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• Yellow-breasted Apalis Apalis flavida

  

  The Yellow-breasted Apalis is a small bird with yellow on the sides of its neck and breast. At the Namibian sites described by the source, it occurs in pairs or small family groups and feeds on insects.

• Puerto Rican Flycatcher Myiarchus antillarum

  A flycatcher found in Puerto Rico that searches for prey from a perch.

• Diamantina Tapaculo Scytalopus diamantinensis

  This small tapaculo is restricted to mountains in northeastern Brazil. Males and females differ in the tone of their upperparts, and the species lives in dense forest-floor vegetation.

• Henderson Fruit Dove Ptilinopus insularis

  The Henderson Fruit Dove lives in forests on Henderson Island, where it is endemic. Adults have a purplish-crimson crown and eat fruit.

• Christmas Island Swiftlet Collocalia natalis

  Endemic to Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean, this small swiftlet catches insects while flying over forest and settlements.

• Maccoa Duck Oxyura maccoa

  The Maccoa Duck is a diving duck with disjunct populations in eastern and southern Africa. The breeding male has a blue bill and chestnut body; the female is brown with a pale eye stripe.

• Collared Hill Partridge Arborophila gingica

  A black collar edged with white stands out across the chest of this partridge. It lives in forests and bamboo scrub in southeastern China, eating seeds, fruits, and small animals.

• Amur Falcon Falco amurensis

  This small falcon breeds in East Asia and migrates to southern Africa. Plumage differs among adult males, females, and juveniles.

• Little Minivet Pericrocotus lansbergei

  In the 1886 description from Bima on Sumbawa, the male had a green-blue sheen on its black head and throat, with red-orange on the breast and part of the wing. A 1993 survey recorded the bird in forests on Flores and Sumbawa and reported that Flores males looked darker.

• 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.

• Collared Myna Acridotheres albocinctus

  The Collared Myna has a conspicuous white collar. Adults of both sexes have glossy blue-black plumage, while young birds are brown.

• Sickle-winged Nightjar Eleothreptus anomalus

  The Sickle-winged Nightjar is a small nightjar found from central and southeastern Brazil through eastern Paraguay to northern Argentina. A Cotinga paper records regional differences in movement and reports that a male observed in southeastern Argentina could not be identified by wing shape in flight.

• Annam Limestone Babbler Gypsophila annamensis

  This medium-sized babbler occurs in southern China, northern Laos, and northern Vietnam. It has a long bill and tail.

• Yellow-bellied Bulbul Alophoixus phaeocephalus

  The Yellow-bellied Bulbul has olive-brown upperparts and a bright yellow belly. It forms small groups in the middle storey of forests and eats fruit and insects.

• Lesser Spotted Woodpecker Dryobates minor

  A sparrow-sized woodpecker with black-and-white bars on its back and wings. In Britain it searches for food high in woodlands with plenty of deadwood.

• Goldman's Warbler Setophaga goldmani

  A highland warbler of Guatemala. The Auk study uses IOC taxonomy and distinguishes it from other members of the Yellow-rumped Warbler complex.

• Plain White-eye Zosterops hypolais

  The Plain White-eye is a small bird recorded in forests and open grassy places on Yap. A 1977 field account described dull gray-white plumage with a pale yellow wash below, small flocks, and feeding in both the canopy and short grass.

• Blue-faced Parrot-Finch Erythrura trichroa

  The Blue-faced Parrot-Finch is a small finch with a blue face. The detailed feeding and habitat observations here come from a study of the northern Australian subspecies macgillivrayi.

• Mexican Yellow Grosbeak Pheucticus chrysopeplus

  The Mexican Yellow Grosbeak occurs in Mexico and Guatemala. A research paper describes it from open, dry forest at elevations of 300–1,850 m.

• Hemprich's Hornbill Lophoceros hemprichii

  A dark-brown hornbill with a white belly; the male’s large red bill is distinctive. It uses wooded, semi-arid country and river corridors in East Africa.

• Bristle-thighed Curlew Numenius tahitiensis

  The Bristle-thighed Curlew has a long, down-curved bill and a conspicuous head stripe. It breeds in western Alaska and migrates long distances to Pacific islands.

• Thick-billed Warbler Iduna aedon

  The Thick-billed Warbler is a small brown bird with rufous on its crown and tail. It stays concealed in dense grass and shrubs and moves between breeding and wintering areas.

• Brown Babbler Turdoides plebejus

  The Brown Babbler's pale lores and chin stand out against its brown plumage. It searches the ground for insects and other invertebrates in scrub and acacia thickets.

• Sokoke Pipit Anthus sokokensis

  The Sokoke Pipit is a shy bird of coastal forests in Kenya and Tanzania, with Arabuko-Sokoke Forest as its stronghold.