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• Cape Verde Warbler Acrocephalus brevipennis

  

  Endemic to the Cape Verde Islands, this reed warbler has a dun-brown back and warm buff underparts. It uses densely vegetated places such as reedbeds, scrub, and plantations.

• Lagden's Bushshrike Malaconotus lagdeni

  This large forest bird is recorded in closed-canopy forest in Sierra Leone. It has a gray head and yellow-and-black wings, and feeds on flying insects and other invertebrates in the canopy of lowland forest.

• Striated Babbler Argya earlei

  In northern India's lowlands, this social babbler is usually found in reedbeds, wet grass, and scrub. Fine streaking on crown and back and bright yellow eyes stand out.

• Retz's Helmetshrike Prionops retzii

  Retz's Helmetshrike lives in woodland south of the Sahara and forages in cohesive groups of several to more than a dozen birds.

• African Pitta Pitta angolensis

  Both sexes have vivid green, blue, yellow, and red plumage, yet hide among thickets and leaf litter. Birds that migrate to southern Africa to breed forage for invertebrates in riverine woodland.

• Bushveld Pipit Anthus caffer

  The Bushveld Pipit is a small pipit that forages on the ground in grassland and open woodland. Its plumage is subdued, and records in southern Africa show a patchy distribution.

• Grey-crested Cacholote Pseudoseisura unirufa

  This ovenbird occurs in seasonally flooded savannas and woodland in parts of Bolivia, Paraguay and Brazil. It has mainly rufous-cinnamon plumage and a greyish crest.

• Capped Wheatear Oenanthe pileata

  The Capped Wheatear has striking black-and-white head and breast markings and occurs in southern and eastern Africa. It is resident in some areas and seasonal or erratic in others; its movements are not well understood.

• Crimson Rosella Platycercus elegans

  The Crimson Rosella lives in forests and woodlands of eastern Australia. Alongside red adults, yellow and orange color forms occur in parts of its range.

• Sulphur-bellied Warbler Phylloscopus griseolus

  This small leaf warbler breeds in alpine scrub and moves from the mountains to lower elevations in winter.

• Speckled Tinkerbird Pogoniulus scolopaceus

  This small African barbet lives in western and central African forest. The plumage described here is that of subspecies flavisquamatus.

• Blue-throated Piping Guan Pipile cumanensis

  The Blue-throated Piping Guan is a large galliform bird of northern South American forests. It has a long crest and a blue-violet wattle on the throat.

• Pink-rumped Rosefinch Carpodacus waltoni

  A rosefinch found in central China and Tibet. It uses open areas such as forest edges and shrubby expanses.

• Pacific Parakeet Psittacara strenuus

  This parakeet ranges from Mexico to Nicaragua. It is mainly green, feeds chiefly on seeds and fruit, and uses forests and other green areas.

• Buffy Hummingbird Leucippus fallax

  This small hummingbird occurs in northern Colombia and Venezuela. It uses dry scrub and mangroves and feeds on nectar and fruit.

• Fire-capped Tit Cephalopyrus flammiceps

  The Fire-capped Tit is a small bird whose breeding male has a conspicuous red forehead and throat. Females and the different subspecies are less uniform in color.

• Northern Hawk-cuckoo Hierococcyx hyperythrus

  A cuckoo with a bright yellow eye-ring. It breeds in northeastern Asia, and juveniles have been recorded in Hong Kong in autumn.

• Ochre-fronted Antpitta Grallaricula ochraceifrons

  The Ochre-fronted Antpitta is a small bird endemic to Peru. Males have an ochre forehead and face, and the species lives in humid montane forest on the eastern Andes.

• Belford's Honeyeater Melidectes belfordi

  This large honeyeater inhabits high-elevation forests of New Guinea's central ranges. White scaling on the back and a stripe across the black head are useful field marks.

• Dimorphic Egret Egretta dimorpha

  The Dimorphic Egret has dark and white plumage forms and breeds in Madagascar and along parts of the East African coast.

• Brown Boobook Ninox scutulata

  The Brown Boobook is a dark-plumaged owl that becomes active after dusk.

• Gray-backed Tern Onychoprion lunatus

  The Gray-backed Tern breeds on tropical Pacific islands and often stays at sea outside the breeding season. Its full range is not well known.

• Usambara Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris usambaricus

  This sunbird lives in Tanzania’s Usambara Mountains. A study around Mazumbai Forest Reserve found it mainly in areas with limited crown cover; most recorded food came from non-native plants.

• Mexican Cacique Cassiculus melanicterus

  The Mexican Cacique is a black-and-yellow bird of tropical lowlands in western Mexico. It gathers in the canopy around flowering or fruiting trees and also forages on the ground.