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• Cuzco Brush Finch Atlapetes canigenis

  

  This finch is known from the eastern Andean slope in Peru's Cuzco region. It forages in humid montane scrub and dwarf forest, sometimes in bamboo.

• Chestnut-rumped Babbler Stachyris maculata

  The Chestnut-rumped Babbler is a small bird studied in lowland forests of Borneo and the Malay Peninsula. Researchers recorded it foraging among suspended dead leaves and showing bluish skin on the head while calling.

• Australasian Swamphen Porphyrio melanotus

  New Zealand birds of the Australasian Swamphen have a red frontal shield and bill and a deep blue-violet breast. Groups may defend territory and raise young cooperatively.

• Eurasian Golden Plover Pluvialis apricaria

  In breeding plumage, a golden-spangled back contrasts with a black breast and belly. It uses uplands in summer and lowlands in winter.

• Chestnut-bellied Monarch Monarcha castaneiventris

  This entry covers records from Santa Isabel and Guadalcanal. The nominate form has a chestnut belly, and field notes record nesting in a tree fork.

• Trindade Petrel Pterodroma arminjoniana

  The Trindade Petrel glides over the sea and feeds on fish and squid, returning to oceanic islands to breed.

• Black-capped Swallow Atticora pileata

  This small swallow is mostly dark, with a large white belly patch. The cap is only slightly darker than the rest of the head. It occurs in the mountains of Central America.

• Rufous Whistler Pachycephala rufiventris

  Males combine dark grey and rufous plumage, while females are grey-brown and streaked; the birds often search for insects high in trees.

• White-bibbed Manakin Corapipo leucorrhoa

  This manakin lives in humid foothill forest in Colombia and Venezuela. Males perform courtship displays on fallen trunks low in the forest.

• Daurian Jackdaw Coloeus dauuricus

  A jackdaw with contrasting pale and dark adult plumage and a darker immature stage.

• Sombre Kingfisher Todiramphus funebris

  This large kingfisher lives on Halmahera. Its dark back and white facial stripe stand out, and it catches small animals in forests and mangroves.

• Thekla Lark Galerida theklae

  A lark with a rounded crest and dark streaks on the chest. Its food changes with the season, and it searches the ground for seeds and insects.

• Banded Cotinga Cotinga maculata

  The Banded Cotinga has shimmering blue and purple plumage in males; females are much less conspicuous and brown. Records from Brazil's eastern coast place it high in forest canopies.

• Bearded vulture Gypaetus barbatus

  A mountain vulture with beard-like feathers below the beak and a diet centered on bone.

• Clarion Wren Troglodytes tanneri

  This wren is restricted to Clarion Island, Mexico. It lives in open habitats and nests in cavities among volcanic rock or sand, as well as holes in human-made structures.

• Pale thrush Turdus pallidus

  A thrush mainly seen in Japan in winter. It favors dim woodland with undergrowth and forages on the ground.

• White-sided Flowerpiercer Diglossa albilatera

  This flowerpiercer inhabits Andean forest edges and scrub. Males are black and females brown, with white tufts on the sides in both; juveniles may show little or no white.

• Red-billed Quelea Quelea quelea

  A small weaver that mainly eats grass seeds in African semiarid grasslands and savannas. Breeding males develop conspicuous facial markings.

• Olivaceous Greenlet Hylophilus olivaceus

  The Olivaceous Greenlet is locally recorded in montane forest on the eastern Andes. Its head and upperparts are olive, with olive-yellow underparts. It forages in the canopy and subcanopy at forest edges, in second growth, and in broken forest.

• Cinereous Antshrike Thamnomanes caesius

  The Cinereous Antshrike is a small antbird about 14.5 cm long. It forages in the middle levels of Amazonian forest and is usually found with a mixed-species feeding flock.

• Kenya Sparrow Passer rufocinctus

  The male Kenya Sparrow has blue-gray and chestnut plumage on the head and back, while the female is much duller. It feeds on grain and small seeds, mainly on the ground.

• Jungle Prinia Prinia sylvatica

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

• Grey-backed Tachuri Polystictus superciliaris

  This small flycatcher is endemic to the eastern Brazilian highlands. It uses rocky or shrubby grassland and catches insects while clinging to long grass stems.

• Silvery-fronted Tapaculo Scytalopus argentifrons

  The Silvery-fronted Tapaculo occurs from Costa Rica into western Panama, in dense understory of wet montane forest and bamboo.