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• Black-billed Coucal Centropus bernsteini

  

  This medium-sized coucal skulks along lowland forest edges and grasslands, usually keeping to cover. It may perch in the open after rain.

• Snares Island Snipe Coenocorypha huegeli

  The Snares Island Snipe has a stocky body and relatively short bill and legs. It probes the ground and mud for invertebrates.

• Puna Tinamou Tinamotis pentlandii

  This tinamou occurs on the Altiplano and nearby high slopes. A Bolivia species account describes groups of about five to ten birds using open grassland and rocky ground.

• Mountain Firetail Oreostruthus fuliginosus

  The Mountain Firetail is a chunky finch of the New Guinea highlands. It occurs along montane forest edges and where subalpine grassland meets shrubland.

• Neotropic Cormorant Nannopterum brasilianum

  A dark cormorant with a long neck and a tail longer than those of many other cormorants. It dives underwater to catch fish.

• Southern Black Tit Melaniparus niger

  The Southern Black Tit lives in dry open woodland and scrub in southern Africa. It searches among branches and leaves for small invertebrates.

• Ribbon-tailed Astrapia Astrapia mayeri

  The male Ribbon-tailed Astrapia has striking, narrow white tail feathers. The species lives in high mountain forests and eats fruit and small animals.

• Australian Ringneck Barnardius zonarius

  The Australian Ringneck occurs in Australia. Its plumage varies by region, but much of the body is green with a yellow band on the hind-neck.

• Tuxtla Quail-Dove Zentrygon carrikeri

  A forest dove restricted to a small area of southern Mexico. Bluish-purple tones cover its head and breast, and small numbers occur in moist broadleaf forest from lowlands to mountains.

• Moustached Barbet Psilopogon incognitus

  Adults are green with blue cheeks and a blue throat. The extent of red and blue markings on the head and throat differs among the three subspecies described by Oiseaux.net.

• Levant Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza brevipes

  The Levant Sparrowhawk is a migratory hawk with gray upperparts and orange-barred underparts.

• Rusty-cheeked Scimitar Babbler Erythrogenys erythrogenys

  The Rusty-cheeked Scimitar Babbler lives along Himalayan forest edges and in scrub. Its rusty face and long, downcurved bill are distinctive.

• Sao Tome White-eye Zosterops feae

  The Sao Tome White-eye lives in forest and dense cover on Sao Tome Island. Its plumage description is limited to the island form formerly named as a subspecies.

• Long-billed Sunbird Cinnyris notatus

  A sunbird of Madagascar's forests. Males are larger and darker than females and use a long, strong bill to feed on nectar; they also take spiders and insects from flowers.

• Three-streaked Tchagra Tchagra jamesi

  It is recorded in dry bush country from Somalia through southern Ethiopia, southeastern Sudan, eastern Uganda, and Kenya to northeastern Tanzania. The field guide describes it as local and uncommon.

• Buffy Pipit Anthus vaalensis

  The Buffy Pipit lives in open grassland and searches the ground for insects and seeds. It occurs widely across southern Africa.

• Chuuk Flycatcher Myiagra oceanica

  The Chuuk Flycatcher is endemic to the Chuuk Islands in Micronesia. Males have a blue-gray brown crown and rufous breast; birds hunt insects from low perches around forest edges and gardens.

• Kamchatka Leaf-warbler Phylloscopus examinandus

  This leaf-warbler moves seasonally between eastern Russia and Japan and parts of East and Southeast Asia. Its habitats vary with season, from high-elevation shrubland to lowland forest.

• Horus Swift Apus horus

  The Horus Swift has a patchy sub-Saharan African range and catches insects in flight. Its nesting sites include eastern and southern Africa and northern Senegal.

• Rufous-fronted Wood Quail Odontophorus erythrops

  The Rufous-fronted Wood Quail searches through leaf litter on the forest floor in the Andes.

• White-fronted Falconet Microhierax latifrons

  The White-fronted Falconet is a tiny falcon about 15 cm long. The male has a white forehead, while the female's is buff.

• Golden-headed Manakin Ceratopipra erythrocephala

  The Golden-headed Manakin is striking for the male's golden head and black body. Males perform courtship displays in the forest, and the birds eat fruit and small arthropods.

• Wrentit Chamaea fasciata

  The Wrentit is a small bird of the shrubs along the western coast of the United States. It has a gray-brown body and a long tail, and searches dense brush for insects and fruit.

• Southern Red-billed Hornbill Tockus rufirostris

  The Southern Red-billed Hornbill is a southern African form within a red-billed hornbill complex. Compared with the Damaraland form, the study population had yellow eyes and grey facial feathers and used moister savanna woodland.