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• Brown-throated Fulvetta Fulvetta ludlowi

  

  This fulvetta lives in Eastern Himalayan forests. Its head is chocolate-brown, and its pale cream throat is marked by dark brown streaks; it uses low bushes and bamboo in rhododendron forest.

• Red-crowned Ant Tanager Habia rubica

  The historical Southeast Brazil account describes a tanager whose male is reddish and whose female is olive-brown. It forages low in forest, in pairs or small family groups.

• Green-backed Becard Pachyramphus viridis

  This becard is recorded rarely or irregularly in Bolivia. Its back and wings are green, and its chest is yellow. It searches for arthropods in semi-humid to wet lowland woodland and forest on lower eastern slopes.

• White-rumped Snowfinch Onychostruthus taczanowskii

  This bird lives in high mountains around the Tibetan Plateau. Its dark-mottled back contrasts with a white rump that stands out in flight. In the breeding season it is found near pika colonies.

• American Pipit Anthus rubescens

  The American Pipit is a small bird that breeds in Arctic and alpine meadows. It walks quickly while feeding and uses open areas such as shores and fields in winter.

• Horned Lark Eremophila alpestris

  A small bird of open country in North America that searches the ground for seeds and insects. Short feathers on the male’s head can rise like tiny horns.

• Channel-billed Toucan Ramphastos vitellinus

  The Channel-billed Toucan lives in the canopy of lowland forests in South America. It may be seen alone, in pairs, or in small flocks around fruiting trees.

• Patagonian Tinamou Tinamotis ingoufi

  A ground-dwelling bird of Patagonia in Argentina and Chile. In southern Chile, a study described its nest and feeding ecology in dry steppe and shrubland.

• Isabelline Shrike Lanius isabellinus

  The Isabelline Shrike breeds in Mongolia and nearby parts of Central Asia, then winters on the Arabian Peninsula and in northeastern Africa. It hunts from shrubs in dry open country and may impale spare prey on thorns for later.

• Scaly Kingfisher Actenoides princeps

  A kingfisher of Sulawesi’s humid montane forests, it is striking for its blue-violet head and scaly-marked brown body.

• Yellow Rail Coturnicops noveboracensis

  The Yellow Rail is a small rail that hides among wetland grasses. It probes the ground and vegetation for small animals and seeds; males give faint clicking calls on spring nights.

• Humblot's Heron Ardea humbloti

  Humblot's Heron is a large heron of shallow waters in western Madagascar and the Comoros. Its dark gray plumage is distinctive.

• Hooded Dotterel Thinornis cucullatus

  The Hooded Dotterel is a plover of southern Australia. In the east it searches for small invertebrates on sandy beaches; some southwestern birds use inland salt lakes in winter.

• Weyns's Weaver Ploceus weynsi

  Weyns’s Weaver occurs in central Africa, including around Lake Victoria and along the Congo River. Species accounts place it in seasonal swamp forest and lakeside vegetation; it is usually resident but may wander irregularly.

• Yellow-rumped Marshbird Pseudoleistes guirahuro

  The Yellow-rumped Marshbird is an icterid of open grassland and wet habitats in southeastern South America. A nest study in northeastern Argentina and Paraguay recorded birds other than the parents helping raise chicks.

• Crossley's Vanga Mystacornis crossleyi

  Crossley’s Vanga has different male and female plumage and searches for small prey on the forest floor.

• Yelkouan Shearwater Puffinus yelkouan

  The Yelkouan Shearwater is a seabird with a dark back and white underside. It glides low over the sea and feeds on fish and squid.

• Gabela Bushshrike Laniarius amboimensis

  A bushshrike endemic to the Gabela escarpment region of west-central Angola. A 2010 field study recorded it in dry forest above the main scarp and in dense secondary thickets.

• Hoary-throated Barwing Actinodura nipalensis

  This barwing occurs in the Eastern Himalaya, including Nepal. A pale throat and faint arcs around the eye are distinctive; winter records may occur at lower elevations.

• Royal Spoonbill Platalea regia

  The Royal Spoonbill is a large white waterbird. It sweeps its black, spoon-shaped bill through shallow water to find fish and shrimp. During breeding, its head crest grows longer.

• Ecuadorian Trogon Trogon mesurus

  Oiseaux.net gives the range as Ecuador and northwestern Peru and describes dry forest and lowland tropical forest habitat. It says the bird is usually around 800 m, with records to 2,000 m in southwestern Ecuador.

• Buff-bellied Monarch Neolalage banksiana

  This monarch flycatcher is endemic to Vanuatu. Its black-and-white plumage contrasts with yellow underparts, and the 2014 survey found it in forest understory with vine tangles, often in pairs or small family groups.

• Western Bonelli's Warbler Phylloscopus bonelli

  This small warbler has a pale head and underparts. It breeds around the western Mediterranean and winters south of the Sahara.

• Masked bunting Emberiza personata

  A yellow-bellied, streaked bird that also moves into lowland thickets in autumn and winter.