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• Pale-faced Bulbul Pycnonotus leucops

  

  This bulbul occurs in northern Borneo. It has a yellowish-olive body and a pale gray head; the 2023 eBird taxonomy update treats it as a species split from Flavescent Bulbul.

• Santa Marta Tapaculo Scytalopus sanctaemartae

  Adults are gray with a white crown spot, a tawny black-barred rump, white belly, and barred brown flanks. Females are smaller with less white on the crown; juveniles are more heavily barred.

• Prairie Falcon Falco mexicanus

  Prairie Falcons glide over grasslands and shrubby deserts, searching for small mammals and birds. Their pale plumage is marked by a dark triangle at the base of each wing.

• Chestnut-bellied Cotinga Doliornis remseni

  The Chestnut-bellied Cotinga is recorded in the high Andes of Ecuador and Colombia. A 2008 paper reported one male observed in 2006 at Llanganates National Park, Ecuador, and described its habitat.

• Santa Marta Parakeet Pyrrhura viridicata

  This parakeet has a dark green body and an orange-red belly. In the wild it flies between forest patches in small flocks and eats fruit and seeds.

• Brewer's Sparrow Spizella breweri

  The Brewer's Sparrow has black streaks on its back and a slim white eye-ring. It searches dry shrublands for insects and also eats seeds in winter or during migration.

• Gray-bellied Cuckoo Cacomantis passerinus

  The Grey-bellied Cuckoo lives in woodlands, gardens, and plantations across the Indian subcontinent. It moves among trees and shrubs, taking flying insects and other small prey.

• Stripe-breasted Tit Melaniparus fasciiventer

  A large tit of the Albertine Rift's montane forests. Males have a black head and central belly, with a conspicuous white band across the lower breast and flanks.

• Buffy Tuftedcheek Pseudocolaptes lawrencii

  The Buffy Tuftedcheek inhabits wet mountain forests in Costa Rica and western Panama. A study in Costa Rica recorded it searching among the leaves of epiphytic bromeliads for arthropods.

• Bar-winged Wood-Wren Henicorhina leucoptera

  The Bar-winged Wood-Wren is a small bird with rufous upperparts and two white wing bars. It forages alone or in pairs in scrub on mountain ridges and is often heard before it is seen.

• Rufous-vented Yuhina Yuhina occipitalis

  A field guide describes a small bird with grey and rufous in its crest. It lives in eastern Himalayan evergreen forest and forages in the canopy and among mossy trunks and branches.

• Mangrove Yellow Warbler Setophaga petechia

  The Mangrove Yellow Warbler is a bright yellow songbird whose adult males have a chestnut hood. It searches for insects and spiders in American coastal mangroves and nearby scrub.

• Asian Palm Swift Cypsiurus balasiensis

  The Asian Palm Swift is a slender, small swift that attaches its nest with saliva beneath palm leaves.

• Dark-brown Honeyeater Lichmera incana

  This honeyeater is recorded in New Caledonia’s Grand Sud Ramsar area. It searches for nectar and insects in low scrub and open ground.

• Long-tailed Thrush Zoothera dixoni

  The Long-tailed Thrush has an olive-brown back and whitish underparts marked with black scales. It spends summer in high forest and descends to lower elevations in winter.

• Golden-winged Sunbird Drepanorhynchus reichenowi

  The Golden-winged Sunbird lives in the mountains of East Africa. It visits flowers for nectar and may make seasonal movements between elevations.

• Red-breasted Wheatear Oenanthe bottae

  Botta's Wheatear is a flycatcher-family bird of the highlands of southwestern Arabia. It is active by day, foraging on open grassland for small animals.

• Yellow-winged Flatbill Tolmomyias flavotectus

  Its type description records yellow-edged wing feathers and a grey crown mixed with green. It ranges from southern Nicaragua to western Colombia and Ecuador west of the Andes, in lowland evergreen and secondary forest.

• Red-faced Guan Penelope dabbenei

  The Red-faced Guan is a large bird of mountain forests in southern Bolivia and northwestern Argentina. It has red bare facial skin and a red throat wattle.

• African Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis

  The African Paradise-Flycatcher is an insect-eating bird of forests and woodland edges south of the Sahara. Males have elongated tail feathers, and plumage varies widely.

• Rachel's Malimbe Malimbus racheliae

  Rachel's Malimbe occurs in lowland forest around the Gulf of Guinea. Males have a red crown and black face, with yellow on the lower breast and undertail coverts.

• Rufous-chested Dotterel Charadrius modestus

  This plover breeds in grasslands and wetlands at the southern tip of South America. Some move north along the Pacific coast outside the breeding season, while others remain in the south throughout the year.

• Sunda Laughingthrush Garrulax palliatus

  This laughingthrush lives in moist forests on Sumatra and Borneo and is often seen in small groups.

• Giant Snipe Gallinago undulata

  The Giant Snipe is a large wader with a disjunct South American range. It is 40–43.5 cm long, with a very long straight bill and broad, rounded wings.