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• Chestnut Sparrow Passer eminibey

  

  A breeding male is deep chestnut from head to body, while the female is paler brown with chestnut on the rump and wing coverts. The sparrows feed on grass seeds on the ground and occur in small groups.

• Buff-fronted Foliage-gleaner Dendroma rufa

  This foliage-gleaner ranges across parts of Central and South America. It forages in the subcanopy and along edges of semi-open subtropical forest, moving quickly along branches in search of invertebrates.

• Buff-rumped Thornbill Acanthiza reguloides

  This small bird occurs in forests and grasslands of southeastern Australia. It searches for insects among ground litter and branches and may forage in groups.

• Lesser Crested Tern Thalasseus bengalensis

  A large tern with a long, bright-orange bill. It lives along tropical and subtropical coasts and catches small fish and shrimp in shallow water.

• Esmeraldas Antbird Sipia nigricauda

  An antbird of the Pacific slope from western Colombia to western Ecuador. It searches low in the dark understorey of humid foothill forest.

• Wilson's Snipe Gallinago delicata

  A snipe of North American wetlands. It probes wet soil with its long bill for insect larvae, worms, and other small prey.

• Ashy-fronted Bulbul Pycnonotus cinereifrons

  The Ashy-fronted Bulbul occurs on Palawan and nearby islands in the western Philippines. It is treated here as the separate species Pycnonotus cinereifrons, rather than under older treatments that included it as a subspecies of the Olive-winged Bulbul. It eats fruit in forest edges and coastal scrub.

• Red-billed Firefinch Lagonosticta senegala

  Males have noticeable red plumage, while females are mostly brown. Their plumage differs by sex.

• Pycroft's Petrel Pterodroma pycrofti

  Pycroft's Petrel breeds on islands off the northeastern North Island of New Zealand. It is active at night around colonies and feeds on small crustaceans and squid near the sea surface during long flights.

• Rufous-vented Grass Babbler Laticilla burnesii

  The Rufous-vented Grass Babbler lives in wetlands and reedbeds. It is brown above, with fine streaks below and rich rufous feathers under the tail.

• Oriental Cuckoo Cuculus optatus

  The Oriental Cuckoo is a migratory cuckoo that breeds in forests. Females include both grey and rufous plumage forms.

• White-throated Babbler Argya gularis

  It inhabits dry scrub in central and southern Myanmar, feeding in small groups mainly on the ground.

• Black-chested Fruiteater Pipreola lubomirskii

  This fruiteater occurs in Andean forest from southern Colombia through Ecuador to northern Peru. It eats mainly fruit and forages in the lower and middle forest levels.

• Common Nighthawk Chordeiles minor

  It has long wings with white patches and hunts flying insects at dusk and dawn. It lays its eggs on open ground or flat gravel rooftops.

• Grimwood's Longclaw Macronyx grimwoodi

  This African bird walks through wet, open grassland and searches the ground for small animals.

• Carunculated Caracara Phalcoboenus carunculatus

  The Carunculated Caracara is a raptor of open Andean highlands, notable for its orange face and white streaks on a dark chest.

• Forest Fody Foudia omissa

  This small bird is endemic to Madagascar. The breeding-plumage male has red on the head, throat, upper breast, and rump, with dark streaks on the olive-brown back. Females and males outside the breeding season are described separately, with olive-brown upperparts and a pale buff belly. It searches trees and shrubs for seeds, fruit, and insects.

• Red-bellied Macaw Orthopsittaca manilatus

  This macaw has a green body, bare yellow facial skin, a bluish head, and a reddish-brown belly patch. It occurs in northern and central-western Brazil and Venezuela.

• Collared Warbling Finch Poospiza hispaniolensis

  The Collared Warbling Finch occurs in Ecuador and Peru. Males show a white eyebrow and breast band, while females are browner and have dark streaks on the breast and belly.

• Red-and-blue Lory Eos histrio

  A parrot with mainly red plumage and blue-purple bands on the head and chest. It occurs in Indonesia’s Talaud Islands and feeds on nectar and fruit.

• Pin-tailed Manakin Ilicura militaris

  Males are mainly green, black, and white with a red tail, while females are olive-colored and shorter-tailed. Males perform courtship dances and make sounds with their wing feathers.

• White-tailed Sabrewing Campylopterus ensipennis

  This hummingbird occurs on Tobago and nearby areas. Males have a blue throat, while females are grayer, and both have conspicuous long white tail feathers. It hovers at flowers to take nectar and small insects.

• Blyth's Kingfisher Alcedo hercules

  It is a kingfisher with a blue back, orange underparts, red eyes, and coral-colored legs. The Bangladesh account describes it fishing near streams.

• Buff-breasted Wren Cantorchilus leucotis

  It lives in secondary lowland forest along rivers from central Panama through northern South America. Pairs sing duets, and the birds search the understory for terrestrial invertebrates.