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• Woodchat Shrike Lanius senator

  

  The male Woodchat Shrike has a reddish-orange head and striking black-and-white markings. During breeding it hunts insects in open, sparsely wooded places, then winters in Africa.

• Buff-faced Scrubwren Aethomyias perspicillatus

  A field guide to the Mimika region of Papua records this species under its older name, Sericornis perspicillatus. The account describes olive upperparts and a pale buff-orange face, and records it in shrubs and the midstory at montane forest edges.

• White-eared Sibia Heterophasia auricularis

  This bird is endemic to Taiwan. A white band runs from the base of the bill to behind the ear, and groups move through the middle and upper levels of forests.

• Blue-banded Toucanet Aulacorhynchus coeruleicinctis

  This green toucanet has a blue breast band and a chestnut-red rump. It forages for fruit and other food in humid mountain forest on the eastern Andes.

• Green Cochoa Cochoa viridis

  The Green Cochoa lives in moist forest, often near streams. Males combine green and blue plumage, while females have brown wings and a blue tail.

• Spot-winged Falconet Spiziapteryx circumcincta

  A small raptor with short wings and a long tail. It occurs in dry and scrubby habitats of southern South America and takes prey ranging from insects to small birds.

• Cinnamon Imperial Pigeon Ducula basilica

  The Cinnamon Imperial Pigeon is a large pigeon of forest on Indonesia's North Maluku Islands. It eats fruit.

• One-colored Becard Pachyramphus homochrous

  A medium-sized becard of lowlands and foothills from Venezuela to Peru. Males and females have markedly different plumage.

• Scarlet-headed Flowerpecker Dicaeum trochileum

  Males have a bright red head, breast, and back, while females are mostly brown. The species also occurs in lowland gardens, farms, and forest edges.

• Changeable Hawk-Eagle Nisaetus cirrhatus

  The Changeable Hawk-Eagle is a forest raptor with pale and dark color morphs. The distribution and resident records cited here refer only to the documented localities.

• Yellow-olive Flatbill Tolmomyias sulphurescens

  The Yellow-olive Flatbill is a tyrant flycatcher ranging from Central into South America. It occurs in open woodland, second growth and streamside clearings in lowlands and foothills, searching foliage for insects.

• Brown-breasted Kingfisher Halcyon gularis

  This kingfisher occurs in the Philippines. Its brown breast and blue wings stand out, and it takes small animals in open country and along forest edges.

• Black-headed Parrotbill Paradoxornis margaritae

  The Black-headed Parrotbill is recorded in southern Annam, in southern Vietnam and adjacent Cambodia. It has a black cap and pale cheek area, and small flocks move through scrub along forest edges from lower vegetation to the canopy.

• Sooty-capped Puffbird Bucco noanamae

  Endemic to Colombia, this puffbird has a dark cap, white throat, and broad black breast band. It waits on a perch, then catches insects in the forest understory.

• African Shrike-flycatcher Megabyas flammulatus

  African Shrike-flycatchers show clear differences between the sexes. They inhabit African lowland forest, where they eat insects and may wag the tail while perched.

• Greater Short-toed Lark Calandrella brachydactyla

  The Greater Short-toed Lark is a small lark of open, dry country. A breeding study in central Italy recorded nesting, groups of fledglings, and family groups before migration.

• Sulawesi Babbler Pellorneum celebense

  This babbler lives in forest and surrounding habitats on Sulawesi. Its plumage varies geographically, and it forages close to the ground with a running movement.

• Turquoise-throated Barbet Psilopogon chersonesus

  This barbet occurs in montane forest on the southern part of Thailand's peninsula. A bold dark line beside the eye is a notable feature.

• Golden Vireo Vireo hypochryseus

  This small vireo is endemic to Mexico. Adults are mainly olive and yellow, with a yellow line above the eye.

• Planalto Tapaculo Scytalopus pachecoi

  A small ground-dwelling bird of humid forest in southern Brazil and northeastern Argentina, recorded in woodland with bamboo and scrub.

• Citreoline Trogon Trogon citreolus

  The Citreoline Trogon has a yellow belly and pale eyes. It searches for food from branches in forests of western Mexico.

• Greater Bird-of-paradise Paradisaea apoda

  Males court by spreading golden flank plumes and long tail wires. The species lives in forests of southern New Guinea and the Aru Islands.

• Yellow-winged Pytilia Pytilia hypogrammica

  The Yellow-winged Pytilia is a small bird whose male has a red face and throat with a grey crown and back. It mainly eats grass seeds and also takes insects.

• Long-tailed Myna Mino kreffti

  The Long-tailed Myna lives on islands of the Bismarck and Solomon archipelagos. Glossy black plumage is set off by a white rump and yellow belly; it feeds on fruit in the canopy.