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• Eastern Cattle Egret Ardea coromanda

  

  The Eastern Cattle Egret is mostly white, but its head, neck, and breast turn orange during breeding. It uses open grassland, fields, and wetlands and moves seasonally.

• Water Pipit Anthus spinoletta

  A mountain-breeding pipit whose gray head and pale pink chest stand out in breeding plumage.

• African Red-rumped Swallow Cecropis melanocrissus

  This African swallow has a glossy blue-black back, a chestnut nape, and an orange-rufous rump. The color of the underparts varies by region.

• Orange-breasted Sunbird Anthobaphes violacea

  This sunbird is endemic to South Africa’s fynbos region. It feeds on nectar and small invertebrates, with records suggesting seasonal movement between low and higher elevations.

• Green-tailed Towhee Pipilo chlorurus

  The Green-tailed Towhee is marked by a green tail, rusty crown, and gray face and breast. It breeds in western U.S. shrublands and moves south to the southern United States and Mexico for winter.

• Pink-legged Graveteiro Acrobatornis fonsecai

  This bird occurs in humid Atlantic Forest in southeastern Bahia, Brazil. Researchers recorded it in the canopy of tall trees retained over cocoa plantations.

• Red-capped Lark Calandrella cinerea

  The Red-capped Lark is a small lark of African grasslands. Its reddish crown stands out, and plumage varies among subspecies.

• Cuban Emerald Riccordia ricordii

  The Cuban Emerald is a hummingbird whose male is green with a long, forked tail. It occurs from coastal to mid-elevation habitats and breeds year-round.

• Red-naped Trogon Harpactes kasumba

  The Red-naped Trogon inhabits humid forests in Southeast Asia and darts from a perch to catch insects.

• Lemon-throated Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus cebuensis

  This small leaf warbler occurs on several Philippine islands. Its olive upperparts and yellow eyebrow, face, and throat stand out, though published accounts report island-level variation in the yellow areas. It searches leaves for insects.

• Spot-breasted Lapwing Vanellus melanocephalus

  The Spot-breasted Lapwing lives in damp grassland and marshes in the Ethiopian highlands. Black spots on the breast and yellow wattles are notable features.

• Gosling's Bunting Emberiza goslingi

  This bunting was formerly included in the Cinnamon-breasted Bunting. This entry follows the species-level account of Emberiza goslingi and describes that taxon alone.

• Rufous Flycatcher-Thrush Stizorhina fraseri

  The Rufous Flycatcher-Thrush is a brownish thrush of humid forest understory.

• Tropical Scrubwren Sericornis beccarii

  The Tropical Scrubwren inhabits dense rainforest and forages in the lower canopy and on the ground. The page records female birds of subspecies minimus in north-eastern Queensland.

• White-bellied Chachalaca Ortalis leucogastra

  This bird is recorded on the Pacific coastal plain of Guatemala. It uses swamp and dry forest, mangroves, and plantation edges, and eats fruit, leaves, flowers, and some invertebrates.

• Black-lored Yellowthroat Geothlypis auricularis

  A small bird of the Tumbesian region of Ecuador and Peru. Males have black around the eye; females show a yellow brow and eyering. It occurs in low thickets and open-woodland edges.

• Rufous-capped Babbler Cyanoderma ruficeps

  The Rufous-capped Babbler is a small bird marked by a bright rufous crown. It works through forest undergrowth and often travels with mixed flocks of small birds.

• White-fronted Manakin Lepidothrix serena

  This small manakin inhabits humid forest north of the Amazon and in the Guianas; it also occurs at forest edges.

• Dugand's Antwren Herpsilochmus dugandi

  This antwren lives in lowland evergreen forest in northwestern South America. Males have black crowns; females have rufous crowns. Both search for insects in the canopy and subcanopy.

• Puna Tapaculo Scytalopus simonsi

  This tapaculo occurs on the eastern Andean slope from Peru to Bolivia. Its grey plumage can include rufous flanks and rump, and it forages near the ground in humid highland forest and scrub.

• Cape Barren Goose Cereopsis novaehollandiae

  The Cape Barren Goose is a heavy gray goose with a yellow-green cere. It uses coastal islands and grasslands in southern Australia and grazes on vegetation.

• New Caledonian Parakeet Cyanoramphus saisseti

  This green parakeet lives in New Caledonia's forests. This entry treats Cyanoramphus saisseti as a species, while BirdLife's taxonomy treats the New Caledonian form as a subspecies of the Red-fronted Parakeet.

• Large Hawk-Cuckoo Hierococcyx sparverioides

  The Large Hawk-Cuckoo is a migratory cuckoo found at forest edges and in secondary growth. It breeds farther north, including around the Himalayas, and moves south into Southeast Asia for winter.

• Rufous-necked Laughingthrush Pterorhinus ruficollis

  This laughingthrush uses scrub and forest growth across the eastern Himalayan region, from south-central Nepal through Bhutan and northeastern India to northern Myanmar and adjacent southern China.