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• Cabanis's Bunting Emberiza cabanisi

  

  Cabanis's Bunting occurs in sub-Saharan Africa. Males have a dark crown, white eyebrow, and yellow underparts.

• Large-billed Scrubwren Sericornis magnirostra

  This small brown bird is recorded in the rainforests of northeastern Australia. It moves through low and middle levels of the forest, searching mainly for insects.

• Purple-throated Cotinga Porphyrolaema porphyrolaema

  This cotinga has a purple throat. Adult males are black and white, while females are brown and barred, so the sexes look very different.

• Iago Sparrow Passer iagoensis

  The Iago Sparrow lives in towns and dry savannas of the Cape Verde archipelago. It is accustomed to people and may visit café terraces.

• Red-billed Curassow Crax blumenbachii

  The Red-billed Curassow is an Atlantic Forest bird in Brazil. Both sexes have a crest, but their plumage and bill colors differ.

• Indochinese Cuckooshrike Coracina polioptera

  This cuckooshrike uses semi-open habitats and lower mountains in the Indo-Malay region. Oiseaux.net lists the pool name Coracina polioptera as Lalage polioptera.

• Great-billed Heron Ardea sumatrana

  The Great-billed Heron is a large heron with a massive bill. It lives around coastal rocks and shallow water near mangroves.

• Amami Thrush Zoothera major

  A large thrush found on Amami-Oshima, with records also from nearby Kakeroma Island. It searches for animal prey and fruit in mature evergreen forest around humid valleys.

• Yucatan Wren Campylorhynchus yucatanicus

  The Yucatan Wren is restricted to coastal lowlands in the northern Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. It lives in pairs or small family groups among scattered shrubs and cacti.

• Bernier's Teal Anas bernieri

  Bernier’s Teal is a duck of brackish lakes and wetlands in western Madagascar. It forms pairs in the breeding season and small groups at other times.

• Tschudi's Tapaculo Scytalopus acutirostris

  Tschudi's Tapaculo lives in the humid montane understory of the eastern Peruvian Andes. Adults are mostly blackish with rufous on the flanks and forage in bamboo patches.

• Ancient Antwren Herpsilochmus gentryi

  The Ancient Antwren occurs in lowland forest in southeastern Ecuador and northern Peru. It has yellowish sides of the head and underside, with white wing bars on a gray back.

• Red-and-yellow Barbet Trachyphonus erythrocephalus

  This barbet lives in open woodland, wooded grassland, and scrub in East Africa. It has a sturdy body, large head, and strong bill.

• Chinspot Batis Batis molitor

  This small bird is widespread in sub-Saharan Africa and favors woodland, savanna, and riverine thickets over evergreen forest. It searches for insects and spiders in trees and bushes.

• Buff-necked Ibis Theristicus caudatus

  The Buff-necked Ibis is a South American ibis with a long downcurved bill and a pale buff neck. It forages in open grassland; in Valle del Cauca, Colombia, arthropods including insects formed much of its diet.

• Kittlitz's Plover Charadrius pecuarius

  Kittlitz's plover walks along African coasts and inland sand or mud, searching for small prey.

• Brown-winged Schiffornis Schiffornis turdina

  About 17 cm long, both sexes are brownish birds. It occurs in lower layers of humid forest and in shaded secondary growth.

• White-crested Helmetshrike Prionops plumatus

  This social bird has black-and-white plumage, a gray crest, and a yellow eye. It searches for insects in the middle and lower levels of trees.

• Spotted Fantail Rhipidura perlata

  The Spotted Fantail is marked by fine spots on its breast and an active, tail-fanning way of pursuing insects. It forages inside forest rather than in more open areas.

• Hepatic Tanager Piranga hepatica

  This tanager ranges from the United States to Nicaragua. The Texas atlas distinguishes P. hepatica from the older broad treatment as P. flava and describes its Texas breeding habitat in dry juniper-pinyon or pine-oak woodland.

• Somali Short-toed Lark Alaudala somalica

  This lark lives in open, dry grassland in East Africa. It has dark streaks on its reddish-brown upperparts and streaking on the breast.

• Yellow-lored Bristlebill Bleda notatus

  A lowland forest bird of West-Central Africa, also recorded in older secondary growth and forest–grassland mosaics. Records reach 650 m.

• Aquatic Warbler Acrocephalus paludicola

  This warbler breeds in eastern Europe and winters in West Africa. Its yellow crown stripe and yellow-brown streaked plumage help identify it.

• Madagascar Starling Hartlaubius auratus

  Adult males have a dark-brown head and throat, a white chest and belly, and white-edged wings. A historical account describes groups feeding on the ground in open areas near streams in Madagascar.