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• Karoo Bustard Heterotetrax vigorsii

  

  The Karoo Bustard has a gray-brown body, a black throat, and a black patch on the nape. It walks through stony Karoo shrubland while foraging.

• Band-tailed Cacique Cacicus latirostris

  

  The Peru account places this bird in the lowlands of Loreto and central Ucayali, where it forms small groups and mixed flocks in the forest canopy. Its yellow tail has a black terminal band. The account also uses Ocyalus latirostris; this entry retains the pool name Cacicus latirostris.

• Philippine Trogon Harpactes ardens

  

  This trogon is endemic to the Philippines. The male has red underparts, while the female has orange-brown underparts; it lives in moist lowland and montane forest.

• Forest Batis Batis mixta

  

  This small bird lives in forests from south-eastern Kenya into Tanzania. Males show blue-gray, black, and white markings; females are marked mainly with chestnut.

• Turquoise Cotinga Cotinga ridgwayi

  

  Males are turquoise, with violet on the chin, throat, upper chest, and center of the belly. Females are dusky with white spots and buff patterning below.

• Black-throated Laughingthrush Pterorhinus chinensis

  

  The Black-throated Laughingthrush lives in forests from southern China through Indochina. It usually moves in pairs or small groups and searches for food in the lower parts of trees and shrubs.

• Eurasian Dotterel Charadrius morinellus

  The Eurasian Dotterel is a plover that breeds in uplands from Europe to Siberia and winters from North Africa toward Iran. In breeding plumage, females are more colorful than males.

• Yellow-bellied Bush Warbler Horornis acanthizoides

  This small warbler breeds in highland forests of mainland China; a separate subspecies is recorded in Taiwan. It stays hidden in dense bamboo undergrowth during the breeding season, when its song can reveal its presence.

• Striated Grasswren Amytornis striatus

  The Striated Grasswren lives in open mallee woodland in South Australia. This entry follows the sandplain subspecies described in the state fact sheet.

• Juan Fernandez Petrel Pterodroma externa

  The underside of the wings is white with dark tips and edges. It breeds on the Juan Fernández Islands and ranges over the open Pacific outside the breeding season.

• Western Corella Cacatua pastinator

  This white cockatoo is native only to Western Australia. Its subspecies occupy different areas within the state.

• Pygmy Nuthatch Sitta pygmaea

  The Pygmy Nuthatch is a small bird of pine forests in western North America. It has a gray back and pale underside and searches tree trunks and branches in flocks.

• Rufous-bellied Niltava Niltava sundara

  The male Rufous-bellied Niltava has a blue crown, face, throat, and back with sandy-brown underparts. It lives in forest bushes and undergrowth and feeds on small invertebrates.

• Rufous Fantail Rhipidura rufifrons

  The Rufous Fantail is a small bird with a reddish-brown rump and a tail it often spreads into a fan.

• Rose-breasted Chat Granatellus pelzelni

  The Rose-breasted Chat differs strongly by sex and inhabits forest canopy and edges.

• Boyer's Cuckooshrike Coracina boyeri

  Boyer’s Cuckooshrike lives in forests of New Guinea. It occurs in moist lowland forest and mangroves, and compiled diet data classify it as frugivorous.

• Samoan Starling Aplonis atrifusca

  The Samoan Starling is endemic to the Samoan Archipelago. A National Park of American Samoa survey recorded it in native forest and human-dominated forest, including fruiting trees.

• African Openbill Anastomus lamelligerus

  The African Openbill is a dark stork with a greenish gloss. Its bill has a gap between the upper and lower parts, which helps it feed on shelled mollusks.

• Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos

  Adults are slim, long-tailed gray birds. In North American towns and grasslands, they forage for insects and eat more fruit in fall and winter.

• Gillett's Lark Calendulauda gilletti

  This lark occurs in eastern Ethiopia, Somalia, and Kenya. It has brown streaking and a rufous crown and searches for prey on the ground in semi-arid savanna. The source's treatment includes the former Degodi Lark.

• Island Whistler Pachycephala phaionota

  This bird ranges from the Moluccas to western New Guinea. Its white throat and grey-brown back are useful field marks, and it eats insects in coastal scrub and similar habitats.

• New Caledonian Thicketbird Megalurulus mariei

  This 17–18 cm ground-dwelling bird is restricted to New Caledonia. It has olive-brown upperparts, a long pale eyebrow, and creamy underparts washed rusty. It walks through grass and scrub and feeds on small invertebrates.

• Silvery-fronted Tapaculo Scytalopus argentifrons

  The Silvery-fronted Tapaculo occurs from Costa Rica into western Panama, in dense understory of wet montane forest and bamboo.

• Cryptic Becard Pachyramphus salvini

  Once included in the Black-and-white Becard, it was separated after genetic, morphological, and vocal comparisons. Its main range spans western Colombia, western Ecuador, north-western Peru, and the Marañón drainage.