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• Knysna Warbler Bradypterus sylvaticus

  

  This secretive warbler hides in dense grass and scrub. Its plain brown plumage blends into the cover where it searches for spiders and other small invertebrates.

• 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.

• Malindi Pipit Anthus melindae

  The Malindi Pipit is reported from coastal grasslands of Kenya and Somalia. Photo notes describe long legs and heavy streaking; it walks on the ground to find small invertebrates. The cited project source also records gaps in range information.

• Gray-throated Warbling Finch Microspingus cabanisi

  The Gray-throated Warbling Finch lives in woodland and forest edges in southeastern South America. Its throat and chest are pale horn-colored, its back is brown, and the outer tail feathers have small white spots. It is recorded as an omnivore in wooded habitats.

• Gould's Petrel Pterodroma leucoptera

  The nominate subspecies of Gould's Petrel is a small seabird that breeds on islands off New South Wales.

• Common Redstart Phoenicurus phoenicurus

  A small bird with a red tail. Redstarts breed in Britain in spring and summer; British-breeding birds migrate south of the Sahara for winter.

• Gray Whistler Pachycephala simplex

  The Gray Whistler is a small bird with a grayish back and pale underparts.

• Rainbow Pitta Pitta iris

  This resident pitta lives in the seasonal forests of northern Australia and searches the leaf litter for food that changes with the season. The sexes look very similar.

• Lagden's Bushshrike Malaconotus lagdeni

  This large forest bird is recorded in closed-canopy forest in Sierra Leone. It has a gray head and yellow-and-black wings, and feeds on flying insects and other invertebrates in the canopy of lowland forest.

• Rose-breasted Chat Granatellus pelzelni

  The Rose-breasted Chat differs strongly by sex and inhabits forest canopy and edges.

• Cocos Cuckoo Coccyzus ferrugineus

  This cuckoo occurs only on Cocos Island off western Costa Rica, where it uses humid forests and shrubland.

• Asian Palm Swift Cypsiurus balasiensis

  The Asian Palm Swift is a slender, small swift that attaches its nest with saliva beneath palm leaves.

• White-browed Nuthatch Sitta victoriae

  A small nuthatch marked by a white eyebrow and chestnut flanks, known from highlands around Mount Victoria in Myanmar.

• Sulawesi Crow Corvus celebensis

  The Sulawesi Crow (Corvus celebensis) occurs on Sulawesi. Its glossy black plumage has a blue sheen, and small groups are reported at forest edges and farmland.

• Pemba Scops Owl Otus pembaensis

  The Pemba Scops Owl is found only on Pemba Island off northern Tanzania. It is nocturnal, and its plumage ranges from light brown to russet.

• White-faced Plover Charadrius dealbatus

  It is a plover with extensive white on the face that breeds in East Asia and winters along Southeast Asian coasts.

• Pearly-eyed Thrasher Margarops fuscatus

  This large thrasher has pale eyes and a scaly-looking brown body. Across Caribbean islands it uses forest and coffee-farm habitat and eats fruit, insects, and other small prey.

• Pere David's Tit Poecile davidi

  Pere David's Tit is a tit of high-elevation forests in China. It has a black head and throat, white cheeks, and bright cinnamon underparts, and is reported from subalpine woodland.

• Large Scimitar Babbler Erythrogenys hypoleucos

  The Large Scimitar Babbler has a long, heavy curved bill, dark brown face and back, pale throat and breast, and grey flanks. It forages low in vegetation.

• Grey-collared Oriole Oriolus forsteni

  The Grey-collared Oriole is endemic to Seram in Indonesia’s southern Moluccan Islands. It uses primary forest from lowlands to mountains, foraging from the canopy to the middle storey.

• 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.

• Chestnut-bellied Monarch Monarcha castaneiventris

  This entry covers records from Santa Isabel and Guadalcanal. The nominate form has a chestnut belly, and field notes record nesting in a tree fork.

• Blyth's Reed Warbler Acrocephalus dumetorum

  Blyth's Reed Warbler is a small reed warbler that lives among grasses and shrubs. It breeds across northern Eurasia and migrates to South Asia for winter.

• Masked Fruiteater Pipreola pulchra

  This fruiteater is restricted to montane forest on the eastern Andes of Peru, using the canopy and subcanopy.