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• Eastern Long-tailed Hermit Phaethornis superciliosus

  

  The Eastern Long-tailed Hermit has a long, down-curved bill and long white-tipped tail feathers. It feeds at flowers beside tropical forest streams and also takes insects when flowers are scarce.

• Crimson-breasted Shrike Laniarius atrococcineus

  A black shrike with a white wing stripe and vivid red underparts, it lives in dry scrub and savanna of southern Africa, where pairs defend territories.

• Red-headed Manakin Ceratopipra rubrocapilla

  This manakin lives in the understory of southern Amazonian forest in Peru. Males stand out with a red head on a black body, while females are green.

• Banded Cotinga Cotinga maculata

  The Banded Cotinga has shimmering blue and purple plumage in males; females are much less conspicuous and brown. Records from Brazil's eastern coast place it high in forest canopies.

• Celestial Monarch Hypothymis coelestis

  The male's blue plumage and drooping crest stand out on this Philippine monarch flycatcher. BirdLife's 2001 account describes it in forest canopy and midstory, at forest edges, and in second growth.

• Black-headed Bunting Emberiza melanocephala

  This bunting migrates to Cyprus to breed, using farmland with nearby trees and shrubs, and winters in India.

• Scarce Swift Schoutedenapus myoptilus

  The Scarce Swift occurs patchily in African highlands and gorges. Its long, deeply forked tail is distinctive, and it catches insects in flight.

• Cisticola cherina

  This small cisticola occurs in Madagascar. It uses grassland, savanna, farms, wetlands, and scrub, and searches near the ground for small invertebrates.

• Puerto Rican Nightjar Antrostomus noctitherus

  The Puerto Rican Nightjar is endemic to Puerto Rico and lives in dry forests in the southwest. Its mottled brown plumage helps it blend into leaf litter.

• Wing-banded Wren Microcerculus bambla

  A wren of Amazonian forest that forages alone on the forest floor. It also occurs outside Peru, including Ecuador and Brazil.

• Bateleur Terathopius ecaudatus

  The Bateleur is a raptor with striking black and white plumage, a red-orange face and legs, and a short tail. It occurs in South Africa’s bushveld and arid Kalahari.

• Principe Weaver Ploceus princeps

  This weaver is endemic to Príncipe Island. A breeding male has a bright orange head and golden underparts; females have a yellow head and breast with a paler belly. It also uses farms, gardens, and forest edges.

• Long-tailed Koel Urodynamis taitensis

  The Long-tailed Koel is a long-distance migrant. It breeds in New Zealand and spends the southern winter on Pacific islands.

• Huet's Fulvetta Alcippe hueti

  Huet’s Fulvetta is a small babbler of southern China. It may be found in the lower layers of evergreen broadleaf and secondary forest, sometimes in pairs or mixed-species flocks.

• Band-tailed Gull Larus belcheri

  The Band-tailed Gull is a large gull of the Pacific coast of South America, marked by a black tail band and a red-and-black bill tip.

• Bicolored Babbler Cyanoderma bicolor

  This small forest bird is also called Gray-hooded Babbler in the source. It has gray-brown plumage with a chestnut wing patch and moves in small groups in the forest understory.

• Buffy Fish Owl Ketupa ketupu

  The Buffy Fish Owl lives in wooded areas near water and mainly eats fish and other aquatic animals. Its yellow eyes, white spot between the brows, and prominent ear tufts stand out.

• Teardrop White-eye Rukia ruki

  The Teardrop White-eye is recorded on four islands in the Faichuk group of Chuuk Lagoon, Federated States of Micronesia. It has been observed in old native forest and secondary forest, where it gleans insects from foliage.

• Somali Short-toed Lark Alaudala somalica

  This lark lives in open, dry grassland in East Africa. It has dark streaks on its reddish-brown upperparts and streaking on the breast.

• Olive-bellied Sunbird Cinnyris chloropygius

  A small sunbird with a broad range in western and central Africa. The sexes look very different, and birds often feed at low flowers.

• Uniform Crake Amaurolimnas concolor

  The Uniform Crake has dark reddish-brown plumage, red eyes and legs, and a yellowish bill. It uses damp thickets and streamside forest, searching the ground for small animals.

• Herald Petrel Pterodroma heraldica

  A seabird that breeds on tropical Pacific islands and occurs in a range of plumage colors.

• Streaky-headed Seedeater Crithagra gularis

  The Streaky-headed Seedeater lives in woodland and scrub in southern Africa. Fine streaks on the crown and a white eyebrow help identify it, and it eats flowers, buds, seeds, and fruit.

• Weebill Smicrornis brevirostris

  This small bird occurs widely across Australia. Its short tail and stubby bill are distinctive, and it searches among tree leaves for food.