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• Botha's Lark Spizocorys fringillaris

  

  This stocky lark inhabits highland grasslands in South Africa. It favors flat or gently sloping ground with short, dense grass, and the sexes look similar.

• Violet-fronted Brilliant Heliodoxa leadbeateri

  This hummingbird lives in Colombia's Andes. Males have a violet-blue forehead, while females are paler green with green spotting.

• Pavonine Quetzal Pharomachrus pavoninus

  The Pavonine Quetzal lives in the upper canopy of Amazonian forest. Adult males have a bill with an orange-red base and yellow tip, while much of the species' ecology remains poorly known.

• Greenish Warbler Phylloscopus trochiloides

  The Greenish Warbler has a green back, pale underparts, and a conspicuous white eyebrow and wingbar. It searches for insects in forests and along their edges, then migrates after breeding.

• White-fronted Plover Charadrius marginatus

  This plover occurs mainly along African coasts from Somalia to South Africa, also using sandy shores of inland rivers and lakes.

• Yellow-breasted Bunting Emberiza aureola

  The Yellow-breasted Bunting is a bunting whose plumage changes with the season. A breeding-plumaged male has a striking black head and yellow breast; the species is recorded in Hong Kong during migration and winter.

• Orange-headed Thrush Geokichla citrina

  The Orange-headed Thrush has an orange head and underparts, with plain gray or brown upperparts. Facial markings vary among subspecies; in Singapore it searches wooded ground for insects and also eats fruit.

• Pale-billed Scrubwren Aethomyias spilodera

  The Pale-billed Scrubwren moves actively through lower and middle forest layers on New Guinea while searching for insects. Brown upperparts, paler underparts, and a pale bill are useful clues, though plumage varies among subspecies.

• White-winged Guan Penelope albipennis

  Black plumage is set off by white wing feathers and white flecking; the throat has bare reddish-purple skin and a double-lobed dewlap. It inhabits dry forests in northwestern Peru and calls at dawn and during the breeding season.

• Black-eared Warbler Basileuterus melanotis

  This small warbler occurs in the highlands of Costa Rica and western Panama. It has olive upperparts, pale buff underparts, and dark markings around the eye.

• Sri Lanka Scimitar Babbler Pomatorhinus melanurus

  This scimitar babbler is endemic to Sri Lanka. It has a long yellow bill, white eyebrow, black face, and reddish-brown upperparts, and forages in forest undergrowth and on the ground.

• Round-tailed Manakin Ceratopipra chloromeros

  The male is black with a red head, while the female is green. Both have a rounded tail and forage in the understory of unflooded forest.

• Willis's Antbird Cercomacroides laeta

  This antbird is patchily distributed in Brazil and reaches extreme southern Guyana in the north. Its three subspecies occupy different areas.

• Ash-colored Tapaculo Myornis senilis

  This tapaculo lives in Andean montane forest. It is mostly gray, feeds near the ground, and appears to be associated with bamboo stands.

• Cackling Goose Branta hutchinsii

  A species separate from the Canada Goose. It is generally small, with a short neck and bill, and varies in size and plumage among subspecies.

• Yellow-crowned Parakeet Cyanoramphus auriceps

  The Yellow-crowned Parakeet is a green parrot that spends much of its time high in the forest canopy. Its yellow crown and crimson forehead band help identify it.

• Yellow-billed Malkoha Rhamphococcyx calyorhynchus

  The Yellow-billed Malkoha is a large cuckoo endemic to Sulawesi. Its rusty upperparts, long tail, and thick red-and-yellow bill are distinctive.

• Orange-breasted Laughingthrush Garrulax annamensis

  This laughingthrush is restricted to a small area of southern Vietnam. It has a dark throat and an orange breast marked with dark spots, and forages near the ground.

• Red-breasted Chat Granatellus venustus

  At Mexico’s Chamela-Cuixmala Biosphere Reserve, researchers caught this species in both wet and dry seasons, but recorded fewer captures in the dry season and more in deciduous than semi-deciduous forest.

• Chapman's Swift Chaetura chapmani

  This small, sooty-colored swift catches insects while flying above forests and forest edges.

• Varied tit Sittiparus varius

  A small bird of lowland and low-mountain woods in Japan. Its bluish-grey wings and chestnut belly stand out.

• Mountain hawk-eagle Nisaetus nipalensis

  A large forest hawk-eagle with broad wings and a crest at the back of the head.

• Slender-billed Finch Xenospingus concolor

  It occurs in arid regions from central Peru to northern Chile, including riparian woodland and scrub near coastal wetlands.

• Fluttering Shearwater Puffinus gavia

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