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• Southern Surucua Trogon Trogon surrucura

  

  This trogon lives in humid forests and wooded river corridors in South America. Males have blue chests and green backs, while females are mostly grey; both sexes take insects and other prey from perches.

• Checker-throated Stipplethroat Epinecrophylla fulviventris

  The Checker-throated Stipplethroat ranges from Central America into northwestern South America. It is treated here as Epinecrophylla fulviventris; older sources may use Myrmotherula fulviventris for the same species. It feeds on insects and spiders in the lower storey of wet foothill forest.

• Large-billed Fox Sparrow Passerella megarhyncha

  This is the thick-billed group of Fox Sparrows from western North American mountains. Cornell describes it as the Thick-billed group within Fox Sparrow, a broader taxonomic treatment than the pool’s Passerella megarhyncha.

• Rodriguez Brush-Warbler Acrocephalus rodericanus

  A small bird of woodland on Rodrigues Island, it has olive-brown upperparts and moves quietly among leaves while foraging.

• Little Ringed Plover Charadrius dubius

  This small plover searches along water for prey. It breeds in the UK in summer and has a yellow ring around the eye.

• Monk Parakeet Myiopsitta monachus

  A green-and-gray parakeet native to South America. It builds communal stick nests in trees and on poles, where groups live together.

• Philadelphia Vireo Vireo philadelphicus

  A small bird with an olive back and pale, yellowish underparts. It searches for caterpillars in the upper parts of trees during breeding and breeds in part of Canada’s boreal forest.

• Northern Waterthrush Parkesia noveboracensis

  The Northern Waterthrush is a streaked bird that walks along wetland edges in search of small aquatic animals.

• Abd al-Kuri Sparrow Passer hemileucus

  This sparrow is endemic to Abd al-Kuri Island. A 2008 study documents plumage differences from the related Socotra sparrow, while noting that published information on its habits is sparse.

• Fluttering Shearwater Puffinus gavia

  The Fluttering Shearwater is a small shearwater with dark brown upperparts, white throat and belly, and a partial dark collar.

• Common Poorwill Phalaenoptilus nuttallii

  The Common Poorwill rests on the ground or low branches by day and catches flying insects at night.

• Green-barred Woodpecker Colaptes melanochloros

  Its green-yellow upperparts and pale underparts are barred in black. Males have a red mark below the eye; in females it is black.

• Yellow Bishop Euplectes capensis

  This weaver occurs widely in parts of southern, central, and eastern Africa. Males change in appearance between breeding and non-breeding plumages, and the birds eat grass seeds as well as insects.

• Mexican Chickadee Poecile sclateri

  The Mexican Chickadee has a black cap and bib, white cheeks, and a gray back. It searches branches for insects and other food in high-elevation pine-oak forests.

• Blue-throated Hummingbird Lampornis clemenciae

  The male Blue-throated Hummingbird has a throat of sapphire-colored feathers that glitter in good light. Both sexes have two white facial stripes and gray underparts.

• Green Manakin Cryptopipo holochlora

  It occurs on the eastern Andean slopes of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, in moist lowland and foothill forest and at forest edges. Ecuadorian records extend to about 1,500 m.

• Pacific Wren Troglodytes pacificus

  This tiny brown wren often holds its short tail upright and hops like a mouse over logs and roots while searching for food. It inhabits forests of western North America and takes insects near the ground.

• Mountain Swiftlet Aerodramus hirundinaceus

  The Mountain Swiftlet occurs on New Guinea. It flies in flocks over highland forests, catches insects in the air and breeds colonially in caves.

• Crested Ibon Lophozosterops dohertyi

  This white-eye-family bird occurs in forests of Indonesia’s Lesser Sunda Islands. It is about 12 cm long and feeds on fruit.

• Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica

  A tern with a thick black bill that takes prey from the air, ground, and water surface rather than plunge-diving.

• Plumbeous Pigeon Patagioenas plumbea

  The Plumbeous Pigeon's plumage ranges from gray to brown among subspecies. In Peru it is often found in the canopy and subcanopy of mature Amazonian forest.

• Golden Babbler Cyanoderma chrysaeum

  The Golden Babbler is a small babbler with a yellow crown and underparts and olive-green upperparts. It ranges from the Himalayas into parts of Southeast Asia.

• White-winged Triller Lalage tricolor

  This cuckooshrike occurs in Australia. Breeding males show a sharp black-and-white pattern, and the species searches for insects in open woodland and scrub.

• Kolombangara Monarch Symposiachrus browni

  A forest monarch found in the New Georgia group of the Solomon Islands. Adults are black and white, but the extent of white varies among island subspecies.