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- Bradfield's Hornbill Lophoceros bradfieldi
Photo: Ron Knight · CC BY 2.0 Bradfield's Hornbill lives in dry woodlands and nearby habitats of southern Africa. It is usually in pairs or family groups, but local flocks can form toward the end of the dry season when food is scarce.
- Saffron Siskin Spinus siemiradzkii
The male has a black head, an unstreaked yellow mantle, bright yellow underparts, and a broad yellow wing band. The female lacks the black head and is yellow-olive overall. The species uses open habitats and farmland.
- Spotted Thrush-Babbler Illadopsis turdina
A babbler of damp African woodland and streamside thickets, foraging close to the ground. Its white breast is spotted rufous.
- Warbling Doradito Pseudocolopteryx flaviventris
This small tyrant flycatcher moves in short flights through reeds and searches low vegetation for food. The Argentine national account records it from the north of the country south to Chubut.
- Red-rumped Cacique Cacicus haemorrhous
This cacique is presented here through the affinis subspecies of Brazil's Atlantic Forest. It has a black body and red rump, and colonies build hanging nests high in trees.
- Yellow-billed Cotinga Carpodectes antoniae
The male Yellow-billed Cotinga is white with a pale blue-gray crown and yellow bill; the female has grayish upperparts and dark wings and tail. It eats fruit around Pacific-coast mangroves in Central America.
- Greater Necklaced Laughingthrush Pterorhinus pectoralis
The Greater Necklaced Laughingthrush has brown upperparts, pale underparts, and a dark necklace-like band. In its native range it lives in damp forests in small flocks.
- Double-banded Plover Charadrius bicinctus
This small plover occurs on New Zealand's beaches, estuaries and riverbeds. Its chestnut breast band changes with season, and many inland breeders move to the coast after breeding.
- Mascarene Petrel Pseudobulweria aterrima
The Mascarene Petrel is an all-dark seabird. It breeds on Réunion and ranges widely across the Indian Ocean at different times of year.
- White-browed Forest Flycatcher Fraseria cinerascens
This flycatcher lives in moist forests and wet areas of West and Central Africa. It has dark slate-gray upperparts and a white eyebrow, and feeds mainly on small invertebrates.
- Northern cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis
A bird of North American woodland edges and thickets. Males are bright red and females mainly brown with red accents; both have crests.
- New Caledonian Cuckooshrike Coracina analis
The New Caledonian Cuckooshrike lives in forests on New Caledonia. A local island guide records it eating insects and small fruits in forest.
- Stripe-headed Rhabdornis Rhabdornis mystacalis
This bird lives in Philippine forest and woodland. The male has white streaks on the head and back, a white throat and central underparts, and black-striped flanks.
- Greater Hoopoe-Lark Alaemon alaudipes
The Greater Hoopoe-Lark is a desert bird with sandy plumage, a long tail, and a down-curved bill. It is usually seen alone or in pairs.
- White-crowned Tapaculo Scytalopus atratus
This small bird lives in humid montane forest on the eastern Andes of Peru. It forages near the ground and can be difficult to see.
- Black-collared Jay Cyanolyca armillata
The Black-collared Jay is a jay of Andean mountain forests.
- Magpie Mannikin Lonchura fringilloides
This small African bird occurs near water, bamboo, and village gardens. In the account’s northern form, the head and neck are glossy black, with a white belly and barred flanks. Oiseaux.net records its transfer from Lonchura to Spermestes.
- Satin Swiftlet Collocalia uropygialis
A swiftlet of South Pacific islands including Vanuatu, it has satiny blue-black upperparts and a broad white rump band.
- Greater Streaked Honeyeater Myza sarasinorum
The Greater Streaked Honeyeater lives in Sulawesi's montane rainforest. Fine streaks on its dark plumage and a large ear patch are useful field marks.
- Speckled Chachalaca Ortalis guttata
The Speckled Chachalaca has reddish-brown plumage with pale spots on the front of its neck and chest. It eats fruit and uses both trees and the ground.
- Fluffy-backed Tit-Babbler Macronus ptilosus
The Fluffy-backed Tit-Babbler is a dark brown babbler with a chestnut crown, black throat, and bluish skin around the eyes. It searches low vegetation for insects and is usually seen in pairs.
- Lesser Masked Weaver Ploceus intermedius
A weaver whose male has a black facial mask and pale eye. It weaves a round grass nest and breeds in colonies.
- Common Pauraque Nyctidromus albicollis
The Common Pauraque hides on the ground in leaf-colored plumage by day and catches flying insects at night.
- Reichenbach's Sunbird Anabathmis reichenbachii
Reichenbach's Sunbird has an iridescent blue-green face, neck and breast above an olive-brown mantle. A field record placed it at a forest edge and small lakes near Kinshasa, DRC.