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• Painted Bunting Passerina ciris

  

  The Painted Bunting is a small bird that breeds in the south-central and coastal southeastern United States. It searches for seeds during migration and winter.

• Black-chested Buzzard-Eagle Geranoaetus melanoleucus

  The Black-chested Buzzard-Eagle is a large South American raptor whose broad wings and short tail form a triangular silhouette. It searches for prey over grasslands and rocky slopes.

• White-naped Tit Machlolophus nuchalis

  This small tit is 12–13 cm long. It has records in Kutch, western India, and searches for insects in dry Acacia scrub.

• Black Bittern Botaurus flavicollis

  The Black Bittern is a dark bittern with a yellow patch on the neck. It roosts in tree-lined wetlands and mangroves, feeding on fish and amphibians.

• Masked bunting Emberiza personata

  A yellow-bellied, streaked bird that also moves into lowland thickets in autumn and winter.

• Giant Snipe Gallinago undulata

  The Giant Snipe is a large wader with a disjunct South American range. It is 40–43.5 cm long, with a very long straight bill and broad, rounded wings.

• Burmese Bush Lark Plocealauda microptera

  A lark of open grassland and fallow fields in central Myanmar. It forages in open country and is also recorded perching on trees and wires.

• Santa Marta Sabrewing Campylopterus phainopeplus

  This hummingbird is endemic to the Santa Marta Mountains of northeastern Colombia. It has been little studied, so much of its natural-history information comes from observations in this small range.

• Black-hooded Antwren Formicivora erythronotos

  This small antwren lives in coastal forest in southeastern Brazil. Males and females have different plumage.

• Short-billed Leaftosser Sclerurus rufigularis

  Short-billed Leaftosser is a small leaftosser about 15–16 cm long. It uses humid forest understory and secondary growth, and searches on the ground for invertebrates. Oiseaux.net lists sound records from Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, and French Guiana.

• Javan Banded Pitta Hydrornis guajanus

  It searches among leaf litter and dense cover in the lowland and foothill forests of Java. BirdGuides also shows photo records from Bali.

• Uluguru Bushshrike Malaconotus alius

  This bushshrike lives in forest in Tanzania's Uluguru Mountains. Its green and yellow body contrasts with a black head.

• Rufous-fronted Babbler Cyanoderma rufifrons

  The Rufous-fronted Babbler is a small babbler of Asian forests. It searches among vegetation for small invertebrates.

• Germain's Peacock Pheasant Polyplectron germaini

  Germain's Peacock-Pheasant is a pheasant of forests in southern Vietnam and eastern Cambodia. Males have blue-green ocelli on their plumage and forage on the forest floor.

• Ouvea Parakeet Eunymphicus uvaeensis

  The Ouvéa Parakeet is restricted to Ouvéa Island and nests in cavities in old humid forest.

• Woodhouse's Scrub Jay Aphelocoma woodhouseii

  This jay occurs from Nevada south into Mexico in dry shrublands and pinyon-juniper woodland. Its muted blue plumage is set off by gray-brown and white.

• Antioquia Brush Finch Atlapetes blancae

  This bird is restricted to the Altiplano Norte de Antioquia in Colombia. Its 2007 description was based on three museum specimens; a live bird was found in the field in 2018.

• Levaillant's Woodpecker Picus vaillantii

  Levaillant's Woodpecker is a woodpecker of mountain woodlands in northwestern Africa. It is active by day and searches wooded areas for invertebrates.

• West Mexican Chachalaca Ortalis poliocephala

  The West Mexican Chachalaca inhabits forests and scrub on Mexico's Pacific slope and eats fruit, flowers, leaves, and seeds. The sexes look similar.

• Indian Eagle-Owl Bubo bengalensis

  The Indian Eagle-Owl is a large owl of hills and rocky country in the Indian subcontinent. Its raised feather tufts are a clear feature.

• Rufous-breasted Chat-Tyrant Ochthoeca rufipectoralis

  This chat-tyrant occurs around Andean montane forest and scrub. The rufous breast gives the bird its name; the Peru Aves account also reports it from high-elevation forest in Peru.

• Slaty-backed Flycatcher Ficedula erithacus

  The Slaty-backed Flycatcher lives in hilly and montane forest, and males and females have different plumage.

• Lesser Swallow-tailed Swift Panyptila cayennensis

  This swift has a dark body, white throat and chest, and a deeply forked tail. It searches for food above forest.

• Malia Malia grata

  Malia is endemic to Sulawesi. It is olive above and greenish yellow below and associated with montane forest.