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• Pink-throated Becard Pachyramphus minor

  

  It forages in the canopy and subcanopy of Amazonian forest. Males are blackish with a pink band on the lower throat; females are cinnamon with an extended gray cap.

• Palawan Flowerpecker Prionochilus plateni

  This small bird occurs on islands in the western Philippines. Males and females differ in color, and throat and breast colors also vary between island subspecies.

• Hen Harrier Circus cyaneus

  The sexes look different: males are gray, while females are brown with a white rump.

• Gray-capped Flycatcher Myiozetetes granadensis

  The Gray-capped Flycatcher has a bushy gray crown and bright yellow underparts. It forages at forest edges and in semi-open habitat and is widespread in Amazonia.

• Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis

  A black-and-white kingfisher with a long bill. It can hover over water while searching for fish.

• Spectacled Guillemot Cepphus carbo

  In breeding plumage, this seabird stands out for white spectacles on its face and red legs. It nests in cliff crevices and dives for fish.

• Cyprus Warbler Curruca melanothorax

  The Cyprus Warbler is endemic to Cyprus. The male has dark plumage and pale facial markings, and part of the population migrates away from the island in autumn.

• Golden-breasted Fulvetta Lioparus chrysotis

  The Golden-breasted Fulvetta is patchily distributed in mountain forests from the Himalaya into mainland Southeast Asia. It has a black head with silvery ear-coverts and orange-yellow underparts.

• Moustached Puffbird Malacoptila mystacalis

  This puffbird inhabits humid forests from Venezuela into Colombia. It searches for invertebrates in the forest understory and near edges.

• 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.

• Calandra Lark Melanocorypha calandra

  The Spanish subspecies calandra lives in broad cereal plains and grasslands. It has brown, dark-streaked plumage and nests on the ground among grasses during the breeding season.

• Mourning Babbler Pellorneum malaccense

  The Mourning Babbler occurs in the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and nearby islands. At Krau in Pahang, a study often recorded it taking food from aerial dead leaves at heights above ground up to 2 m.

• Brown Barbet Caloramphus fuliginosus

  The Brown Barbet is a small barbet of Borneo's woodlands. Its brown back, red throat and upper breast, and white belly stand out, and it feeds mainly on fruit.

• Golden-fronted Greenlet Hylophilus aurantiifrons

  The Golden-fronted Greenlet occurs from Panama through northern South America to Trinidad and Tobago. It searches the undersides of leaves for insects and spiders. Detailed nest records in the account are from Trinidad only.

• Chestnut-throated Huet-huet Pteroptochos castaneus

  This ground-dwelling bird lives in temperate forest in central and southern Chile. Its chestnut plumage and large feet are distinctive.

• Amazonian Black-throated Trogon Trogon rufus

  The current species Trogon rufus is the Amazonian Black-throated Trogon. Males have a green head and breast, a black face and throat, and a yellow belly; females are brown above with a yellow belly.

• Short-tailed Paradigalla Paradigalla brevicauda

  The Short-tailed Paradigalla is a bird-of-paradise from New Guinea's mountain forests. It has a stocky black body and bright yellow bare skin on the forehead and face.

• Chestnut-breasted Nigrita Nigrita bicolor

  The Chestnut-breasted Nigrita is a small bird of lowland forest, mangroves, and secondary growth in tropical Africa.

• Collared Myna Acridotheres albocinctus

  The Collared Myna has a conspicuous white collar. Adults of both sexes have glossy blue-black plumage, while young birds are brown.

• White-rumped Cuckooshrike Coracina leucopygia

  This gray bird has a black face and tail, with a white belly and rump. It is restricted to Sulawesi and nearby islands and moves through the canopy in small groups.

• Forest Bittern Zonerodius heliosylus

  The Forest Bittern is a forest heron with a black crown and brown-and-buff barring. It forages alone along streams in New Guinea's rainforests.

• Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler Locustella certhiola

  Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler is a small brown bird. It breeds in parts of Central Asia and Siberia and winters in Singapore.

• Golden-crowned Sparrow Zonotrichia atricapilla

  A sparrow of western North America, it breeds in the north during summer and winters along the Pacific Coast.

• Buff-crested Bustard Lophotis gindiana

  The Buff-crested Bustard lives in dry scrub and open woodland. Males have a reddish buff crest and a black throat stripe.