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• Brambling Fringilla montifringilla

  

  A bird with orange shoulders and breast that arrives in flocks for autumn and winter.

• Pale-shouldered Cicadabird Coracina dohertyi

  The Pale-shouldered Cicadabird occurs in moist forest on Sumbawa, Flores and Sumba in Indonesia’s western Lesser Sunda Islands. It forages for insects in the middle and lower canopy. The account has only a June record of breeding condition.

• Abyssinian Slaty Flycatcher Dioptrornis chocolatinus

  The Abyssinian Slaty Flycatcher occurs in the Ethiopian highlands and southern Eritrea. It catches insects from branches in forest and woodland.

• Providencia Vireo Vireo approximans

  Vireo approximans was studied on Providencia and Santa Catalina in Colombia. Captured birds were described with an olive head, a strong yellow eye area and three pale yellow wing bars.

• Bolivian Brush Finch Atlapetes rufinucha

  A brushfinch of montane forest in Bolivia and far southern Peru, also using edges and second growth.

• Orange-breasted Bushshrike Chlorophoneus sulfureopectus

  This bushshrike lives in savanna and woodland across sub-Saharan Africa. It has a yellow face and belly with an orange breast, and gleans arthropods from foliage in the canopy.

• African Palm Swift Cypsiurus parvus

  The African Palm Swift is a slender swift with a deeply forked tail that clings beneath palm fronds.

• White-crowned Tapaculo Scytalopus atratus

  This small bird lives in humid montane forest on the eastern Andes of Peru. It forages near the ground and can be difficult to see.

• Crested Goshawk Lophospiza trivirgata

  The Crested Goshawk is a raptor of forests and wooded edges from South to Southeast Asia. It hunts from concealed perches in trees.

• Large Scimitar Babbler Erythrogenys hypoleucos

  The Large Scimitar Babbler has a long, heavy curved bill, dark brown face and back, pale throat and breast, and grey flanks. It forages low in vegetation.

• Varied Honeyeater Gavicalis versicolor

  The Varied Honeyeater lives in scrub, wetlands, and gardens in New Guinea and northeastern Australia. It eats nectar, insects, and fruit, and has striking black and yellow lines beside the eye.

• Shining Flycatcher Myiagra alecto

  This monarch flycatcher ranges from the Moluccas through New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago to northern and eastern Australia. Males are glossy blue-black; females have chestnut upperparts and white underparts.

• Pacific Swallow Hirundo javanica

  The Pacific Swallow has dark, blue-glossed upperparts and a shallow forked tail. It catches insects in flight and ranges from Southeast Asia to New Guinea and the Society Islands.

• Northern Parula Setophaga americana

  A small warbler that catches insects high in eastern North American forests. It is bluish grey with yellow highlights, and breeding males have a breast band.

• Lettered Aracari Pteroglossus inscriptus

  The Lettered Araçari is a toucanet with letter-like markings on its upper bill. Males have a black head, females a chestnut head, and the species uses the Amazonian forest canopy.

• Western Olivaceous Warbler Iduna opaca

  The Western Olivaceous Warbler is migratory. It breeds in North Africa and southern Iberia and winters in western sub-Saharan Africa. It also uses dry scrub, orchards, and thickets along rivers.

• Tibetan Snowfinch Montifringilla adamsi

  White wings stand out on this high-altitude sparrow. It searches for food in meadows and pastures and may gather near people.

• Orinoco Softtail Thripophaga cherriei

  A furnariid recorded in riparian forest in the upper Orinoco region of southern Venezuela. Its documented habitat is localized and information remains limited.

• Blue Pitta Hydrornis cyaneus

  The Blue Pitta lives in forests of South and Southeast Asia and searches for food on the forest floor. Males are vivid blue, while females are mainly brown.

• Brown Gerygone Gerygone mouki

  This small bird lives in forests and mangroves along Australia's east coast. Its muted grey-brown plumage includes a white eyebrow and patterned tail.

• Glaucous-winged Gull Larus glaucescens

  The Glaucous-winged Gull is a large gull of Pacific shorelines. Adult wingtips are pale gray like the rest of the upperwing, and the bird searches coastlines for fish and crabs.

• Sooty Antbird Hafferia fortis

  The Sooty Antbird lives in Amazonian forest understory and sometimes forages near columns of army ants.

• 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.

• New Caledonian Whistler Pachycephala caledonica

  In the nominate subspecies described by Province Sud, the male has a dark gray head, white throat, black collar, and yellow belly. The female is brown, with a white throat and pale brown belly.