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• Ruddy-capped Nightingale-Thrush Catharus frantzii

  

  This thrush lives in mountain forests from Mexico to Panama. A gray breast and pale orange lower bill help identify it, and it forages on the ground and in fruiting trees or shrubs.

• Philadelphia Vireo Vireo philadelphicus

  

  A small bird with an olive back and pale, yellowish underparts. It searches for caterpillars in the upper parts of trees during breeding and breeds in part of Canada’s boreal forest.

• Yellow-headed Caracara Milvago chimachima

  

  The Yellow-headed Caracara has a pale head and chest with dark brown back and wings. It searches for food around pastures and roadsides.

• Bushy-crested Hornbill Anorrhinus galeritus

  

  A hornbill that lives in groups in Southeast Asian forests. Fruit is its main food, but it also searches the canopy for insects and small animals.

• Pale Rosefinch Carpodacus stoliczkae

  

  The Pale Rosefinch ranges from northern and central Afghanistan into western and central China. A report also documents a bird at Turtuk, India, but its subspecies was not determined.

• Long-billed Wren-Babbler Napothera malacoptila

  

  The Long-billed Wren-Babbler is a small, streaky brown bird with a long, slightly downcurved bill. It searches for invertebrates near the forest floor.

• Striolated Bunting Emberiza striolata

  The Striolated Bunting is a small bunting of dry rocky ground and wadis. Its reddish wings and fine markings across the face and chest help distinguish it.

• Three-striped Flycatcher Conopias trivirgatus

  Adults show a dark crown, white eyebrow, black eye-mask, and yellow throat and belly. The Peru Aves account describes them feeding in the canopy of seasonally flooded forest and along forest edges.

• Martinique Oriole Icterus bonana

  This species is endemic to Martinique. Records come from mangroves, wet forest and wooded gardens, and the bird is noted for a dark mahogany head and brightly contrasting body plumage.

• Ecuadorian Trogon Trogon mesurus

  Oiseaux.net gives the range as Ecuador and northwestern Peru and describes dry forest and lowland tropical forest habitat. It says the bird is usually around 800 m, with records to 2,000 m in southwestern Ecuador.

• White-cheeked Cotinga Zaratornis stresemanni

  The White-cheeked Cotinga has a black cap, white cheeks, dark spots and streaks, and a rusty central belly. It occurs on Peru's western Andean slope and forages in Polylepis woodland.

• Southern Pied Babbler Turdoides bicolor

  The Southern Pied Babbler lives in groups in dry savanna and has sharply contrasting black-and-white plumage.

• White-crowned Lapwing Vanellus albiceps

  The White-crowned Lapwing has a white forehead and crown, gray face, brown back, and white underside. It walks along riversides looking for insects and other small invertebrates.

• Cook's Petrel Pterodroma cookii

  Cook’s Petrel breeds on islands off New Zealand and ranges widely over the open ocean outside the breeding season.

• Spotted Palm Thrush Cichladusa guttata

  About the size of a House Sparrow, it searches for food in leaf litter and thickets by day. It eats insects and plant parts and builds its nest in palm trees.

• New Caledonian Streaked Fantail Rhipidura verreauxi

  This small bird often fans its long tail. It has an observation record from Mont Koghi, New Caledonia, and lives in forest and forest edge.

• Blackish-blue Seedeater Amaurospiza moesta

  This small bird lives in South America's Atlantic Forest and is closely associated with bamboo. It eats bamboo buds, shoots and insects, and may move as bamboo conditions change.

• Yap Cicadabird Coracina nesiotis

  The Yap Cicadabird is recorded from Yap in Micronesia. A short 1976 survey saw a few birds in a forested valley and at a forest edge.

• Short-tailed Starling Aplonis minor

  A starling with a disjunct range across islands of Indonesia and the Philippines. Adults have glossy green plumage and red eyes.

• Black-crowned Sparrow-Lark Eremopterix nigriceps

  The Black-crowned Sparrow-Lark lives in dry, open country from Africa into the Arabian Peninsula and searches for seeds on the ground.

• Mangrove Golden Whistler Pachycephala melanura

  Males have a black head and breast, a yellow nape band, and an olive back. Females are duller, and the yellow on their underparts varies among subspecies.

• Brown Bush-Warbler Locustella luteoventris

  The Brown Bush Warbler is a rare winter visitor in Hong Kong, where it hides in tall grass and reedbeds.

• White-browed Tapaculo Scytalopus superciliaris

  It lives in moist montane forest in northwestern Argentina and favors dense understory on slopes and in ravines.

• Xinjiang Ground-Jay Podoces biddulphi

  The Xinjiang Ground-Jay is a ground-dwelling corvid of arid Xinjiang. It has a pale body and long tail and searches for food on foot.