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• Campina Thrush Turdus arthuri

  

  The Campina Thrush occurs in the Guianas and northern Amazonia, with records in savanna and at forest edges. A South American committee proposal summarizes why it is treated separately from Turdus ignobilis.

• Antillean Siskin Spinus dominicensis

  This small finch has strongly different male and female plumage. Males are conspicuously yellow, while females are mainly green. It lives in the mountains of Hispaniola.

• Torrent Tyrannulet Serpophaga cinerea

  The Torrent Tyrannulet is a small tyrant flycatcher recorded along Andean streams and rivers. The El Oro guide gives an elevation range of 700–3,100 m.

• Green Oropendola Psarocolius viridis

  The Green Oropendola is uniformly dusky green, with a thick yellow-and-red bill and blue eyes. Males are larger than females, and the species uses forest canopy in Peru.

• Black-headed Sibia Heterophasia desgodinsi

  This mountain forest bird occurs from southwestern and central-southern China through Myanmar, northern Thailand and parts of Indochina. It is arboreal and searches for food in trees.

• Brown Scrub Robin Erythropygia signata

  This southern African robin occurs in forest and dense scrub. South Africa and Eswatini hold most of the global population, while it is uncommon in Mozambique and reported from few sites there.

• Grosbeak Starling Scissirostrum dubium

  This starling is endemic to Sulawesi, Indonesia. It lives mostly in tropical lowlands and lightly wooded forest and excavates nest cavities in rotting or dying trunks.

• Sumatran Treepie Dendrocitta occipitalis

  The Sumatran Treepie lives in forests on Sumatra. A white nape and long tail make it distinctive, and it is usually seen in pairs or family groups.

• White-bellied Munia Lonchura leucogastra

  The White-bellied Munia has a dark chestnut head and back that contrast sharply with its white belly. The Borneo field guide describes it moving and feeding in small flocks.

• Rufous-throated Honeyeater Conopophila rufogularis

  The Rufous-throated Honeyeater is recorded in waterside woodland and semi-arid riverine forest in northern Australia. Its diet is mainly invertebrates but broader than that.

• Buff-throated Sunbird Chalcomitra adelberti

  This West African sunbird uses lowland forest and flowers. Adult males have a metallic green crown and moustachial stripe, a dark head, and a pale buff-to-cream throat.

• Ochre-marked Parakeet Pyrrhura cruentata

  The Ochre-marked Parakeet is mainly green, with red feathers on parts of its face, belly, and tail. It has a fragmented range in the Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil.

• Citrine Lorikeet Saudareos flavoviridis

  The Citrine Lorikeet has a green back and yellow, dark-scaled underparts. Small flocks gather at flowering trees along forest edges.

• Ornate Fruit Dove Ptilinopus ornatus

  The Ornate Fruit Dove is a fruit-eating pigeon of New Guinea's hill and montane forests. Its crown ranges from wine-red to yellowish olive among subspecies, and the sexes look alike.

• Eurasian Pygmy Owl Glaucidium passerinum

  A small owl of northern Eurasian coniferous forests. It hunts small birds and mammals around dusk and before sunrise.

• Brown-cheeked Rail Rallus indicus

  The Brown-cheeked Rail has long legs and a slightly curved bill. In Hong Kong it is recorded as a scarce winter visitor.

• Imeri Warbling Antbird Hypocnemis flavescens

  The Imeri Warbling Antbird is a tropical-forest antbird. A February 2017 paper reported range-extension records near El Encanto along Colombia's Putumayo River.

• Palm-nut Vulture Gypohierax angolensis

  A tropical African raptor with black-and-white plumage that also eats palm fruits.

• White-backed Woodpecker Dendrocopos leucotos

  The White-backed Woodpecker searches for food in forests with dead trees. It has black-and-white bars across its back and is often solitary outside the breeding season.

• Long-tailed Koel Urodynamis taitensis

  The Long-tailed Koel is a long-distance migrant. It breeds in New Zealand and spends the southern winter on Pacific islands.

• Shining-blue Kingfisher Alcedo quadribrachys

  The Shining-blue Kingfisher has blue upperparts and orange-chestnut underparts. It catches fish and other aquatic prey around tropical African waters.

• Jungle Prinia Prinia sylvatica

  This prinia occurs on the Indian Peninsula and often uses dry scrub and grassy hills.

• Green-tailed Emerald Chlorostilbon alice

  The male's crown and breast shine golden green, while the female has grayish-white underparts and a different tail pattern. This small hummingbird takes nectar at forest and cloud-forest edges, in second growth, and around plantations. It is partially migratory.

• Stripe-cheeked Greenbul Arizelocichla milanjensis

  This bulbul lives in the mountains of southern Malawi, western Mozambique and eastern Zimbabwe. It is about 19 cm long and uses montane and submontane forest, riverine woodland and scrub.