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• Alagoas Curassow Mitu mitu

  

  The Alagoas Curassow is historically known from Alagoas in northeastern Brazil. It is classified as extinct in the wild (EW), but it is not globally extinct (EX): individuals survive in captivity. In September 2019, three pairs were released in Alagoas; follow-up monitoring reported the deaths of two males and one female.

• Yellow-billed Nuthatch Sitta solangiae

  The Yellow-billed Nuthatch has a yellow bill and violet-blue upperparts. It has a scattered, local range in Vietnam, Hainan, and Laos, where it moves through forest while searching for insects.

• Annam Limestone Babbler Gypsophila annamensis

  This medium-sized babbler occurs in southern China, northern Laos, and northern Vietnam. It has a long bill and tail.

• Whiskered Flowerpecker Dicaeum proprium

  The Whiskered Flowerpecker occurs in forest on Mindanao. The sexes are similar, with blue-black upperparts and moustachial stripes, white chin and malar stripes, and sepia-brown underparts.

• Guanay Cormorant Leucocarbo bougainvilliorum

  This seabird occurs along the Pacific coast from Peru to Chile. Adults have dark backs and white underparts, while juveniles are browner. It mainly eats anchoveta, but its diet varies with latitude.

• Dohrn's Warbler Sylvia dohrni

  This small bird is endemic to Príncipe Island in São Tomé and Príncipe. It uses forest and cocoa plantations; a 2000 survey reported a yellow wash below in many individuals.

• Redwing Turdus iliacus

  A thrush similar in appearance to a Song Thrush that arrives in Britain in autumn and stays through winter. It searches open country for berries, sometimes visiting parks and gardens in severe cold.

• Muscicapa latirostris

  This small flycatcher breeds in East Asia and moves south to India and Southeast Asia for winter. It catches flying insects in open woodland, parks, and gardens.

• Paramo Pipit Anthus bogotensis

  The Paramo Pipit searches for food on the ground in high grasslands. The Bolivia account reports subspecies that differ in the color of the underside and in their flank markings.

• White-rumped Snowfinch Onychostruthus taczanowskii

  This bird lives in high mountains around the Tibetan Plateau. Its dark-mottled back contrasts with a white rump that stands out in flight. In the breeding season it is found near pika colonies.

• Peruvian Treehunter Thripadectes scrutator

  This ovenbird forages in the dense understory of humid Andean montane forest. The source uses the English name “Buff-throated Treehunter” for the same scientific name and gives an eastern-Andes range in Peru and Bolivia.

• Tui Parakeet Brotogeris sanctithomae

  The Tui Parakeet is a green parrot with a yellow patch on its forehead. It occurs in several parts of South America and uses wooded habitats near water.

• White-throated Tapaculo Scelorchilus albicollis

  This ground-dwelling bird is endemic to central Chile. It lives in semi-arid shrubland, and the two described subspecies occupy different parts of its range.

• Sooty Fox Sparrow Passerella unalaschcensis

  This entry concerns the Pacific Sooty group within the broader Fox Sparrow account. It has dark upperparts and uses different habitats during breeding and winter.

• Pacific Golden-Plover Pluvialis fulva

  In breeding plumage, its black face and underparts are edged by a white stripe, with gold-spangled upperparts. It breeds on tundra and searches the ground for insects.

• Belford's Honeyeater Melidectes belfordi

  This large honeyeater inhabits high-elevation forests of New Guinea's central ranges. White scaling on the back and a stripe across the black head are useful field marks.

• Sooty Antbird Hafferia fortis

  The Sooty Antbird lives in Amazonian forest understory and sometimes forages near columns of army ants.

• Collared Inca Coeligena torquata

  This hummingbird inhabits humid Andean forests. A white chest band stands out against its dark plumage, and it feeds on nectar as well as small insects and spiders.

• Red-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus atroflavus

  The Red-rumped Tinkerbird lives in forest from southern Senegal to the western Congo Basin and western Uganda. It uses humid forest and feeds mainly on fruit.

• Chestnut-bellied Fantail Rhipidura hyperythra

  The Chestnut-bellied Fantail is widespread in hill and lower montane forest on New Guinea. It is active by day, searching in forest and along edges and sallying out to catch airborne prey.

• Albertine Sooty Boubou Laniarius holomelas

  This bush-shrike occurs in montane forest of the Albertine Rift. This entry follows the catalogue treatment of Laniarius holomelas.

• Chabert Vanga Leptopterus chabert

  This bird is endemic to Madagascar and is marked by a blue eye-ring, black upperparts, and a white underside. It searches for food in flocks in the canopy.

• Plate-billed Mountain Toucan Andigena laminirostris

  The Plate-billed Mountain Toucan stands out for its blue-grey underparts and large bill patterned in red, black, and ivory. It mainly eats fruit, but also takes small animals and eggs during the breeding season.

• Grey-hooded Fulvetta Fulvetta cinereiceps

  The Grey-hooded Fulvetta searches for insects in the undergrowth of Chinese mountain forests and bamboo thickets, usually in small flocks. Under the current species treatment, it occurs in China.