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• White-faced Whistling Duck Dendrocygna viduata

  

  Its white face, long neck, and long legs stand out, and it gives a high-pitched whistle. It gathers in wetland flocks and feeds on insects and plants from mud and shallow water.

• Mediterranean Gull Ichthyaetus melanocephalus

  

  The Mediterranean Gull is also recorded around the UK’s coasts and waters. Adults in breeding plumage stand out by their black heads and red bills.

• Straight-billed Woodcreeper Dendroplex picus

  

  The Straight-billed Woodcreeper has a long, straight, pale bill. The Peru account records it in riparian undergrowth and semi-open woodland edges.

• Blacksmith Thrush Turdus subalaris

  

  The Blacksmith Thrush was recorded in Paraguay’s Atlantic Forest in October. A 2017 specimen account treated three birds under the older name Turdus nigriceps and assigned them to the eastern form subalaris.

• Hutton's Vireo Vireo huttoni

  

  Hutton's Vireo is a small gray-green bird with pale markings around its eyes. It searches among leaves for insects and ranges from western North America into northern Central America.

• Rock Kestrel Falco rupicolus

  

  This falcon is widespread in southern Africa. It hunts over open country and hilly terrain, often using rocks or roadside posts as perches.

• Damara Hornbill Tockus damarensis

  This hornbill ranges from central and northeastern Namibia into southwestern Angola. It has black-and-white plumage and a long, slender red bill.

• Golden-rumped Euphonia Euphonia cyanocephala

  The male has a blue head and back with a golden rump. The Peru species account associates the bird with semi-deciduous and humid montane forest, including places with mistletoes.

• Rufous-winged Illadopsis Illadopsis rufescens

  The Rufous-winged Illadopsis searches the ground and low growth of West African evergreen forest. Its rufous-brown head and back contrast with pale underparts.

• Yellowhammer Emberiza citrinella

  A bunting that stays on farmland in Britain year-round; males have a bright yellow head.

• Amazonian Black Tyrant Knipolegus poecilocercus

  Males are black, while females are olive-brown. The bird forages inconspicuously in dense understory in flooded or seasonally flooded forest.

• Grey Go-away-bird Crinifer concolor

  A uniformly gray turaco with a tall crest and long tail, it often perches in small groups in trees and bushes. It occurs in open woodland and scrub in southern Africa.

• Bengal Florican Houbaropsis bengalensis

  The Bengal Florican lives in grasslands and has strongly different adult male and female plumage.

• Mountain Cacique Cacicus chrysonotus

  The Peru account describes this cacique in montane forest on the eastern Andes. It reports a yellow wing patch north of Junín and a yellow rump in southern populations.

• Lattice-tailed Trogon Trogon clathratus

  This trogon lives in very wet mountain-slope forest in Costa Rica. Males are green and red, females are gray and brown, and the birds use the lower and middle forest levels.

• Woodwards' Batis Batis fratrum

  Batis fratrum lives on the coastal plain of southeastern Africa. Males have grey backs and a white wing-bar; females have a narrow pale eyebrow and rufous wing-bar. It searches for insects in forest understory.

• Purple-throated Fruitcrow Querula purpurata

  The Purple-throated Fruitcrow is a large cotinga with a black body and bluish-grey bill. Males have a purple throat patch, and the species forages for fruit in Amazonian floodplain forest canopy.

• Blue-winged Laughingthrush Trochalopteron squamatum

  The Blue-winged Laughingthrush uses forest undergrowth and bamboo in the Himalayas, from Nepal to southern China and nearby areas. Records are mainly from 900–2,440 m.

• Tawny-throated Dotterel Oreopholus ruficollis

  This dotterel uses open grassland and stony ground in the Andes and elsewhere in South America. Adults have a tawny throat, and the sexes look similar.

• Javan Tesia Tesia superciliaris

  This tiny bird hides in low thickets in Java's mountains. Its very short tail, black crown, and dark eye stripe are distinctive.

• Lovely Fairywren Malurus amabilis

  This fairywren is endemic to the wet tropics of northeastern Australia. The male retains bright plumage through the year.

• Tropical Shearwater Puffinus bailloni

  The Tropical Shearwater dives for small fish and squid and breeds in burrows on islands. In Seychelles it has breeding sites on several islands.

• Yellow-crested cockatoo Cacatua sulphurea

  A white cockatoo from Indonesia, with a yellow crest that can be raised.

• Siberian Nuthatch Sitta arctica

  A 2006 taxonomic study examined the Siberian form arctica within the Eurasian Nuthatch group and supported treating it as a separate species. That form has dark bluish-grey upperparts, a white belly centre and chestnut flanks. A current species account lists forest habitat and invertebrates as food, but the taxonomic study says ecological information about arctica remains fragmentary.