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• Alagoas Curassow Mitu mitu

  

  The Alagoas Curassow is historically known from Alagoas in northeastern Brazil. It is classified as extinct in the wild (EW), but it is not globally extinct (EX): individuals survive in captivity. In September 2019, three pairs were released in Alagoas; follow-up monitoring reported the deaths of two males and one female.

• Mountain Wren-Babbler Gypsophila crassa

  The Mountain Wren-Babbler is a small bird of montane forest on Borneo. Its brown body is set off by pale eyebrows and throat, and it can be hard to see in dark gullies.

• White-shouldered Black Tit Melaniparus guineensis

  The White-shouldered Black Tit is mostly black, with a white wing patch and pale eye. It ranges across parts of western and eastern Africa and uses dry woodland, savanna and open habitats.

• Solitary Tinamou Tinamus solitarius

  It walks quietly on the ground in the Atlantic Forest, with gray-brown barring and a pale stripe on the side of the neck. It is secretive, so its whistled song can help reveal its presence.

• Chestnut-rumped Heathwren Hylacola pyrrhopygia

  This small bird occurs in South Australia’s Mount Lofty Ranges. The appearance and habits described here are for the form recorded in that region.

• Yellow-faced Grassquit Tiaris olivaceus

  This small grassquit is widespread around the Caribbean. Males have a black face and chest with a yellow eyebrow and throat, while females are dull olive. It feeds on seeds in grassy and weedy open places.

• Bay-vented Cotinga Doliornis sclateri

  This cotinga is restricted to the eastern slope of the central Peruvian Andes. It uses cloud forest at or near treeline and feeds largely on fruit.

• White-winged Tern Chlidonias leucopterus

  In breeding plumage, its black body and silvery-white wings stand out. It breeds in eastern Europe and western Asia.

• Black-faced Cuckooshrike Coracina novaehollandiae

  The Black-faced Cuckooshrike occurs in wooded places other than rainforests, including suburbs. It eats insects and other foods, and is also called the Shufflewing for its wing-shuffling movement on landing.

• Blue-banded Pitta Erythropitta arquata

  This pitta has glittering blue bands and lives in hill and montane forest on Borneo. It moves near the ground and searches for food around leaf litter and fallen trees.

• Black-necklaced Scimitar Babbler Erythrogenys erythrocnemis

  Endemic to Taiwan, this scimitar babbler has olive-brown upperparts, rufous-brown face and flanks, and white throat and belly. Dark marks on the upper breast help distinguish it.

• Black-billed Coucal Centropus bernsteini

  This medium-sized coucal skulks along lowland forest edges and grasslands, usually keeping to cover. It may perch in the open after rain.

• Slaty-backed Forest Falcon Micrastur mirandollei

  The Slaty-backed Forest Falcon has a gray back and narrow white tail bars. It is solitary and lives in lowland rainforest and mature secondary forest in Costa Rica.

• Spotted Piculet Picumnus pygmaeus

  This small woodpecker occurs in eastern Brazil's dry woodland and dense scrub. A guide to Sete Cidades National Park describes it searching for larvae and small arthropods in open vegetation.

• Black-naped Monarch Hypothymis azurea

  In the Singapore population, males have a blue body and conspicuous black nape; females are duller.

• Southern Carmine Bee-eater Merops nubicoides

  The Southern Carmine Bee-eater has reddish-pink plumage and long central tail streamers. It nests in colonies in burrows on river sandbanks and catches insects in flight.

• White-shouldered Ibis Pseudibis davisoni

  The White-shouldered Ibis is a large ibis with a pale blue-white neck band and a white wing mark visible in flight.

• Sage Thrasher Oreoscoptes montanus

  The Sage Thrasher is a small bird of western North America, where sagebrush steppe is widespread. In spring, males sing from high perches.

• Mountain Trogon Trogon mexicanus

  This trogon lives in highlands from Mexico into Central America. The checklist lists pine, pine-oak, and montane evergreen forests as its habitats.

• Red Lark Calendulauda burra

  The Red Lark is endemic to South Africa's Northern Cape. A BirdLife South Africa account describes plumage forms associated with dune and clay shrubland habitats.

• Golden-backed Weaver Ploceus jacksoni

  This weaver occurs in eastern Africa. The breeding male has a black head and throat with a yellow back, and the account records it in dry savanna and around acacia woodland.

• Long-eared owl Asio otus

  An owl with conspicuous long head tufts, using woods and dense cover near grassland.

• Long-tailed Tapaculo Scytalopus micropterus

  The Long-tailed Tapaculo is a small ground-dwelling bird recorded on the eastern Andean slopes of Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. It lives in bamboo understory.

• Groundscraper Thrush Turdus litsitsirupa

  The Groundscraper Thrush searches for food on the ground in grassland and open woodland. Its spotted breast and bold black facial stripes are distinctive.