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• Glossy-mantled Manucode Manucodia ater

  

  A bird-of-paradise of New Guinea's lowlands and nearby islands. It feeds mainly on fruit, especially figs, and the sexes have similar plumage.

• Bar-breasted Firefinch Lagonosticta rufopicta

  The Bar-breasted Firefinch has pink markings on the face and belly. It ranges from western Africa to parts of eastern Africa and forages in grassland and savanna near rivers.

• Spot-winged Starling Saroglossa spilopterus

  Regional accounts describe the Spot-winged Starling as breeding in Himalayan foothills and wintering around northeast India. A flock feeding on flower nectar was recorded in northeast India, but that account is a single site and date.

• Pied Cuckooshrike Coracina bicolor

  A cuckooshrike of Sulawesi and nearby islands. Males are sharply black and white, while females are dark gray and white; it uses lowland and hill forest.

• Boat-billed Heron Cochlearius cochlearius

  Its broad, flattened bill is distinctive. In mangroves and river-edge woodland of Central and South America, it ambushes fish and other prey at dim hours.

• Grasshopper Warbler Locustella naevia

  The Grasshopper Warbler is a rather inconspicuous brown warbler. It visits Britain and Ireland in summer and spends winter in north-west Africa.

• Saltmarsh Sparrow Ammospiza caudacuta

  The Saltmarsh Sparrow lives in coastal salt marshes in the United States. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service page uses the older name Ammodramus caudacutus; this entry retains the pool's scientific name, Ammospiza caudacuta.

• Yellowish Pipit Anthus chii

  The Yellowish Pipit has a large but patchy range from Panama to Argentina. It is ground-dwelling, with a streaked back and breast, and uses open, flat places. It may sing while in flight.

• Nightingale Finch Nesospiza questi

  A finch of Nightingale Island in Tristan da Cunha. A breeding study records females building nests in dense grass tussocks.

• Hawaiian Petrel Pterodroma sandwichensis

  The Hawaiian Petrel is a seabird with a dark gray back and white underside. On Hawaiʻi Island it nests in burrows on Mauna Loa's slopes and flies out at night to search for food at sea.

• Thrush Nightingale Luscinia luscinia

  This bird has a grey-brown back and a paler belly. It is active at dusk and at night, singing loudly from waterside thickets.

• Lorentz's Whistler Pachycephala lorentzi

  Lorentz's Whistler is a small whistler of the central New Guinea highlands. Its grey breast band and mottled white throat are distinctive, and it searches for insects in damp highland scrub.

• Blue-naped Pitta Hydrornis nipalensis

  A pitta with a reddish-brown head and body and a blue rump, living quietly in forest.

• 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.

• Red Tanager Piranga flava

  The Red Tanager occurs in open woodland and forest edges across eastern and southern South America, with a northern population in southern Guyana and adjacent far northern Brazil. In Bolivia, lowland forms are recorded south of the Cochabamba basin and in the Santa Cruz lowlands.

• Madagascar Coucal Centropus toulou

  In breeding plumage, the Madagascar Coucal is black with rufous-chestnut on the lower back and wings. It occurs on Madagascar and Aldabra.

• White-rumped Swift Apus caffer

  A swift that catches insects in flight. In southern Africa, it may breed in nests taken over from other birds.

• White-winged Magpie Urocissa whiteheadi

  Adult White-winged Magpies have dark head and upperparts, a gray underside, pale wing markings, a long tail, and a heavy red bill.

• Reddish Scops Owl Otus rufescens

  The Reddish Scops Owl is a small owl of forests in Southeast Asia, including the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra. It is nocturnal and feeds mainly on insects.

• Yellow-wattled Lapwing Vanellus malabaricus

  The Yellow-wattled Lapwing is a plover of dry, open country in the Indian subcontinent. It may make short movements in response to rain.

• Tropical Mockingbird Mimus gilvus

  This mockingbird has a grey back, pale underparts, and a long tail with a white tip. It lives in open lowlands and eats insects and fruit.

• White-winged Black Tit Melaniparus leucomelas

  The White-winged Black Tit is a small bird of open acacia and broadleaf woodland. Its black body contrasts with white wing patches, and it moves in pairs or small groups.

• Black-throated Babbler Stachyris nigricollis

  The Black-throated Babbler lives in lowland evergreen and swamp forest. It searches dense vegetation for small invertebrates.

• Araripe Manakin Chiroxiphia bokermanni

  The male Araripe Manakin stands out with red, white, and black plumage and a forward-sweeping red crest. It is restricted to spring-fed forest and feeds mainly on fruit.