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• Yellow-knobbed Curassow Crax daubentoni

  

  This large curassow ranges through northern Venezuela and adjacent parts of Colombia. The male is black with an erect crest and a yellow knob on its bill; both sexes have a crest. It feeds on the ground and in trees on plant matter and small animals.

• Taiwan Cupwing Pnoepyga formosana

  

  The Taiwan Cupwing is endemic to Taiwan's mountain forests. It keeps to dense understory near the ground, is usually solitary, and makes only short flights.

• Sri Lanka Drongo Dicrurus lophorinus

  

  This drongo is endemic to Sri Lanka and lacks the long bare-shafted tail rackets of the Greater Racket-tailed Drongo. One study observed nesting pairs removing foliage around their host tree.

• Grey-headed Babbler Stachyris poliocephala

  

  The Grey-headed Babbler lives in forests from southern Thailand through the Malay Peninsula to Sumatra and Borneo. It has a dark grey head with white lines and a chestnut body.

• Curve-billed Tinamou Nothoprocta curvirostris

  

  This ground-dwelling tinamou lives in high Andean grasslands. Its curved bill and rufous underparts are distinctive.

• Sungrebe Heliornis fulica

  

  The Sungrebe is a small aquatic bird with a long, slender bill and yellow-and-black-banded lobed toes. It hides along quiet, heavily vegetated waterways and may dive when threatened.

• Yellow-mantled Weaver Ploceus tricolor

  A weaver of lowland forests along rivers and swamps in western and central Africa. It searches for insects and small fruits from the forest mid-levels to the canopy.

• Japanese waxwing Bombycilla japonica

  A winter visitor to Japan with a red tail tip.

• Slender-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus clarus

  A nocturnal nightjar of East African woodland and savanna. It has a slender body and slightly elongated central tail feathers.

• Flaming Sunbird Aethopyga flagrans

  This sunbird lives in Philippine forest and feeds mainly on nectar. A 2006 preliminary taxonomic review recorded geographic differences in plumage among populations.

• Fork-tailed Storm Petrel Hydrobates furcatus

  The Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel is a North Pacific seabird. Its bluish-grey body and forked tail are distinctive, and it feeds close to the sea surface.

• Rand's Warbler Randia pseudozosterops

  Rand's Warbler is endemic to eastern Madagascar's humid lowland forest. It has an olive-gray head with a prominent pale eyebrow and forages for insects in treetops.

• Common Sunbird-Asity Neodrepanis coruscans

  This Madagascar-only asity is one of the species with a long, curved bill. Sunbird-asities mainly take nectar, and also eat fruit and insects.

• White-capped Parrot Pionus seniloides

  It has a white forehead and a gray-scaled crown. A field survey recorded it in montane cloud forest in southern Ecuador.

• Mulga Parrot Psephotellus varius

  The Mulga Parrot is an Australian parrot whose male has striking yellow and red head markings. It searches for seeds on the ground and in low plants, and nests in tree hollows.

• Shy Ground Dove Pampusana stairi

  The Shy Ground Dove is a ground-dwelling dove of Polynesian islands. It searches for seeds, fruit, and insects on the ground and in the forest understory.

• Cinnamon Quail-thrush Cinclosoma cinnamomeum

  This ground-dwelling bird of central Australia has different breast and wing patterns in males and females. Family groups hold territories in dry scrub and stony plains.

• Least Seedsnipe Thinocorus rumicivorus

  The Least Seedsnipe is a small ground-dwelling bird of South American grasslands and steppes. It feeds on shoots, leaves, and seeds in pairs or small groups.

• Abyssinian Roller Coracias abyssinicus

  The Abyssinian Roller lives in dry open country in Africa. Its blue and turquoise feathers contrast with brown areas, and it catches large insects.

• Happy Wren Pheugopedius felix

  This wren is endemic to western Mexico. A white eyebrow, black-and-white flecking on the face and neck, and a rufous crown and upper back distinguish it. It lives in second growth and forest edges, feeding mainly on invertebrates.

• Chestnut-vented Warbler Curruca subcoerulea

  The Chestnut-vented Warbler is gray, with a pale eye, streaked throat, rufous vent, and large white tail patches. In dense scrub it is often detected by voice.

• Nahan's Francolin Ptilopachus nahani

  Nahan's Partridge is a small brown bird found at only a handful of locations in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is known for a red eye ring and for using a locally named “God's tree” to roost and nest.

• Black Robin Petroica traversi

  Endemic to the Chatham Islands, the Black Robin is black in both sexes and active in the lower forest strata. It relies on continuous forest interior and is reluctant to venture into open areas.

• Halmahera Paradise-crow Lycocorax pyrrhopterus

  This bird-of-paradise is easy to notice by its grey back and white wing patch. It eats fruit and arthropods in forests of the North Moluccas.