venezuela. It uses humid lowland forest and tall second-growth woodland, gleaning food in the canopy.

• Slaty-backed Forest Falcon Micrastur mirandollei

  The Slaty-backed Forest Falcon has a gray back and narrow white tail bars. It is solitary and lives in lowland rainforest and mature secondary forest in Costa Rica.

• Rhinoceros hornbill Buceros rhinoceros

  A black-and-white bird with a horn-like structure above its bill.

• Lesser Goldfinch Spinus psaltria

  The Lesser Goldfinch is a small finch with yellow, green, and black plumage. Flocks gather in trees and yards for seeds, and the species ranges from the western United States to the Peruvian Andes.

• Black-crowned Fulvetta Schoeniparus klossi

  This fulvetta occurs on the Dalat Plateau in the southern Annamite Mountains of Vietnam and is reported only at higher elevations in Bidoup Nui Ba National Park.

• Little Bunting Emberiza pusilla

  The Little Bunting is a small bunting that visits Britain from Russia. In Britain, most records are in autumn, and some birds are found in winter flocks of buntings.

• Little Ground Tyrant Syrtidicola fluviatilis

  The Little Ground Tyrant is a small flycatcher of broad river beaches and mudflats. In 2014, one bird was recorded on a sandbar of the Napo River in Ecuador; the paper considered it a non-breeding visitor.

• Violet turaco Tauraco violaceus

  A deep-purple bird that moves through trees by hopping along branches.

• Heuglin's Bustard Neotis heuglinii

  This large bustard lives in dry open country and semi-arid savanna. The male has a dark face and pale crown.

• Golden-winged Cacique Cacicus chrysopterus

  The Golden-winged Cacique has glossy black plumage with yellow patches on the rump and wings. It searches trees for fruit and insects.

• Slaty-tailed Trogon Trogon massena

  The Slaty-tailed Trogon is a forest bird with different plumage in males and females. In the Costa Rican account, the male has a green head and back with a red breast and belly, while the female is mostly dark gray.

• Jameson's Wattle-eye Platysteira jamesoni

  This small bird lives in humid forests from eastern DR Congo into western East Africa. Blue-green eye wattles and chestnut patches along the sides of the neck are distinctive.

• Pompadour Cotinga Xipholena punicea

  This cotinga lives high in forests of the Amazon Basin. Males are deep purple-red, while females are gray with white wing edges, giving the sexes very different plumage.

• Sri Lanka Bay Owl Phodilus assimilis

  The Sri Lanka Bay Owl is a small nocturnal owl found in forests of southwestern India and Sri Lanka.

• Large Grey Babbler Argya malcolmi

  The Large Grey Babbler is a big babbler with a long tail. It forages on the ground by day for small invertebrates.

• Long-billed Plover Charadrius placidus

  The Long-billed Plover has black bands on its head and breast. It searches for insects while running over river gravel or walking through shallows.