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• Black Tern Chlidonias niger

  

  The North American subspecies of Black Tern flies over freshwater wetlands during breeding and catches small fish and insects.

• Plain Thornbird Phacellodomus inornatus

  

  Phacellodomus inornatus is a thornbird of the Llanos region from northeastern Colombia into Venezuela. The recent Clements treatment recognizes it as distinct from the Rufous-fronted Thornbird.

• Varied Solitaire Myadestes coloratus

  

  The Varied Solitaire has a gray crown and underparts, a black face, brown back, and orange bill and legs. It lives in humid mountain forest from southern Panama to northwestern Colombia.

• Choco Vireo Vireo masteri

  

  It is recorded in humid montane primary cloud forest in western Colombia and northwestern Ecuador. It searches the upper forest for small invertebrates.

• Orange-breasted Falcon Falco deiroleucus

  

  This falcon is marked by a black back, white throat and orange upper breast. In forested parts of Central and South America, it hunts above the canopy and around rocky outcrops.

• Crowned Hornbill Lophoceros alboterminatus

  

  The crowned hornbill has a white eyebrow and belly and a red-orange bill. In moist evergreen forest it lives in pairs or small family groups and eats fruit and insects.

• Red-mantled Rosefinch Carpodacus rhodochlamys

  In Gilgit-Baltistan, this rosefinch uses high scrub in summer and lower brush in winter.

• Ferruginous Babbler Pellorneum bicolor

  The Ferruginous Babbler has rich rufous-brown plumage that blends into the forest floor. It searches for insects low in the understory of lowland and swamp forest.

• Cinnamon-breasted Bunting Emberiza tahapisi

  The cinnamon-breasted bunting is a bunting that searches for seeds and insects on rocky hills and mountain slopes.

• Lesser Kiskadee Philohydor lictor

  This small flycatcher occurs around slow-moving water in the lowlands of northern South America. It has a brown back and bright yellow underparts and may perch close to the water surface.

• Bobolink Dolichonyx oryzivorus

  Bobolinks breed in North American grasslands and migrate to South America for winter. In breeding plumage, males are marked by a white back and a yellow rear crown.

• Whitehead's Trogon Harpactes whiteheadi

  Whitehead's Trogon inhabits moist mountain forest on Borneo and has strongly different male and female plumage.

• Bay-vented Cotinga Doliornis sclateri

  This cotinga is restricted to the eastern slope of the central Peruvian Andes. It uses cloud forest at or near treeline and feeds largely on fruit.

• Slender-billed Babbler Argya longirostris

  The Slender-billed Babbler has a rufous-brown back and a slender, slightly down-curved bill. It hides in seasonally wet grassland and searches the ground for insects.

• Diademed Plover Phegornis mitchellii

  The Diademed Plover is a small shorebird with a black head crossed by a white band, a chestnut neck, and a long slender bill. It lives along rivers and wetlands in the high Andes and is recorded along the Argentine Andes.

• White-headed Petrel Pterodroma lessonii

  The White-headed Petrel is a large seabird that breeds on islands in the Southern Ocean. Its white head and dark eye patch stand out, and it flies long distances to feeding grounds at sea.

• Kashmir Flycatcher Ficedula subrubra

  The Kashmir Flycatcher is a small flycatcher that moves between breeding and wintering areas. Males have orange underparts; females show a fainter orange wash on the chest.

• Crimson-collared Grosbeak Rhodothraupis celaeno

  This thick-billed grosbeak is red and black in adult males and yellow-olive in females. It often stays low in dense cover in northeastern Mexico, where it can be difficult to see.

• Pied Triller Lalage nigra

  This triller lives in open woodland, including parks in Singapore. Males are black and white, females are gray and white, and it eats insects and small fruits.

• Polynesian Starling Aplonis tabuensis

  The Polynesian Starling is a starling found widely across South Pacific islands. In Niue, it moves in family-like groups and searches branches and trunks for insects and fruit.

• Chestnut-headed Sparrow-Lark Eremopterix signatus

  The male Chestnut-headed Sparrow-Lark is recognizable by its chestnut-colored head. By day, it feeds on seeds on the ground in dry grassland and acacia scrub.

• Mangrove Whistler Pachycephala cinerea

  This small bird occurs mainly in mangroves and nearby well-vegetated habitats. The eBird account notes song differences between Indian and Southeast Asian birds.

• Sunda Grasshopper-warbler Locustella montis

  This small bird lives on Java, Indonesia. A 2015 taxonomic study retained Java's Locustella montis as a species and included the Timor population as a subspecies. This entry describes the Java specimens examined in that study.

• Choco Tapaculo Scytalopus chocoensis

  This tapaculo was described from wet Pacific-slope forest in Ecuador. The paper describes a male type specimen and notes that earlier reports had assigned the species' vocalizations to other tapaculos.