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• Blue-eared Barbet Psilopogon duvaucelii

  

  This small barbet occurs in southern Thailand. It uses rainforest, secondary forest, and forest edges, and may gather at fruiting trees.

• Wied's Tyrant-Manakin Neopelma aurifrons

  

  This manakin occurs in moist forests of eastern Brazil. Its face and chest are olive-gray, with a pale lemon belly.

• Japanese Snipe Gallinago hardwickii

  

  The Japanese Snipe breeds in northern Japan and migrates to southeastern Australia. Its long bill and brown stripes are distinctive.

• Shy Heathwren Hylacola cauta

  

  This small bird lives in southern Australian mallee scrub and similar habitats. Its warm brown back, chestnut rump, and white wing patch help identify it.

• Shikra Tachyspiza badia

  

  A small, long-tailed hawk whose adult males and females differ in eye and upperpart color.

• Lita Woodpecker Piculus litae

  

  This woodpecker inhabits humid forest from western Colombia to northwestern Ecuador. It searches beneath tree bark while foraging alone or in pairs.

• Grey-breasted Mountain Toucan Andigena hypoglauca

  A large toucan of humid Andean forests, it searches among high trees for fruit and lives at elevations above those of most toucans.

• Hodgson's Hawk-Cuckoo Hierococcyx nisicolor

  Hodgson's Hawk-Cuckoo is a cuckoo with predominantly gray adult plumage. It moves seasonally from its breeding range to wintering areas in Southeast Asia and is recorded in forest and forest-edge habitats.

• Indian Pond Heron Ardeola grayii

  A heron that searches for food in shallow water, with distinct breeding and nonbreeding plumages.

• Capped White-eye Zosterops fuscicapilla

  This white-eye is recorded in New Guinea, in forest and cultivated areas at about 1,200–2,100 m. This entry is limited to New Guinea Island records.

• Tapajos Antpitta Myrmothera subcanescens

  This antpitta occurs south of the Amazon River in Brazil. A field account describes grayer flanks, a browner and less olive back, and shorter streaks than in a close relative.

• Plain-backed Sparrow Passer flaveolus

  The male has a black throat, chestnut back, and yellowish face, while the female is much plainer. It feeds on seeds on the ground in open woodland and farmland.

• Black-throated Shrikebill Clytorhynchus nigrogularis

  A forest bird of Fiji's islands, inhabiting closed-canopy forest; the sexes differ in head pattern.

• Woodland Kingfisher Halcyon senegalensis

  The Woodland Kingfisher is an African kingfisher with blue upperparts and wings and a white underside. A southern African regional guide records it as a summer resident.

• Grey Apalis Apalis cinerea

  This small African bird occurs in eastern Africa, including Kenya, and parts of western Africa. It uses montane forest, woodland, and thickets.

• Grey-tailed Mountaingem Lampornis cinereicauda

  Grey-tailed Mountaingem is represented here by hummingbirds surveyed at Cloudbridge Nature Reserve, Costa Rica. The study recorded this population under an older subspecies name and described different male and female plumage.

• White-browed Bulbul Pycnonotus luteolus

  The White-browed Bulbul is a resident breeder in peninsular India and Sri Lanka. Its white eyebrow is distinctive, and it searches bushes for fruit, nectar, and insects.

• Southern Boubou Laniarius ferrugineus

  The Southern Boubou moves through dense undergrowth and searches for prey near the ground. Males show a striking mix of black, white, and rufous.

• Guira Tanager Hemithraupis guira

  This tanager occurs widely in Amazonia and elsewhere in South America. In Tumbes, northwestern Peru, the regional account says it seems limited to mangroves near sea level.

• Dusky Bush Tanager Chlorospingus semifuscus

  It occurs in the western Andes of Colombia and Ecuador, joins mixed flocks, and uses fruit and insects. Males may sing in clustered territories along ridges.

• MacGillivray's Warbler Geothlypis tolmiei

  MacGillivray's Warbler is a small warbler that breeds in western North America and migrates to Central America.

• Black-fronted Flowerpecker Dicaeum igniferum

  The Black-fronted Flowerpecker occurs in Indonesia’s Lesser Sunda Islands. A male of the nominate subspecies has scarlet upperparts, dark wings and tail, and a white chin.

• Northern Fiscal Lanius humeralis

  A widespread African shrike that searches for prey from exposed perches in open country.

• Saipan Reed-warbler Acrocephalus hiwae

  This reed-warbler lives on Saipan. A 1998 report records it in reed marshes, forest edges, thicket-meadow mosaics and forest openings on the island.