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• Bahia Spinetail Synallaxis cinerea

  

  The Bahia Spinetail is a small bird of a restricted area of eastern Brazil. It searches for insects in the forest understory, sometimes moving with mixed flocks in pairs or family groups.

• Rusty-naped Pitta Hydrornis oatesi

  In Yunnan, this elusive pitta lives near the forest floor in moist forests, often beside streams.

• Tasmanian Scrubwren Sericornis humilis

  This small bird lives in forests around Tasmania. It has an olive-brown back and pale, gray-streaked underparts, and searches for insects near the ground in moist forest.

• Saunders's Gull Chroicocephalus saundersi

  It breeds in Yellow Sea coastal saltmarshes, mainly in eastern China and occasionally on the southwestern coast of South Korea. Outside the breeding season it moves to coasts of eastern China, Japan, Taiwan and Korea.

• Northern Schiffornis Schiffornis veraepacis

  Northern Schiffornis ranges from Central America to northern Ecuador and northwestern Peru. The description here follows records of the rosenbergi subspecies in northwestern Peru and nearby Ecuador.

• Humaita Antbird Myrmelastes humaythae

  This antbird lives in upper Amazon forests, including southeastern Peru. Males are gray, females reddish brown, and the birds move through low forest cover.

• Curlew Sandpiper Calidris ferruginea

  A migratory wader that probes mudflats with its long bill. In Australia, it searches shallow water for small invertebrates during the austral summer.

• White-throated Fiji Whistler Pachycephala vitiensis

  This entry covers the White-throated Fiji Whistler, the white-throated species split from the former broad Fiji Whistler in Clements 2024. It is 16–19 cm long and feeds mainly on insects and spiders.

• Curve-billed Thrasher Toxostoma curvirostre

  The Curve-billed Thrasher lives in dry parts of the southwestern United States and Mexico, including scrub with cacti and open woodland. It probes the ground with its long, downcurved bill for insects and fruit.

• Black-and-white Bulbul Microtarsus melanoleucos

  The Black-and-white Bulbul lives in forests and forest edges in Southeast Asia. Its plumage differs by sex and age.

• Yellow-bellied Waxbill Coccopygia quartinia

  It has a grey head, olive back, and bright red rump. It clings to grass stalks and flower heads while searching for seeds and small insects.

• Hawaiian Petrel Pterodroma sandwichensis

  The Hawaiian Petrel is a seabird with a dark gray back and white underside. On Hawaiʻi Island it nests in burrows on Mauna Loa's slopes and flies out at night to search for food at sea.

• Large Wren-Babbler Turdinus macrodactylus

  This large babbler forages close to the forest floor in Southeast Asia. It has a streaked brown back and a white throat and upper breast bordered by a dark band, absent in the Javan subspecies.

• Black-faced spoonbill Platalea minor

  A waterbird that sweeps its spoon-shaped bill from side to side in shallow water.

• Greater Coucal Centropus sinensis

  The Greater Coucal has red eyes, glossy black plumage and chestnut wings. In Singapore it often hides in dense forest undergrowth and gives a deep booming call.

• Afghan Babbler Argya huttoni

  The Afghan Babbler is a long-tailed babbler found from Iraq and Iran east through Afghanistan to southwestern Pakistan. It inhabits dry scrub and rocky hills.

• European Shag Gulosus aristotelis

  The European Shag is a seabird of rocky coasts. It dives after fish, and breeding adults show a raised crest.

• White-cheeked Cotinga Zaratornis stresemanni

  The White-cheeked Cotinga has a black cap, white cheeks, dark spots and streaks, and a rusty central belly. It occurs on Peru's western Andean slope and forages in Polylepis woodland.

• Dusky Nightjar Antrostomus saturatus

  The Dusky Nightjar is a dark-plumaged highland nightjar. In Costa Rica it nests at forest edges and occurs in high elevations of the Central Volcanic and Talamanca ranges and other highlands.

• New Zealand Pipit Anthus novaeseelandiae

  A pipit of open New Zealand landscapes that walks over the ground in search of small prey.

• Madagascan Kestrel Falco newtoni

  This small falcon occurs in many open habitats and towns across Madagascar, while avoiding dense forest.

• Montane Widowbird Euplectes psammacromius

  Males have yellow wing patches that can act as signals in territorial contests. In a field experiment in southern Tanzania, males whose patches were blackened more often lost territories or contests.

• Santa Marta Parakeet Pyrrhura viridicata

  This parakeet has a dark green body and an orange-red belly. In the wild it flies between forest patches in small flocks and eats fruit and seeds.

• Red-capped Cardinal Paroaria gularis

  The Red-capped Cardinal ranges from southeastern Colombia through Venezuela and the Guianas to Peru, Amazonian Brazil and northern Bolivia. It uses wetlands and waterside habitats and forages on the ground.