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• Superb Starling Lamprotornis superbus

  

  The Superb Starling is an East African bird with a blue-green breast, a white band, and a reddish belly. It forages on the ground in small flocks.

• Tawny-throated Dotterel Oreopholus ruficollis

  This dotterel uses open grassland and stony ground in the Andes and elsewhere in South America. Adults have a tawny throat, and the sexes look similar.

• Monotonous Lark Mirafra passerina

  The Monotonous Lark is a ground-foraging bird of dry scrub and woodland. The Namibian account describes it as solitary or in pairs.

• Wattled Guan Aburria aburri

  The Wattled Guan is a large, all-black bird with a blue bill and a long red-and-yellow wattle hanging from its throat. It lives in humid Andean montane forest and eats fruit.

• Swainson's Francolin Pternistis swainsonii

  Swainson's Francolin is a southern African bird that uses grasslands, woodland edges, farmland, and watersides. It searches on the ground for seeds and insects.

• Austral Negrito Lessonia rufa

  A flycatcher that walks on the ground near lakes, rivers and wetlands to find insects. Birds in north-western Patagonia spend summer there and move to central Argentina in winter.

• Ringed Teal Callonetta leucophrys

  The Ringed Teal is a small duck of South American wetlands and ponds, with different facial patterns in males and females.

• Water Rail Rallus aquaticus

  A secretive rail that breeds in wetlands in Britain and Ireland. Birds arriving from continental Europe add to the winter population.

• Spot-winged Pigeon Patagioenas maculosa

  The Spot-winged Pigeon is a medium-sized pigeon with pale spots across its wings.

• Grey-banded Babbler Robsonius sorsogonensis

  This ground-dwelling bird inhabits forests in southern Luzon, Philippines. It has long legs and a long tail, with dark brown upperparts and rufous-brown wings and tail.

• African Blue Tit Cyanistes teneriffae

  A small tit with blue upperparts and a yellow underside. It inhabits woodland and scrub in the Canary Islands and North Africa, with some regional variation in wing markings.

• Bare-throated Tiger Heron Tigrisoma mexicanum

  The Bare-throated Tiger Heron is a large heron that waits for prey beside rivers and wetlands.

• Collared Owlet Taenioptynx brodiei

  A small owl with gray and rufous plumage forms, it lives in mountains and foothills.

• Hepatic Tanager Piranga hepatica

  This tanager ranges from the United States to Nicaragua. The Texas atlas distinguishes P. hepatica from the older broad treatment as P. flava and describes its Texas breeding habitat in dry juniper-pinyon or pine-oak woodland.

• Grey Crow Corvus tristis

  This crow has bare pink facial skin and pale blue eyes. It is often seen in noisy groups in forests around New Guinea.

• Jamaican Blackbird Nesopsar nigerrimus

  This bird is endemic to Jamaica. Its black plumage has a blue gloss on the head and back. In montane forest with many epiphytes, it uses its long bill to search for food.

• Tapajos Antpitta Myrmothera subcanescens

  This antpitta occurs south of the Amazon River in Brazil. A field account describes grayer flanks, a browner and less olive back, and shorter streaks than in a close relative.

• Humblot's Sunbird Cinnyris humbloti

  Oiseaux.net lists two subspecies on Grand Comoro and Moheli in the Comoros. The species is about 11 cm long and also uses moist lowland forest, shrubland and rural gardens.

• Sulphur-breasted Warbler Phylloscopus ricketti

  A yellow brow and crown stripe stand out on this small warbler, whose underside is also yellow. The source records observation sites in Thailand.

• Rufous-vented Yuhina Yuhina occipitalis

  A field guide describes a small bird with grey and rufous in its crest. It lives in eastern Himalayan evergreen forest and forages in the canopy and among mossy trunks and branches.

• Chestnut Woodpecker Celeus elegans

  This 26–32 cm woodpecker forages on trunks and branches by day, taking invertebrates from bark.

• Western Red-billed Hornbill Tockus kempi

  This small hornbill lives in savannas and open woodland in West Africa. Its pied plumage and long, slender red bill stand out.

• Red-pate Cisticola Cisticola ruficeps

  The Red-pate Cisticola is mainly an East African bird, with confirmed records in northeast Nigeria. The rust-red crown and gray back described below apply only to the breeding-plumaged scotoptera subspecies.

• Christmas Island Thrush Turdus erythropleurus

  Turdus erythropleurus occurs on Christmas Island. The Parks Australia account treats it as a subspecies of Turdus poliocephalus under an older classification.