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• 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.

• Tibetan Rosefinch Carpodacus roborowskii

  A rosefinch of high elevations on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau and nearby regions. It searches for food on the ground in rocky steppe and alpine meadows.

• Cinnamon-faced Tyrannulet Phylloscartes parkeri

  This small flycatcher is about 11.5 cm long. It ranges along the eastern Andean foothills of central and southeastern Peru and into adjacent northern Bolivia, using humid forest with tall canopy.

• White-browed Meadowlark Leistes superciliaris

  This icterid lives in open grasslands of South America. The male is black with red patches and a white eyebrow, while the female is brown-toned and looks different.

• Chinese Hwamei Garrulax canorus

  A brown songbird marked by white around the eye, it forages near the ground in shrubs and bamboo and sings loudly.

• Rusty-tailed Flycatcher Muscicapa ruficauda

  This flycatcher occurs in Asia, including northern India and Nepal. Its rusty tail stands out; it breeds in open montane forest and searches for insects at forest edges and clearings in winter.

• White-crowned Starling Lamprotornis albicapillus

  The White-crowned Starling lives in open scrub and acacia woodland in East Africa. It has a white crown and is described feeding on the ground.

• Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Lark Eremopterix leucotis

  Males have chestnut upperparts and wings, a black head, and a white ear patch. The species mainly eats grass seeds and also takes insects in the breeding season. A study in northern South Africa found nests in open areas with much bare ground.

• Collared Crow Corvus torquatus

  The Collared Crow is black with a broad white collar. It occurs mainly in lowland and wetland areas of China and is often seen alone, feeding on insects, molluscs, other invertebrates, and grain.

• Red-winged Pytilia Pytilia phoenicoptera

  This small finch uses wooded savanna and grassland from West into Central Africa. Adults are gray overall, with red areas on the wings and tail.

• Pygmy Swiftlet Collocalia troglodytes

  This small swiftlet is endemic to the Philippines. It has a white rump band and forages near the forest canopy in Palawan.

• Sumba Myzomela Myzomela dammermani

  The Sumba Myzomela is a small bird of Sumba Island, Indonesia, where it forages from the forest mid-storey to the canopy.

• Golden Palm Weaver Ploceus bojeri

  The Golden Palm Weaver lives in lowland eastern Africa. A breeding-plumage male has an orange head and breast. The species eats seeds and insects and is known for its complex, ball-shaped woven nest.

• Red-chested Sunbird Cinnyris erythrocercus

  This sunbird occurs in East-Central Africa. Dave Richards's 2013 Wildlife of East Africa guide uses the former genus name Nectarinia erythrocerca and describes waterside habitat and different male and female plumage.

• Plum-crowned Parrot Pionus tumultuosus

  Adults of the nominate subspecies are green with a dark red crown and nape and red-purple markings from the face to the breast. The species occurs in moist mountain forests of Peru and Bolivia.

• Varied Lorikeet Psitteuteles versicolor

  This small parrot inhabits woodlands of northern Australia. It feeds on nectar and pollen and gathers in flowering trees.

• Scheepmaker's Crowned Pigeon Goura scheepmakeri

  Scheepmaker’s crowned pigeon is a large pigeon with a lacy blue crest and deep maroon chest. It lives in lowland forests of south-eastern New Guinea.

• Madagascar Owl Asio madagascariensis

  The Madagascar Owl is a nocturnal owl found only on Madagascar. It rests in dense vegetation by day and hunts in forests and nearby open areas at night.

• Little Wood Rail Aramides mangle

  The Little Wood Rail has a gray head and back, a reddish-brown breast and belly, and an orange-red base to the bill. It occurs in Brazilian coastal mangroves and nearby forests.

• Chestnut-crested Antbird Rhegmatorhina cristata

  A lowland forest antbird of southeastern Colombia and northwestern Brazil that searches near the ground around columns of ants.

• Cape Verde Buzzard Buteo bannermani

  The Cape Verde Buzzard occurs in the Cape Verde Islands. One adult described as typical in an article had a dark bib contrasting with a finely barred belly. The 2013 Rui Vaz Natural Park plan says this buzzard eats insects, rats and small birds and nests on rocky escarpments.

• Black-backed Woodpecker Picoides arcticus

  This woodpecker often arrives in forests after fires and feeds mainly on wood-boring beetle larvae.

• Scaled Ground Cuckoo Neomorphus squamiger

  This rare, terrestrial cuckoo inhabits rainforest between the Xingu and Tapajós rivers in Brazil. Its behavior is still poorly known.

• White-bellied Kingfisher Corythornis leucogaster

  The White-bellied Kingfisher is a small kingfisher that watches for prey from low perches near forest streams.