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• Bicolored Antpitta Grallaria rufocinerea

  

  This ground-dwelling antpitta inhabits montane cloud forest in the Colombian Andes and northeastern Ecuador. It searches for insects on the forest floor.

• Cape Sparrow Passer melanurus

  A common sparrow of dry grassland and woodland in southern Africa. It mainly eats seeds, but also takes insects, fruit and nectar.

• Black-naped Monarch Hypothymis azurea

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

• Pacific Kingfisher Todiramphus sacer

  This kingfisher ranges across South Pacific islands. Records extend from coastal scrub to inland forest and villages, and its island subspecies differ in plumage.

• Ashy Tailorbird Orthotomus ruficeps

  The male Ashy Tailorbird has slate-gray plumage, a rufous-chestnut face, and a white belly. In Singapore it is seen most often in mangroves, but also in swamp forest and coastal scrub.

• Ecuadorian Piedtail Phlogophilus hemileucurus

  This hummingbird is recorded in montane forest in the northeastern Andes, where it is uncommon in the understory and shrubbery.

• Cream-eyed Bulbul Pycnonotus pseudosimplex

  A 2019 study treated the cream-eyed population on Borneo as a species distinct from the very similar Cream-vented Bulbul. Their plumage is alike, but the cream-eyed birds were recorded in mature forest interior and edge.

• Braun's Bushshrike Laniarius brauni

  This bushshrike is recorded in a restricted area of northern Angola. Its documented habitat includes secondary forest and forest edges.

• Red Pileated Finch Coryphospingus cucullatus

  This tanager-family bird is recorded as native in Argentina. Males have a red crest, rump, and underparts; females have a brown head, back, and wings, with a red rump and pinkish underparts. It occurs alone, in pairs, or in groups among shrubs or on the ground.

• Half-collared Sparrow Arremon semitorquatus

  The Half-collared Sparrow inhabits the understory of montane forest and secondary growth in southeastern Brazil. Males have a yellow lower mandible and a broken breast band. A 2022 report recorded one bird singing at a forest edge.

• Vitelline Warbler Setophaga vitellina

  This small warbler lives on islands in the western Caribbean. Males and females have different plumage.

• Ashy Flowerpecker Dicaeum vulneratum

  This small flowerpecker occurs on islands in Indonesia's Moluccas. Males have an ash-grey face and underparts, a red rump, and a scarlet breast patch. It is known to eat nectar; fruit and mistletoe pollen are also considered possible foods.

• Loggerhead Shrike Lanius ludovicianus

  The Loggerhead Shrike hunts in open brushy country. It scans from exposed perches and may impale captured prey on thorns or barbed wire.

• Aquatic Warbler Acrocephalus paludicola

  This warbler breeds in eastern Europe and winters in West Africa. Its yellow crown stripe and yellow-brown streaked plumage help identify it.

• Eastern Striolated Puffbird Nystalus striolatus

  The Eastern Striolated-Puffbird may sit motionless for long periods in the canopy or at the edge of humid forest. Its pale eyes and white chin are distinctive.

• Ruffed Grouse Bonasa umbellus

  This forest grouse has a fan-shaped tail and red or gray color forms. In breeding season, males drum their wings to court females.

• Gurney's Pitta Hydrornis gurneyi

  Gurney's Pitta is a pitta whose males and females differ in head and belly color. It feeds on small animals on the forest floor in forests of southern Myanmar and southern Thailand.

• Long-billed Pipit Anthus similis

  The Long-billed Pipit is brown above and pale buff below. In Namibia it is usually seen alone or in pairs among gullies and rocky slopes.

• Greylag goose Anser anser

  A large goose with grey-brown plumage. In Europe it lives in vegetated wetlands and surrounding grassland.

• Sandwich Tern Thalasseus sandvicensis

  This tern has a white body, black cap and black bill with a yellow tip. Birds breeding in Britain and Ireland move to the West African coast for winter.

• Wedge-billed Woodcreeper Glyphorynchus spirurus

  A small woodcreeper with a wedge-shaped bill that feeds in the understory of humid Amazonian forests.

• Hauxwell's Thrush Turdus hauxwelli

  Peru Aves' adult examples of unknown sex show rich brown plumage and a pale, dusky-spotted lower belly. The thrush forages in the forest understory and often on the ground.

• Plumbeous Vireo Vireo plumbeus

  This vireo lives in forests and mountains of the western United States and Mexico. It is dull gray above, white below, and forages in pine forests.

• Fox Kestrel Falco alopex

  The Fox Kestrel is a small falcon with an almost wholly russet adult plumage, a long tail, and narrow wings. It occurs around the Sahel, south of the Sahara Desert.