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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.

• Upland Sandpiper Bartramia longicauda

  This sandpiper is usually found in grasslands rather than wetlands. It feeds there and breeds in North America before migrating to South America.

• Greater Hoopoe-Lark Alaemon alaudipes

  The Greater Hoopoe-Lark is a desert bird with sandy plumage, a long tail, and a down-curved bill. It is usually seen alone or in pairs.

• Blue-bearded Bee-eater Nyctyornis athertoni

  The Blue-bearded Bee-eater has a green body, long blue throat feathers and a large curved bill. It uses openings in forests, and the species account reports spring-to-summer breeding in India.

• Burmese Nuthatch Sitta neglecta

  An early bird reference described the Burmese Nuthatch as Sitta castaneiventris neglecta. It noted that birds from the Karen Hills had a paler throat and breast than belly and flanks.

• Azure-crowned Hummingbird Saucerottia cyanocephala

  This hummingbird occurs in moist montane habitats, oak-pine woodland, and gardens in Central America. The male has a glittering blue crown and white underparts, and often feeds at flowering epiphytes.

• Blood-breasted Flowerpecker Dicaeum sanguinolentum

  At Gunung Merapi National Park on Java, a male was recorded visiting a nest and feeding two chicks. This was an observation of one nest and does not establish the species' general breeding behaviour.

• Blackish-grey Antshrike Thamnophilus nigrocinereus

  Males are dark gray with a pale belly, while females have a dark crown and otherwise brown plumage. The cinereoniger subspecies in northeastern Colombia uses seasonally flooded savanna woodland and gallery forest.

• Red-and-white Spinetail Certhiaxis mustelinus

  This spinetail inhabits wetlands in the Amazon basin. Its rufous upperparts contrast with a white underside.

• Eastern Hooded Pitta Pitta novaeguineae

  The Eastern Hooded Pitta occurs on New Guinea and nearby islands. It is a current species split from the broader Hooded Pitta group and has a black head and red belly.

• Braun's Bushshrike Laniarius brauni

  This bushshrike is recorded in a restricted area of northern Angola. Its documented habitat includes secondary forest and forest edges.

• Crescent-chested Babbler Cyanoderma melanothorax

  This small babbler lives on Java and Bali and keeps hidden in dense vegetation.

• Pacific Robin Petroica multicolor

  The Pacific Robin is represented here by the Norfolk Island population described by Parks Australia. Males have a red breast; females have a brown chest.

• Blyth's Tragopan Tragopan blythii

  Blyth's Tragopan is a pheasant whose male has red, gray, and white plumage. It forages in the undergrowth of evergreen mountain forest.

• Chatham Islands Parakeet Cyanoramphus forbesi

  Forbes' parakeet is a green parrot with a bright yellow forecrown and a red frontal band that stops before the eye. It is currently restricted to dense vegetation on Mangere and Little Mangere Islands.

• Cuban Palm Crow Corvus minutus

  This crow is endemic to western Cuba. It is reported mainly from lowland cultivation with scattered palms, where it forages on the ground for invertebrates, lizards and fruit.

• Green-backed Sparrow Arremonops chloronotus

  This sparrow ranges from southeastern Mexico to Belize and Honduras. Its upperparts are olive to grass green, and the head is black-striped. A study in Campeche found three nests on the ground near thickets.

• Floreana Mockingbird Mimus trifasciatus

  This large grey-and-white mockingbird now lives on two islets off Floreana Island.

• Brown-fronted Woodpecker Dendrocoptes auriceps

  The Brown-fronted Woodpecker lives in western Himalayan forests. White bars on its black back and the different head colors of males and females help identify it.

• Scarlet Ibis Eudocimus ruber

  The Scarlet Ibis lives in groups in wetlands of northern South America. Adults are bright scarlet, while chicks are dark.

• Colombian Chachalaca Ortalis columbiana

  The Colombian Chachalaca is endemic to Colombia. A municipal biodiversity account lists dry forest, Andean forest, and wooded rural areas within its distribution.

• Fulvous Owl Strix fulvescens

  This owl has a rounded, ear-tuftless head and a pale ochre face. It hunts at night and rests in shade or a cavity by day.

• Bay-backed Shrike Lanius vittatus

  A shrike with a bold black face band and reddish-brown back that watches for prey from a perch.

• Yellow-lored Tody-Flycatcher Todirostrum poliocephalum

  This small tyrant flycatcher occurs in lowlands of southeastern Brazil. It is found in shrubs at forest edges, clearings, gardens, and parks.