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• Yellow-backed Tanager Hemithraupis flavicollis

  

  This tanager occurs from eastern Panama to southeastern Brazil. eBird describes pairs feeding in the canopy, often with mixed-species flocks.

• White-faced Robin Tregellasia leucops

  The White-faced Robin was studied in tropical rainforest at Iron Range on Cape York, northern Australia. In the banding study, most recaptures were close to the release site, and some marked birds were encountered again as late as 18 years later.

• Bermuda Petrel Pterodroma cahow

  An open-ocean petrel with brownish-grey upperparts and white underparts. It breeds in burrows on offshore Bermuda islets.

• Black-necked Eremomela Eremomela atricollis

  It has a black face mask, yellow forehead and eyebrow, and yellow chin and throat bordered in black. Hall's Angola field account found it in tall and stunted Brachystegia woodland, where it actively searched leaves for insects.

• Antioquia Wren Thryophilus sernai

  This wren is known from the dry Cauca River canyon in northwestern Colombia. Its description paper records small patches of semideciduous forest and dry scrub, often along watercourses, and calls it uncommon within its range.

• Scaly Francolin Pternistis squamatus

  The Scaly Francolin is a ground-dwelling bird with dull-brown plumage, a red bill, and red legs. It stays in thick cover and can be hard to see.

• Tataupa Tinamou Crypturellus tataupa

  This ground-dwelling tinamou occurs in South America. It walks through forest undergrowth and may use more open grassland and scrub.

• Kerguelen Shag Leucocarbo verrucosus

  This cormorant relative lives on the Kerguelen Islands in the southern Indian Ocean. Breeding adults develop a forehead crest and yellow ornaments at the base of the bill. It feeds on fish and crustaceans in nearshore waters.

• Rufous-necked Snowfinch Pyrgilauda ruficollis

  The Rufous-necked Snowfinch lives in highlands such as the Tibetan Plateau and has a rufous patch on the side of the neck.

• Helmeted Hornbill Rhinoplax vigil

  The Helmeted Hornbill is a large hornbill of Sundaic rainforest. Its casque is solid, and it feeds heavily on fruit such as figs.

• Southern Fiscal Lanius collaris

  This shrike lives in open country in southern Africa. It watches from branches or fences and catches insects and small mammals.

• Mountain Barbet Psilopogon monticola

  It is a stocky green bird with a bare orange-yellow patch around the eye and a heavy pale bill. In Borneo's montane forest canopy it feeds mainly on fruit and berries.

• Cryptic Forest Falcon Micrastur mintoni

  This forest falcon has a gray back, finely barred white chest, and orange-red bare parts around the face and legs.

• Ivory Gull Pagophila eburnea

  A gull closely tied to Arctic sea ice. Adults are white, while young birds keep dark mottling.

• Grey-eyed Bulbul Iole propinqua

  Its grey-to-white eye with a dark rim is conspicuous. It feeds mainly on fruit and insects, foraging in forest canopies and mid-storeys.

• Red-throated Parakeet Psittacara rubritorquis

  This parakeet ranges through hilly and mountainous parts of Central America. During the breeding season it is associated with semiarid to semideciduous forest, including pine forest.

• Chestnut-throated Flycatcher Myiagra castaneigularis

  The Chestnut-throated Flycatcher was described from Vanua Levu, Fiji. Its 1876 original account records forest observations, insect feeding, and differences in throat and back color between males and females.

• Abbott's Babbler Malacocincla abbotti

  A babbler of forests in South and Southeast Asia, Abbott's Babbler forages for insects and other small invertebrates near the ground.

• Madagascar Swamp Warbler Acrocephalus newtoni

  The Madagascar Swamp Warbler feeds on insects while moving among wetland plants. It is widespread on Madagascar, absent from the far north, and less common in the dry south.

• Ecuadorian Piculet Picumnus sclateri

  This small woodpecker inhabits drier forest and scrub in southwestern Ecuador and northwestern Peru. It is recorded along the Andean foothills up to 1,800 m.

• Maranon Pigeon Patagioenas oenops

  The Maranon Pigeon occurs in the upper Marañón Valley of the northern Andes. It feeds on plant seeds in woodland and along forest edges.

• Brown Bullfinch Pyrrhula nipalensis

  This bullfinch has a gray-brown head and mantle, gray underparts, a long tail, and a narrow white rump. In Great Himalayan National Park it uses high-elevation forest and rhododendron thickets.

• Spot-flanked Barbet Tricholaema lacrymosa

  This African barbet is marked by a yellow eye and spotted flanks. In damp highland woodland of eastern Africa, it feeds on figs, berries, and insects.

• Little Shrikethrush Colluricincla megarhyncha

  It occurs on New Guinea and in northern and eastern Australia. Checklists differ over which populations belong in this species, and plumage varies across its subspecies. It gleans insects from leaves in forests and wooded habitats.