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• Sri Lanka Hill Myna Gracula ptilogenys

  

  The Sri Lanka Hill Myna is endemic to Sri Lanka's wet forests. It eats fruit and moves through the canopy while giving loud calls.

• Principe Weaver Ploceus princeps

  This weaver is endemic to Príncipe Island. A breeding male has a bright orange head and golden underparts; females have a yellow head and breast with a paler belly. It also uses farms, gardens, and forest edges.

• Swinhoe's Snipe Gallinago megala

  Swinhoe's Snipe is a shorebird that moves between wetlands with the seasons. Its long bill and mottled plumage help it blend into grass and mud.

• Oriole Blackbird Gymnomystax mexicanus

  This large bird is bright yellow from head to belly and black on the back and wings. It walks across pastures and savanna in northern South America to forage.

• Von Schrenck's Bittern Botaurus eurhythmus

  Von Schrenck’s Bittern is a small heron of reed beds, broad marshes, and rice fields. Males and females have different plumage.

• Pangani Longclaw Macronyx aurantiigula

  The Pangani Longclaw is 19–20 cm long. The male has a yellow-orange throat and black cheek stripes, and searches for prey while walking through grassland.

• Dusky Crag Martin Ptyonoprogne concolor

  The Dusky Crag Martin is a small swallow with a dark brown back and paler underside. It catches insects in flight around cliffs and buildings.

• Temminck's Sunbird Aethopyga temminckii

  This sunbird lives in lowland and montane forest on Borneo and Sumatra, in Malaysia, and in southwestern Thailand. It is active by day, often in pairs or small family groups, and feeds mainly on nectar.

• Sooty Fox Sparrow Passerella unalaschcensis

  This entry concerns the Pacific Sooty group within the broader Fox Sparrow account. It has dark upperparts and uses different habitats during breeding and winter.

• Brown-capped Tit-Spinetail Leptasthenura fuliginiceps

  This small ovenbird-family species occurs in Bolivia and northern Argentina. It has been observed on open hillsides.

• 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.

• Green Thorntail Discosura conversii

  This small hummingbird occurs from Central America into western South America. Males are iridescent green with elongated pointed tail feathers; females have shorter tails and a white moustachial stripe.

• Blue-crowned Trogon Trogon curucui

  The male has a blue head and chest with a red belly; the female’s head and chest are gray. In a Peruvian account, birds watched for prey from lower and middle parts of the canopy and dropped down to catch insects.

• Negros Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus nigrorum

  A small leaf warbler widespread in the Philippines and associated with montane rainforest. eBird treats it as a species separate from Mountain Leaf Warbler.

• 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.

• Common Reed Bunting Emberiza schoeniclus

  The Common Reed Bunting is widespread in Britain and Ireland. Males have black heads, females have browner heads, and in winter they forage in farmland with other small birds.

• White's Thrush Zoothera aurea

  A thrush that breeds in mountain woods in Japan; a white band shows beneath its wings in flight.

• Tasmanian Thornbill Acanthiza ewingii

  The Tasmanian Thornbill is a small brown bird found on Tasmania and the Bass Strait islands. Its white undertail helps distinguish it from a similar thornbill.

• Horned Curassow Pauxi unicornis

  The Horned Curassow is a large bird of central Bolivian forests. A blue-grey casque rises above its red bill, and it feeds on fruit.

• Arrowhead Warbler Setophaga pharetra

  This warbler is endemic to Jamaica. Adults have its namesake arrowhead-like streaking, while first-year birds have a different plumage and lack that pattern.

• Chin Hills Wren-Babbler Spelaeornis oatesi

  This wren-babbler has a very restricted range in Mizoram, eastern India, and the Chin Hills of northern Myanmar. It forages near the ground in dense montane undergrowth.

• Blue-throated Toucanet Aulacorhynchus caeruleogularis

  The Blue-throated Toucanet is a toucan of humid Central American forests. Its blue throat and large bill stand out, and it eats fruit and small invertebrates.

• Long-tailed Manakin Chiroxiphia linearis

  Male and female Long-tailed Manakins have very different plumage. During courtship, two males dance together, and the birds mainly eat fruit.

• Rufous-throated Antbird Gymnopithys rufigula

  An antbird of northeastern South American lowland forest, including the Guianas and northeastern Brazil. It follows army-ant swarms to catch insects fleeing from the ants.