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• White-bibbed Swallow Hirundo nigrita

  

  The White-bibbed Swallow has glossy blue-violet plumage and a white throat patch. It catches insects while flying low over rivers.

• Cinnamon Screech Owl Megascops petersoni

  

  This small owl lives in humid montane forest on the eastern Andes. Its cinnamon-colored plumage has fine markings, and BirdLife describes it as highly dependent on forest.

• Black Crake Zapornia flavirostra

  

  This waterbird is a rail with mostly black plumage, red eyes and legs, and a yellow bill. It is active by day in freshwater marshes, eating water insects, small fish, frogs, and seeds.

• Crested Barbet Trachyphonus vaillantii

  

  This barbet lives in woodlands and savannas of southern Africa. Its crest and red, yellow, and black markings stand out, and both sexes dig nest cavities.

• Large Woodshrike Tephrodornis virgatus

  

  This forest bird has a heavy bill and a dark band across the face. It searches quietly for food in the upper forest layers.

• Blue-tailed Bee-eater Merops philippinus

  

  A bee-eater described in a Malaysian regional profile, where it occurs around sandy coasts, riverbanks, and farmland. It catches flying insects in the air.

• Spot-backed Antwren Herpsilochmus dorsimaculatus

  This antwren lives in lowland evergreen forest in the northwestern Amazon. Males have a black head, a white eyebrow, and black-and-white spots on the back. It is found in the canopy and subcanopy.

• Plain Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus neglectus

  The Plain Leaf Warbler is a small warbler about 9–10 cm long. By day it searches among leaves for small invertebrates; Oman is one location where its calls have been recorded.

• White-shouldered Black Tit Melaniparus guineensis

  The White-shouldered Black Tit is mostly black, with a white wing patch and pale eye. It ranges across parts of western and eastern Africa and uses dry woodland, savanna and open habitats.

• Moustached Barbet Psilopogon incognitus

  Adults are green with blue cheeks and a blue throat. The extent of red and blue markings on the head and throat differs among the three subspecies described by Oiseaux.net.

• Yellow-crested Manakin Heterocercus flavivertex

  This manakin occurs in the lowlands of northern South America. At one study site in northern Venezuela it was observed in seasonally flooded forest and white-sand scrub woodland.

• Fuegian Snipe Gallinago stricklandii

  The Fuegian Snipe occurs in the temperate-forest region of southern South America. It probes wet soil for small invertebrates with its long, slender bill; some birds have been recorded year-round in Cape Horn National Park.

• Yellow Thornbill Acanthiza nana

  A small bird of eastern Australia, often in open woodland and shrubland. Its yellowish underside and white cheek streaks stand out as it forages among leaves.

• Rufous-thighed Kite Harpagus diodon

  This raptor occurs where forest meets savanna. It has rufous thighs, yellow legs, and a brown stripe down the center of its throat.

• Philippine Pygmy Woodpecker Yungipicus maculatus

  A small woodpecker of Philippine forests. This entry covers the three subspecies aligned with the candidate taxon and excludes the Sulu population.

• Choco Toucan Ramphastos brevis

  This toucan lives in humid forests from western Colombia into Ecuador. Males and females differ in bill length.

• Olive Long-tailed Cuckoo Cercococcyx olivinus

  The Olive Long-tailed Cuckoo is a long-tailed forest cuckoo in Africa. It is secretive and may be detected by its call.

• Nankeen Night Heron Nycticorax caledonicus

  This widespread Australian heron is nocturnal and searches for food in wetlands.

• Crested Ibon Lophozosterops dohertyi

  This white-eye-family bird occurs in forests of Indonesia’s Lesser Sunda Islands. It is about 12 cm long and feeds on fruit.

• Jocotoco Antpitta Grallaria ridgelyi

  This ground-dwelling antpitta inhabits wet, mossy montane forest in southern Ecuador. It has a white cheek patch and black crown, and known records are from a limited mountain area.

• Desert Sparrow Passer simplex

  The Desert Sparrow is a small, sandy-colored sparrow. Males have a black bib and black lores, and the species occurs in desert scrub and around oases.

• Tanahjampea Monarch Symposiachrus everetti

  The Tanahjampea Monarch is restricted to one Indonesian island and uses lowland forest, mangroves and moist shrubland.

• Torresian Kingfisher Todiramphus sordidus

  The Torresian Kingfisher is a large kingfisher of coastal northern and eastern Australia and southern New Guinea. It uses mudflats and mangroves, where it searches for crabs and other prey.

• White-tailed Cisticola Cisticola anderseni

  A cisticola of wetlands in the Kilombero floodplain of southwestern Tanzania. Its outer tail feathers and tips are white, and its back is streaked.