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• Sharp-tailed Grouse Tympanuchus phasianellus

  

  The Sharp-tailed Grouse lives in North American grasslands and shrublands. In spring, males inflate their throat sacs and stamp their feet during courtship.

• Pesquet's Parrot Psittrichas fulgidus

  Pesquet’s Parrot has a mostly bare face, dark upperparts, and red lower belly and underwings. Adult males have a red mark behind the eye.

• Riverbank Warbler Myiothlypis rivularis

  The Riverbank Warbler lives in lowland forests and wet places along South American rivers. It has a dark crown, white eyebrow, green upperparts, and a pale underside.

• Socotra Sparrow Passer insularis

  The Socotra Sparrow is a sparrow of Yemen’s Socotra Archipelago. This entry follows BirdLife’s treatment of Passer insularis as a species.

• Gabela Akalat Sheppardia gabela

  The Gabela Akalat is a small forest bird from west-central Angola. A 2003 survey added records near Conda and Seles, including low secondary growth, forest edge, and regenerating coffee forest.

• Black-banded Crake Rufirallus fasciatus

  The Black-banded Crake forages in river-edge thickets and fallow fields near water. A Peru account reports it as common in the northeast and rare in the southeast.

• Seychelles Sunbird Cinnyris dussumieri

  This small sunbird has a slender, curved bill. In breeding plumage, the male shows an iridescent blue throat and yellow tufts; the female is subdued grey-brown.

• Ochre-fronted Antpitta Grallaricula ochraceifrons

  The Ochre-fronted Antpitta is a small bird endemic to Peru. Males have an ochre forehead and face, and the species lives in humid montane forest on the eastern Andes.

• Christmas Shearwater Puffinus nativitatis

  This dark shearwater flies close to the sea, dives for prey and breeds on islands in the tropical and subtropical Pacific.

• Zitting Cisticola Cisticola juncidis

  A small grassland bird with white-tipped tail feathers; birds in northern Japan move to warmer areas in autumn and winter.

• Mountain Swiftlet Aerodramus hirundinaceus

  The Mountain Swiftlet occurs on New Guinea. It flies in flocks over highland forests, catches insects in the air and breeds colonially in caves.

• Sanderling Calidris alba

  A small shorebird that runs along the water’s edge, probing wet sand for tiny prey with a short black bill and black legs.

• Crescent Honeyeater Phylidonyris pyrrhopterus

  This honeyeater occurs in the hilly, montane and coastal woodlands and forests of southeastern Australia. A regional account also describes birds moving to lower areas in winter.

• Brown Bush-Warbler Locustella luteoventris

  The Brown Bush Warbler is a rare winter visitor in Hong Kong, where it hides in tall grass and reedbeds.

• Spectacled Finch Callacanthis burtoni

  A female observed in western Bhutan had conspicuous yellow-orange skin around the eye and a heavy yellowish bill.

• 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.

• White-throated Magpie-Jay Cyanocorax formosus

  The White-throated Magpie-Jay is a large jay with a conspicuous white face and crest and a long tail. It ranges from southern Mexico into Central America and travels in small groups.

• Red-tailed Comet Sappho sparganurus

  This hummingbird occurs in the Andes from near Peru and Bolivia south to central Argentina. It uses dry open habitats up to and above the treeline.

• Ecuadorian Seedeater Amaurospiza aequatorialis

  This bird is recorded in bamboo stands in Ecuador and northwestern Peru. Recent Ecuadorian and Peruvian records describe feeding on seeds and insects in bamboo.

• Blue-eyed Ground Dove Columbina cyanopis

  The Blue-eyed Ground Dove is a small dove with striking blue eyes. It is associated with Brazil's Cerrado and was rediscovered in northern Minas Gerais in 2015.

• Swamp Grass Babbler Laticilla cinerascens

  The Swamp Grass Babbler lives in wet grasslands from northeastern India to northern Bangladesh and searches for insects in pairs or family parties. It has a long tail, a pale spot in front of the eye, and a narrow pale eye-ring.

• Nightingale Wren Microcerculus philomela

  This wren lives on the forest floor in wet evergreen forests from southeastern Mexico to Costa Rica. It is hard to see in dense cover, but its song can reveal its presence.

• Mountain Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus trivirgatus

  The Mountain Leaf Warbler is a small bird that searches among leaves for insects in Borneo's montane forests. Pale lines bordering its dark crown are a useful field mark.

• Black-winged Monarch Monarcha frater

  This monarch uses forests in New Guinea and far northeastern Australia. In the nominate New Guinea subspecies, the area around the eye is gray. Migration is reported only for the Australian subspecies.