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• 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.

• White-breasted Parrotbill Paradoxornis ruficeps

  This parrotbill ranges from northeast India east of Sikkim to Bhutan and adjacent Tibet. It uses bamboo near broadleaf evergreen forest and may be seen in small groups.

• Cape Verde Warbler Acrocephalus brevipennis

  Endemic to the Cape Verde Islands, this reed warbler has a dun-brown back and warm buff underparts. It uses densely vegetated places such as reedbeds, scrub, and plantations.

• Mountain Wren-Babbler Gypsophila crassa

  The Mountain Wren-Babbler is a small bird of montane forest on Borneo. Its brown body is set off by pale eyebrows and throat, and it can be hard to see in dark gullies.

• Brown Thornbill Acanthiza pusilla

  The Brown Thornbill lives in shrubs and forest understory in eastern and southeastern Australia and feeds mainly on insects.

• White-throated Greenbul Phyllastrephus albigularis

  A 1994 field-identification paper reports occurrence west to Sierra Leone in Upper Guinea, with an apparently isolated population in southern Senegal. It is encountered more often in gallery forest.

• Chestnut-headed Bee-eater Merops leschenaulti

  The Chestnut-headed Bee-eater has a green body, chestnut head, yellow face and throat, and blue on the rump and lower belly. It catches flying insects in the air.

• Chusquea Tapaculo Scytalopus parkeri

  The Chusquea Tapaculo is associated with dense stands of Chusquea bamboo. Its original description covered a population studied at 2,250–3,150 m in southeastern Ecuador.

• Lanner Falcon Falco biarmicus

  The Lanner Falcon hunts birds around rocky and open country. It uses long, pointed wings and a short tail to pursue prey in level flight.

• Pompadour Cotinga Xipholena punicea

  This cotinga lives high in forests of the Amazon Basin. Males are deep purple-red, while females are gray with white wing edges, giving the sexes very different plumage.

• Large-billed Parrotlet Forpus crassirostris

  The Large-billed Parrotlet is a small parrot of lowlands from southeastern Colombia to western Brazil. Males have blue wing markings; females are green and less yellow overall.

• Black Bustard Afrotis afra

  The Black Bustard is a small bustard of southwestern South Africa that uses low shrubland.

• Ochre-breasted Brush Finch Atlapetes semirufus

  The Ochre-breasted Brushfinch ranges from northern Venezuela into north-central Colombia. It uses montane forest understory and edges at about 1,000–3,500 m.

• Gabon Coucal Centropus anselli

  This west-central African cuckoo has rufous wings and a pale rufous underside. It searches for food on the ground and in low bushes.

• White-backed Black Tit Melaniparus leuconotus

  The White-backed Black Tit has a black body and a white shoulder patch. It moves in pairs or small groups and searches tree trunks and branches for small invertebrates.

• Bamboo Foliage-gleaner Anabazenops dorsalis

  The Bamboo Foliage-gleaner is associated with bamboo and cane thickets. Its account highlights bamboo stands in southeastern Peru.

• Black-backed Wood Quail Odontophorus melanonotus

  The Black-backed Wood Quail has a dark brown back and a rufous throat and breast. It forages on the forest floor in montane forests spanning northwestern Ecuador and southwestern Colombia.

• Rufous-backed Wren Campylorhynchus capistratus

  A wren of Central American dry forest and scrub. Its white eyebrow and rufous back stand out, and it may build a globular nest in thorny trees.

• Meratus White-eye Zosterops meratusensis

  Zosterops meratusensis was described from the Meratus Mountains of southeastern Borneo. The paper suggests that its range may be confined to this mountain area.

• Curve-billed Thrasher Toxostoma curvirostre

  The Curve-billed Thrasher lives in dry parts of the southwestern United States and Mexico, including scrub with cacti and open woodland. It probes the ground with its long, downcurved bill for insects and fruit.

• Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas

  The Common Yellowthroat is a small bird that searches low vegetation for insects and spiders. Adult males and females have different facial markings.

• Halmahera Paradise-crow Lycocorax pyrrhopterus

  This bird-of-paradise is easy to notice by its grey back and white wing patch. It eats fruit and arthropods in forests of the North Moluccas.

• Yellow-bellied Wattle-eye Platysteira concreta

  An East African forest bird. The field guide describes an olive back, a chestnut-yellow breast and belly, and bright green wattles beside the eyes.

• African Palm Swift Cypsiurus parvus

  The African Palm Swift is a slender swift with a deeply forked tail that clings beneath palm fronds.