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• Prairie Warbler Setophaga discolor

  

  This slender warbler is marked in black and yellow. Despite its name, it favors scrubby second-growth forest and young pine stands rather than open prairie.

• Northern Scrub Robin Drymodes superciliaris

  The Northern Scrub Robin lives in scrub in north-eastern Australia. It often stays near the ground and nests there.

• Greater Yellownape Chrysophlegma flavinucha

  The Greater Yellownape is a large woodpecker that searches tree trunks for food.

• Red Siskin Spinus cucullatus

  Males are red and black, while females are much duller. This small finch eats fruit, seeds, and buds, and may move with seasonal rains.

• Camiguin Bulbul Hypsipetes catarmanensis

  This bulbul is found only on Camiguin Island in the Philippines. It is brown with a relatively large bill and eats fruit and insects.

• Dusky-legged Guan Penelope obscura

  This entry covers records of the nominate subspecies P. o. obscura in southern Paraguay. The paper reports reddish irises in an observed male and brown irises in an observed female.

• Madagascar Ibis Lophotibis cristata

  This ibis lives only in the forests of Madagascar. Its white wings and crest stand out, and it probes the forest floor for food with a long bill.

• Guanay Cormorant Leucocarbo bougainvilliorum

  This seabird occurs along the Pacific coast from Peru to Chile. Adults have dark backs and white underparts, while juveniles are browner. It mainly eats anchoveta, but its diet varies with latitude.

• Sudan Golden Sparrow Passer luteus

  The Sudan Golden Sparrow is notable for the male's yellow head and underparts and chestnut back. Females are sandy brown. The species uses dry savanna and scrub, and forms flocks and nests in groups during the breeding period.

• Greater Sage Grouse Centrocercus urophasianus

  The Greater Sage-Grouse lives in sagebrush plains of western North America. During the breeding season, males gather and display to females.

• Western Long-tailed Hornbill Horizocerus albocristatus

  The Western Long-tailed Hornbill is a large hornbill of humid forests in West Africa.

• Slaty-breasted Tinamou Crypturellus boucardi

  The Slaty-breasted Tinamou searches for fruits, seeds, and ants on the floor of wet forest. Its breast is dark gray, its throat is white, and females have bars on their wings.

• Heuglin's Masked Weaver Ploceus heuglini

  This weaver ranges from the Sahel to western East Africa. It uses dry savanna woodland, thickets, scrub, and areas around farms and villages, and is thought to feed mostly on arthropods.

• Somali Fiscal Lanius somalicus

  This shrike has a grey back and white underparts and searches for prey in dry grassland.

• White-throated Gerygone Gerygone olivacea

  The White-throated Gerygone is a small bird with gray-brown upperparts and bright yellow underparts.

• Giant Babax Pterorhinus waddelli

  The Giant Babax lives in the highlands of the Tibetan Plateau. It eats insects and berries during the breeding season; outside that season, reports also list crop seeds and plant rhizomes.

• 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.

• Moluccan Island Thrush Turdus deningeri

  The Moluccan Island Thrush occurs on separate Moluccan islands. The 2024 Clements treatment includes the Seram population and tentatively includes the Taliabu form. Seram birds are black-bodied with an indistinct white hood.

• Carunculated Caracara Phalcoboenus carunculatus

  The Carunculated Caracara is a raptor of open Andean highlands, notable for its orange face and white streaks on a dark chest.

• Grenada Dove Leptotila wellsi

  The Grenada Dove is a pigeon endemic to the Caribbean island of Grenada. It forages on the ground in dry coastal and deciduous forest.

• Russet-winged Schiffornis Schiffornis stenorhyncha

  The Russet-winged Schiffornis occurs in eastern Panama, northern Colombia, and northern Venezuela. The account notes that it was formerly included in Thrush-like Schiffornis, but treats it as a separate species.

• Black-sided Flowerpecker Dicaeum monticolum

  The Black-sided Flowerpecker is a small bird of Borneo's montane forests. Males have a red throat and dark blue-black back; females have a greener back.

• Rufous-bellied Eagle Lophotriorchis kienerii

  The Rufous-bellied Eagle is a forest-dwelling eagle named for its rusty-colored belly. It is active by day and hunts birds and small mammals in forests and along their edges.

• White-throated Pewee Contopus albogularis

  A French Guiana field report describes a small flycatcher with a dark-gray body and white throat. At Nouragues, one bird was observed chasing insects from a branch and returning to it.