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• Brown-rumped Bunting Emberiza affinis

  

  The Brown-rumped Bunting has a black-and-white face pattern, a brown back, and yellow underparts. It occurs in broadleaf woodland, moist savanna, and cultivated areas.

• Slender-billed Gull Chroicocephalus genei

  A gull with a slender bill and legs and a low forehead.

• Snethlage's Antpitta Hylopezus paraensis

  This antpitta occurs in the southern Brazilian Amazon. A 2012 revision treated it as a lineage distinguished from relatives by vocal and genetic evidence.

• King Eider Somateria spectabilis

  Adult males have a black-and-white body, a blue-green head, and an orange-red bill; adult females are brown with black patterning. The species breeds near water in the Arctic.

• Olive Oropendola Psarocolius bifasciatus

  This large oropendola occurs in the Peruvian Amazon canopy; its red bill tip and pink cheek patch are distinctive.

• Western House Martin Delichon urbicum

  This swallow breeds across Europe and western Asia and winters south of the Sahara. It has blue-black upperparts, a white rump and underside, and a forked tail. It catches insects in flight and builds mud nests under eaves or on cliffs.

• Rufous-backed Wren Campylorhynchus capistratus

  A wren of Central American dry forest and scrub. Its white eyebrow and rufous back stand out, and it may build a globular nest in thorny trees.

• Red-capped Forest-warbler Artisornis metopias

  This small bird occurs in montane areas of Tanzania and Mozambique. Its head and neck are rufous, and it feeds mostly on insects.

• Green-headed Sunbird Cyanomitra verticalis

  The Green-headed Sunbird lives in African forests and wooded habitats. Males have an iridescent green head and breast, while females have a green crown.

• Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet Trachyphonus purpuratus

  Adults have a red forehead, yellow bill, and pinkish or silvery streaks on the throat and breast. The bird uses forest undergrowth, and an adult was photographed near a nest excavated in a dead tree in Uganda.

• White-throated Fantail Rhipidura albicollis

  The White-throated Fantail is a forest-dwelling fantail that feeds on small invertebrates.

• Swainson's Warbler Limnothlypis swainsonii

  Swainson's Warbler has a stocky body and a heavy bill that it uses to turn leaf litter while searching for insects and spiders. It breeds in dense swamps and canebrakes of the southeastern United States.

• Red-capped Robin Petroica goodenovii

  Males show a strong contrast between a red cap and breast and a black face. They drop from a perch to search the ground for insects and other prey.

• Orinoco Piculet Picumnus pumilus

  This small woodpecker lives in humid forest in eastern Colombia, southern Venezuela and northwestern Brazil. It forages from low levels up to the canopy.

• African Crimson-winged Finch Rhodopechys alienus

  This finch occurs in Morocco’s mountains; a localized range in Algeria’s Aurès is reported in the literature. A male specimen from Glaoui had an ashy hindneck, a rosy-white throat, and a brown rump and upper-tail coverts.

• Grey-olive Greenbul Phyllastrephus cerviniventris

  This greenbul occurs in eastern and south-central Africa. It is recorded in streamside thickets, gallery forest, bamboo thickets, and moist evergreen forest, and eats insects and fruit.

• Yungas Guan Penelope bridgesi

  This guan occurs on the eastern Andean slopes from Bolivia to north-western Argentina. A museum-specimen study describes plumage differences from the related Dusky-legged Guan.

• Chatham Islands Shag Leucocarbo onslowi

  This shag is endemic to New Zealand's Chatham Islands. It feeds in coastal waters and breeds in groups on rocky headlands and offshore islets.

• Jungle Sparrow Passer pyrrhonotus

  The Sind Sparrow is a small sparrow of rivers and wetlands. The male has a chestnut eye-stripe, and the birds gather in reedy scrub.

• Taiwan Bamboo Partridge Bambusicola sonorivox

  This pheasant is endemic to Taiwan and uses hill and mountain woodland, bamboo, and scrub. It is a ground-dwelling bird.

• Luzon Hornbill Penelopides manillae

  The Luzon Hornbill is a small hornbill of the northern Philippines. The male has a cream-colored head and underside with dark cheeks and throat; the female is mostly dark brown to black. It lives in tropical moist lowland forest and eats figs and other fruit.

• Vieillot's Black Weaver Ploceus nigerrimus

  The Vieillot's Black Weaver lives along forest edges and in grassland in western and central Africa. Plumage differs by sex and subspecies, and birds may forage in flocks.

• New Guinea Thornbill Acanthiza murina

  This small bird is about 10 cm long and weighs around 8 g. It lives in New Guinea moss forest in mountains above 2,150 m and searches for small invertebrates in trees.

• White-cheeked Laughingthrush Pterorhinus vassali

  This laughingthrush occurs in southern Laos and Vietnam and adjacent eastern Cambodia. It uses moist forest and often forages near the ground in flocks.