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• Bangs's Brush Finch Arremon basilicus

  

  Bangs's Brush Finch occurs in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. It uses the understory of humid forest and dense secondary growth.

• Crescent-chested Babbler Cyanoderma melanothorax

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

• Little Crake Zapornia parva

  The Little Crake is a small, secretive wetland bird. In Bulgaria its breeding sites are scattered, mainly in marshes along the Danube and the Black Sea coast.

• Chestnut-banded Plover Charadrius pallidus

  This small shorebird is adapted to salty lakes and mudflats. It has separate eastern and southern African populations; southern birds use coastal lagoons and inland saline pans.

• Biak Black Flycatcher Myiagra atra

  This island flycatcher has glossy black males and gray females. Its range includes islands off northwestern New Guinea.

• Short-tailed shearwater Ardenna tenuirostris

  A dark seabird that breeds in Australia and makes long ocean journeys.

• Caribbean Martin Progne dominicensis

  This swallow ranges in Mexico, Cuba, and the West Indies. The male has a sharp boundary between its blue-purple back and white belly, while the female and juvenile blend brown feathers into the white. It catches insects in flight near water.

• Fawn-breasted Whistler Pachycephala orpheus

  This whistler is recorded on Timor and Rote. On Timor it prefers lower elevations, although it was observed beside Pachycephala calliope on Mount Mutis up to 1,850 m. The Rote population was reported to be larger than the Timor population.

• Golden-winged Manakin Masius chrysopterus

  The Golden-winged Manakin lives in humid montane forest in northern South America. Males have a yellow crest and throat, while females are olive-green.

• Sooty Barbet Caloramphus hayii

  Recorded in forests and forest edges of Peninsular Malaysia, this barbet is dark-backed with a rusty orange head and breast.

• Island Scrub Jay Aphelocoma insularis

  The Island Scrub-Jay is a large jay found only on Santa Cruz Island, California.

• Rufous-lored Kingfisher Todiramphus winchelli

  The Rufous-lored Kingfisher is a kingfisher of Philippine forests. It combines a blue back and white belly with a reddish-brown head.

• Malabar Lark Galerida malabarica

  This lark lives in western India. It has reddish-brown plumage with dark streaks and a white belly, and uses open country, farms, and scrub to find seeds and insects.

• Black-headed Berryeater Carpornis melanocephala

  The Black-headed Berryeater is a cotinga of Brazil's Atlantic Forest. A field report documented a male passing fruit to a female.

• Grey-backed Hawk Pseudastur occidentalis

  It has dark grey upperparts, a white underside, and a streaked head. A thick black band near the tip of its white tail is especially visible in flight.

• Musician Wren Cyphorhinus arada

  This small wren is recorded in Bolivian Amazonian forests. It forages mainly in leaf litter and keeps to dense lower growth or the ground, alone or in pairs.

• Mallee Emu-wren Stipiturus mallee

  The Mallee Emu-wren is a small bird with a very long, filament-like tail. It moves quickly through low vegetation, and the male has a blue face and breast.

• Long-tailed Mockingbird Mimus longicaudatus

  The Long-tailed Mockingbird is notable for its long tail and the way it raises it while walking. It occurs in open dry country and also in town parks.

• Black-billed Thrush Turdus ignobilis

  This thrush is noted for its black bill. Its chest markings vary, and in northern and western Bolivia it uses forest edges, riverside woods, the ground and trees.

• Little Inca Finch Incaspiza watkinsi

  This small bird lives in the lower Marañón region of northern Peru. It has a gray head and breast, a brownish back, and a pale belly, and searches near the ground along woodland edges and in scrub.

• Bertram's Weaver Ploceus bertrandi

  This weaver lives around highland forest edges, and males and females differ in the black pattern on the crown.

• Cozumel Vireo Vireo bairdi

  This resident vireo occurs only on Cozumel Island, Mexico. It has chestnut-toned head and back, a white eye-ring, and two pale wing-bars, and forages in low to middle vegetation.

• Rose Robin Petroica rosea

  This small bird occurs in southeastern Australia, in wet sclerophyll forest and rainforest. It often stays in the canopy alone or in pairs, catching insects and spiders in flight.

• Creamy-bellied Antwren Herpsilochmus motacilloides

  This small antwren lives in humid montane forest on the eastern Andean slope. Males have a black cap and broad white eyebrow, and the species is reported at 900–2,100 m.