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• Band-tailed Hornero Furnarius figulus

  

  A white eyebrow, rusty bars on the wings, and a rufous tail with black tips help identify it. It is recorded in open farmland with bushes, often near water.

• Fire-crested Alethe Alethe castanea

  A red-orange crest runs over the head. In western Uganda’s Budongo Forest, observers reported birds following people and searching disturbed leaf litter.

• Nicobar Parakeet Psittacula caniceps

  The pale grey head and dark facial bands are distinctive. This parakeet lives in coastal forest on a small group of Nicobar Islands.

• Western Crowned Warbler Phylloscopus occipitalis

  The Western Crowned Warbler breeds in the mountains of Central Asia and winters in forests on the Indian peninsula. It moves restlessly from branch to branch, searching among leaves for insects.

• Bare-faced Curassow Crax fasciolata

  The bare-faced curassow has a bare black area on its face and a curled crest. It forages on the ground for fruit and seeds.

• Brambling Fringilla montifringilla

  A bird with orange shoulders and breast that arrives in flocks for autumn and winter.

• Niam-niam Parrot Poicephalus crassus

  The adult Niam-niam Parrot has a brown head and neck, with grey ear coverts and green on the inner wing. It uses wooded savanna and riverine woodland in northern central Africa.

• Vervain Hummingbird Mellisuga minima

  This very small hummingbird is 6–7 cm long and has a relatively short bill. It is active by day and feeds mainly on nectar.

• White-browed Tit Poecile superciliosus

  This small bird of western China's mountain forests has a long white eyebrow and rusty-brown cheeks and breast. It conceals its nest in old rodent burrows or rock crevices on the ground.

• Sirkeer Malkoha Taccocua leschenaultii

  This cuckoo has rufous-brown, finely streaked plumage and a long white-tipped tail. The museum account describes the Indian nominate subspecies walking and feeding on the ground in dry scrub.

• Chachapoyas Antpitta Grallaria gravesi

  Birds of the World describes the Chachapoyas Antpitta as a recently recognized Peruvian endemic that remains little studied.

• Yellow-throated Miner Manorina flavigula

  This honeyeater lives in dry woodland and scrub on mainland Australia and searches for food on the ground and in trees.

• Japanese Night Heron Gorsachius goisagi

  A heron of dim lowland forests that walks the forest floor in search of earthworms and other small animals.

• Collared Owlet Taenioptynx brodiei

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

• Caspian Gull Larus cachinnans

  The Caspian Gull is a gull with a white head, long pale bill and long wings. In Britain, some arrive in late summer or autumn and spend the winter.

• Shelley's Sunbird Cinnyris shelleyi

  This African sunbird visits flowering trees in damp highland forest. A historical account records metallic green breeding plumage and a vivid red breast band in the adult male.

• Bar-winged Oriole Icterus maculialatus

  This oriole occurs from southern Mexico through Guatemala and El Salvador to Honduras. Its listed habitats include oak-pine scrub, moist montane areas, coffee plantations, and open places.

• Choco Brush Finch Atlapetes crassus

  This brushfinch lives in humid montane forest on the western Andes of Colombia and Ecuador. Yellow underparts, a black-sided face, and a tawny crown stripe are useful clues.

• Chin Hills Wren-Babbler Spelaeornis oatesi

  This wren-babbler has a very restricted range in Mizoram, eastern India, and the Chin Hills of northern Myanmar. It forages near the ground in dense montane undergrowth.

• Chestnut-headed Crake Anurolimnas castaneiceps

  The Chestnut-headed Crake has a chestnut head, neck, and breast, with an olive-brown body. It forages in dense vegetation and bamboo in wet forest.

• Killdeer Charadrius vociferus

  A North American plover of open ground. It runs, pauses, and searches the ground for insects.

• White-naped Monarch Carterornis pileatus

  It occurs on Halmahera and Buru in moist lowland forest. Salvadori's description of a male from Halmahera records a black forehead, back, wings and tail against a white crown, pale eye-area patches, white cheeks, chest and belly. A field report recorded small groups in logged forest and forest edges.

• Tropical Shearwater Puffinus bailloni

  The Tropical Shearwater dives for small fish and squid and breeds in burrows on islands. In Seychelles it has breeding sites on several islands.

• Southern Martin Progne elegans

  The Southern Martin moves seasonally across a broad part of South America. In Patagonia, Argentina, it is seen near water during the Southern Hemisphere spring and summer.