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• Sunda Cuckooshrike Coracina larvata

  

  This dark gray bird lives in highland forest and sometimes moves through the upper forest with mixed-species flocks.

• Meves's Starling Lamprotornis mevesii

  With blue-green and purple gloss and a long tail, this starling uses open places with trees, often in groups, and also feeds on the ground.

• Ashy-crowned Sparrow-Lark Eremopterix griseus

  The male has a gray crown, a white patch on the nape, and a dark face and underside. The female is paler brown. This small lark searches for food on dry open ground.

• Mouse-colored Tapaculo Scytalopus speluncae

  This small tapaculo lives in dense understory of mountain forest in southeastern Brazil. Its dark gray plumage is paler below, with a lighter center to the throat and breast.

• American Crow Corvus brachyrhynchos

  The all-black American Crow searches the ground for many kinds of food. In some places, large flocks gather to roost in winter.

• White-breasted Negrofinch Nigrita fusconotus

  This small bird has records from forests in western and central Africa. The historical description gives it a black head, shoulders, flight feathers, and tail, a gray-brown back, and a whitish belly. At Luki Biosphere Reserve in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, small groups were observed in the forest-edge canopy.

• Drab Swiftlet Collocalia neglecta

  A resident swiftlet of Timor and other Lesser Sunda islands, it uses forest and dense vegetation and feeds on invertebrates.

• Red-collared Myzomela Myzomela rosenbergii

  The Red-collared Myzomela is a small bird of New Guinea's mountains and feeds mainly on nectar.

• Dusky-legged Guan Penelope obscura

  This entry covers records of the nominate subspecies P. o. obscura in southern Paraguay. The paper reports reddish irises in an observed male and brown irises in an observed female.

• Indian Scimitar Babbler Pomatorhinus horsfieldii

  The Indian Scimitar Babbler is marked by a long, downcurved yellow bill and a white line above the eye. It searches for insects and spiders among forest leaf litter and undergrowth.

• Crested Malimbe Malimbus malimbicus

  The Crested Malimbe has a red head and glossy black body and lives in forests of western and central Africa.

• Fiery-necked Nightjar Caprimulgus pectoralis

  This nightjar is marked by a reddish collar and a whistled call at night. It ranges widely across sub-Saharan Africa and catches insects from dusk into the night.

• olive sunbird Cyanomitra olivacea

  The Olive Sunbird is olive above and yellowish-green below. It favors forest cover and eats nectar, insects, and spiders. Yellow pectoral tufts occur in all males and in females from some populations.

• Blue-and-yellow macaw Ara ararauna

  A large South American parrot with bright blue upperparts and yellow underparts.

• Reischek's Parakeet Cyanoramphus hochstetteri

  Reischek's Parakeet is a parakeet of New Zealand's Antipodes Islands.

• Wallace's Fruit Dove Ptilinopus wallacii

  This dove ranges from the Moluccas to the eastern Lesser Sunda Islands and nearby regions. Red and white on the head contrasts with green wings, and it feeds on fruit in the canopy.

• Stripe-throated Wren Cantorchilus leucopogon

  The Stripe-throated Wren has a striped throat and reddish-brown tail. The account distinguishes a darker Pacific form from a paler, greyer Caribbean form.

• Ethiopian Swallow Hirundo aethiopica

  A small swallow with a reddish forehead, dark-blue upperparts and a deeply forked tail. It catches flying insects; its two subspecies occupy separate parts of Africa.

• Spotted Wood Owl Strix seloputo

  The Spotted Wood Owl lives in Southeast Asian forests. It is usually solitary or in pairs and feeds on rats, birds, and other animals.

• Plumbeous Rail Pardirallus sanguinolentus

  The head and underparts are gray, the back is olive-brown, and the legs are red. It uses a variety of waterside habitats, from Peruvian coastal lowlands to Andean wetlands.

• White-bellied Antbird Myrmeciza longipes

  In Panama, pairs of this antbird held territories year-round in second growth and forest edges. Males have rufous upperparts and a white belly; females have buff on the throat and breast.

• Mountain Chiffchaff Phylloscopus sindianus

  The Mountain Chiffchaff is a small leaf warbler of mountain woodland and alpine scrub. Its pale brown body is marked by a white eyebrow.

• Crested Tit Lophophanes cristatus

  A small tit with a striking black-and-white crest. In Britain it lives in pinewoods of northern Scotland and joins flocks of other tits in winter.

• Yellow-headed Manakin Chloropipo flavicapilla

  The male has a yellow head and olive back. It lives in the lower growth of Andean forest and feeds on fruit.