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• Blue-headed Coucal Centropus monachus

  

  The Blue-headed Coucal occurs in sub-Saharan Africa. Its crown and nape are black with a blue sheen in good light, while the lower back and wings are chestnut.

• Taita Falcon Falco fasciinucha

  A small, compact falcon with white cheeks and rufous underparts. It hunts small birds around wooded mountains and deep valleys with cliffs.

• Antillean Piculet Nesoctites micromegas

  This small piculet lives on Hispaniola. Its yellow crown and the streaked pale underside are distinctive.

• Shining Flycatcher Myiagra alecto

  This monarch flycatcher ranges from the Moluccas through New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago to northern and eastern Australia. Males are glossy blue-black; females have chestnut upperparts and white underparts.

• Sumatran Trogon Apalharpactes mackloti

  This trogon lives in montane forest on Sumatra. The male has metallic green and blue plumage, a yellow throat, and a red bill; females are similarly colored.

• Monotonous Lark Mirafra passerina

  The Monotonous Lark is a ground-foraging bird of dry scrub and woodland. The Namibian account describes it as solitary or in pairs.

• African Golden Weaver Ploceus xanthops

  The African Golden Weaver is a weaver of sub-Saharan Africa. In breeding plumage, males have chestnut coloring from the face onto the breast; females are duller.

• Tawny Fish Owl Ketupa flavipes

  This nocturnal owl has mottled tawny plumage and a white throat. In Taiwan it lives in low-elevation streamside forest and catches crabs, frogs, and other animals.

• Ocellated Tapaculo Acropternis orthonyx

  A locally distributed tapaculo of the Andes from Venezuela to northern Peru. It occurs in cloud, temperate, and elfin forests.

• White's Thrush Zoothera aurea

  A thrush that breeds in mountain woods in Japan; a white band shows beneath its wings in flight.

• Yellow-browed Shrike-Vireo Vireolanius eximius

  This shrike-vireo occurs from eastern Panama through northern Colombia to northwestern Venezuela. It uses humid lowland forest and tall second-growth woodland, gleaning food in the canopy.

• Sooretama Slaty Antshrike Thamnophilus ambiguus

  This antbird occurs mainly near the coast of southeastern Brazil. Males are gray and black, while females are brown-toned; the species searches for insects along forest edges and in coastal woodland.

• Olive Bulbul Iole viridescens

  Yellowish-olive sides of the head and paler ear-coverts help identify the Olive Bulbul. It uses moist evergreen broadleaf forest and tall secondary growth, and mainly eats berries.

• Oahu Amakihi Chlorodrepanis flava

  This Hawaiian honeycreeper occurs only on Oahu. It uses native and non-native forest as well as lowland yards and parks, and feeds on nectar, insects, and fruit.

• Blue-and-yellow macaw Ara ararauna

  A large South American parrot with bright blue upperparts and yellow underparts.

• African Swamphen Porphyrio madagascariensis

  This wetland bird has long legs, a red bill and frontal shield, and a blue-violet body. It feeds on plant material in slow-moving waters with tall aquatic vegetation.

• Sepia-brown Wren Cinnycerthia olivascens

  In Peru's eastern Andes, this wren forages in the understory of humid montane forest, in pairs or family groups. Its reddish-brown plumage has olive tones.

• Jankowski's Bunting Emberiza jankowskii

  Jankowski’s Bunting is an East Asian bunting that spends much time on the ground in grassland. An adult male in breeding plumage shows a chestnut crown and white wing bars.

• Southern Boubou Laniarius ferrugineus

  The Southern Boubou moves through dense undergrowth and searches for prey near the ground. Males show a striking mix of black, white, and rufous.

• Palawan Crow Corvus pusillus

  This crow occurs on Palawan and Mindoro. It is known for short, low calls likened to a frog’s croak.

• Spectacled Whitestart Myioborus melanocephalus

  The center of its crown is black, and it has yellow spectacles and underparts. It lives in humid montane forest on the eastern Andes, from south and east of the Marañón in northern Peru to central Bolivia.

• Mountain Saw-wing Psalidoprocne fuliginosa

  The Mountain Saw-wing occurs in the mountains of Cameroon and on Bioko Island in Equatorial Guinea. It is about 12 cm long, weighs 11–12 g and catches insects while flying above mountain forest.

• Greater Sand Plover Charadrius leschenaultii

  Greater Sand Plovers breed in inland parts of Eurasia and move to southern coasts for the non-breeding season.

• Pale Spiderhunter Arachnothera dilutior

  The Pale Spiderhunter is recorded on Palawan in the Philippines. It uses forests and forest edges as well as cultivated banana areas. It feeds on nectar and insects and has a long curved bill.