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• Gray-browed Brushfinch Arremon assimilis

  

  This roughly 20 cm bird lives in humid Andean montane forest. Yellow-olive upperparts, a striped gray-and-black head, and a white throat are distinctive.

• Olive-capped Warbler Setophaga pityophila

  This warbler inhabits pine woodland in western Cuba. Its yellow-green forehead and dark breast streaks are useful field marks, and it often uses the upper canopy. A Cuban study recorded it in lower strata only during breeding.

• Koklass Pheasant Pucrasia macrolopha

  The Koklass Pheasant is a large forest bird with a silvery male and a streaked brown female.

• Wood Pipit Anthus nyassae

  The Wood Pipit searches the grassy floor of woodland for insects and other small invertebrates in south-central Africa.

• Wood Duck Aix sponsa

  A colorful duck that perches in trees and nests in tree cavities near water.

• Royal Tern Thalasseus maximus

  A long-winged tern with a pointed bill that catches small fish in shallow coastal waters.

• Lesser Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus fuscus

  Lesser Woodcreeper is about 15–19 cm long. Oiseaux.net lists forest as its habitat and invertebrates as food. The account also includes song and call recordings from several Brazilian localities.

• Andean Slaty Thrush Turdus nigriceps

  Males are bluish grey and females brown; in the Peruvian Andes it forages on the ground at forest edges and openings

• Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch Leucosticte tephrocotis

  A pink-and-brown songbird of high North American mountains and Alaskan islands. In winter it moves lower to avoid heavy snow and may visit feeders.

• Marble-faced Bristle Tyrant Pogonotriccus ophthalmicus

  This flycatcher lives in humid Andean montane forest. It has a gray crown and greenish-olive back, while the breast is gray in the southern subspecies ottonis and olive-yellow in northern nominate birds.

• Cuban Blackbird Ptiloxena atroviolacea

  The Cuban Blackbird is a dark-plumaged bird of Cuba with a violet sheen. It searches for food on the ground and in other habitats.

• Bare-necked Umbrellabird Cephalopterus glabricollis

  Male Bare-necked Umbrellabirds have a black body, umbrella-shaped crest, and red bare throat. They use humid highland forest during breeding and lowland forest at other times, in Costa Rica and western Panama.

• Plain Laughingthrush Pterorhinus davidi

  This laughingthrush inhabits shrubs and low scrub in the mountains and nearby foothill plains of northern and central China. The nominate form is grey-brown and has a bright yellow down-curved bill. Birds answer one another’s calls.

• Little Ringed Plover Charadrius dubius

  This small plover searches along water for prey. It breeds in the UK in summer and has a yellow ring around the eye.

• Providence Petrel Pterodroma solandri

  The Providence Petrel ranges over open water from the southwest Pacific to the North Pacific and Bering Sea. It breeds only on Lord Howe Island and Phillip Island in the Norfolk Island group.

• Vivid Niltava Niltava vivida

  In the Taiwan endemic subspecies N. v. vivida, males are indigo, black, and orange-yellow, while females are mainly olive-brown and yellow-brown. It uses middle and upper forest layers.

• Black-browed Triller Lalage atrovirens

  The Black-browed Triller occurs in northern New Guinea and nearby islands. Males are boldly black and white; females are duller, and the species uses forest edges and middle to upper canopy.

• Sharpe's Starling Pholia sharpii

  A starling of eastern African highlands, from Ethiopia south to Tanzania, associated with wet montane forest.

• Sentinel Lark Corypha athi

  The Sentinel Lark ranges from central Kenya to northeastern Tanzania. Nairobi-area observers describe birds singing for long periods from prominent perches.

• Florida Scrub Jay Aphelocoma coerulescens

  The Florida scrub-jay is blue-gray with a long tail. It lives in Florida's low oak scrub, where young birds may help their parents raise another brood.

• Long-tailed Finch Poephila acuticauda

  This small finch has a gray head, black throat, and long black tail. Bill color differs by region: red in the Northern Territory and pale yellow in Western Australia. It inhabits grasslands and grassy woodlands of northwestern Australia.

• Ridgetop Swiftlet Collocalia isonota

  A swiftlet of the Philippine mountains, it has a mostly dark rump and occurs in northern Luzon, Mindanao and other southern islands.

• Long-billed Honeyeater Melilestes megarhynchus

  The Long-billed Honeyeater occurs on New Guinea and nearby islands. It has a long, strongly curved bill and feeds on insects, spiders, and nectar at several levels of forest.

• Sakalava Weaver Ploceus sakalava

  The Sakalava Weaver occurs in northern, western, and southern Madagascar. It is a roughly 15 cm granivore that forms groups and forages on the ground and in trees. It uses open disturbed areas, village and crop edges, sparse savanna, and dry spiny scrub.