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• Golden-fronted Whitestart Myioborus ornatus

  

  The Golden-fronted Whitestart has a restricted range in the Colombian Andes and far western Venezuela. It moves through different forest levels and flashes white on its tail.

• Ashy Starling Lamprotornis unicolor

  A long-tailed starling of inland Tanzania, found in acacia woodland and gardens. Its ash-grey plumage can show an oily green sheen, with a dark mask around the eye.

• Red-faced Crimsonwing Cryptospiza reichenovii

  A forest-dwelling finch of Africa. Males have a red back, green throat, and grey-green body.

• Indian Pitta Pitta brachyura

  The Indian Pitta is a colorful ground-dwelling bird of scrub and forest in the Indian subcontinent. It moves between regions seasonally.

• Spot-breasted Scimitar Babbler Erythrogenys mcclellandi

  This bird ranges from eastern Bhutan to Myanmar. It has a brown body, white throat and belly, and dark spots on the upper breast. It searches for food in low forest cover.

• Dusky Sunbird Cinnyris fuscus

  A breeding male has a glossy black head, back, and chest with a white belly. The orange pectoral tufts may show when he is excited or displaying. The species feeds mainly on nectar.

• Trilling Tapaculo Scytalopus parvirostris

  This tapaculo forages in the understory of humid Andean forest and bamboo patches. Adult males are dark gray; females have rufous-brown and black bars on the lower back, rump, and vent.

• Blue-backed Manakin Chiroxiphia pareola

  The Blue-backed Manakin lives in forests of northern South America. Males have a black body, blue back, and red crown, and perform courtship dances on low perches.

• Sula Fruit Dove Ptilinopus mangoliensis

  This pigeon occurs on Indonesia’s Sula Islands. Its 1898 description records grey underpart feathers edged broadly in greenish yellow and narrow yellow lines on the crown feathers.

• Cactus Wren Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus

  The Cactus Wren has a white stripe over the eye and a spotted chest. It uses cacti and thorny shrubs in dry country and builds a rounded grass nest among them. Its range extends from the southwestern United States into central Mexico.

• Pelagic Cormorant Urile pelagicus

  A coastal cormorant smaller than the Japanese Cormorant, with crests and white patches in breeding season.

• Dimorphic Fantail Rhipidura brachyrhyncha

  This fantail inhabits montane forest and subalpine scrub in the New Guinea highlands. It has two tail-color forms, and mixed-form pairs may occur.

• Rondonia Bushbird Clytoctantes atrogularis

  This poorly known antbird is recorded in the Brazilian Amazon. Its large, laterally flattened black bill has a sharply upturned tip. The female type specimen was chestnut with a black throat and upper breast; males seen in the field were described as entirely black.

• Blue-browed Tanager Tangara cyanotis

  The blue-green eyebrow contrasts with the black mask, crown, and back. This tanager lives in humid lower Yungas forest and mainly eats fruit.

• Singing Honeyeater Gavicalis virescens

  The Singing Honeyeater has a gray-brown back, a pale streaked underside, and a black facial mask edged below in yellow. It searches low in shrubs and trees for insects, nectar, and other foods.

• Chestnut-crested Puffbird Malacoptila striata

  The Chestnut-crested Puffbird is endemic to Brazil. Its dark brown streaks and white crescent-shaped breast band stand out, and it searches in forest for insects and small animals.

• Black-winged Cuckooshrike Coracina melaschistos

  In Hong Kong this species is mainly a winter visitor and passage migrant in wooded habitats. Males are slate-grey; females are paler and can show weak barring below.

• Clicking Shrike-Babbler Pteruthius intermedius

  The Clicking Shrike-Babbler occurs in southern China and mainland Southeast Asia. The bird account treats Pteruthius intermedius separately; it was formerly included in Chestnut-fronted Shrike-Babbler.

• Black-headed Bulbul Brachypodius melanocephalos

  The common color morph has a glossy black head with olive and yellow body plumage. Small groups feed on fruit in forests and forest edges from northeastern India through Southeast Asia.

• Striated Earthcreeper Geocerthia serrana

  The Striated Earthcreeper forages on or near the ground in rocky scrub on the western Andes of Peru. It occurs on high-elevation slopes.

• Wilson's Phalarope Phalaropus tricolor

  A shorebird that breeds in North American wetlands and gathers at western salt lakes during migration before travelling to South America. In breeding plumage females are brighter than males, and males raise the young after females leave.

• Semiplumbeous Hawk Leucopternis semiplumbeus

  This small raptor inhabits humid forest from Central America into northwestern South America. It uses the understory and lower canopy and rarely ventures into open areas.

• Hooded Wheatear Oenanthe monacha

  The Hooded Wheatear is a flycatcher relative of bare desert valleys and canyons. Males are black and white; females and young birds are paler.

• Shining-green Hummingbird Chrysuronia goudoti

  Male Shining-green Hummingbirds are mostly green, with a slightly downcurved bill and a moderately forked tail. Females have a white chin and belly. The species uses habitats from dry forest to gallery forest; birds may gather at large flowering trees.