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• Natal Francolin Pternistis natalensis

  

  The Natal Francolin is a ground-dwelling bird with red legs and bold black-and-white barring. Small groups occur around rocky ground and thickets near water in southern Africa.

• Strange-tailed Tyrant Alectrurus risora

  This tyrant flycatcher inhabits wet grasslands near marshes. The breeding male is conspicuous for its elongated tail and bare throat, which turns red; females are brown.

• Cotton Pygmy-Goose Nettapus coromandelianus

  A very small duck that uses plant-rich freshwater areas in eastern Queensland, Australia.

• Watercock Gallicrex cinerea

  The Watercock is a rail of wet grasslands, marshes, and well-vegetated ponds. Northern breeding populations may move south.

• Yellow-eyed Pigeon Columba eversmanni

  The Yellow-eyed Pigeon breeds in Central Asia. In winter it moves south and uses open farmland, often in flocks.

• New Caledonian Thicketbird Megalurulus mariei

  This 17–18 cm ground-dwelling bird is restricted to New Caledonia. It has olive-brown upperparts, a long pale eyebrow, and creamy underparts washed rusty. It walks through grass and scrub and feeds on small invertebrates.

• Chestnut-bellied Tit Sittiparus castaneoventris

  This tit is found in Taiwanese forests. It has a white face and deep rufous underparts, and takes seeds, nuts and caterpillars in mixed and bamboo forests on slopes and in valleys.

• Little Bittern Botaurus minutus

  European birds are pigeon-sized herons with pale wing panels. They hide in reedbeds and are active at dawn and dusk.

• Tawny-browed Owl Pulsatrix koeniswaldiana

  The Tawny-browed Owl hunts from trees at night in the Atlantic Forest region.

• Pyrrhuloxia Cardinalis sinuatus

  The Pyrrhuloxia lives in dry scrub from the southwestern United States into northern Mexico. Its reddish plumage and stout bill are distinctive, and it searches the ground for seeds and cactus fruit.

• Florida Scrub Jay Aphelocoma coerulescens

  The Florida scrub-jay is blue-gray with a long tail. It lives in Florida's low oak scrub, where young birds may help their parents raise another brood.

• Forbes's Blackbird Anumara forbesi

  Forbes’s Blackbird is a dark bird found in two separate parts of Brazil. It has a long tail and short wings, and the red inside its mouth can show when it sings.

• Jocotoco Antpitta Grallaria ridgelyi

  This ground-dwelling antpitta inhabits wet, mossy montane forest in southern Ecuador. It has a white cheek patch and black crown, and known records are from a limited mountain area.

• Ruby-cheeked Sunbird Chalcoparia singalensis

  The Ruby-cheeked Sunbird has different male and female plumage. It forages high in trees, taking nectar from flowers and sometimes insects from spider webs.

• Yellow-vented Warbler Phylloscopus cantator

  The Yellow-vented Warbler uses mountain bamboo and evergreen broadleaf forest during the breeding season and moves southeast in winter. The nominate subspecies described in the source is yellow with a white belly.

• White-collared Yuhina Yuhina diademata

  This small bird occurs in the mountains of southern China and nearby parts of Asia. Its white collar and long crest help identify it.

• Yucatan Woodpecker Melanerpes pygmaeus

  This woodpecker occurs on the Yucatán Peninsula and nearby areas. It inhabits dry lowland scrub and deciduous forest and feeds on insects under bark.

• Rufous-necked Hornbill Aceros nipalensis

  A large hornbill of forested hills. Males have a rufous head and neck; females are black and differ in the colors of bare facial skin.

• Lazy Cisticola Cisticola aberrans

  The Lazy Cisticola is a small bird that searches for insects on rocky slopes and woodland edges. Its reddish head and long tail stand out.

• 'Oma'o Myadestes obscurus

  The ‘Ōma‘o is a Hawaiian solitaire endemic to Hawaiʻi Island. Its subdued plumage is olive-brown and gray; it often perches quietly and is detected by song. It eats fruit, flowers, and invertebrates.

• Chinese Beautiful Rosefinch Carpodacus davidianus

  This rosefinch occurs in the highlands of Mongolia and northern China. It uses shrubland and alpine grassland, and the Chinese account says it descends to lower elevations in winter.

• Pied Cuckooshrike Coracina bicolor

  A cuckooshrike of Sulawesi and nearby islands. Males are sharply black and white, while females are dark gray and white; it uses lowland and hill forest.

• Cape Rock Thrush Monticola rupestris

  The Cape Rock-Thrush lives in rocky areas and grassland in southern Africa, often in pairs or small groups. Males have a blue-gray head and throat with a brown back; females have buff underparts.

• Olivaceous Greenlet Hylophilus olivaceus

  The Olivaceous Greenlet is locally recorded in montane forest on the eastern Andes. Its head and upperparts are olive, with olive-yellow underparts. It forages in the canopy and subcanopy at forest edges, in second growth, and in broken forest.