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• Lawes's Parotia Parotia lawesii

  

  This bird-of-paradise lives in New Guinea’s mountain forests. Males dance with their plumage spread, while females build the nests. It also eats fruit and arthropods.

• Royal Spoonbill Platalea regia

  The Royal Spoonbill is a large white waterbird. It sweeps its black, spoon-shaped bill through shallow water to find fish and shrimp. During breeding, its head crest grows longer.

• Fuegian Snipe Gallinago stricklandii

  The Fuegian Snipe occurs in the temperate-forest region of southern South America. It probes wet soil for small invertebrates with its long, slender bill; some birds have been recorded year-round in Cape Horn National Park.

• Stejneger's Scoter Melanitta stejnegeri

  Stejneger's Scoter is a diving duck with a prominent swelling at the base of the bill. It moves from northern breeding areas to Pacific coasts for winter.

• Yellow-rumped Marshbird Pseudoleistes guirahuro

  The Yellow-rumped Marshbird is an icterid of open grassland and wet habitats in southeastern South America. A nest study in northeastern Argentina and Paraguay recorded birds other than the parents helping raise chicks.

• Copper pheasant Syrmaticus soemmerringii

  A pheasant of Japan’s mountain forests, with a conspicuously long tail in males.

• Greyish Piculet Picumnus granadensis

  This small woodpecker relative lives in forests and at forest edges in Colombia. The male has a black crown with white spots and yellow crown marks.

• Moluccan King Parrot Alisterus amboinensis

  This parrot lives in forests on Indonesian islands, including the Moluccas. The six subspecies differ in plumage.

• Luzon Hornbill Penelopides manillae

  The Luzon Hornbill is a small hornbill of the northern Philippines. The male has a cream-colored head and underside with dark cheeks and throat; the female is mostly dark brown to black. It lives in tropical moist lowland forest and eats figs and other fruit.

• Olive-striped Flycatcher Mionectes galbinus

  This entry covers *Mionectes galbinus*, split from the broader *M. olivaceus*. The species account records it in moist lowland and montane forest from Central into northwestern South America.

• Black-browed Reed Warbler Acrocephalus bistrigiceps

  A small bird with a white eyebrow and a dark line above it, breeding in reed and silver-grass meadows.

• Pale Crag Martin Ptyonoprogne obsoleta

  This small swallow flies near cliffs and gorges, catching insects in the air. It ranges from northern Africa through Arabia to southern Pakistan.

• White-winged Becard Pachyramphus polychopterus

  The White-winged Becard shows regional variation in male plumage across Central and South America. It uses forest edges and second growth, alone or in pairs, and moves through middle tree levels.

• Plain Seedeater Catamenia inornata

  This finch relative forages in dry to semi-humid montane scrub and other open habitats in the Andes. Males are grey; females are browner, and their bill colors differ.

• Western Mountain Greenbul Arizelocichla tephrolaema

  This bulbul occurs in the Cameroonian highlands and on Bioko. Records include montane forest, secondary and gallery forest, clearings, and bamboo.

• Baird's Trogon Trogon bairdii

  A trogon of forests from Costa Rica's Pacific slope to western Panama, the male stands out with a red belly and blue facial skin.

• LeConte's Thrasher Toxostoma lecontei

  LeConte's Thrasher is a pale, sand-colored bird of the dry deserts of southwestern North America. It stays near the ground in brush for much of the year, while males sing from high perches during the breeding season.

• Long-tailed Triller Lalage leucopyga

  This triller occurs on Makira, in Vanuatu, and in New Caledonia. Males are dark brown-black with a white wing patch, while females are browner; it uses habitats from edges and scrub to forest.

• Spotted Nothura Nothura maculosa

  The Spotted Nothura lives in South American grasslands. It eats mostly plant matter and is also described as omnivorous.

• Flores Crow Corvus florensis

  The Flores Crow is a relatively small crow found only on Flores Island, Indonesia. BirdLife's older account recorded it widely in lowland forests in the west of the island.

• Baudo Guan Penelope ortoni

  The Baudó Guan is a large bird of the humid forests of western Colombia and Ecuador. Its dark brown body has small white patches, and a red wattle hangs from its throat.

• Melodious Babbler Malacopteron palawanense

  This babbler is endemic to Palawan and Balabac in the Philippines. It forages in the middle and lower forest layers of lowland evergreen forest.

• Mistletoebird Dicaeum hirundinaceum

  The Mistletoebird is widespread across Australia. Males have striking black, red, and white markings, and the birds use high tree canopies where mistletoe grows.

• Reed Cormorant Microcarbo africanus

  This small cormorant has a long tail and short crest, and breeds mainly around African fresh waters.