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• Bubbling Cisticola Cisticola bulliens

  

  This small cisticola occurs along the Angolan coast and in parts of the Congo Basin. It is fairly pale and is often easier to detect by its song in grassland and savanna.

• Long-tailed Woodnymph Thalurania watertonii

  The male has blue-violet and metallic green plumage, while the female has a green back and gray underside. In northeastern Brazil's Atlantic Forest, it feeds on flower nectar and small arthropods.

• Green-tailed Bristlebill Bleda eximius

  This bulbul is recorded in forests of Sierra Leone. It has a yellow-tipped green tail and pale yellow underparts, and searches for insects in dense understory.

• Ruby-crowned Tanager Tachyphonus coronatus

  Males are black and females reddish brown. It uses moist forest, forest edges, and secondary growth, feeding on fruit and insects.

• Sooty-faced Finch Arremon crassirostris

  This brushfinch occurs from Costa Rica to Panama. It is seen in pairs or family groups in low, dense growth in dark forest.

• Grace's Warbler Setophaga graciae

  This warbler inhabits mature pine forests from western North America into Central America. It searches for insects in the upper parts of trees.

• See-see Partridge Ammoperdix griseogularis

  The See-see Partridge is a small buff-colored bird recorded in agricultural fields of Pakistan’s Swat Valley.

• Red-billed Teal Anas erythrorhyncha

  A duck distributed in eastern and southern Africa. It uses shallow freshwater wetlands with vegetation; the male’s bill becomes redder during breeding, according to the regional account.

• Aleutian Tern Onychoprion aleuticus

  The Aleutian Tern breeds along coasts and islands of the northern North Pacific and catches small fish and crustaceans in summer.

• Plain-brown Woodcreeper Dendrocincla fuliginosa

  The Plain-brown Woodcreeper uses the lower levels of humid forest in Peru. It forages alone or in mixed flocks and may follow army-ant swarms to catch prey flushed from cover.

• Indian Blackbird Turdus simillimus

  The Indian Blackbird sings from foothill forests, forest edges, and orchards.

• Western Citril Crithagra frontalis

  The Western Citril is recorded in this study from western Kenya. Males have a bright yellow eyebrow that wraps around the forehead and separates the bill from the streaked crown.

• Gray-capped Flycatcher Myiozetetes granadensis

  The Gray-capped Flycatcher has a bushy gray crown and bright yellow underparts. It forages at forest edges and in semi-open habitat and is widespread in Amazonia.

• Forbes's Blackbird Anumara forbesi

  Forbes’s Blackbird is a dark bird found in two separate parts of Brazil. It has a long tail and short wings, and the red inside its mouth can show when it sings.

• Chestnut-crowned Laughingthrush Trochalopteron erythrocephalum

  A 24–26 cm laughingthrush of Himalayan forests and bamboo. Its brown body has a chestnut forehead and nape and green-gold wing and tail panels; head color varies among subspecies.

• Jerdon's Bush Chat Saxicola jerdoni

  This bush chat lives in grassland and other semi-open habitats. It is active by day and takes invertebrates from the ground.

• Stuhlmann's Starling Poeoptera stuhlmanni

  This starling lives in East African montane forest. Males have a blue-black sheen, while females are greyer. It eats fruit.

• Grey Treepie Dendrocitta formosae

  The Grey Treepie is a crow-family bird with gray, black, and chestnut plumage and a pale underside. Its appearance and Taiwan behavior here refer to the endemic subspecies D. f. formosae; the range describes the species as a whole.

• Bar-breasted Firefinch Lagonosticta rufopicta

  The Bar-breasted Firefinch has pink markings on the face and belly. It ranges from western Africa to parts of eastern Africa and forages in grassland and savanna near rivers.

• Chattering Giant-Honeyeater Gymnomyza viridis

  This is a large honeyeater recorded in forests on Taveuni, Fiji. Field notes from 1970 describe visits to wild banana flowers and pandanus, as well as pairs feeding one another.

• Little Green Sunbird Anthreptes seimundi

  A small sunbird of the Afrotropical region, found in dense secondary growth, forest clearings, and edges. Skin notes report that the throat and upper breast are often yellowish but can also be olive.

• Black-capped Parakeet Pyrrhura rupicola

  The Black-capped Parakeet lives in humid lowland forest in Peru, Bolivia, and western Brazil. Its head and breast markings vary between two subspecies, and it feeds in the canopy on fruit.

• Long-tailed Parakeet Psittacula longicauda

  The Long-tailed Parakeet has a tail longer than its body and moves in flocks, calling to one another.

• Little Cuckoo-Dove Macropygia ruficeps

  The Little Cuckoo-Dove has reddish-brown males and darker females. It uses the middle and upper canopy and is seen alone, in pairs, or in small groups.