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• Buff-throated Warbler Phylloscopus subaffinis

  

  The Buff-throated Warbler is a small leaf warbler with an olive-brown back and pale buff eyebrow and throat. It breeds in the mountains of China and moves to lowlands as far south as northern Indochina for winter.

• Green-backed Tit Parus monticolus

  The Green-backed Tit is a small bird found in mountain forests in northern India. Its green back, yellow underside, and black head with white cheeks stand out as it searches branches and trunks for food.

• Madagascar Snipe Gallinago macrodactyla

  The Madagascar Snipe is a snipe of wetlands and rice fields on Madagascar.

• Crested Goshawk Lophospiza trivirgata

  The Crested Goshawk is a raptor of forests and wooded edges from South to Southeast Asia. It hunts from concealed perches in trees.

• Chestnut Woodpecker Celeus elegans

  This 26–32 cm woodpecker forages on trunks and branches by day, taking invertebrates from bark.

• Greater Ani Crotophaga major

  The Greater Ani has glossy black plumage with a green sheen and a large bill. It forms groups in wet lowland forests and forages from the trees down into the lower forest layers.

• Slaty Egret Egretta vinaceigula

  This egret forages mainly in shallow wetlands of northern Botswana. Adults are blue-grey, though they can look black in poor light.

• Mountain White-eye Zosterops montanus

  The Mountain White-eye is described from Wallacea, the Greater Sundas, and the Philippines. The KOMIU profile places it in primary forest on high mountains.

• White-lored Antpitta Myrmothera fulviventris

  The White-lored Antpitta is a lowland Amazonian bird with conspicuous white marks before and behind the eye. Records cover southeastern Colombia, eastern Ecuador, and northern Peru.

• Chestnut-throated Flycatcher Myiagra castaneigularis

  The Chestnut-throated Flycatcher was described from Vanua Levu, Fiji. Its 1876 original account records forest observations, insect feeding, and differences in throat and back color between males and females.

• Northern Silvery Kingfisher Ceyx flumenicola

  This kingfisher is endemic to Bohol, Leyte and Samar in the central Philippines. It uses forested streams and river edges, where a low perch gives it a view of the water.

• Buff-throated Apalis Apalis rufogularis

  The Buff-throated Apalis is a small forest warbler with grey upperparts, white underparts and a short tail. It occurs in forest from western to central and eastern Africa.

• Coppery Emerald Chlorostilbon russatus

  This small hummingbird occurs in northern Colombia and western Venezuela. The male is golden green with coppery tones, while the female has gray underparts; it feeds in scrub and forest edges.

• Stripe-throated Bulbul Pycnonotus finlaysoni

  This bulbul ranges across central and southern Indochina and the Malay Peninsula. It is mostly brown with olive-yellow wings and tail and distinctive yellow stripes on the face and upper throat.

• Chestnut-bellied Seed Finch Sporophila angolensis

  This seed finch is recorded in Amazonia, including Bolivia. It forages in tall grass by rivers, overgrown fallow fields, and scrub, and males and females look quite different.

• Bolivian Brush Finch Atlapetes rufinucha

  A brushfinch of montane forest in Bolivia and far southern Peru, also using edges and second growth.

• Grey-throated Warbler Myiothlypis cinereicollis

  This warbler is recorded in the northeastern Colombian and western Venezuelan Andes. It has olive upperparts, a yellow belly, and a grey throat and chest.

• Blue Eared Pheasant Crossoptilon auritum

  The Blue Eared Pheasant is a large pheasant of China's mountains, notable for its blue-gray body and white ear tufts.

• African Rock Pipit Anthus crenatus

  This pipit lives in rocky highlands of South Africa and Lesotho. Its plumage differs with sex and age.

• Eaton's Pintail Anas eatoni

  This small duck is endemic to the Crozet and Kerguelen islands. It breeds in pairs in summer and may gather in flocks of hundreds in winter.

• Arctic Tern Sterna paradisaea

  A tern that travels from Arctic breeding grounds to Antarctic waters with the seasons. In Britain, it breeds along northern coasts.

• Campo Miner Geositta poeciloptera

  This ground-dwelling bird inhabits Brazilian grasslands. A study at one Minas Gerais site examined the soils where it nested.

• Siberian Thrush Geokichla sibirica

  A thrush with different male and female plumage that breeds in mountain forests north of central Honshu.

• Grey-chested Greenlet Hylophilus semicinereus

  This small bird occurs in forests of northern South America and the Amazon region. It uses the canopy, forest borders, and secondary woodland, where it feeds on small insects.