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• Streak-headed Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes souleyetii

  

  A woodcreeper of Central American forests, with many pale streaks on the crown and nape and additional streaking on the back and wings.

• Cape Clapper Lark Corypha apiata

  In southwestern and western South Africa, the older broad treatment of Corypha apiata recorded a grayer population. A wing-clapping display flight is also reported.

• Bronzy Inca Coeligena coeligena

  The Bronzy Inca is a hummingbird with mostly bronzy-brown plumage. It lives in Andean montane forest and is recorded at about 1,000–2,200 m in Peru.

• Eastern Crowned Warbler Phylloscopus coronatus

  A leaf warbler with a pale crown stripe that favors the upper parts of forests.

• Hooded Dotterel Thinornis cucullatus

  The Hooded Dotterel is a plover of southern Australia. In the east it searches for small invertebrates on sandy beaches; some southwestern birds use inland salt lakes in winter.

• Ring Ouzel Turdus torquatus

  Adult males have a white breast patch, females a creamy one, and both show silvery panels on the wings.

• Large-billed Scrubwren Sericornis magnirostra

  This small brown bird is recorded in the rainforests of northeastern Australia. It moves through low and middle levels of the forest, searching mainly for insects.

• Crestless Curassow Mitu tomentosum

  A large curassow of the northern Amazon. Its mostly black plumage has a blue gloss, and two nests were recorded in white-sand forest in northern Brazil.

• Adelaide's Warbler Setophaga adelaidae

  This small warbler is endemic to Puerto Rico. A 2016 paper also reports observations on St. Thomas and St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

• Black-chinned Babbler Cyanoderma pyrrhops

  The Black-chinned Babbler has olive-buff plumage, a black throat and lores, and a red eye. It is often seen in small groups and forages near the ground.

• Fiery-capped Manakin Machaeropterus pyrocephalus

  This small manakin lives in lowland forest around the Amazon region. Males hang upside down from branches and twist rapidly from side to side during courtship.

• Rufous-backed Stipplethroat Epinecrophylla haematonota

  The Rufous-backed Stipplethroat is a small bird of tropical South American forests. Males have a rufous back and white spots on the black throat.

• Black-throated Huet-huet Pteroptochos tarnii

  This huet-huet walks on the forest floor and searches through leaf litter for food. It lives in Andean-Patagonian forests in southern South America.

• Brazilian Teal Amazonetta brasiliensis

  This small duck has a red bill in males and a black bill in females. It feeds on aquatic plants, small animals, and grains in marshes and small water bodies.

• Naretha Bluebonnet Northiella narethae

  This parrot inhabits dry woodland in the far southeast of Western Australia and along the western edge of the Nullarbor Plain. Its brown body contrasts with a yellow belly and red undertail.

• Pied Coucal Centropus ateralbus

  The Pied Coucal occurs in the Bismarck Archipelago. Its plumage varies from mostly black birds to individuals with much more white or pearly grey.

• Slender-billed Babbler Argya longirostris

  The Slender-billed Babbler has a rufous-brown back and a slender, slightly down-curved bill. It hides in seasonally wet grassland and searches the ground for insects.

• Blue Seedeater Amaurospiza concolor

  At El Imposible in El Salvador, this species was reported as almost always associated with vegetative bamboo in the understory. A 2023 study supports treating the South American Andean aequatorialis as a separate species.

• Indian Swiftlet Aerodramus unicolor

  It is a small swiftlet of the Western Ghats of south-western India and Sri Lanka. It catches insects and other invertebrates in flight and builds dark nests of feathers and saliva in caves.

• Oak Titmouse Baeolophus inornatus

  The Oak Titmouse is a small bird with a crest that lives in dry oak woods of the western United States. Pairs defend territories year-round.

• White-throated Hawk Buteo albigula

  The White-throated Hawk has brown-and-white plumage with chestnut on the neck and chest. In Argentina it is recorded in Andean-Patagonian forest and the northwest.

• Vermilion Tanager Calochaetes coccineus

  This tanager occurs on the eastern Andean slopes of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. It has a deep red body with a black facial mask, throat, upper breast, wings, and tail, and joins mixed flocks in mountain-forest canopies.

• Northern Giant Petrel Macronectes halli

  The Northern Giant Petrel is a large seabird whose plumage becomes paler with age. It breeds on subantarctic islands and feeds at sea on fish and squid.

• Red-capped Forest-warbler Artisornis metopias

  This small bird occurs in montane areas of Tanzania and Mozambique. Its head and neck are rufous, and it feeds mostly on insects.