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• Blue-bearded Bee-eater Nyctyornis athertoni

  

  The Blue-bearded Bee-eater has a green body, long blue throat feathers and a large curved bill. It uses openings in forests, and the species account reports spring-to-summer breeding in India.

• Spotted Redshank Tringa erythropus

  The Spotted Redshank is a slim wader with a long bill. Adults are black with white spots in summer and grey above with white underparts in winter.

• Bluebonnet Northiella haematogaster

  This Australian parrot has a blue face and throat and a gray-brown body. Its wing colors vary among subspecies.

• Grey Grasswren Amytornis barbatus

  This account follows the Bulloo subspecies described by the New South Wales government. Records along the lower Bulloo River are associated with wetlands of dense tall vegetation.

• White-browed Spinetail Hellmayrea gularis

  A high-Andean spinetail recorded from Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. It occurs in montane forest and dense understory, especially Chusquea bamboo.

• White-eared Honeyeater Nesoptilotis leucotis

  This honeyeater occurs in eastern and southern mainland Australia. It is common in dry eucalypt forest and woodland, where it searches mainly for insects beneath bark and in crevices.

• Brown Woodland Warbler Phylloscopus umbrovirens

  The Brown Woodland Warbler has a brown-olive back, pale underside, and searches for insects in trees.

• Plain-tailed Nighthawk Nyctiprogne vielliardi

  This nighthawk has been recorded along the São Francisco River. It roosts by day in riverside brush and flies low over water near dusk.

• Chestnut-headed Tesia Cettia castaneocoronata

  The Chestnut-headed Tesia is a round, nearly tailless bird with a white eye-ring, chestnut head, and yellow throat. It searches for insects close to the ground.

• Golden Parakeet Guaruba guarouba

  The Golden Parakeet has a bright yellow body and green flight feathers. It forages in flocks, and other flock members may help care for chicks.

• Singing Quail Dactylortyx thoracicus

  A quail of forest floors in Mexico and northern Central America, with gray-brown, white-streaked plumage that runs rather than taking flight when alarmed.

• Kikuyu White-eye Zosterops kikuyuensis

  This white-eye occurs on mountains in central Kenya. Its recorded habitats include highland forest and forest edge, bamboo stands, wooded gardens, eucalyptus and conifer woods.

• Yellow-browed Bunting Emberiza chrysophrys

  An East Asian bunting that moves seasonally. Males are marked by a yellow eyebrow, and the species is recorded in Hong Kong during passage.

• Little tern Sternula albifrons

  A small tern that visits Japan in warmer months to breed on beaches and river bars.

• Variegated Antpitta Grallaria varia

  This ground-associated antpitta has a gray-and-brown pattern of scales, spots, streaks, and bars. A study tracking one bird in a reserve in Amazonas, Brazil, recorded slow movement, quiet behavior at most locations, and roosting in mid-story trees.

• Hawaiian Duck Anas wyvilliana

  The Hawaiian Duck is a brown-speckled native duck of Hawaiʻi. It forages in shallow freshwater wetlands; this description excludes birds hybridized with Mallards.

• Yellow-billed Cacique Amblycercus holosericeus

  The Yellow-billed Cacique ranges from Mexico through Central America into northwestern South America. It lives in thickets and bamboo near forest edges.

• Bahama Swallow Tachycineta cyaneoviridis

  The Bahama Swallow is most often found on Andros in the Bahamas and uses both open fields and forest.

• Giant Wren Campylorhynchus chiapensis

  About 22 cm long, this large wren uses humid forest edges, second growth, and scrub in the Pacific lowlands. By day it forages on the ground for invertebrates.

• Namaqua Warbler Phragmacia substriata

  The Namaqua Warbler skulks in reedbeds near watercourses. It has a rufous-brown back and flanks contrasting with a white breast marked by faint streaks. The Namibian guide records it along the Orange River and at Fish River Canyon.

• Brown-throated Sunbird Anthreptes malacensis

  The Brown-throated Sunbird lives in Southeast Asian forests and mangroves, as well as parks. Males have green heads and yellow bellies, and the birds feed on nectar and insects.

• Red-faced Barbet Lybius rubrifacies

  The Red-faced Barbet lives in wooded and open landscapes with scattered trees in eastern Africa. Its red face contrasts with dark plumage.

• Pied Fantail Rhipidura javanica

  This fantail has black-and-white plumage and fans its tail as it moves. It is found in mangroves, coastal scrub, and riverside habitats.

• Wallacean Drongo Dicrurus densus

  This drongo occurs in the Lesser Sundas and southeastern Moluccas of Indonesia and in Timor-Leste. It has glossy blue-black plumage and a long, deeply forked tail.