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• Whistler's Warbler Seicercus whistleri

  

  This entry uses the current combination *Phylloscopus whistleri* rather than the pool's older *Seicercus whistleri*. It occurs in mountain regions around the Himalayas and forages for insects in forest understory.

• Rufous-naped Tit Periparus rufonuchalis

  This tit lives in mountain regions from the western Himalayas into Central Asia. The male is marked by a black head and white cheeks.

• Black Manakin Xenopipo atronitens

  This manakin uses low forest on nutrient-poor soils. Males are glossy black and females dark olive; the account reports it in Peru and also in Colombia, Brazil and Bolivia.

• Wandering Tattler Tringa incana

  The Wandering Tattler has heavily barred gray-and-white underparts in breeding plumage and a plain gray chest outside the breeding season. It breeds beside northern rivers and moves to rocky Pacific shores and islands.

• Chestnut-rumped Thornbill Acanthiza uropygialis

  The Chestnut-rumped Thornbill is a small Australian bird of dry woodland. It has a pale face with a white eye-ring and a chestnut rump.

• Long-tailed Honey Buzzard Henicopernis longicauda

  A long-tailed raptor of New Guinea. It can be seen circling slowly with wings spread above the forest canopy.

• White-browed Piculet Sasia ochracea

  The White-browed Piculet is a small woodpecker with green upperparts, a rufous rump, and a white stripe behind the eye. It searches for ants and other small prey in low, dense vegetation near bamboo or water.

• Green-billed Malkoha Phaenicophaeus tristis

  The Green-billed Malkoha is marked by a curved green bill and red bare skin around the eyes. It moves through woodland from tree to tree, often showing its long tail.

• Reddish Egret Egretta rufescens

  Reddish Egrets occur in a dark, reddish-brown morph and a white morph. They chase fish in shallow water, walking after them and using their wings to cast shadows on the water.

• Mountain Blackeye Chlorocharis emiliae

  This white-eye lives in scattered mountain populations on Borneo. Its black eye-ring distinguishes it from other white-eyes.

• White-browed Antpitta Hylopezus ochroleucus

  This antpitta occurs in northeastern Brazil. It has a white eyebrow and a second pale line below it, with rufous flanks, and searches for small invertebrates near the forest floor.

• Small Snowfinch Pyrgilauda davidiana

  A snowfinch of open high country, it walks on the ground in dry grassland and semi-desert while searching for seeds and insects.

• Paperbark Flycatcher Myiagra nana

  This flycatcher lives in northern Australia. Adult males have a blue sheen on dark upperparts, while females often show an orange-buff breast.

• Spangled Kookaburra Dacelo tyro

  This large kingfisher lives in woodland and forest on the Aru Islands and southern New Guinea. It watches for prey from low branches.

• Black-throated Apalis Apalis jacksoni

  A small apalis of African highlands and other parts of the continent. Its bright yellow underside and long, graduated tail are useful field marks.

• Fiery Topaz Topaza pyra

  The male has a copper-colored body and long tail feathers, and differs in color and tail shape from the female. It occurs in the canopy of northern Amazonian forest.

• Cameroon Olive Greenbul Phyllastrephus poensis

  A greenbul of the Cameroon Highlands. A field account near Bamenda describes it searching for insects and fruit among mosses, lichens, and peeling bark.

• Albertine Sooty Boubou Laniarius holomelas

  This bush-shrike occurs in montane forest of the Albertine Rift. This entry follows the catalogue treatment of Laniarius holomelas.

• Parodi's Hemispingus Kleinothraupis parodii

  This tanager occurs in the eastern Andes of southern Peru. It uses humid montane forest and bamboo near the treeline, where it forages in small groups.

• Cassin's Sparrow Peucaea cassinii

  This grayish-brown sparrow has a faint eye-ring. It feeds on the ground in dry grasslands, and breeding males sing as they rise and float back down through the air.

• Hooded Warbler Setophaga citrina

  The Hooded Warbler is a small bird of low vegetation in eastern North American forests. Breeding males have a black hood.

• Tuamotu Reed Warbler Acrocephalus atyphus

  The Tuamotu Reed Warbler is a reed-warbler of the Tuamotu Islands. Plumage and body form vary among islands, and it feeds on small insects.

• Lady Amherst’s pheasant Chrysolophus amherstiae

  A secretive pheasant whose male displays its head and neck feathers in a courtship dance.

• Mekong Wagtail Motacilla samveasnae

  The Mekong Wagtail breeds along low-flow river channels with rocky or sandy bars and shrubs. Its 2001 description recorded a breeding range from Cambodia into southern Laos.