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• Lanceolated Monklet Micromonacha lanceolata

  

  This puffbird has a large-looking head, a plump body, and a short tail. In Bolivia’s Río Paracti valley, one male was recorded in understory forest near a river.

• Stubble Quail Coturnix pectoralis

  

  Stubble quail live in pairs or small groups among grasslands and crops. When disturbed, they run first and fly only when pressed, usually for a short distance.

• Blue-headed Pitta Hydrornis baudii

  

  The Blue-headed Pitta is endemic to Borneo. An adult male has a blue-violet head and reddish-brown back and searches for food on the forest floor.

• Striped Pipit Anthus lineiventris

  

  The Striped Pipit has a patchy range east and south of the equatorial rainforest belt. Bold streaks below and pale lemon edges on the wings and tail help identify it.

• Plumed Whistling Duck Dendrocygna eytoni

  

  The Plumed Whistling Duck is an Australian duck with a long neck and extended flank feathers that reach over its back. It feeds on grasses in wetlands and grasslands.

• Black-legged Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla

  

  A gull that searches for fish at sea and gathers to breed on UK cliffs in spring and summer.

• Bay Hornero Furnarius torridus

  This ovenbird is associated with river islands and floodplain forest along major Amazonian rivers. It forages on the ground and has a white throat sharply set off from rich rufous underparts.

• Speckled Nightingale-Thrush Catharus maculatus

  An Andean nightingale-thrush of South America. A 2017 study supported treating C. maculatus as a species separate from Central American C. dryas.

• Olivaceous Greenlet Hylophilus olivaceus

  The Olivaceous Greenlet is locally recorded in montane forest on the eastern Andes. Its head and upperparts are olive, with olive-yellow underparts. It forages in the canopy and subcanopy at forest edges, in second growth, and in broken forest.

• Taita Falcon Falco fasciinucha

  A small, compact falcon with white cheeks and rufous underparts. It hunts small birds around wooded mountains and deep valleys with cliffs.

• Northern Red-billed Hornbill Tockus erythrorhynchus

  The Northern Red-billed Hornbill has a long, curved red bill. In sub-Saharan Africa it eats fruit, insects, and small animals in savanna and woodland.

• Blue Chaffinch Fringilla teydea

  The Blue Chaffinch uses its short, strong bill to eat seeds. Around Teide it forages from Canary pine woods to high-elevation retama scrub.

• Sooty-capped Babbler Malacopteron affine

  The Sooty-capped Babbler has a dark cap that contrasts with its brown body. It moves close to the forest floor in Bornean lowland forest while searching for insects.

• Socotra Bunting Emberiza socotrana

  The Socotra Bunting is restricted to Socotra Island. Adults show a black-and-white striped head, chestnut wing coverts, and a richer cinnamon breast in breeding plumage.

• Rufous Twistwing Cnipodectes superrufus

  This large tyrant-flycatcher has records from Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil in southwestern Amazonia. It is strongly associated with forests dominated by Guadua bamboo, although its life history remains poorly known.

• Red-breasted Meadowlark Leistes militaris

  A breeding-plumaged male shows a red throat and chest against dark plumage; the breeding female is more buff and streaked, with a duller red breast. The species searches for food on the ground.

• Javan Trogon Apalharpactes reinwardtii

  The Javan Trogon lives in mountain forests in western Java. Males have a green-blue back and yellow belly, and the bird searches the lower forest for insects and figs.

• Red-banded Fruiteater Pipreola whitelyi

  This cotinga occurs in montane areas of southern Venezuela, Guyana, and northern Brazil. Its diet is thought to consist mainly, perhaps entirely, of fruit; it sometimes joins mixed-species flocks.

• Beautiful Sibia Heterophasia pulchella

  A laughingthrush relative of the eastern Himalayas. Its blue-grey head and back, black face, and broad dark tail band help identify it.

• Piping Plover Charadrius melodus

  This small shorebird has sandy grey-brown upperparts and a white underside. It breeds on beaches and river or lake shores and picks small invertebrates from the ground.

• Hutton's Shearwater Puffinus huttoni

  A seabird that breeds in the Kaikōura mountains of New Zealand's South Island. It feeds at sea and moves to Australia in winter.

• Madagascan Stonechat Saxicola sibilla

  This small chat is widespread across Madagascar. A study of its genes and plumage proposed that the Malagasy population could be treated as a distinct species.

• Dimorphic Fantail Rhipidura brachyrhyncha

  This fantail inhabits montane forest and subalpine scrub in the New Guinea highlands. It has two tail-color forms, and mixed-form pairs may occur.

• Rothschild's Grosbeak Cyanocompsa rothschildii

  Rothschild's Grosbeak occurs in western Amazonian forest. The male is deep blue and the female chestnut; both are associated with the leafy forest understory.