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• Chestnut-banded Plover Charadrius pallidus

  

  This small shorebird is adapted to salty lakes and mudflats. It has separate eastern and southern African populations; southern birds use coastal lagoons and inland saline pans.

• White-browed Purpletuft Iodopleura isabellae

  A small cotinga of the upper canopy in northern Amazonian and Andean foothill forests. The male's purple breast tufts may be hidden at rest.

• Red-shouldered Vanga Calicalicus rufocarpalis

  The Red-shouldered Vanga is a small bird of dry, thorny scrub in southwestern Madagascar. Its reddish shoulder feathers help distinguish the sexes.

• Arafura Fantail Rhipidura dryas

  The Arafura Fantail occurs along the northern coast of Australia and in southern New Guinea. It uses rainforest and mangroves.

• Lemon-spectacled Tanager Chlorothraupis olivacea

  The Lemon-spectacled Tanager is a tanager of humid tropical forest. Its yellow lores and eye ring are reported as useful distinctions from close relatives.

• Red Lark Calendulauda burra

  The Red Lark is endemic to South Africa's Northern Cape. A BirdLife South Africa account describes plumage forms associated with dune and clay shrubland habitats.

• Grey-headed Bulbul Brachypodius priocephalus

  The Grey-headed Bulbul has a gray head, yellow forehead, and silvery rump and tail. It occurs in wet forest and forest edge in India, gleaning food at all forest levels.

• Seychelles Brush Warbler Acrocephalus sechellensis

  This small bird has been conserved across the Seychelles islands. A 2001 action plan describes its olive-brown plumage and leaf-gleaning habits; a 2019 report says populations had become established on five islands.

• Fiery-browed Starling Enodes erythrophris

  A starling endemic to Sulawesi, marked by an orange-red stripe past the eye and a golden-yellow rump.

• Thick-billed Vireo Vireo crassirostris

  This vireo lives on islands around the Bahamas and Cuba. It can be difficult to see in scrubby thickets.

• Schneider's Pitta Hydrornis schneideri

  Males have orange heads and blue backs. In Sumatra's mountain forests, the bird searches near the forest floor for large cockroaches and snails.

• Brown-hooded Parrot Pyrilia haematotis

  The Brown-hooded Parrot is a medium-sized parrot that feeds on fruit in the canopy of humid tropical forest. Costa Rican observations describe pairs and small flocks.

• Lazuline Sabrewing Campylopterus falcatus

  Campylopterus falcatus is a hummingbird recorded in Colombia's mountains. Males are green with blue-violet throat and lower chest; females are green above and on the sides with grey-white underparts. Foraging at flowering Inga was reported.

• Pale-billed Woodpecker Campephilus guatemalensis

  The Pale-billed Woodpecker is a large woodpecker with a red head and pale bill. It drums on trees while searching for insects and lives from Mexico to western Panama.

• Grey-headed Robin Heteromyias cinereifrons

  This bird lives in the rainforests of northeastern Australia. Adults have a gray head, white throat, and rufous back, and search leaf litter for insects and larvae.

• Scarlet-headed Blackbird Amblyramphus holosericeus

  The Scarlet-headed Blackbird ranges from Bolivia and Paraguay through Brazil and Uruguay to Argentina. It is associated with wetlands, lakes and riverbanks bordered by marsh vegetation.

• Spotted Puffbird Bucco tamatia

  Its face has fine rufous and dark markings, with long white bristles on the chin. It waits motionless on a shaded branch, then darts from the foliage to catch insects.

• Band-tailed Nighthawk Nyctiprogne leucopyga

  The Band-tailed Nighthawk is a brown, nocturnal bird with a white band on its tail. In Loreto, northern Peru, it catches insects while flying over rivers and lakes at night.

• Ja River Scrub Warbler Bradypterus grandis

  This large scrub warbler was described from Cameroon. The adult male has dark-brown upperparts with dark spots from throat to chest. A field record from eastern Cameroon documents a male calling beside a wet grassy opening.

• Plain-crowned Spinetail Synallaxis gujanensis

  This small bird occurs from Amazonia to the eastern Andean slope. It has a grayish head and rufous wings and tail, and forages low in young second growth and at forest edges.

• Brown-throated Martin Riparia paludicola

  The Brown-throated Martin is a small brown-toned swallow. The common pale morph has a white belly; the less common brown morph also has a brown belly.

• Ferruginous Partridge Caloperdix oculeus

  This partridge is striking for its orange head and breast and black-and-white scaling on the back and sides. It forages on the ground in lowland and middle-elevation forests.

• Mediterranean Gull Ichthyaetus melanocephalus

  The Mediterranean Gull is also recorded around the UK’s coasts and waters. Adults in breeding plumage stand out by their black heads and red bills.

• Choco Toucan Ramphastos brevis

  This toucan lives in humid forests from western Colombia into Ecuador. Males and females differ in bill length.