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• Mottled Whistler Rhagologus leucostigma

  

  The Mottled Whistler lives in New Guinea's montane forests. Plumage spotting varies between sexes and subspecies, and it eats fruit and insects.

• Hammond's Flycatcher Empidonax hammondii

  This small flycatcher occurs in western North America and nests mainly in mature evergreen forests, often in the mountains.

• Green-backed Tit Parus monticolus

  The Green-backed Tit is a small bird found in mountain forests in northern India. Its green back, yellow underside, and black head with white cheeks stand out as it searches branches and trunks for food.

• Fülleborn's Longclaw Macronyx fuelleborni

  Fülleborn's Longclaw is a grassland bird with a yellow eyebrow and throat, a black breast band, and a buff-colored belly. Pairs use upland grassland and other grassy habitats, especially near water.

• Crestless Curassow Mitu tomentosum

  A large curassow of the northern Amazon. Its mostly black plumage has a blue gloss, and two nests were recorded in white-sand forest in northern Brazil.

• Cape Bulbul Pycnonotus capensis

  The Cape Bulbul is endemic to South Africa and is recognizable by its white eye-rings and bright yellow feathers under the tail.

• Swallow-tailed Gull Creagrus furcatus

  An unusual gull that catches small fish and squid over the sea at night. Breeding adults show a red eye-ring, and head color changes outside the breeding plumage.

• Taveta Weaver Ploceus castaneiceps

  Males are bright yellow with chestnut patches, while females are yellowish olive. Groups build woven nests and use wetlands and riparian areas.

• Band-tailed Nighthawk Nyctiprogne leucopyga

  The Band-tailed Nighthawk is a brown, nocturnal bird with a white band on its tail. In Loreto, northern Peru, it catches insects while flying over rivers and lakes at night.

• White-throated Fantail Rhipidura albicollis

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

• Violet-eared Waxbill Uraeginthus granatinus

  The Violet-eared Waxbill inhabits thickets, woodland, and savanna in southern Africa. Males have a blue forehead and violet cheeks against a chestnut body, and the species feeds mainly on seeds.

• Pale-eyed Thrush Turdus leucops

  The Birds of Bolivia account describes males with a white iris and black plumage, while females are warmer brown with a dark bill. It places the species at the edges of cloud forest on the eastern Andes.

• Nightingale Finch Nesospiza questi

  A finch of Nightingale Island in Tristan da Cunha. A breeding study records females building nests in dense grass tussocks.

• Red-capped Coua Coua ruficeps

  A ground-walking cuckoo of northwestern Madagascar, it is recognizable by its red crown and searches the forest floor for insects and fruit.

• Little Paradise Kingfisher Tanysiptera hydrocharis

  This kingfisher has elongated central tail feathers. It lives in lowland forests on the Aru Islands and southern New Guinea, where it searches for insects on foliage and the ground.

• Cream-colored Woodpecker Celeus flavus

  The Cream-colored Woodpecker lives in Amazonian floodplain forest. The sexes look similar, but the male has a red malar stripe.

• Ocellated Tapaculo Acropternis orthonyx

  A locally distributed tapaculo of the Andes from Venezuela to northern Peru. It occurs in cloud, temperate, and elfin forests.

• Black-faced Cormorant Phalacrocorax fuscescens

  This cormorant inhabits southern Australian coasts. Adults have a black face and back with white underparts, and dive for fish.

• Black-and-white Antbird Myrmochanes hemileucus

  This small antbird is recorded in thickets on islands and along large rivers in the Amazon basin. Males have bold black-and-white plumage; females differ in appearance.

• Purple-headed Starling Hylopsar purpureiceps

  A forest starling with a glossy purple head and chest and a blue-green body.

• Monteiro's Hornbill Tockus monteiri

  This hornbill lives in dry areas from Namibia into southwestern Angola. It hops along the ground to find insects, and males and females differ in bill and throat color.

• Egyptian Goose Alopochen aegyptiaca

  A goose native to Africa that occurs near freshwater and in grassland. It eats grasses and plants near water.

• Grey-bellied Wren-Babbler Spelaeornis reptatus

  Males have a white throat that extends to the center of the belly, while females are more rufous. The species inhabits montane forest from northeastern India through Myanmar and western Thailand to Yunnan, China, where it searches for insects in dense undergrowth.

• Lesser Necklaced Laughingthrush Garrulax monileger

  This laughingthrush ranges through South and Southeast Asia. It is diurnal and gregarious, and the described subspecies has a dark breast necklace and a white eyebrow.