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• Ochre-faced Tody-Flycatcher Poecilotriccus plumbeiceps

  

  This small bird ranges from the eastern Andes to southeastern South America. Its forehead and face are ochre-toned, and its wings have ochre bars. It searches dense cover for insects.

• Orchard Oriole Icterus spurius

  The Orchard Oriole is black and russet in the adult male, while the female is yellow-green. It searches foliage for insects, eats fruit, and migrates seasonally.

• White-tailed Trogon Trogon chionurus

  The White-tailed Trogon lives in humid lowland forest and second growth. It eats fruit and insects caught in flight. The male's under-tail is white, and females differ in color and pattern.

• Snowy Cotinga Carpodectes nitidus

  Males have mostly white plumage and a blue-gray bill, while females are brown-gray. Details of its life in Panama are limited; altitudinal movements known from Costa Rica have not been confirmed there.

• Blue-winged Minla Actinodura cyanouroptera

  The Blue-winged Minla is a babbler with blue wings and a blue-gray head that moves in flocks through forest undergrowth.

• White-faced Plover Charadrius dealbatus

  It is a plover with extensive white on the face that breeds in East Asia and winters along Southeast Asian coasts.

• Bulwer's Petrel Bulweria bulwerii

  This all-dark seabird spends most of its life at sea and breeds on remote volcanic islands. In warm waters, it typically feeds on bioluminescent fish that surface at night.

• Black Shama Copsychus cebuensis

  The Black Shama is a Cebu Island bird with glossy black plumage and a long tail.

• Red-throated Ant Tanager Habia fuscicauda

  This bird occurs in the understory of lowland tropical forest and woodland, often in small groups. It may join army-ant swarms. Males have a small dark mask between eye and bill, while females have a contrasting buff throat. Current eBird uses Driophlox fuscicauda; the AOU account uses Habia fuscicauda.

• Buru Cuckooshrike Coracina fortis

  The Buru Cuckooshrike is a grey forest bird from Buru Island, with black markings around the eye and on the chin.

• Red-winged Starling Onychognathus morio

  This starling has a glossy dark body and reddish wings. It ranges from Ethiopia to South Africa and feeds on fruit, insects, and nectar.

• Pink-billed Lark Spizocorys conirostris

  This small lark inhabits dry grasslands of southern Africa. It has a compact body, a thick pink bill, and a strongly marked face. It searches for seeds on the ground and is nomadic in parts of its range.

• Vogelkop Whistler Pachycephala meyeri

  This whistler is recorded from the Vogelkop mountains of western New Guinea. It occurs in lower montane forest.

• Gray's Grasshopper Warbler Locustella fasciolata

  A migratory warbler that stays hidden deep in shrubs while giving a short, powerful song.

• Chucao Tapaculo Scelorchilus rubecula

  This tapaculo inhabits temperate forests in Chile and Argentina. A Chilean government assessment lists records from several southern regions of Chile.

• Purplish Jay Cyanocorax cyanomelas

  This jay is recognizable by its bluish-purple body and black facial mask. Family groups search for food in forests and along their edges.

• Red Avadavat Amandava amandava

  A small, social songbird whose breeding male has conspicuous red-and-white plumage.

• Mossy-nest Swiftlet Aerodramus salangana

  A small swiftlet that builds nests containing moss and other plant matter.

• Ornate Honeyeater Melidectes torquatus

  The Ornate Melidectes is a honeyeater of New Guinea's mountains. A nominate-subspecies male has conspicuous yellow-orange bare skin around the eye and a white-scaled back, and searches for food in the canopy.

• Band-tailed Guan Penelope argyrotis

  This large guan lives in humid forests of Colombia and Venezuela. It has a dark rufous back and an olive-brown breast.

• White-necked Babbler Stachyris leucotis

  The White-necked Babbler is about 14–15 cm long. By day it uses dense evergreen forest undergrowth and searches the ground for invertebrates.

• Black-winged Red Bishop Euplectes hordeaceus

  The breeding male is red and black, while the nonbreeding male is yellow-brown and white. It uses damp grassland and farmland near water and feeds on seeds and grain on the ground.

• Indian Nightjar Caprimulgus asiaticus

  The Indian Nightjar is a night bird with a complex mottled pattern.

• Eastern Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris mediocris

  This sunbird lives in the highlands of Kenya and Tanzania. The entry follows current Cinnyris mediocris after the related Forest Sunbird and Usambara Double-collared Sunbird were separated.