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• Bare-necked Fruitcrow Gymnoderus foetidus

  

  This large cotinga lives in humid lowland forests of northern South America, including the Amazon Basin. Males have silvery-gray wings and bare blue skin below the face and on the neck.

• Golden Nightjar Caprimulgus eximius

  The Golden Nightjar's sandy-golden plumage blends into the Sahel's dry ground. It rests on the ground by day and searches for insects at dusk.

• Tree Pipit Anthus trivialis

  The Tree Pipit is a small, streaked brown bird. In the breeding season, a male rises high from a tree, sings, and then descends slowly in a display flight.

• Nankeen Kestrel Falco cenchroides

  The Nankeen Kestrel is a small falcon with a rufous back and pale, dark-streaked underparts. It hunts in open country such as grassland and farmland.

• Streaked Weaver Ploceus manyar

  A weaver of the Indian subcontinent and parts of Southeast Asia, the Streaked Weaver may gather in flocks in grassy habitats.

• Painted Parakeet Pyrrhura picta

  The Painted Parakeet is a South American parrot with a mostly green body, reddish-brown areas on the rump and tail, and blue outer wing feathers. It eats fruits, flowers, and seeds in humid forest.

• Brown Tanager Orchesticus abeillei

  This tanager occurs in montane forest in southeastern Brazil. Its face, forehead and eyebrow are cinnamon-brown, while the head and back are greyer brown.

• Masked bunting Emberiza personata

  A yellow-bellied, streaked bird that also moves into lowland thickets in autumn and winter.

• 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.

• Band-tailed Manakin Pipra fasciicauda

  The Band-tailed Manakin forages in the forest understory of Amazonia. Males show black, red, and yellow plumage, while females are mainly olive green.

• Canivet's Emerald Cynanthus canivetii

  Canivet's Emerald ranges from southern Mexico through Central America to northwestern Costa Rica. It visits flowers in woodland edges and scrub to feed on nectar.

• New Guinea Dwarf-kingfisher Ceyx solitarius

  This small kingfisher has blue upperparts and honey-colored underparts. It ranges across New Guinea and nearby islands; a Raja Ampat account records it inside forest.

• Fulvous Wren Cinnycerthia fulva

  The Fulvous Wren occurs in the eastern Andes of southeastern Peru and Bolivia. It is olive-rufous, with a pale eyebrow and throat and dark bars on the wings and tail.

• Asian Glossy Starling Aplonis panayensis

  An adult Asian Glossy Starling is dark green-black with red eyes. It eats fruit and insects and is often seen in flocks.

• Southern Lapwing Vanellus chilensis

  The Southern Lapwing is a plover with a black-and-white patterned head, red legs and a habit of searching the ground for small animals.

• Spike-heeled Lark Chersomanes albofasciata

  This lark has a long, slender, downcurved bill and a short tail with a white tip. It forages mostly on the ground in southern African grassland and scrub.

• Andean Guan Penelope montagnii

  The Andean Guan lives mainly in trees in Andean cloud forest. Its subspecies vary in plumage across the range.

• Sand Partridge Ammoperdix heyi

  The Sand Partridge walks on rocky slopes and in valleys, feeding on seeds, berries, and insects on the ground. Males have white facial marks; females and young birds are sandy-colored.

• Blue Mountain Elaenia Elaenia fallax

  This tyrant flycatcher lives in Jamaica’s humid mountain forests. It has olive-brown upperparts and white wing-bars, and eats insects and fruit. Current references treat it separately from the former Greater Antillean Elaenia.

• Ruddy-headed Goose Chloephaga rubidiceps

  The Ruddy-headed Goose occurs at the southern end of South America and on the Falkland Islands. The mainland population breeds in the south and winters in south-western Buenos Aires Province.

• Golden-headed Quetzal Pharomachrus auriceps

  The Golden-headed Quetzal lives among trees in humid mountain forests. Its iridescent green plumage and red belly are striking.

• Ocellated Crake Rufirallus schomburgkii

  The Ocellated Crake hides in grassland and mixed grass-and-shrub habitat. In Peru, the Peru Aves account reports it from Pampas del Heath in the southeast.

• Kosrae Fruit Dove Ptilinopus hernsheimi

  This fruit-dove lives on Kosrae. Calls are often heard in rainforest, and an older comparison found higher density there than in mangroves. Micronesian forms, including the Kosrae group, have a yellow band at the tail tip.

• Sulawesi Grasshopper-warbler Locustella castanea

  This grasshopper-warbler lives in forests on Sulawesi, where it feeds on insects and other small invertebrates in dense cover.