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• Mauritius Grey White-eye Zosterops mauritianus

  

  This white-eye lives on Mauritius in habitats including forest and gardens. A government species account describes gray-brown plumage, dark legs, and a diet of insects, nectar, and small fruit.

• Grey-hooded Sunbird Aethopyga primigenia

  Males have a grey head and throat, metallic bronze-green forehead and ear-coverts, yellow rump, white breast, and yellow flanks. On Mindanao it uses forest and edges and visits banana flowers.

• Black-crowned Tchagra Tchagra senegalus

  The black crown and white eyebrow stand out on this tchagra, which occurs widely across sub-Saharan Africa. It uses dry thorn woodland, miombo woodland, and some gardens.

• Grey-backed Wagtail Motacilla clara

  This long-tailed gray wagtail catches insects along humid streams. The Ethiopian population is resident, while birds elsewhere may move locally.

• Kauai Elepaio Chasiempis sclateri

  The Kauai Elepaio is a small songbird found only on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. In wet forest it searches trunks, branches, leaves, and the ground for small insects and spiders.

• Buff-throated Warbler Phylloscopus subaffinis

  The Buff-throated Warbler is a small leaf warbler with an olive-brown back and pale buff eyebrow and throat. It breeds in the mountains of China and moves to lowlands as far south as northern Indochina for winter.

• Malagasy Palm Swift Cypsiurus gracilis

  This swift occurs in Madagascar and the Comoros. It inhabits open lowland secondary vegetation, uses palms for nesting, and catches insects in flight.

• Spot-bellied Bobwhite Colinus leucopogon

  This Central American quail uses open country with bushes and trees. Its plumage varies among subspecies, and females are duller than males.

• Spotted Kestrel Falco moluccensis

  This small falcon hunts in open grassland and farmland in Indonesia. Its prey includes insects, small birds, lizards, and small mammals.

• Long-tailed Manakin Chiroxiphia linearis

  Male and female Long-tailed Manakins have very different plumage. During courtship, two males dance together, and the birds mainly eat fruit.

• Ashy-throated Parrotbill Suthora alphonsiana

  The Ashy-throated Parrotbill ranges from west-central China south to northern Vietnam. Greyish and reddish-brown cheek types have been recorded; it is active by day in dense scrub and tall grass and eats invertebrates.

• Wreathed hornbill Rhyticeros undulatus

  A tropical forest bird with a ridged structure above its bill.

• Three-striped Hemispingus Microspingus trifasciatus

  This tanager inhabits high-elevation forest on the eastern Andes. It takes small invertebrates and sometimes joins mixed-species flocks.

• Grey-capped Tyrannulet Phyllomyias griseocapilla

  The Grey-capped Tyrannulet is a small bird with a gray head, green back, and yellowish flanks. In eastern Brazil's Atlantic Forest highlands, it takes insects from outer tree branches and also eats small fruit.

• Meadow bunting Emberiza cioides

  A bird of woodland edges, fields, riverbanks and other partly open habitats. It forages in grass and sings from exposed treetops.

• Grey Gerygone Gerygone igata

  A small bird endemic to New Zealand that gleans insects while hovering at the outer canopy.

• Purple-breasted Cotinga Cotinga cotinga

  This cotinga occurs in the Amazon region of South America and searches for fruit in the canopy of humid lowland forest.

• Plain-backed Snowfinch Pyrgilauda blanfordi

  This small sparrow-family bird lives in dry highlands of Tibet and the Himalayas. It searches for food on the ground.

• Great Curassow Crax rubra

  A large forest bird that searches the ground for fruit, seeds, and other food. The glossy black male and chestnut female look very different.

• Reunion Cuckooshrike Coracina newtoni

  The Reunion Cuckooshrike is endemic to Réunion. Males and females differ in plumage, and the national park account places it in the La Roche Écrite area.

• Indian Pond Heron Ardeola grayii

  A heron that searches for food in shallow water, with distinct breeding and nonbreeding plumages.

• White-eared Solitaire Entomodestes leucotis

  This thrush lives in humid montane forest on the eastern Andean slope. A broad white cheek-and-ear stripe stands out against its dark head and underparts.

• Rufous-breasted Wren Pheugopedius rutilus

  This small wren ranges from Central America into northern South America. It searches for small invertebrates among vines and leaf litter near the ground.

• Sunda Teal Anas gibberifrons

  The Sunda Teal is a small duck of wetlands around Indonesia and Timor. A small bump on the forehead helps distinguish it from similar teals.