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• Juan Fernandez Petrel Pterodroma externa

  

  The underside of the wings is white with dark tips and edges. It breeds on the Juan Fernández Islands and ranges over the open Pacific outside the breeding season.

• Red-faced Cormorant Urile urile

  The Red-faced Cormorant lives along remote North Pacific coasts. In breeding plumage, its red face and white flank patch stand out against its dark body.

• Ladder-tailed Nightjar Hydropsalis climacocerca

  It is gray-brown with fine markings. The male has a long tail that looks W-shaped when spread. It is nocturnal and occurs along rivers.

• Antillean Piculet Nesoctites micromegas

  This small piculet lives on Hispaniola. Its yellow crown and the streaked pale underside are distinctive.

• Vitelline Masked Weaver Ploceus vitellinus

  This weaver lives in dry savanna and scrub. In breeding plumage the male has a black face and yellow body, and he builds a woven grass nest.

• Rufous-bellied Tit Melaniparus rufiventris

  The Rufous-bellied Tit lives in hilly broadleaf woodland and searches tree branches for small invertebrates.

• Rufous-vented Whitetip Urosticte ruficrissa

  A small hummingbird of the northern Andes in Colombia and Ecuador. In males, the white tips of the central tail feathers stand out against the green plumage.

• Opal-crowned Manakin Lepidothrix iris

  The Opal-crowned Manakin is a manakin of humid forests in Brazil. It is olive green above and yellow green below; males have a whitish-blue crown.

• Fasciated Wren Campylorhynchus fasciatus

  This wren occurs in Peru and Ecuador. Its upperparts have pale and dark grey stripes; photographs may show a brownish cast. It is reported west of the Andes in the north, with records also east of the Andes farther south.

• Pale-rumped Swift Chaetura egregia

  The Pale-rumped Swift is marked by pale rump and upper-tail coverts that contrast with its dark back and tail. It flies over continuous Amazonian forest.

• Reunion Olive White-eye Zosterops olivaceus

  A white-eye endemic to Réunion, with yellow-green plumage and a conspicuous white ring around the eye.

• Laughing Gull Leucophaeus atricilla

  A coastal gull whose breeding adults have a black head, red bill, and narrow white eye crescents.

• Purplish-backed Quail-Dove Zentrygon lawrencii

  The Purplish-backed Quail-Dove is a plump gray ground dove. Its purple iridescent back, pale face with a dark moustache stripe, and reddish legs help identify it.

• Bar-winged Wren-Babbler Spelaeornis troglodytoides

  A small babbler of the eastern Himalaya and nearby mountains. It moves through bamboo and ferns in the forest understory while looking for small invertebrates.

• Black-headed Bee-eater Merops breweri

  The Black-headed Bee-eater is marked by a black head and green and cinnamon plumage. It catches insects from an open perch.

• Long-tailed Minivet Pericrocotus ethologus

  The Long-tailed Minivet male is notable for a black head and red on the wings. It searches for insects in treetops and is usually social outside the breeding season.

• Black Monarch Symposiachrus axillaris

  A long-tailed, mostly black flycatcher of New Guinea's lowland and mountain forests. Its diet is still poorly recorded.

• River Warbler Locustella fluviatilis

  The River Warbler is a small bird with fine streaks on its breast and flanks. It stays hidden in waterside vegetation and searches for insects and other small invertebrates.

• House Bunting Emberiza sahari

  A bunting of desert towns and their surroundings. A study in central Algeria also recorded pairs nesting in buildings.

• Hudsonian Whimbrel Numenius hudsonicus

  This shorebird breeds in Arctic North America and migrates as far south as South America. It searches mud and sand for crabs with its long curved bill.

• Snow Goose Anser caerulescens

  A goose with white and blue color forms. North American flocks gather in fields and wetlands during migration and winter.

• Yellow-eyed Babbler Chrysomma sinense

  The Yellow-eyed Babbler is a small bird with a conspicuous yellow eye-ring that searches for food among shrubs.

• Tylas Vanga Tylas eduardi

  This vanga is endemic to Madagascar. The widely distributed eastern form has a black hood; a western form with a black crown and white chin and throat has also been reported. Western records are sparse, and the forms' geographic status and possible seasonal movement remain unresolved.

• White-winged Lark Alauda leucoptera

  The White-winged Lark is a lark whose white wing patches stand out in flight. It uses dry steppe and fields, and may gather in flocks outside the breeding season.