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• White-bibbed Antbird Myrmoderus loricatus

  

  It is endemic to Brazil, in Atlantic Forest from southern Bahia through Espírito Santo and Rio de Janeiro, with nearby areas of Minas Gerais and São Paulo.

• Dotted Tanager Ixothraupis varia

  This small tanager occurs from southern Venezuela through the Guianas to northern Amazonian Brazil. It is found in the canopy and at edges of humid forest.

• Brown-backed Honeyeater Ramsayornis modestus

  This small honeyeater lives in coastal areas of northeastern Australia and New Guinea. It is often seen in flowering trees near water.

• 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.

• Bismarck Cicadabird Coracina remota

  A cicadabird of the Bismarck Archipelago. Females are described with a gray crown and chestnut back.

• Bell's Vireo Vireo bellii

  This small songbird has a gray-to-green back and a pale ring around each eye. It breeds in North America and winters along western Mexico and the Pacific side of Central America.

• Striated Bulbul Alcurus striatus

  This bulbul lives in broadleaf forests on hills and mountains. Its streaked plumage is distinctive, and it may move in noisy groups.

• Nubian Bustard Neotis nuba

  The Nubian Bustard is a large bustard of dry country along the southern Sahara. It is active by day and eats both animal and plant foods.

• Curve-billed Reedhaunter Limnornis curvirostris

  This bird occurs in wetlands of Argentina and Uruguay. An 1888 natural-history account describes it in dense reeds rising from water, where it remains concealed.

• 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.

• Common Guillemot Uria aalge

  The Common Guillemot is a seabird that gathers on coastal cliffs to breed and otherwise lives at sea.

• Giant Snipe Gallinago undulata

  The Giant Snipe is a large wader with a disjunct South American range. It is 40–43.5 cm long, with a very long straight bill and broad, rounded wings.

• Pinsker's Hawk-Eagle Nisaetus pinskeri

  A forest eagle endemic to the Philippines, it is currently recognized as Nisaetus pinskeri. Adults of the southern population have a pale crown and bold black-and-white markings on the breast and legs.

• Spotted Forktail Enicurus maculatus

  The Spotted Forktail forages beside streams in mountain forest. Its long tail is deeply forked.

• Plain-bellied Emerald Chrysuronia leucogaster

  This hummingbird has a white belly. It uses coastal mangroves and forest edges and feeds on nectar.

• Olive-streaked Flycatcher Mionectes olivaceus

  This flycatcher occurs in montane forest on the eastern Andean slope. The Peru Aves account says it forages at different heights along forest edges and in second growth.

• Blue-naped Parrot Tanygnathus lucionensis

  The Blue-naped Parrot is a green parrot native to Philippine islands and Indonesia's Talaud Islands. The pattern of blue on the head and back varies by subspecies.

• Bornean Black-capped Babbler Pellorneum capistratoides

  The Bornean Black-capped Babbler is endemic to Borneo. eBird describes it moving quickly on the forest floor and rummaging through leaf litter in lowland and foothill forest.

• Laced Woodpecker Picus vittatus

  The Laced Woodpecker has a green back and yellowish underparts. The male has a red crown and nape, while those areas are black in the female.

• Red-winged Fairywren Malurus elegans

  A fairywren of southwestern Australia that lives in small groups in scrub and mainly eats insects.

• Grey Thornbill Acanthiza cinerea

  A small thornbill with grey upperparts and a white underside, active in the canopy of montane forest.

• Ambon White-eye Zosterops kuehni

  The Ambon White-eye is a restricted-range species reported mainly from Indonesia's Ambon Island. It uses moist lowland forest, shrubland, and rural gardens, with a white eye-ring and yellow throat.

• Chukar Alectoris chukar

  Native to southern Eurasia, the Chukar also has introduced populations in rocky, dry country of western North America.

• Silvery-cheeked hornbill Bycanistes brevis

  A forest bird with silvery facial feathers and a large bill.