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• Bushy-crested Jay Cyanocorax melanocyaneus

  

  The Bushy-crested Jay has a raised crown, a black hood, and blue wings and tail. It forages in flocks for insects, seeds, and fruit.

• Brewer's Blackbird Euphagus cyanocephalus

  Male Brewer's Blackbirds are glossy black with yellow eyes, while females are brown. The species uses open habitats from grasslands to parks and city streets.

• Red-and-white Antpitta Grallaria erythroleuca

  Both sexes have similar rufous-brown and white plumage. In southeastern Peru's moist mountain forests, it searches near the ground for beetles, ants, and spiders.

• Coppery Sunbird Cinnyris cupreus

  Breeding males have a coppery head that can look black in poor light. The species uses savanna, scrub, gardens, and other open places, and is a resident native in Ghana.

• Corsican Nuthatch Sitta whiteheadi

  The Corsican Nuthatch is endemic to Corsica and feeds on insects or pine seeds at different times of year.

• Uganda Woodland Warbler Phylloscopus budongoensis

  The Uganda Woodland Warbler is recorded in Uganda's Budongo Forest and Kenya's Kakamega Forest. It is olive green above and pale below and searches dense undergrowth for invertebrates.

• Brown-headed Barbet Psilopogon zeylanicus

  This barbet has a brown head and green body and feeds on fruit and insects. It uses forests as well as orchards, parks, and other green spaces near people.

• Mountain White-eye Zosterops montanus

  The Mountain White-eye is described from Wallacea, the Greater Sundas, and the Philippines. The KOMIU profile places it in primary forest on high mountains.

• White-bellied Piculet Picumnus spilogaster

  The nominate form, spilogaster, occurs in the northern Guianas and Roraima in northern Brazil. BirdForum Opus describes habitats ranging from forest to thickets.

• Northern Red-billed Hornbill Tockus erythrorhynchus

  The Northern Red-billed Hornbill has a long, curved red bill. In sub-Saharan Africa it eats fruit, insects, and small animals in savanna and woodland.

• Yellow-bellied Prinia Prinia flaviventris

  This small bird searches for insects in Hong Kong grassland and reedbeds; adult plumage changes by season.

• Creamy-bellied Thrush Turdus amaurochalinus

  The Creamy-bellied Thrush is notable for its yellowish bill and pale belly. An Argentine account describes it feeding alone or in pairs, from the ground to low trees.

• Black-capped Siskin Spinus atriceps

  A siskin with a black cap and yellow-green body. It occurs in highlands from southern Mexico to Guatemala.

• Long-tailed Triller Lalage leucopyga

  This triller occurs on Makira, in Vanuatu, and in New Caledonia. Males are dark brown-black with a white wing patch, while females are browner; it uses habitats from edges and scrub to forest.

• Nilgiri Flycatcher Eumyias albicaudatus

  The Nilgiri Flycatcher occurs in India's Western Ghats. Males are greenish indigo-blue with white patches at the tail base; females are smaller and grey-brown.

• Three-toed Parrotbill Paradoxornis paradoxus

  A central Chinese parrotbill of high-elevation forest. It uses bamboo thickets and eats beetles and other insects; flocks may shift elevation locally when bamboo dries out.

• Black-eared Shrike-Babbler Pteruthius melanotis

  This small shrike-babbler has a white eye-ring and a black border behind its yellow ear-coverts. It searches for insects in the canopy.

• Golden-crowned Sparrow Zonotrichia atricapilla

  A sparrow of western North America, it breeds in the north during summer and winters along the Pacific Coast.

• Lühder's Bushshrike Laniarius luehderi

  A forest bushshrike of west and central Africa. Adults combine tawny-orange head and breast, a black face mask and a broad white wing stripe.

• Brown-backed Needletail Hirundapus giganteus

  The Brown-backed Needletail is a large swift with powerful flight and broad wings. Its subspecies have different ranges.

• Diamantina Tapaculo Scytalopus diamantinensis

  This small tapaculo is restricted to mountains in northeastern Brazil. Males and females differ in the tone of their upperparts, and the species lives in dense forest-floor vegetation.

• Changeable Hawk-Eagle Nisaetus cirrhatus

  The Changeable Hawk-Eagle is a forest raptor with pale and dark color morphs. The distribution and resident records cited here refer only to the documented localities.

• White-necked Babbler Stachyris leucotis

  The White-necked Babbler is about 14–15 cm long. By day it uses dense evergreen forest undergrowth and searches the ground for invertebrates.

• Western Spinebill Acanthorhynchus superciliosus

  The Western Spinebill has rufous, white, black, and grey plumage and a slender bill. It uses flowers, fruit, and small invertebrates in southwestern Australia.