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• Rufous-winged Tanager Tangara lavinia

  

  This tanager ranges from Central America into northwestern South America. It uses the canopy and edges of moist lowland forest and may join mixed-species flocks in pairs.

• Black-backed Tody-Flycatcher Poecilotriccus pulchellus

  The Black-backed Tody-Flycatcher is a tiny tyrant flycatcher of southeastern Peru's eastern Andean slope. It moves through thick foliage along forest edges and in second growth.

• Brown-rumped Bunting Emberiza affinis

  The Brown-rumped Bunting has a black-and-white face pattern, a brown back, and yellow underparts. It occurs in broadleaf woodland, moist savanna, and cultivated areas.

• Striated Thornbill Acanthiza lineata

  The Striated Thornbill is a medium-sized thornbill with greenish upperparts, an orange-brown crown, and a streaked pale underside. It searches branches for insects in southeastern Australian eucalypt woodland.

• Grey-tailed Piha Snowornis subalaris

  The species lives in humid montane forest on the eastern Andean slope, with records in Colombia and Ecuador at about 800–1,350 m. Its populations are disjunct.

• Great Sparrow Passer motitensis

  The Great Sparrow is a relatively large sparrow with a streaked back. In Namibia it searches trees and the ground for seeds and insects.

• Gray-headed Chachalaca Ortalis cinereiceps

  The Gray-headed Chachalaca has a gray head and neck and a brown body. It lives in groups in secondary woodland and along forest edges in Central America.

• White-breasted Cuckooshrike Coracina pectoralis

  This cuckooshrike lives in woodland and forest across sub-Saharan Africa. The pool name Coracina pectoralis is listed as Ceblepyris pectoralis in the current species account.

• Rufescent Tiger Heron Tigrisoma lineatum

  The Rufescent Tiger-Heron has a long rufous neck and a streaked throat, and waits for prey by the water. Adult and juvenile plumages differ greatly.

• Spectacled Thrush Turdus nudigenis

  The Spectacled Thrush occurs in the Lesser Antilles and parts of South America, including Colombia, Venezuela and Brazil. It uses open places with trees and shrubs to search for fruit and small prey.

• Moustached Wren Pheugopedius genibarbis

  A wren of forests in the Amazon Basin. It occurs in dense understory, especially near bamboo, in pairs or small groups.

• Red-breasted Merganser Mergus serrator

  A diving duck with a long, thin bill and shaggy crest. It catches and eats fish.

• Vilcabamba Tapaculo Scytalopus urubambae

  This tapaculo occurs in the highlands of Peru's Cuzco region. Adults are gray with rufous on the flanks and rump, but voice and range are especially useful for separating it from similar species.

• Alagoas Antwren Myrmotherula snowi

  This small antwren is recorded in humid forest in northeastern Brazil. Males are gray and females are rufous-brown; a 2005 survey documented one male in a forested valley with a stream and dense lianas.

• Bearded Barbet Lybius dubius

  This stocky bird with a large bill lives in tropical West Africa. It has black upperparts, a red throat and belly and a yellow eye patch. Figs are a favoured food, and several birds may roost together.

• Angola Batis Batis minulla

  This small batis occurs mainly in western Central Africa. Males have a black facial mask and breast band, while females have a rufous breast band; the species uses forest and woodland.

• Sao Tome Ibis Bostrychia bocagei

  An ibis of São Tomé's lowland forests, with a glossy sheen that combines bark-brown and leaf-green colors.

• Mountain Plover Charadrius montanus

  This plover breeds in western North America and searches for insects on grassland and semidesert ground.

• Rose-throated Becard Pachyramphus aglaiae

  Males stand out with a dark, slaty body, a blackish cap, and usually a bright pink throat. They search for insects and small fruits in the canopy of tropical forests.

• Van Dam's Vanga Xenopirostris damii

  This vanga lives in dry deciduous forest in northwestern Madagascar. It searches dead wood and leaf clumps for small animals.

• Dimorphic Fantail Rhipidura brachyrhyncha

  This fantail inhabits montane forest and subalpine scrub in the New Guinea highlands. It has two tail-color forms, and mixed-form pairs may occur.

• Blue-black Grosbeak Cyanocompsa cyanoides

  The AOS classification treats the Blue-black Grosbeak as Cyanoloxia cyanoides. A report from northwestern Peru documents the subspecies C. c. cyanoides in scrub that differs from its usual humid-forest setting.

• Northern Royal Albatross Diomedea sanfordi

  The Northern Royal Albatross has a white body and back, dark upperwings, and feeds mainly on squid.

• Jerdon's Bush Lark Plocealauda affinis

  A lark of open grasslands in India. It is active on the ground by day and feeds on seeds and small animals.