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• Brown Parisoma Curruca lugens

  

  The Brown Parisoma has a pale throat and belly and narrow white tail edges, and forages for invertebrates in East African woodland.

• Black-billed Thrush Turdus ignobilis

  This thrush is noted for its black bill. Its chest markings vary, and in northern and western Bolivia it uses forest edges, riverside woods, the ground and trees.

• White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher Dioptrornis fischeri

  This flycatcher lives in East African mountain forests and their edges. Active by day, it catches small invertebrates in short aerial sallies.

• Buffy Pipit Anthus vaalensis

  The Buffy Pipit lives in open grassland and searches the ground for insects and seeds. It occurs widely across southern Africa.

• Socotra Sparrow Passer insularis

  The Socotra Sparrow is a sparrow of Yemen’s Socotra Archipelago. This entry follows BirdLife’s treatment of Passer insularis as a species.

• Pale-breasted Spinetail Synallaxis albescens

  This small ovenbird ranges from Central into South America and Trinidad. It searches for insects in grassland and scrub and has rufous on the crown and shoulders.

• White-fronted Amazon Amazona albifrons

  A small Amazon parrot marked by a white forehead and red face, it feeds on different plants as local and seasonal conditions change.

• Chucao Tapaculo Scelorchilus rubecula

  This tapaculo inhabits temperate forests in Chile and Argentina. A Chilean government assessment lists records from several southern regions of Chile.

• Prevost's Ground Sparrow Melozone biarcuata

  This ground-dwelling sparrow uses forest edges and coffee plantations in Central America. The male has a white face, dark forehead, and rufous crown.

• African Wattled Lapwing Vanellus senegallus

  The African Wattled Lapwing is a large brown plover with yellow legs and yellow facial wattles beside the bill.

• Olive Honeyeater Lichmera argentauris

  The Olive Honeyeater is an Indonesian honeyeater associated with humid tropical shrubland and farmland. It feeds on nectar from trees and shrubs.

• White-bellied Antbird Myrmeciza longipes

  In Panama, pairs of this antbird held territories year-round in second growth and forest edges. Males have rufous upperparts and a white belly; females have buff on the throat and breast.

• Great Sapphirewing Pterophanes cyanopterus

  This large hummingbird has a dark green body and blue wings in the male; the female is green above and rufous below. In Bolivia it uses highland grassland and forest edges.

• Yellow-throated Tinkerbird Pogoniulus subsulphureus

  The Yellow-throated Tinkerbird is a small bird with a glossy bluish-black crown and a yellow throat and rump. The account lists three subspecies across coastal West and Central Africa, Uganda, and Bioko Island. It eats fruit.

• Brown-capped Fantail Rhipidura diluta

  A 1996 report of a 1993 field project lists Sumbawa, Flores and Lomblen (now Lembata), in forest habitats other than dry thorn-scrub. These historical island records are not a current exhaustive range map.

• Olive Bushshrike Chlorophoneus olivaceus

  The Olive Bushshrike has more than one plumage form. In the common ruddy form, an olive back contrasts with a rufous chest. It searches dense vegetation for insects and small fruits.

• Dark Newtonia Newtonia amphichroa

  Dark Newtonia occurs in eastern Madagascar. Adults have grey-brown backs and pale, tan-tinged undersides, and the species uses low rainforest and nearby secondary growth.

• Black-necked Aracari Pteroglossus aracari

  Adults have a black head and throat, a red rump, and a red band across the yellow underside. This aracari searches for fruit in the canopy.

• Reed Parrotbill Paradoxornis heudei

  It has a thick, hooked yellow bill and a pale gray head. Small groups move through reedbeds.

• Dwarf Tyrant-Manakin Tyranneutes stolzmanni

  This small manakin lives in lowland evergreen forest in western Amazonia. The account records it up to about 800 m in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil. It gives no detailed information about diet or breeding.

• Pompadour Cotinga Xipholena punicea

  This cotinga lives high in forests of the Amazon Basin. Males are deep purple-red, while females are gray with white wing edges, giving the sexes very different plumage.

• Yellow-legged Flyrobin Microeca griseoceps

  The Yellow-legged Flyrobin is recorded in New Guinea’s mid-montane rainforest and on Australia’s Cape York Peninsula. The Birds Queensland account uses the name Kempiella griseoceps, while the pool lists Microeca griseoceps.

• Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone rufiventer

  Males have a black head, chestnut body and long tail streamers. The species lives in wooded parts of western, central and eastern Africa south of the Sahara, and eats insects.

• Pallas' Reed Bunting Emberiza pallasi

  Pallas' Reed Bunting is a small bunting that breeds in northern Asia. In Hong Kong it is rarely recorded as an autumn passage migrant.