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• Aripuana Antwren Herpsilochmus stotzi

  

  This antwren was described from the Aripuanã–Machado interfluvium in central Amazonian Brazil, where it occurs in campinarana forest on poor soils.

• Dusky Tapaculo Scytalopus fuscus

  This Chilean endemic stays concealed near the ground in dense vegetation. It is slate-gray with a darker forehead and feeds on insects and spiders.

• Striped Flowerpecker Dicaeum aeruginosum

  A small flowerpecker recorded from Philippine islands. The aeruginosum form is olive green above, with a whitish breast and belly heavily streaked brown. A 1992 account reported no recent records on Cebu and considered the island birds restricted to mature forest.

• Black-necked swan Cygnus melancoryphus

  A swan of southern South American wetlands. Adults have a white body with a black head and neck.

• Dusky Lory Pseudeos fuscata

  The Dusky Lory has brown to olive plumage with yellow or red-orange areas. It follows flowering trees and shares communal roosts.

• Kai Coucal Centropus spilopterus

  The Kai Coucal is endemic to the Kai Islands. A field account records it mainly singly or in pairs, in tall alang-alang grass, village gardens, coconut plantations, and mangrove edges.

• White-rumped Babbler Turdoides leucopygia

  An eastern African babbler of rocky hill woodland, scrub, riparian cover, and reedbeds. Its scaled breast and white rump and lower belly are useful field marks.

• Red-crowned Ant Tanager Habia rubica

  The historical Southeast Brazil account describes a tanager whose male is reddish and whose female is olive-brown. It forages low in forest, in pairs or small family groups.

• Mariana Swiftlet Aerodramus bartschi

  The head and upperparts are dark gray-brown, the throat and upper breast are gray-white, and the lower parts are darker. It nests in caves on its native islands.

• Grey Crested Tit Lophophanes dichrous

  This mountain tit has a gray crest and back and a white half-collar. Throat and underpart colors vary among regional forms.

• Rufous-thighed Hawk Accipiter erythronemius

  The Rufous-thighed Hawk is a small raptor of forests and wooded savannas. A breeding study in Brazil and Argentina recorded high nests in conifers and birds as the main prey.

• Patagonian Sierra Finch Phrygilus patagonicus

  This finch occurs along the forest–steppe ecotone of northwestern Patagonia. Males show blue-gray and chestnut, while females are gray and olive.

• Bannerman's Shearwater Puffinus bannermani

  Bannerman's Shearwater is endemic to the Ogasawara Islands. Breeding colonies have been confirmed in forests on Minamiiwoto and Higashijima.

• Grey Wren-Warbler Calamonastes simplex

  This small bird has sooty grey plumage and a dark tail. It searches for small invertebrates near the ground in dry woodland and acacia savanna scrub.

• Coraya Wren Pheugopedius coraya

  This wren occurs in northern South America. It has a rufous-brown body with black-and-white markings on the head and tail, and searches for food in riverside forest undergrowth.

• Gray Francolin Ortygornis pondicerianus

  The Gray Francolin is a ground-dwelling bird native from Iran through South Asia. It has mottled brown plumage and eats seeds and insects.

• Macquarie Shag Leucocarbo purpurascens

  This seabird is endemic to Macquarie Island and the nearby Bishop and Clerk islets. It fishes in inshore water and breeds in colonies on rocky shores and stacks.

• Pale Rockfinch Carpospiza brachydactyla

  A pale sand-colored sparrow-like bird of sparsely vegetated hills and rocky valleys; it also eats insects during breeding.

• African Pied Hornbill Lophoceros fasciatus

  The African Pied Hornbill lives in forests and wooded farmland in central Africa. It eats fruit and small animals, often feeding high in trees.

• Saker Falcon Falco cherrug

  A large falcon of dry grassland and semi-desert, with plumage that varies in colour.

• Peruvian Tern Sternula lorata

  The Peruvian Tern occurs along the Humboldt Current, from southern Ecuador to northern Chile. It is a small tern whose breeding sites also include dry plains inland from the coast.

• Sumatran Bulbul Ixos sumatranus

  Sumatran Bulbul occurs in the mountains of western Sumatra. Its species account records olive-brown upperparts and a white throat and breast.

• Rusty-faced Parrot Hapalopsittaca amazonina

  A parrot of the northern Andes' montane forests. Its green plumage is accented by rusty tones on the face, whose extent and shade vary among subspecies.

• Celestial Monarch Hypothymis coelestis

  The male's blue plumage and drooping crest stand out on this Philippine monarch flycatcher. BirdLife's 2001 account describes it in forest canopy and midstory, at forest edges, and in second growth.