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• Banded Barbet Lybius undatus

  

  The Banded Barbet has a red forehead and a black head and breast. It occurs in Eritrea and Ethiopia, feeds mainly on fruit—especially figs—and also catches flying insects.

• Sooty Ant Tanager Habia gutturalis

  This tanager lives in humid forests of northwestern Colombia. Males have a red throat and crest, and the birds forage for arthropods.

• Black-tailed Tityra Tityra cayana

  The Black-tailed Tityra is widespread in Amazonia; in Peru, the account records it up to about 700 m in the Andean foothills.

• African Marsh Harrier Circus ranivorus

  Males are smaller and greyer, while females are larger and mainly brown. It flies low over coastal and inland wetlands in search of prey and ranges from eastern to southern Africa.

• Grey Crested Tit Lophophanes dichrous

  This mountain tit has a gray crest and back and a white half-collar. Throat and underpart colors vary among regional forms.

• Purple Heron Ardea purpurea

  A heron with a buff head and neck, black cap, gray back, and deep chestnut shoulder patch. It favors dense plants beside shallow water.

• Striolated Bunting Emberiza striolata

  The Striolated Bunting is a small bunting of dry rocky ground and wadis. Its reddish wings and fine markings across the face and chest help distinguish it.

• Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis

  The Marsh Sandpiper is a slender wader with a needle-like bill and long yellowish legs. In Peninsular Malaysia it is recorded as a migrant and nonbreeding visitor.

• Sykes's Lark Galerida deva

  This lark ranges from pale to warm buff and is relatively unmarked. It has a short, thick bill and a complex song, and lives on the ground in dry stony and scrubby country in India.

• Orange-throated Sunangel Heliangelus mavors

  Males have a throat that can glow orange in good light and a pale band across the breast. Females have a yellowish throat mottled with chestnut.

• Pale-billed Flowerpecker Dicaeum erythrorhynchos

  This tiny, rather nondescript bird is easiest to recognize by its pale, bulky, curved bill. It is endemic to the Indian subcontinent and favors Singapore Cherry berries.

• White-throated Antbird Oneillornis salvini

  This antbird lives in lowland Amazonian forest. The male is gray with a white throat, while the female is reddish brown with black barring; in Peru it uses the forest understory.

• Dusky-tailed Canastero Pseudasthenes humicola

  A canastero found in Chile. The nominate subspecies has a brown back and pale eyebrow; a central Chile study recorded nesting in thorny scrub and cactus areas.

• Bar-bellied Pitta Hydrornis elliotii

  The Bar-bellied Pitta lives in lowland forest in Indochina and searches for food on the ground. It turns leaf litter while feeding on insects and earthworms.

• Albertine Sooty Boubou Laniarius holomelas

  This bush-shrike occurs in montane forest of the Albertine Rift. This entry follows the catalogue treatment of Laniarius holomelas.

• Chestnut-winged Babbler Cyanoderma erythropterum

  The Chestnut-winged Babbler ranges from southern Myanmar and Thailand through the Malay Peninsula to Sumatra. It forages in small groups in the middle storey of evergreen forests.

• New Zealand Robin Petroica australis

  The South Island robin lives on New Zealand's South and Stewart Islands and often forages on the forest floor.

• Hainan Hill Partridge Arborophila ardens

  The Hainan Hill Partridge is a pheasant-family bird found only on Hainan Island, where it lives in remaining mountain evergreen forests.

• Antipodes Parakeet Cyanoramphus unicolor

  This uniformly green parakeet is endemic to the subantarctic Antipodes Islands. Its diet shifts with the seasons, and it sometimes preys on seabirds.

• White-collared Jay Cyanolyca viridicyanus

  This jay has a blue-green body, a black facial pattern, and a white collar. It moves in small groups and forages at different forest levels in the humid Andes.

• Rufous-eared Brush Finch Atlapetes rufigenis

  The Rufous-eared Brush-Finch is endemic to Peru. It forages in Andean scrub and Polylepis forest; its rufous head and black-and-white facial markings are distinctive.

• 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.

• Plain-breasted Piculet Picumnus castelnau

  This small woodpecker inhabits floodplain forest along the Amazon and Ucayali rivers. Its range is closely tied to Cecropia-rich riverside forest, river islands, and nearby secondary forest.

• Sharp-tailed Ibis Cercibis oxycerca

  This large ibis has glossy black plumage and a long tail. In the Venezuelan Llanos, its food changes between dry and wet seasons.