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• Yellow-crowned Barbet Psilopogon henricii

  

  The Yellow-crowned Barbet is green with a yellow crown and blue throat. It eats fruit in forests across Southeast Asia.

• Fiery-capped Manakin Machaeropterus pyrocephalus

  This small manakin lives in lowland forest around the Amazon region. Males hang upside down from branches and twist rapidly from side to side during courtship.

• Rock Sandpiper Calidris ptilocnemis

  A stout gray shorebird, it breeds in the Arctic and winters farther north than many other shorebirds. It searches for food on rocky shores and mudflats.

• Vogelkop Scrubwren Aethomyias rufescens

  This small bird has olive-brown upperparts and pale underparts. It inhabits mountain forest and secondary growth in northwestern New Guinea.

• Grasshopper Buzzard Butastur rufipennis

  The Grasshopper Buzzard is a raptor of open Sahel country that feeds heavily on insects, especially grasshoppers.

• Ochraceous Piculet Picumnus limae

  The Ochraceous Piculet is a small woodpecker of northeastern Brazil. Its underside grades from pale in the north to brown farther south.

• Black-billed Mountain Toucan Andigena nigrirostris

  A mountain toucan with a blue breast and a large bill that visits fruiting trees, often in small groups.

• Thick-billed Cuckoo Pachycoccyx audeberti

  The Thick-billed Cuckoo has a heavy bill and pale underparts. It is patchily distributed across sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar and feeds mainly on caterpillars.

• Intermediate Egret Ardea intermedia

  A heron often seen in rice fields, intermediate in size between the Little and Great Egrets.

• Orange River White-eye Zosterops pallidus

  The Orange River White-eye is a white-eye of arid southern Africa. It moves through foliage in flocks and feeds on insects and fruit.

• Equatorial Antpitta Grallaria saturata

  An Andean antpitta recorded at roughly 2,550–3,650 m. A 2020 study recognized these populations as G. saturata, separate from the G. rufula complex.

• Kenya Sparrow Passer rufocinctus

  The male Kenya Sparrow has blue-gray and chestnut plumage on the head and back, while the female is much duller. It feeds on grain and small seeds, mainly on the ground.

• Chestnut-bellied Monarch Monarcha castaneiventris

  This entry covers records from Santa Isabel and Guadalcanal. The nominate form has a chestnut belly, and field notes record nesting in a tree fork.

• Fairy Paradise Kingfisher Tanysiptera nympha

  The Fairy Paradise Kingfisher is striking for its red underparts and long tail streamers. It lives in lowland forest and mangroves on New Guinea.

• Aberdare Cisticola Cisticola aberdare

  This small cisticola lives in Kenya’s highland grassland and moorland. It builds a ball-shaped nest among grass tussocks.

• Snowcap Microchera albocoronata

  The male has a white crown and dark plumage with coppery reflections. Its outer tail feathers have white bases and dark terminal bands. This small hummingbird feeds on nectar near forest edges.

• Black Bulbul Hypsipetes leucocephalus

  In Hong Kong, this bulbul forms flocks in forest canopies. Adults and young birds differ in head color.

• Doherty's Bushshrike Telophorus dohertyi

  This bushshrike inhabits montane forests from eastern Congo into the East African highlands. Its bright colors can be hard to see because it moves quietly through dense cover.

• Red-crested Cardinal Paroaria coronata

  This bird has a bright red crest and throat, gray back, and white underparts. It forages on the ground in semi-open places and farmland in South America and may flock outside the breeding season.

• Black-capped Sparrow Arremon abeillei

  This sparrow occurs in the understory of humid Andean forests and tall scrub. Its black head and broad white eyebrow stand out, and mantle color varies between subspecies.

• Elfin Woods Warbler Setophaga angelae

  This warbler is restricted to Puerto Rico's mountain forests. Adults are black and white above and white with black streaks below, and they glean insects from leaves and branches.

• Pygmy Flowerpecker Dicaeum pygmaeum

  This small flowerpecker is endemic to the Philippines. Males and females have different plumage.

• Mountain Shrike Lanius validirostris

  It has a gray head and back, a black facial band, a white breast, and rufous-brown flanks. In the Philippine mountains, it watches for insects from exposed perches.

• Eastern Olivaceous Warbler Iduna pallida

  A small, pale olive-gray warbler that searches shrubs and trees for insects. It migrates between breeding and wintering areas.