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• White-billed Crow Corvus woodfordi

  

  The White-billed Crow has a large pale bill with a dark tip and glossy black plumage with a green sheen. It moves through rainforest singly, in pairs, or in small groups.

• Variegated Antpitta Grallaria varia

  This ground-associated antpitta has a gray-and-brown pattern of scales, spots, streaks, and bars. A study tracking one bird in a reserve in Amazonas, Brazil, recorded slow movement, quiet behavior at most locations, and roosting in mid-story trees.

• Laura's Woodland Warbler Phylloscopus laurae

  A historical record places this warbler on Mount Moco in Angola. Laura Boulton's account described it as apparently confined to the montane rainforest of the Benguela Highlands.

• Blue-crowned Racket-tail Prioniturus discurus

  The Blue-crowned Racket-tail has green plumage and a blue crown and uses forests, mangroves, and cultivated areas in the Philippines.

• Cabanis's Greenbul Phyllastrephus cabanisi

  Cabanis's Greenbul is about 16–19 cm long. The account lists primary and secondary forest, gallery forest, riverine scrub, and ravine vegetation among its habitats. It also lists a sound record from Kakamega Forest Reserve in Kenya.

• Buff-rumped Thornbill Acanthiza reguloides

  This small bird occurs in forests and grasslands of southeastern Australia. It searches for insects among ground litter and branches and may forage in groups.

• Metallic-winged Sunbird Aethopyga pulcherrima

  This sunbird occurs on several Philippine islands. Clements now includes the Luzon and Bohol birds, formerly treated as separate species, within A. pulcherrima. Males on Mindanao are described with metallic blue-green markings and a broad throat patch.

• Citreoline Trogon Trogon citreolus

  The Citreoline Trogon has a yellow belly and pale eyes. It searches for food from branches in forests of western Mexico.

• Black-hooded Antwren Formicivora erythronotos

  This small antwren lives in coastal forest in southeastern Brazil. Males and females have different plumage.

• Rufous-capped Brush Finch Atlapetes pileatus

  This brushfinch is endemic to Mexico. It lives in the understory of pine-oak forest and searches the ground for insects and seeds.

• Tahiti Reed Warbler Acrocephalus caffer

  This reed warbler occurs in French Polynesia. Most birds are pale yellow with mottling above, while a dark olive-brown morph also occurs. It uses bamboo thickets and second-growth forest and eats insects and other small animals as well as nectar.

• Greater Sand Plover Charadrius leschenaultii

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

• Brown-necked Parrot Poicephalus fuscicollis

  This African parrot is described with two subspecies. Their head and rump colors, ranges and woodland habitats differ.

• Grey-eyed Greenlet Hylophilus amaurocephalus

  This vireo relative lives in forest and scrub in eastern Brazil. Its gray iris and rufous crown stand out, and it searches for insects in trees.

• Elfin Woods Warbler Setophaga angelae

  This warbler is restricted to Puerto Rico's mountain forests. Adults are black and white above and white with black streaks below, and they glean insects from leaves and branches.

• Desert Sparrow Passer simplex

  The Desert Sparrow is a small, sandy-colored sparrow. Males have a black bib and black lores, and the species occurs in desert scrub and around oases.

• Kermadec Petrel Pterodroma neglecta

  This petrel has a bulky body and long pointed wings, with plumage ranging from pale to wholly dark. It breeds on islands including those in the South Pacific and ranges widely at sea.

• Great Eared Nightjar Lyncornis macrotis

  The Great Eared Nightjar is a nocturnal bird of forests and forest edges in the Indo-Malay region. Its ear-like tufts and upright resting posture are distinctive.

• Ground Woodpecker Geocolaptes olivaceus

  This woodpecker forages on rocky hills and mountains, digging for ants. Males and females differ in their face markings.

• Yellow-mantled Whydah Euplectes macroura

  The Yellow-mantled Widowbird lives near wet grassland and swamps in Africa. It searches for seeds on the ground. Breeding-plumaged males display on the ground or on low vegetation; their black bodies carry yellow shoulder patches whose extent varies among subspecies.

• Red-throated Tit Melaniparus fringillinus

  The Red-throated Tit is a small tit of acacia woodland and savanna in Kenya and Tanzania, with records from about 100 to 1,600 m.

• Red-billed Streamertail Trochilus polytmus

  The Red-billed Streamertail lives across most of Jamaica. The long tail streamers belong to males, and the island's far eastern tip is occupied by a separate species.

• Choco Manakin Cryptopipo litae

  A manakin of the humid Chocó from eastern Panama through western Colombia to north-western Ecuador. The IOC lists it separately from Green Manakin based on plumage and vocal differences.

• Rufous-browed Wren Troglodytes rufociliatus

  This wren has a rich rufous eyebrow and uses humid montane pine-oak and evergreen forest, moving among epiphytes, branches, and fallen logs.