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• Slaty-tailed Trogon Trogon massena

  

  The Slaty-tailed Trogon is a forest bird with different plumage in males and females. In the Costa Rican account, the male has a green head and back with a red breast and belly, while the female is mostly dark gray.

• Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch Sitta cinnamoventris

  A historical Himalayan account describes this nuthatch with a cinnamon belly and records nests in decayed bamboo and roadside walls.

• Common Scale-backed Antbird Willisornis poecilinotus

  This roughly 13 cm antbird is widespread in Amazonia. Male and female plumage differ, and markings also vary among subspecies.

• Greater Racket-tailed Drongo Dicrurus paradiseus

  The Greater Racket-tailed Drongo has glossy black plumage, a backward-curving crest and long ornamental tail wires. It is a resident of forests and wooded areas in Singapore.

• Tocuyo Sparrow Arremonops tocuyensis

  A sparrow of dry scrub and forest edges in northeastern Colombia and northwestern Venezuela.

• Carolinian Reed Warbler Acrocephalus syrinx

  The Carolinian Reed Warbler is native to the Federated States of Micronesia. It uses dry grassland, gardens, and tropical mountain forest, searching for small animals on the ground and among trees.

• Semipalmated Plover Charadrius semipalmatus

  The Semipalmated Plover is a small shorebird with a dark band across the chest. It migrates from North American breeding grounds toward South America.

• White-eared Puffbird Nystalus chacuru

  The White-eared Puffbird occurs in forest and woodland clearings and dry savanna in South America. It has a brown back and crown, a black-and-white-speckled breast, a black-edged white ear patch, and a red hooked bill with a black tip. It eats insects and other invertebrates.

• St. Lucia Thrasher Ramphocinclus sanctaeluciae

  The St. Lucia Thrasher occurs only on Saint Lucia. It searches for food among leaf litter in lowland and coastal dry forest.

• Blue-headed Macaw Primolius couloni

  Its green body, blue head, and maroon tail stand out. It lives in the western Amazon forests of Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil.

• 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.

• White-lored Warbler Myiothlypis conspicillata

  This warbler is restricted to Colombia’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. It searches for insects in the lower vegetation of humid mountain forest.

• Pilbara Grasswren Amytornis whitei

  This long-tailed bird lives in the Pilbara of Western Australia. It runs among large spinifex clumps in dry, open country.

• Saxaul Sparrow Passer ammodendri

  The saxaul sparrow uses desert saxaul groves and wooded areas near water. A Kazakhstan regional account lists seeds and insects as foods.

• Black-billed Sicklebill Drepanornis albertisi

  Male black-billed sicklebills court by displaying the purple sheen and ornamental feathers on the head. They live in New Guinea's mountain forests and eat mainly insects.

• White-headed Petrel Pterodroma lessonii

  The White-headed Petrel is a large seabird that breeds on islands in the Southern Ocean. Its white head and dark eye patch stand out, and it flies long distances to feeding grounds at sea.

• Auckland Shag Leucocarbo colensoi

  This marine shag is found only in the Auckland Islands. It has black-and-white plumage and pale pink feet; in breeding season it develops a head crest and red facial skin and throat pouch.

• Madagascan Nightjar Caprimulgus madagascariensis

  The Madagascan Nightjar is a nocturnal bird found on Madagascar and Aldabra in the Seychelles. It catches insects on the wing at night and rests on leaf litter by day.

• Lineated Woodpecker Dryocopus lineatus

  The Lineated Woodpecker is a large woodpecker with a black back and a white shoulder stripe. Its scarlet crest and, in males, red cheek stripe stand out. It taps into wood to find insects.

• Yellow-crowned Bishop Euplectes afer

  The Yellow-crowned Bishop is a small bird of grasslands and wetlands in sub-Saharan Africa. It mainly eats seeds, and breeding males puff out yellow back feathers and call.

• Miombo Tit Melaniparus griseiventris

  The Miombo Tit is a black, white, and grey member of the tit family. In Zimbabwean miombo woodland it forages on large trees and sometimes joins other small birds.

• Green-headed Hillstar Oreotrochilus stolzmanni

  The Green-headed Hillstar lives in the high Andes from southern Peru to southern Ecuador. It uses rocky grassland and scrub and feeds on nectar.

• Golden-winged Manakin Masius chrysopterus

  The Golden-winged Manakin lives in humid montane forest in northern South America. Males have a yellow crest and throat, while females are olive-green.

• Antioquia Wren Thryophilus sernai

  This wren is known from the dry Cauca River canyon in northwestern Colombia. Its description paper records small patches of semideciduous forest and dry scrub, often along watercourses, and calls it uncommon within its range.