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• Cinnamon-rumped Trogon Harpactes orrhophaeus

  

  The male has a black head and cinnamon back, while the female has a brown-toned head and pale underparts. This trogon uses forest understory and feeds mainly on insects.

• Fiji Shrikebill Clytorhynchus vitiensis

  The Fiji Shrikebill lives in Fiji's forests. White edges on both mandibles are diagnostic, while underpart color varies among island forms from ochre to pale gray. Field notes place it in dark forest understory, gleaning insects from vines and branches.

• Martens's Warbler Seicercus omeiensis

  Martens’s Warbler (Seicercus omeiensis) breeds in China and winters in Southeast Asia. In Hong Kong it is a rare winter visitor to closed-canopy woodland and shrubland.

• Chestnut-eared Bunting Emberiza fucata

  For the nominate subspecies described in the Ehime account, chestnut ear patches and bands across the breast are distinctive. It breeds in Japanese grassland and uses grassy riverbanks and rice-field areas in Ehime during winter.

• Blue Mockingbird Melanotis caerulescens

  This mockingbird occurs mainly in Mexico. In a study of three riparian sites in Jalisco, abundance was higher where shrub cover was greater, and breeding took place from April to August.

• Mangrove Cuckoo Coccyzus minor

  The Mangrove Cuckoo is a secretive bird of coastal forests in the Caribbean and Central America. It searches among leaves for insects and small lizards.

• 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.

• Black-breasted Barbet Lybius rolleti

  A bird of woodland and tree-studded country in Central Africa. Males have a black head and breast, a red belly and a white patch on the lower back. It mainly eats fruit.

• Common Pauraque Nyctidromus albicollis

  The Common Pauraque hides on the ground in leaf-colored plumage by day and catches flying insects at night.

• Spinifexbird Megalurus carteri

  The Spinifexbird occurs in Australia's arid regions and is associated with grasslands. A Barrow Island bird guide describes its reddish-brown plumage, spinifex habitat, and diet of insects and seeds.

• Peruvian Martin Progne murphyi

  The Peruvian Martin is a swallow recorded along the coasts and lowlands of Peru and Chile. It catches insects in the air and nests in holes in cliffs, trees, and buildings.

• Black-hooded Thrush Turdus olivater

  This thrush inhabits humid montane forest. The black-headed male of the nominate form searches for food among leaf litter.

• Scarlet Robin Petroica boodang

  Scarlet Robins search near the ground for insects in open forest and woodland. Their breast colour differs by sex: males are vivid red, while females are more muted orange-red.

• Yellow-bellied Eremomela Eremomela icteropygialis

  This small bird lives in sub-Saharan African savanna and open woodland. It has a grey-tinged olive back and a belly whose yellow varies in intensity, and it moves actively among foliage.

• Singing Quail Dactylortyx thoracicus

  A quail of forest floors in Mexico and northern Central America, with gray-brown, white-streaked plumage that runs rather than taking flight when alarmed.

• Ethiopian Bee-eater Merops lafresnayii

  Its back is green and its underparts are pale cinnamon, with a yellow throat bordered behind by blackish blue. A 2015 field report lists at least five birds of the lafresnayii form at Lake Langano, Ethiopia.

• White-eyed Gull Ichthyaetus leucophthalmus

  An adult in breeding plumage has a black hood and white crescents around the eyes, but the irises are dark brown. This gull is endemic to the Red Sea.

• Eleonora's Falcon Falco eleonorae

  A falcon that breeds on Mediterranean islands and coasts. Its young develop late in the breeding season, when migrating small birds are passing.

• Pale Batis Batis soror

  The Pale Batis is a small bird of miombo woodland and coastal forest.

• Crimson-breasted Flowerpecker Prionochilus percussus

  The Crimson-breasted Flowerpecker is a small bird of lowland forests in Southeast Asia. Males have conspicuous red patches on the head and breast, and the species feeds mainly on fruit.

• Chiloe Wigeon Mareca sibilatrix

  Males have a green, iridescent head while females are duller; they gather with other ducks in shallow water and rest on grassy banks.

• Rufous-headed Chachalaca Ortalis erythroptera

  A chachalaca with a brown body and rufous head and upper neck. Family groups use the forest mid-canopy but also come to the ground.

• Golden-plumed Parakeet Leptosittaca branickii

  The Golden-plumed Parakeet lives in Andean forests from Colombia south to Peru. Adults are mostly green, with yellow plumes behind the eyes and orange tones on the belly.

• Brown-backed Whistler Pachycephala modesta

  A whistler of New Guinea's mountains, occurring in forest and high-elevation shrubland.