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• Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos

  

  A sandpiper that breeds on Arctic tundra and migrates south, mostly to South America. Its stippled breast ends sharply at a white belly.

• Shiny Cowbird Molothrus bonariensis

  Male Shiny Cowbirds are glossy deep purple, while females are brown. They are brood parasites, laying eggs in other birds’ nests and leaving the hosts to raise the young.

• Intermediate Egret Ardea intermedia

  A heron often seen in rice fields, intermediate in size between the Little and Great Egrets.

• Wood Pipit Anthus nyassae

  The Wood Pipit searches the grassy floor of woodland for insects and other small invertebrates in south-central Africa.

• Eastern Red-rumped Swallow Cecropis daurica

  In Hong Kong, this swallow is recorded most often from autumn into winter. It flies over lowland fish ponds and catches insects in the air.

• Purple-breasted Sunbird Nectarinia purpureiventris

  This sunbird lives in the forests of the Albertine Rift. Breeding males show a long tail and iridescent colors, and forage at flowering trees.

• Guadalupe Junco Junco insularis

  This junco is endemic to Guadalupe Island. It has a grayish head, white underparts and white outer tail sides, and forages in trees and on the ground.

• White-striped Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes leucogaster

  A Mexican woodcreeper. The Sonora subspecies was described with grayer wing coverts; the species account lists pine and tropical deciduous forests among its habitats.

• Bar-tailed Lark Ammomanes cinctura

  This small lark has inconspicuous plumage. It forages on the desert ground in small flocks and seeks shade during the hottest part of the day.

• Purple-bibbed Whitetip Urosticte benjamini

  The Purple-bibbed Whitetip was recorded visiting flowers during camera monitoring at Un poco del Chocó reserve in Pichincha Province, Ecuador. John Gould's historical account describes Ecuadorian males and females, while a 2006 taxonomic paper revisited confusion among related forms.

• Buff-throated Warbler Phylloscopus subaffinis

  The Buff-throated Warbler is a small leaf warbler with an olive-brown back and pale buff eyebrow and throat. It breeds in the mountains of China and moves to lowlands as far south as northern Indochina for winter.

• Oriental Plover Charadrius veredus

  This migratory plover searches for insects in dry, open country. The breeding male has broad orange and black breast bands, while nonbreeding plumage is mottled brown.

• Pied Thrush Geokichla wardii

  The male has striking black-and-white markings. The species breeds in Himalayan forests and moves south for the winter.

• Banded Whiteface Aphelocephala nigricincta

  This small bird inhabits Australia's dry interior. Its brown back and white underparts are divided by a black breast band.

• 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.

• Bahama Warbler Setophaga flavescens

  This warbler occurs on Grand Bahama and Abaco in the Bahamas. A 2018 survey on Grand Bahama recorded birds searching pine trunks and palm leaves for small invertebrates.

• Black-necklaced Scimitar Babbler Erythrogenys erythrocnemis

  Endemic to Taiwan, this scimitar babbler has olive-brown upperparts, rufous-brown face and flanks, and white throat and belly. Dark marks on the upper breast help distinguish it.

• Red-capped Manakin Ceratopipra mentalis

  The Red-capped Manakin is a small bird of the understory in humid forests from Central America to northwestern South America. Males have red heads, females are green, and both may be found around fruiting trees.

• Black-backed Antshrike Thamnophilus melanonotus

  This antshrike is recorded from Colombia north toward northwestern Venezuela. It uses forest understorey and mid-storey, as well as scrub beside shallow streams, and forages close to the ground.

• Stiles's Tapaculo Scytalopus stilesi

  Stiles's Tapaculo lives in humid montane forest in Colombia's Central Cordillera. It has dark plumage and searches for food in undergrowth and near the forest floor.

• Greater White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons

  A brown goose with a white patch at the bill. It occurs across the Northern Hemisphere and gathers in wetlands and fields in winter.

• Pygmy Hanging Parrot Loriculus exilis

  This small parrot, about 11 cm long, lives on Sulawesi in Indonesia. It is green with a red throat patch and rump, and hanging parrots rest upside down.

• Plaintive Cuckoo Cacomantis merulinus

  The Plaintive Cuckoo is a small cuckoo with a gray head and breast and reddish underparts. It uses habitats from forest to parks, and brood parasitism on Ashy Tailorbirds is recorded in Singapore.

• Rufous Babbler Argya subrufa

  This babbler has rich brown upperparts and rufous underparts. In forests and thickets of the Western Ghats, groups forage on the ground.