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• Black-throated Robin Poecilodryas albonotata

  

  This robin inhabits montane forest on New Guinea. The male has bluish-gray plumage with a black face and throat.

• Gray-capped Flycatcher Myiozetetes granadensis

  The Gray-capped Flycatcher has a bushy gray crown and bright yellow underparts. It forages at forest edges and in semi-open habitat and is widespread in Amazonia.

• Masked Duck Nomonyx dominicus

  The Masked Duck rests and dives in wetlands with dense vegetation. A breeding male has a black face and reddish body, while females and nonbreeding males show strong dark stripes on the face.

• Naked-faced Barbet Gymnobucco calvus

  This barbet inhabits forests in western and central Africa. The skin on its face and crown is bare, and groups use trees bearing fruit.

• Resplendent Quetzal Pharomachrus mocinno

  The Resplendent Quetzal lives in moist montane forest from southern Mexico to Panama. Males have iridescent green plumage, a red belly, and long tail plumes, and often eat fruits from the laurel family.

• African Rail Rallus caerulescens

  The African Rail has a long red bill and red legs; males have fine white barring on the belly.

• Barred Puffbird Nystalus radiatus

  This puffbird occurs from central Panama through western Colombia to western Ecuador, in wet forest and its edges. Its reddish-brown body is barred with black, and it waits quietly on a perch for prey. Its diet includes large insects and small lizards.

• Spotted Imperial Pigeon Ducula carola

  This imperial pigeon occurs only in the Philippines. Males show stronger gray, white, and dark contrasts, while females are browner overall; plumage also varies among subspecies.

• Buff-banded Bushbird Buettikoferella bivittata

  This ground-dwelling bird occurs on Timor Island. Its appearance is documented in an 1862 Timor account, while its habitat is listed in a 2008 regional checklist.

• Bridled Titmouse Baeolophus wollweberi

  The Bridled Titmouse lives in forests of the southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico. It joins mixed flocks and searches for food among tree branches.

• Rusty-bellied Fantail Rhipidura teysmanni

  This fantail lives on Sulawesi. An old specimen account describes one unsexed individual with a cinnamon-brown forehead, back, rump, and basal tail, and an olive-brown head and neck. It searches for invertebrates in forest and thickets.

• Great Egret Ardea alba

  A large white heron with a long neck and legs, often moving slowly in deeper water.

• New Britain Boobook Ninox odiosa

  Adult New Britain Boobooks have reddish-brown upperparts and yellow-orange eyes; females are larger than males. They are nocturnal, living alone or in pairs and hunting from forest perches.

• Ultramarine Grosbeak Cyanocompsa brissonii

  The Ultramarine Grosbeak occurs in South America. In Brazil’s southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, a paper reports it in native grassland, areas with trees and shrubs, and along agricultural edges. Females are pale sandy brown above and paler below.

• Mariana Crow Corvus kubaryi

  The Mariana Crow is black with green and blue gloss across its feathers. Its native range includes Guam and Rota, and it searches for food from forest trees down to the ground.

• Red-rumped Cacique Cacicus haemorrhous

  This cacique is presented here through the affinis subspecies of Brazil's Atlantic Forest. It has a black body and red rump, and colonies build hanging nests high in trees.

• Puno Antpitta Grallaria sinaensis

  The Puno Antpitta is recorded in the highlands of Peru’s Puno Department and at a few sites in western La Paz, Bolivia. It searches for insects close to the ground in dense vegetation.

• Hunter’s Sunbird Chalcomitra hunteri

  A sunbird of dry scrub and open woodland in East Africa. The male is mostly black with green and scarlet marks, while the female is browner.

• Chinese Nuthatch Sitta villosa

  The Chinese Nuthatch is a small nuthatch with a blue-grey back and white brow. It lives in temperate forests, mostly in hills, and also eats pine seeds in winter.

• Pallas's Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus proregulus

  Pallas's Leaf Warbler is a tiny bird identified by crown stripes and a yellow rump. It breeds in northern Asia and occurs as far as central China and the Himalayas.

• Black-browed Barbet Psilopogon oorti

  The Black-browed Barbet has red, blue, and yellow markings on the head and a black brow-like stripe. It forages in the canopy and mid-level branches, and accounts differ on the details of its diet.

• Pygmy Ibon Oculocincta squamifrons

  This Bornean endemic has a patchy range in north-central Borneo. A survey in the Menyapa Mountains frequently recorded it at about 300 m.

• Guadeloupe Woodpecker Melanerpes herminieri

  This woodpecker occurs on Basse-Terre and Grande-Terre in Guadeloupe. It uses several island habitats, including humid forest, semi-deciduous forest, and mangroves.

• White-thighed Hornbill Bycanistes albotibialis

  The White-thighed Hornbill is a large hornbill of lowland forests in western and central Africa. It feeds mainly on fruit in the canopy and often travels in small groups.