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• Long-tailed Wood Partridge Dendrortyx macroura

  

  A quail of Mexico’s high-elevation forests, notable for its long tail and red bill and legs.

• White-winged Swamp Warbler Bradypterus carpalis

  This small bird inhabits papyrus swamps in central and eastern Africa. It has dark brown upperparts, a pale eyebrow, and white wing markings. In an East African survey it was recorded only in undisturbed papyrus stands.

• Palau Greater White-eye Megazosterops palauensis

  This white-eye is endemic to Palau. It lives in limestone forest and vine thickets, feeding in the upper canopy on insects, fruit, and nectar.

• Greater Lophorina Lophorina latipennis

  It lives in montane forest on New Guinea, and the sexes look very different. The male has a black body with metallic green-blue ornaments; the female is brown and patterned.

• Malabar Trogon Harpactes fasciatus

  The Malabar Trogon inhabits forests in India and Sri Lanka. The male has a blue bill and reddish belly; the female has an olive-brown head and golden belly.

• Black-throated Finch Poephila cincta

  Adults have a black throat, white cheeks, a gray head, and a yellow bill. They search for seeds on the ground in northeastern Australian grasslands and open woodland.

• Red-breasted Chat Granatellus venustus

  At Mexico’s Chamela-Cuixmala Biosphere Reserve, researchers caught this species in both wet and dry seasons, but recorded fewer captures in the dry season and more in deciduous than semi-deciduous forest.

• Spotted Shag Phalacrocorax punctatus

  The Spotted Shag catches fish in coastal waters around New Zealand. Adults in breeding plumage have spots and a crest.

• Fire-breasted Flowerpecker Dicaeum ignipectus

  The Fire-breasted Flowerpecker is a small bird whose male has a scarlet chest patch and a fine black stripe down the belly. In Taiwan it is one of the birds described as dispersing mistletoe seeds.

• White-crowned Hornbill Berenicornis comatus

  The White-crowned Hornbill has a conspicuous white crest and long tail. Adult males have white necks and underparts, while females are black; both forage in tropical forest canopies.

• Chestnut-bellied Fantail Rhipidura hyperythra

  The Chestnut-bellied Fantail is widespread in hill and lower montane forest on New Guinea. It is active by day, searching in forest and along edges and sallying out to catch airborne prey.

• Upland Sandpiper Bartramia longicauda

  This sandpiper is usually found in grasslands rather than wetlands. It feeds there and breeds in North America before migrating to South America.

• Carolinian Reed Warbler Acrocephalus syrinx

  The Carolinian Reed Warbler is native to the Federated States of Micronesia. It uses dry grassland, gardens, and tropical mountain forest, searching for small animals on the ground and among trees.

• East Coast Boubou Laniarius sublacteus

  A bushshrike with glossy blue-black upperparts and a white underside. It uses dense forest cover along eastern Africa's coast and rivers.

• Ashy-headed Laughingthrush Argya cinereifrons

  This laughingthrush has a gray head and reddish-brown body and forms groups in damp forest.

• African Shrike-flycatcher Megabyas flammulatus

  African Shrike-flycatchers show clear differences between the sexes. They inhabit African lowland forest, where they eat insects and may wag the tail while perched.

• Dusky Purpletuft Iodopleura fusca

  This cotinga is recorded in forest canopies from the Guiana Shield to northern Brazil. In field observations, males had purple upper-flank tufts and birds caught flying insects from the canopy.

• Fairy Pitta Pitta nympha

  The Fairy Pitta is a brightly colored migrant that breeds in Taiwan's low-elevation, damp broadleaf forests in summer. It searches the ground for insects and earthworms.

• 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.

• Pale-breasted Spinetail Synallaxis albescens

  This small ovenbird ranges from Central into South America and Trinidad. It searches for insects in grassland and scrub and has rufous on the crown and shoulders.

• Rufous-throated Flycatcher Ficedula rufigula

  This small flycatcher is endemic to Sulawesi, Indonesia. It searches the lower forest growth for small invertebrates.

• Comoro Parrot Coracopsis sibilans

  This parrot occurs on Grand Comoro and Anjouan in the Comoros. It is strongly associated with evergreen forest and also visits cacao plantations and agroforests on Grand Comoro; much of its wild ecology remains unknown.

• Claudia's Leaf-warbler Phylloscopus claudiae

  It breeds in forests of central and southwestern China, then winters from southern Yunnan through India and Southeast Asia. It searches for small insects at different forest levels.

• Western Tinkerbird Pogoniulus coryphaea

  The Western Tinkerbird is a small African barbet recorded in several separated mountain regions. Its black back is marked by a broad yellow stripe running from crown to rump.