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• Western Whipbird Psophodes nigrogularis

  

  This bird searches for insects on the ground and in low vegetation. This entry describes the lashmari subspecies on Kangaroo Island.

• Brown Mesite Mesitornis unicolor

  

  A ground-dwelling bird of eastern Madagascar's evergreen rainforests, it walks through leaf litter as it searches for food.

• Ash-throated Gnateater Conopophaga peruviana

  

  The Ash-throated Gnateater feeds on small arthropods in humid lowland forest. The described male has brown upperparts and white tufts behind the eyes.

• Campbell Islands Teal Anas nesiotis

  

  A small duck of islands south of New Zealand, Campbell Island Teal is wary and mainly active at night.

• Hodgson's Frogmouth Batrachostomus hodgsoni

  

  Hodgson's Frogmouth is a nocturnal bird that rests motionless by day, blending with tree bark, and catches insects at night with its wide gape. The sexes have different plumage colors.

• Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybrida

  

  This small tern uses wetlands. In breeding plumage, its black head and dark grey underside stand out. It makes a nest from vegetation, floating or anchored, and both sexes care for the young.

• Inambari Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes fatimalimae

  The Inambari Woodcreeper occurs in western Amazonia south of the Amazon River. Long pale streaks run from its throat to its vent, while the upperparts are nearly unmarked. It uses lowland and foothill forest, often high in the trees with mixed flocks.

• Brown Skua Stercorarius antarcticus

  The Brown Skua is a large seabird that breeds on islands south of New Zealand and may pursue other seabirds at sea.

• Sumatran Cochoa Cochoa beccarii

  The Sumatran Cochoa is a difficult-to-see bird of the mountain forests of Sumatra.

• Scrub Greenlet Hylophilus flavipes

  This small bird was studied in populations of Colombia’s Magdalena Valley. It searches foliage in scrub and woodland for small invertebrates.

• White-rumped Falcon Polihierax insignis

  A small falcon found from Myanmar across mainland Southeast Asia. It uses dry, open woodland and savanna and mainly takes large insects.

• Piping Hornbill Bycanistes fistulator

  The Piping Hornbill has a black head and wings with white underparts. The account distinguishes three subspecies with differences in the extent of white on the wings and tail. Some taxonomies treat Bycanistes fistulator as a subspecies of the Trumpeter Hornbill.

• Eurasian Treecreeper Certhia familiaris

  The Eurasian Treecreeper climbs tree trunks to find small animals in the bark. Its brown, white, and golden plumage blends into the tree.

• European Greenfinch Chloris chloris

  This finch flashes yellow and green in flight. In the UK it visits gardens and eats seeds and insects.

• Swamp Grass Babbler Laticilla cinerascens

  The Swamp Grass Babbler lives in wet grasslands from northeastern India to northern Bangladesh and searches for insects in pairs or family parties. It has a long tail, a pale spot in front of the eye, and a narrow pale eye-ring.

• Masked bunting Emberiza personata

  A yellow-bellied, streaked bird that also moves into lowland thickets in autumn and winter.

• Black-crested Tit-Tyrant Anairetes nigrocristatus

  This roughly 13 cm tyrant flycatcher lives at high elevations on the western Andean slope. Peru Aves associates it with Polylepis woodland and adjacent scrub at 2,100–4,000 m in Peru and also records it in Ecuador.

• Feline Owlet-nightjar Aegotheles insignis

  The Feline Owlet-nightjar lives in New Guinea’s montane evergreen rainforests and eats beetles and other insects. Its fluffy rufous-to-brown plumage has two white head stripes and white bars on the tail.

• Schalow's Turaco Tauraco schalowi

  Schalow’s Turaco lives in forests of south-central Africa. It climbs and hops through the canopy and eats fruit, especially figs.

• White-bellied Bustard Eupodotis senegalensis

  This large ground bird has a white face and belly and long legs. Males have black on the head, while females have a paler brown neck.

• Venezuelan Troupial Icterus icterus

  The Venezuelan Troupial is a large bird with black and bright orange plumage and a long wedge-shaped tail. It lives mainly in Venezuela and northern Colombia, in dry woodland and savanna.

• Amazonian Black-throated Trogon Trogon rufus

  The current species Trogon rufus is the Amazonian Black-throated Trogon. Males have a green head and breast, a black face and throat, and a yellow belly; females are brown above with a yellow belly.

• Malawi Batis Batis dimorpha

  A small bird recorded in Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia. Males and females have different patterns on the chest and wings.

• Peruvian Plantcutter Phytotoma raimondii

  It has a short, notched bill; males are mainly grey and females are brown with dark streaks. The species remains in dry forest and scrub along Peru's coast.