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• Cape Weaver Ploceus capensis

  

  Breeding males are bright yellow and weave hanging nests on branches or reeds near water. After a female accepts a nest, she lines it with grass and leaves.

• Brown Nightjar Veles binotatus

  This nightjar has dark brown plumage with pale and chestnut mottling, and rests in the lower growth of tropical forest.

• Yellow-eared Spiderhunter Arachnothera chrysogenys

  The Yellow-eared Spiderhunter is a forest bird marked by a yellow patch behind the ear and streaked underparts. It feeds on nectar as well as spiders and insects.

• Fiery-shouldered Parakeet Pyrrhura egregia

  The Fiery-shouldered Parakeet uses humid mountain forest and edges, foraging for plant material in trees. The male is described with a brownish-red head, green body, and orange-yellow wing edge.

• Blue-crowned Lorikeet Vini australis

  This 19 cm lorikeet is active by day and feeds on nectar and fruit.

• Makatea Fruit Dove Ptilinopus chalcurus

  The Makatea Fruit Dove is confined to Makatea in French Polynesia, where it uses wooded areas and trees near villages.

• Sepia-brown Wren Cinnycerthia olivascens

  In Peru's eastern Andes, this wren forages in the understory of humid montane forest, in pairs or family groups. Its reddish-brown plumage has olive tones.

• Pale Martin Riparia diluta

  This small swallow flies over open country near rivers and other water. Its pale breast band and shallowly forked tail help identify it.

• Northern Saw-whet Owl Aegolius acadicus

  This small owl lives in North American forests. It hunts small mammals at night and hides in dense conifers by day.

• Striped Crake Aenigmatolimnas marginalis

  The Striped Crake is a rail with white streaks on its back and reddish underparts. It searches among seasonally flooded grassland and marsh edges, including shallow water and mud.

• Black-throated Antshrike Frederickena viridis

  A lowland antshrike of Venezuela, the Guianas, and Brazil. It favors dense undergrowth in evergreen forest.

• Canary Islands Chiffchaff Phylloscopus canariensis

  This small leaf warbler is endemic to the Canary Islands. It uses habitats from forests to high mountain scrub, as well as farms and gardens, and is usually sedentary.

• Stripe-breasted Tit Melaniparus fasciiventer

  A large tit of the Albertine Rift's montane forests. Males have a black head and central belly, with a conspicuous white band across the lower breast and flanks.

• Wood Snipe Gallinago nemoricola

  A little-known snipe that breeds in Himalayan alpine regions. A study in an alpine meadow in Sichuan, China, found breeding birds foraging where soil fauna were more abundant.

• Spot-tailed Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza trinotata

  The Spot-tailed Sparrowhawk is a small hawk found on Sulawesi and nearby Indonesian islands. Large white spots on the tail are a useful feature of the immature bird described in the source.

• Red-naped Sapsucker Sphyrapicus nuchalis

  The Red-naped Sapsucker is a North American woodpecker that drills rows of holes in trees to feed on sap.

• Greater Roadrunner Geococcyx californianus

  A bird that runs through dry scrub and uses its long tail to steer while chasing lizards.

• Von Schrenck's Bittern Botaurus eurhythmus

  Von Schrenck’s Bittern is a small heron of reed beds, broad marshes, and rice fields. Males and females have different plumage.

• Lemon-bellied White-eye Zosterops chloris

  This white-eye is centered on Sulawesi and the Lesser Sundas in Indonesia. It has yellow underparts and a white eye-ring. A university reference lists open coastal forest, forest edges, plantations, and urban areas; a survey in south-east Sulawesi also recorded it at mangrove and riparian forest edges.

• Grey-naped Antpitta Grallaria griseonucha

  This antpitta lives in the Venezuelan Andes and uses the lower levels of humid montane forest.

• Restless Flycatcher Myiagra inquieta

  The Restless Flycatcher catches insects over open woodland and farmland. When hawking prey, it can appear to hover with its head pointing down.

• Bismarck Kingfisher Ceyx websteri

  This rarely recorded kingfisher lives along lowland rivers and forest streams in the Bismarck Archipelago.

• Oriole Warbler Hypergerus atriceps

  This breeding resident ranges from Senegal to central Africa. A 2018 paper reports observations at several Liberian locations from 2013 to 2018 and confirms that it is resident there.

• Honduran Emerald Amazilia luciae

  This hummingbird is endemic to Honduras, where it lives in dry interior valleys with scrub and thorn forest. It feeds on flower nectar as well as insects and spiders.