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• Spot-winged Antbird Myrmelastes leucostigma

  

  This antbird lives in Amazonian forest. Males are gray with white wing bars, females are brown with rufous wing spots, and the birds forage in wet places inside forest.

• Versicolored Emerald Chrysuronia versicolor

  The Versicolored Emerald is a hummingbird of central and eastern South America, using forest edges, gallery woodland, and other open habitats. It feeds on nectar and small insects. Plumage varies substantially, so tail pattern is useful alongside throat and forehead color.

• Opal-crowned Manakin Lepidothrix iris

  The Opal-crowned Manakin is a manakin of humid forests in Brazil. It is olive green above and yellow green below; males have a whitish-blue crown.

• Guianan Cock-of-the-rock Rupicola rupicola

  This bird lives in humid forests of northern South America. Males stand out with bright orange plumage and a crest; they eat mainly fruit and gather to display during courtship.

• Tanimbar Monarch Carterornis castus

  This small monarch flycatcher lives in Tanimbar forest. Its black-and-white pattern is striking, and it searches for insects in trees.

• Edible-nest Swiftlet Aerodramus fuciphagus

  The Edible-nest Swiftlet is a small swiftlet of Indo-Malayan forests. It catches insects and other invertebrates while flying.

• Chattering Cisticola Cisticola anonymus

  A 2007 paper treated a Sierra Leone population as Chattering Cisticola, while noting it might represent a distinct local form. It describes grey-brown birds with plain backs recorded around wet rice fields.

• Blackish Nightjar Nyctipolus nigrescens

  The Blackish Nightjar inhabits lowlands and foothills of northern South America. Its finely patterned brown and gray plumage blends with rocky ground near forest edges.

• Gray-barred Wren Campylorhynchus megalopterus

  This wren lives in mountain forest in Mexico's central highlands. It is gray with narrow dark bars and moves through the forest in small groups.

• Cinereous Harrier Circus cinereus

  This harrier has a white rump and long wings. It searches for prey over South American marshes and grasslands; a breeding-season study in southern Chile recorded males passing prey to females in the air.

• 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.

• Javan Coucal Centropus nigrorufus

  This large coucal is recorded in Java's lowlands, where it uses mangroves and nearby wetlands.

• Mountain Fulvetta Alcippe peracensis

  A grey head and a dark line running from above the eye toward the nape help identify this bird. It eats insects in evergreen forest and may occur in small groups.

• South American Tern Sterna hirundinacea

  This tern lives along the coasts of South America. Adults have pale gray bodies, a black cap, and red bills and legs.

• Bare-headed Laughingthrush Melanocichla calva

  This laughingthrush occurs in the hills of northeastern Borneo. Its dark body, bare head, pale blue areas around the eyes, and red bill are distinctive.

• Yungas Pygmy Owl Glaucidium bolivianum

  The Yungas Pygmy Owl lives in humid mountain forest on the eastern Andes and has eye-like markings on the back of its head.

• Long-billed White-eye Rukia longirostra

  This white-eye is distinctive for its long, slender bill that curves downward. It is restricted to Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia.

• Black-eared Sparrow-Lark Eremopterix australis

  The Black-eared Sparrow-Lark lives in dry grasslands of southern Africa and may move after good rains.

• Rufous-winged Sunbird Cinnyris rufipennis

  The Rufous-winged Sunbird is a small sunbird known only from Tanzania’s Udzungwa Mountains. It feeds at flowering plants from the understory to the canopy, and breeding is thought to occur during the November–February rainy season.

• American Coot Fulica americana

  A dark waterbird with a white bill. It swims like a duck but has broad lobes on its toes and feeds on aquatic plants.

• Great Shearwater Ardenna gravis

  The Great Shearwater breeds on South Atlantic islands and moves to the North Atlantic during boreal summer.

• Pine Siskin Spinus pinus

  The Pine Siskin is a small finch widespread in North America. In winter it moves widely in response to seed crops.

• Grey Thornbill Acanthiza cinerea

  A small thornbill with grey upperparts and a white underside, active in the canopy of montane forest.

• Eleonora's Falcon Falco eleonorae

  A falcon that breeds on Mediterranean islands and coasts. Its young develop late in the breeding season, when migrating small birds are passing.