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• Round-tailed Manakin Ceratopipra chloromeros

  

  The male is black with a red head, while the female is green. Both have a rounded tail and forage in the understory of unflooded forest.

• Rose-collared Piha Lipaugus streptophorus

  This cotinga occurs locally on the tepuis of southeastern Venezuela and adjacent northern Brazil and Guyana. It feeds mainly on fruit and also takes insects.

• Tomtit Petroica macrocephala

  This small bird has a large head, short bill, and short tail. It lives in New Zealand forest and scrub and has five subspecies restricted to different islands or island groups.

• Golden Monarch Carterornis chrysomela

  The Golden Monarch inhabits forests on New Guinea and surrounding islands. Males have an orange-yellow head, black throat with a white teardrop mark, and forage for small insects along forest edges.

• Lark-like Bunting Emberiza impetuani

  The Lark-like Bunting lives in dry areas of southern Africa. Both sexes have pale buff-brown streaked plumage, and the birds may move as conditions change.

• Mottled Swift Tachymarptis aequatorialis

  The Mottled Swift is a large swift found across much of Africa. It has gray plumage and a mottled belly.

• Yellow-bellied Wattle-eye Platysteira concreta

  An East African forest bird. The field guide describes an olive back, a chestnut-yellow breast and belly, and bright green wattles beside the eyes.

• Black-throated Apalis Apalis jacksoni

  A small apalis of African highlands and other parts of the continent. Its bright yellow underside and long, graduated tail are useful field marks.

• Spot-tailed Nightjar Hydropsalis maculicaudus

  Spot-tailed Nightjars rest on the ground or low branches by day and become active around dusk and at night. Adult males show white tips on the outer tail feathers; the species ranges from southeastern Mexico to Paraguay.

• Whiskered Wren Pheugopedius mystacalis

  The Whiskered Wren is recorded in foothills and subtropical areas from Venezuela to western Ecuador. It has rufous upperparts, a striped black-and-white face, and pale gray underparts, and it keeps to thickets at forest edges.

• Doria's Goshawk Megatriorchis doriae

  A large raptor of New Guinea's lowland and foothill forests. It hunts birds in the forest, and a juvenile recorded at Varirata had a pale head and streaked underparts.

• Brown-capped Weaver Ploceus insignis

  This weaver lives in African highland forest. It moves along moss-covered branches while searching for insects and fruit.

• Red-billed Malkoha Zanclostomus javanicus

  The Red-billed Malkoha is a slender gray cuckoo with a red bill. It moves along branches near the canopy of lowland and foothill forests.

• Rufous-fronted Laughingthrush Garrulax rufifrons

  This Javan laughingthrush has a rufous forehead and chin. It eats fruit and insects, and may forage in noisy small groups or mixed-species flocks.

• Common Tern Sterna hirundo

  A migratory bird with long, narrow wings and a forked tail that plunges into water to catch fish.

• Malabar Barbet Psilopogon malabaricus

  A barbet of the moist forests of India's Western Ghats. Adults are green, with red across the face and chest and blue-black bands.

• Crow-billed Drongo Dicrurus annectans

  Singapore's National Parks Board describes winter records in the country. The bird is mostly black with a black bill and uses shaded understory in wooded parks and waterside trees.

• Slender-billed Scimitar Babbler Pomatorhinus superciliaris

  This babbler has a long, sharply downcurved bill. It uses bamboo thickets in montane forest and feeds on insects and plant foods.

• Tawny-bellied Screech-Owl Megascops watsonii

  The Tawny-bellied Screech-Owl occurs in gray and reddish-brown color morphs and has variable ear tufts. It favors forest interiors.

• Pale-bellied White-eye Zosterops consobrinorum

  This white-eye occurs in southeastern Sulawesi. It uses habitats from lowland forest to farms and gardens, foraging in the understorey and canopy in pairs or small groups.

• Temminck's Lark Eremophila bilopha

  Temminck's Lark is a small lark that searches for seeds on dry, open ground. In breeding plumage, the male is marked by black head tufts and a bold black-and-white face pattern.

• Rufous-necked Puffbird Malacoptila rufa

  This puffbird lives in Amazonian lowland forest. Its gray head, rufous neck, and white crescent on the chest stand out; it is recorded most often in the understory of várzea forest.

• Amethyst Sunbird Chalcomitra amethystina

  This sunbird occurs in sub-Saharan Africa. It uses its long curved bill to drink nectar from flowers.

• Spotted Rail Pardirallus maculatus

  The Spotted Rail occurs locally in marshes, wet savannas, and rice fields from Mexico and the Greater Antilles south to Argentina. In Jamaica, breeding evidence was reported after a long gap in records.