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• Scarlet-collared Flowerpecker Dicaeum retrocinctum

  

  A flowerpecker distributed in the Philippines. The account’s photograph is from near Sablayan on Mindoro.

• New Zealand King Shag Leucocarbo carunculatus

  The New Zealand King Shag is a large cormorant restricted to the Marlborough Sounds of New Zealand. It dives for fish living near the sea floor.

• Spectacled Warbler Curruca conspicillata

  The Spectacled Warbler occurs around the Mediterranean and on Macaronesian islands. Breeding males have a conspicuous white eye ring, and the species uses dry scrub.

• Orange-headed Thrush Geokichla citrina

  The Orange-headed Thrush has an orange head and underparts, with plain gray or brown upperparts. Facial markings vary among subspecies; in Singapore it searches wooded ground for insects and also eats fruit.

• Rufous-chested Flycatcher Ficedula dumetoria

  Southern Flores specimens are described with brown irises, black bills, and bluish-purple legs. A specimen from Tjeréng was collected in primary forest.

• Malindi Pipit Anthus melindae

  The Malindi Pipit is reported from coastal grasslands of Kenya and Somalia. Photo notes describe long legs and heavy streaking; it walks on the ground to find small invertebrates. The cited project source also records gaps in range information.

• 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.

• Dusky Leaftosser Sclerurus obscurior

  Sclerurus obscurior searches leaf litter on the forest floor. Peru Aves calls it the South American Leaftosser and notes that Tawny-throated Leaftosser was used formerly.

• Scarlet-fronted Parakeet Psittacara wagleri

  The Scarlet-fronted Parakeet has a green body, red forehead, and long tail. It eats fruit and seeds and is native to Colombia and Venezuela.

• Dusky Tapaculo Scytalopus fuscus

  This Chilean endemic stays concealed near the ground in dense vegetation. It is slate-gray with a darker forehead and feeds on insects and spiders.

• Worthen's Sparrow Spizella wortheni

  This small sparrow is restricted to dry upland grasslands in northeastern Mexico. It keeps low among short shrubs and feeds mostly on seeds in winter.

• Chestnut-banded Plover Charadrius pallidus

  This small shorebird is adapted to salty lakes and mudflats. It has separate eastern and southern African populations; southern birds use coastal lagoons and inland saline pans.

• Yellow-browed Honeyeater Melidectes rufocrissalis

  It has a long tail and a long, down-curved bill. It uses lower and middle levels of New Guinea's montane forest and gardens, feeding on insects, nectar, and fruit.

• White-bearded Antshrike Biatas nigropectus

  The White-bearded Antshrike is associated with bamboo in the Atlantic Forest. Males have a black cap and white face, while females have a rufous crown.

• Anna's Hummingbird Calypte anna

  Anna's Hummingbird has iridescent green plumage and a rose-pink throat. Males climb high and dive during courtship.

• Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird Pogoniulus chrysoconus

  The Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird is a tiny barbet marked by a yellow forehead. It eats mistletoe and other fruits in broadleaved woodland, and both sexes excavate a nest hole in a dead branch.

• White-browed Fantail Rhipidura aureola

  The White-browed Fantail is a small bird with a white brow and a fan-shaped tail. It catches small flying insects in woodland and open places.

• Ethiopian Boubou Laniarius aethiopicus

  This bushshrike has glossy blue-black upperparts and tail, with white spots on the rump. It eats insects and spiders as well as small vertebrates.

• Bar-winged Flycatcher-shrike Hemipus picatus

  The Bar-winged Flycatcher-shrike is a small black-and-white bird that sallies from a perch to catch insects. It lives in open forest and forest edges, often in pairs or small groups.

• Black-mandibled Toucan Ramphastos ambiguus

  The Yellow-throated Toucan has a yellow face and chest and a long, two-colored bill. It forages for fruit in the canopy and nests in cavities in decaying trees.

• Pale-billed Parrotbill Suthora atrosuperciliaris

  This small parrotbill ranges from the eastern Himalayas into southern China. It forms small groups in bamboo and forest edges and eats seeds and insects.

• Flame-crested Manakin Heterocercus linteatus

  This manakin lives in Amazonian forest. In Peru, only a small number of visual records are reported from the far southeast; it also occurs in Brazil and Bolivia.

• Red-ruffed Fruitcrow Pyroderus scutatus

  This large cotinga inhabits humid montane forest on the eastern Andean slope. The Peruvian account describes it moving alone in the canopy.

• Dusky Robin Melanodryas vittata

  This robin is endemic to Tasmania, where it occurs in eucalypt forest, woodland, and coastal heath. It is plain brown compared with the other local robins.