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• White-breasted Ground Dove Pampusana jobiensis

  

  A dove from the islands around New Guinea. The New Guinea form has a dark purple back and a white breast patch.

• Maui Alauahio Paroreomyza montana

  The Maui Alauahio is a small Hawaiian honeycreeper. Its surviving population lives in Maui's highlands and mainly eats small invertebrates.

• Black-billed Barbet Lybius guifsobalito

  Red forehead, face and throat stand out against this barbet’s black plumage. It lives in fairly dry, open woodland in eastern and central Africa and eats fruit and insects.

• Sangihe Shrike-thrush Coracornis sanghirensis

  This bird occurs only on Indonesia’s Sangihe Island. It has dark olive-brown upperparts and pale underparts, and is found in the canopy of mature hill forest.

• Striped Honeyeater Plectorhyncha lanceolata

  This honeyeater lives in forests and woodlands of eastern Australia, often near rivers. Bold black head stripes stand out against its grey-brown plumage, and it feeds among lower canopy foliage.

• Gray Vireo Vireo vicinior

  Gray Vireos breed in dry scrub of the southwestern United States. Many winter in Mexico and use similar scrub as well as desert stream areas.

• Green-backed White-eye Zosterops xanthochroa

  The Green-backed White-eye (Zosterops xanthochroa) is endemic to Grande Terre, New Caledonia. Its head, throat, breast, wings, and back are green, with a white ring around each eye and white on the lower belly and undertail. It uses dense forest as well as open habitats and eats insects and fruit.

• Rufescent Flycatcher Myiophobus rufescens

  This flycatcher ranges along the western Andes from northern Peru to far northern Chile. It has two rufous wing bars and is recorded from forest edges to dry scrub.

• Swee Waxbill Coccopygia melanotis

  A small waxbill with striking red and black tail and bill colours. It feeds mainly on grass seeds and lives along woodland edges and in scrub in southern Africa.

• Fujian Niltava Niltava davidi

  The Fujian Niltava is a flycatcher that searches for insects in woodland. Males and females have different plumage.

• Hooded Antpitta Grallaricula cucullata

  The Hooded Antpitta is a small bird with a reddish-brown head and orange bill. It occurs in scattered, limited mountain forest areas of Colombia and Venezuela.

• Tropical Boubou Laniarius major

  This bush-shrike lives in woodland, forest edges, savanna woodland, and thickets. It eats insects and small animals, and wing markings vary by region.

• Fairy Paradise Kingfisher Tanysiptera nympha

  The Fairy Paradise Kingfisher is striking for its red underparts and long tail streamers. It lives in lowland forest and mangroves on New Guinea.

• Hispaniolan Nightjar Antrostomus ekmani

  A nocturnal nightjar recorded on Hispaniola. Information is limited, and most records are from pine forest.

• Blue Cotinga Cotinga nattererii

  Males have sky-blue plumage with a dark purplish throat and belly; females are brown and scaly. The species inhabits lowland forest canopy from eastern Panama to northwestern Ecuador.

• Collared Owlet Taenioptynx brodiei

  A small owl with gray and rufous plumage forms, it lives in mountains and foothills.

• Bismarck Cicadabird Coracina remota

  A cicadabird of the Bismarck Archipelago. Females are described with a gray crown and chestnut back.

• Sinaloa Crow Corvus sinaloae

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

• Ash-throated Crake Mustelirallus albicollis

  This crake walks cautiously among wetland grasses and reeds while searching for insects and seeds. In Iberá, it is more often detected by its voice than seen.

• Grey Emutail Amphilais seebohmi

  This bird lives in marshes in eastern Madagascar’s humid forests. It has streaked gray-brown plumage and a long, slender tail, and searches for small insects among grasses.

• Singing Starling Aplonis cantoroides

  Adults are black with red eyes and a short, square tail. They nest in tree holes, cliffs, or buildings and occur on New Guinea and nearby island groups.

• Fan-tailed Widowbird Euplectes axillaris

  Breeding males are black, with red shoulders and a long tail. Outside the breeding season, males and females are browner, and the birds feed on grass seeds and other foods.

• Bristle-thighed Curlew Numenius tahitiensis

  The Bristle-thighed Curlew has a long, down-curved bill and a conspicuous head stripe. It breeds in western Alaska and migrates long distances to Pacific islands.

• Russet-backed Oropendola Psarocolius angustifrons

  This large bird forages in loose flocks in forests and agricultural land. Plumage and bill color differ between Peruvian lowland and Andean forms.