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• 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.

• Andean Guan Penelope montagnii

  The Andean Guan lives mainly in trees in Andean cloud forest. Its subspecies vary in plumage across the range.

• Great Spinetail Synallaxis hypochondriaca

  The Great Spinetail is a furnariid restricted to the upper Marañón drainage of northern Peru. It uses the understory of dry and semideciduous forest.

• Grey-breasted Babbler Malacopteron albogulare

  This poorly known babbler occurs on the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo. A 2014 account found many records in lowland peat-swamp and heath forests.

• Bay-backed Shrike Lanius vittatus

  A shrike with a bold black face band and reddish-brown back that watches for prey from a perch.

• Water Pipit Anthus spinoletta

  A mountain-breeding pipit whose gray head and pale pink chest stand out in breeding plumage.

• Bahia Tapaculo Eleoscytalopus psychopompus

  The Bahia Tapaculo occurs in lowland Atlantic Forest along the coast of Bahia, Brazil. In the coastal birds examined in the study, the flanks are rufous and the thighs bluish.

• Chameleon Dwarf Kingfisher Ceyx lepidus

  This small kingfisher is marked by a white bar on the side of its neck and an orange spot beside the base of its bill.

• Black-banded Barbet Psilopogon javensis

  This barbet occurs in forests on Java and Bali. Its green body has yellow, red, and black markings; a short survey in East Java recorded it in a more open part of the canopy.

• Golden-billed Saltator Saltator aurantiirostris

  In the Argentine account, the Golden-billed Saltator has a black face and orange bill. In Bolivia, it uses woodland, scrub, farmland, and towns on the eastern Andean slope and in southern lowlands.

• Tractrac Chat Emarginata tractrac

  A small chat of dry open country in southern Africa. The source lists five subspecies whose plumage differs.

• Slaty-breasted Rail Lewinia striata

  It is marked by a long red bill, a gray breast, and fine white bars. It hides in thick wetland and grassland vegetation, appearing briefly at its edges.

• Rwenzori Hill Babbler Sylvia atriceps

  This babbler lives in central African mountain forests. It was formerly included with the African Hill Babbler but is now treated as a separate species.

• Pale-mandibled Aracari Pteroglossus erythropygius

  This aracari is recorded from southwest Ecuador and northwest Peru. PeruAves describes it as rare in deciduous forest in extreme northwest Peru, where records extend to 800 m along the Andean foothills.

• Stripe-necked Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus striaticollis

  The Stripe-necked Tody-Tyrant lives in humid secondary woodland and river-edge thickets in South America. It has a dark-striped white throat and yellow underparts.

• Bartlett's Tinamou Crypturellus bartletti

  Bartlett's Tinamou is a ground-dwelling bird with reddish-brown plumage and dark barring. It lives in lowland rainforest and thickets and gives a whistle-like call.

• Plush-crested Jay Cyanocorax chrysops

  This South American jay has a plush black crest and black-and-yellow plumage. It forages in flocks and may cache surplus food.

• Thrush-like Antpitta Myrmothera campanisona

  This ground antbird lives near the forest floor. In eastern Ecuador, adults were observed incubating two eggs in a nest built low among grasses.

• Pygmy Flowerpecker Dicaeum pygmaeum

  This small flowerpecker is endemic to the Philippines. Males and females have different plumage.

• Red-naped Bushshrike Laniarius ruficeps

  This bushshrike inhabits dry lowland scrub. Its underparts are whitish and its hindcrown and nape are chestnut; it searches for insects low in bushes and on the ground.

• Greenish Warbler Phylloscopus trochiloides

  The Greenish Warbler has a green back, pale underparts, and a conspicuous white eyebrow and wingbar. It searches for insects in forests and along their edges, then migrates after breeding.

• Buru Racket-tail Prioniturus mada

  A parrot found only on Buru Island, with tail feathers that end in racket-shaped tips.

• Malagasy Bulbul Hypsipetes madagascariensis

  This bulbul has a gray body, a black cap, and a bright orange bill. It occurs in woodland, scrub, villages, and plantations and may join mixed flocks.

• Fernwren Oreoscopus gutturalis

  The Fernwren is a small bird of wet upland forest in northeastern Australia. It probes leaf litter with its fine bill while searching for small animals.