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• Slender-billed Babbler Argya longirostris

  

  The Slender-billed Babbler has a rufous-brown back and a slender, slightly down-curved bill. It hides in seasonally wet grassland and searches the ground for insects.

• Diademed Plover Phegornis mitchellii

  The Diademed Plover is a small shorebird with a black head crossed by a white band, a chestnut neck, and a long slender bill. It lives along rivers and wetlands in the high Andes and is recorded along the Argentine Andes.

• White-headed Petrel Pterodroma lessonii

  The White-headed Petrel is a large seabird that breeds on islands in the Southern Ocean. Its white head and dark eye patch stand out, and it flies long distances to feeding grounds at sea.

• Red-capped Robin-Chat Cossypha natalensis

  Its orange face, throat, belly, and tail contrast with a blue-gray back. It searches for insects in leaf litter, and most of its population is in southern Africa.

• Crimson-collared Grosbeak Rhodothraupis celaeno

  This thick-billed grosbeak is red and black in adult males and yellow-olive in females. It often stays low in dense cover in northeastern Mexico, where it can be difficult to see.

• Pied Triller Lalage nigra

  This triller lives in open woodland, including parks in Singapore. Males are black and white, females are gray and white, and it eats insects and small fruits.

• Polynesian Starling Aplonis tabuensis

  The Polynesian Starling is a starling found widely across South Pacific islands. In Niue, it moves in family-like groups and searches branches and trunks for insects and fruit.

• Chestnut-headed Sparrow-Lark Eremopterix signatus

  The male Chestnut-headed Sparrow-Lark is recognizable by its chestnut-colored head. By day, it feeds on seeds on the ground in dry grassland and acacia scrub.

• Mangrove Whistler Pachycephala cinerea

  This small bird occurs mainly in mangroves and nearby well-vegetated habitats. The eBird account notes song differences between Indian and Southeast Asian birds.

• Sunda Grasshopper-warbler Locustella montis

  This small bird lives on Java, Indonesia. A 2015 taxonomic study retained Java's Locustella montis as a species and included the Timor population as a subspecies. This entry describes the Java specimens examined in that study.

• Choco Tapaculo Scytalopus chocoensis

  This tapaculo was described from wet Pacific-slope forest in Ecuador. The paper describes a male type specimen and notes that earlier reports had assigned the species' vocalizations to other tapaculos.

• Sinaloa Crow Corvus sinaloae

  The Sinaloa Crow is a small crow of northwestern Mexico. Its glossy black plumage has a purple sheen.

• Orange-winged Pytilia Pytilia afra

  The Orange-winged Pytilia is a waxbill with conspicuous orange-yellow wings. It feeds on grass seeds and insects on the ground; the female’s wing color is duller than the male’s.

• Horus Swift Apus horus

  The Horus Swift has a patchy sub-Saharan African range and catches insects in flight. Its nesting sites include eastern and southern Africa and northern Senegal.

• Tui Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae

  This large honeyeater is endemic to New Zealand. It occurs from forest to suburban gardens and moves locally as flowering and fruiting plants change through the seasons.

• Spix's Guan Penelope jacquacu

  This galliform lives in forest habitats. In Ecuador it occurs in Amazonian lowland and eastern montane forests, foraging mainly in the middle and upper tree layers.

• Grey-throated Babbler Stachyris nigriceps

  The Grey-throated Babbler lives in the lower growth of Southeast Asian forests. White streaks mark its dark crown, and throat color varies among regional subspecies.

• Weyns's Weaver Ploceus weynsi

  Weyns’s Weaver occurs in central Africa, including around Lake Victoria and along the Congo River. Species accounts place it in seasonal swamp forest and lakeside vegetation; it is usually resident but may wander irregularly.

• Nubian Nightjar Caprimulgus nubicus

  The Nubian Nightjar was studied in salt marsh and open country in southern Israel. Its foraging times changed with moonlight, and moths were its main prey.

• Naked-faced Spiderhunter Arachnothera clarae

  The Naked-faced Spiderhunter has a long, curved bill and orange bare skin at its base. It inhabits forest and scrub in the Philippines and favors plantain flowers.

• Pacific Parrotlet Forpus coelestis

  The Pacific Parrotlet is a small green parrot. Males show blue on the rump and wings, and the species eats fruits and seeds and moves in small groups.

• Rose-ringed Parakeet Psittacula krameri

  A green parakeet whose adult males have a black-and-rose neck ring that females and juveniles lack.

• Ruddy Pigeon Patagioenas subvinacea

  The Ruddy Pigeon is usually found in the canopy or subcanopy of mature forest. In Peru it is recorded in Andean foothill forest and humid forest in far northwestern Tumbes.

• Musician Wren Cyphorhinus arada

  This small wren is recorded in Bolivian Amazonian forests. It forages mainly in leaf litter and keeps to dense lower growth or the ground, alone or in pairs.