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• Bare-eyed Thrush Turdus tephronotus

  

  This thrush lives in dry East African scrub and other open habitats. Gray, rufous, and white plumage is set off by an orange bill and bare skin around the eye.

• Malay Whistling-thrush Myophonus robinsoni

  This dark thrush has a bright metallic-blue patch near the shoulder and appears along streams in moist hill forest.

• Olive-backed Pipit Anthus hodgsoni

  This account focuses on the seasonal movements of the Japanese subspecies of Olive-backed Pipit. It breeds in open woodland and grassland from Shikoku and Honshu northward, then moves to lowlands with little persistent snow in autumn and winter.

• Great Sparrow Passer motitensis

  The Great Sparrow is a relatively large sparrow with a streaked back. In Namibia it searches trees and the ground for seeds and insects.

• Hudson's Canastero Asthenes hudsoni

  This canastero is concentrated in the humid Pampas and has black streaking on its back. A research review describes partial seasonal movement; Brazilian records include tall grass and sedges on a coastal plain.

• Orange-fronted Parakeet Eupsittula canicularis

  The Orange-fronted Parakeet is a small parrot with an orange band across the forehead. In the wild it nests in arboreal termite mounds or cavities and eats fruit and seeds.

• Bahia Tapaculo Eleoscytalopus psychopompus

  The Bahia Tapaculo occurs in lowland Atlantic Forest along the coast of Bahia, Brazil. In the coastal birds examined in the study, the flanks are rufous and the thighs bluish.

• Pale-headed Brush Finch Atlapetes pallidiceps

  A 2003 paper described this brush-finch as confined to one valley in southern Ecuador and reported variation in adult head markings.

• Andean Lapwing Vanellus resplendens

  The Andean Lapwing walks through high Andean grasslands and wet open ground to feed. Pairs defend territories and call loudly.

• Red Wattlebird Anthochaera carunculata

  The Red Wattlebird is a large honeyeater with a reddish fleshy wattle at the side of its neck. It feeds mainly on nectar, along with insects and fruit.

• Spot-crowned Antvireo Dysithamnus puncticeps

  This antvireo inhabits moist forests from Central America to northwestern South America. It searches for small invertebrates in the forest understory.

• Amazilia Hummingbird Amazilis amazilia

  The Amazilia Hummingbird occurs west of the Andes. Its green throat and rufous belly stand out; it is found in coastal scrub and at gallery-forest edges.

• White-headed Barbet Lybius leucocephalus

  The White-headed Barbet is an African bird whose black-and-white plumage varies geographically. It is often found near fig trees.

• Samoan Fantail Rhipidura nebulosa

  The Samoan Fantail is a small bird described with dusky plumage, a pale throat, and white feathers under the tail. Its life account here is limited to an 1848 observation in Samoa.

• Tropical Boubou Laniarius major

  This bush-shrike lives in woodland, forest edges, savanna woodland, and thickets. It eats insects and small animals, and wing markings vary by region.

• Nuthatch Vanga Hypositta corallirostris

  The Nuthatch Vanga is a small Madagascar endemic that searches for insects while climbing up tree trunks.

• Guianan Toucanet Selenidera piperivora

  This toucanet has green upperparts and tail, chestnut tail tips and a red-and-black bill. It ranges from southeastern Venezuela through the Guianas to northern Brazil north of the Amazon and eats fruit and insects.

• Wrentit Chamaea fasciata

  The Wrentit is a small bird of the shrubs along the western coast of the United States. It has a gray-brown body and a long tail, and searches dense brush for insects and fruit.

• Club-winged Manakin Machaeropterus deliciosus

  The Club-winged Manakin lives in humid forests of southwestern Colombia and northwestern Ecuador. Males use their wings to make mechanical sounds during display.

• Bare-throated Bellbird Procnias nudicollis

  The Bare-throated Bellbird is striking for the male's white plumage and bare green throat. Males give loud, metallic-sounding calls, and the species feeds on fruit.

• Pink Robin Petroica rodinogaster

  The Pink Robin differs in color between the sexes, and its habitat changes with the season. It breeds in deep gullies in damp forest and uses more open, drier places in winter.

• Buff-bellied Monarch Neolalage banksiana

  This monarch flycatcher is endemic to Vanuatu. Its black-and-white plumage contrasts with yellow underparts, and the 2014 survey found it in forest understory with vine tangles, often in pairs or small family groups.

• Japanese Reed Bunting Emberiza yessoensis

  The Japanese Reed Bunting uses grassland, farmland, and dry riverbeds. This account focuses on the form that breeds in Honshu and Kyushu.

• Costa Rican Swift Chaetura fumosa

  The Costa Rican Swift is sooty black with a pale gray rump band and lighter throat. On Costa Rica’s southern Pacific side, pairs are seen over forest and open country.