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• Chestnut-backed Owlet Glaucidium castanotum

  

  Adults have a chestnut back and a prominent white throat patch. Black streaks mark the underside, and the eyes are bright yellow. It lives in small groups in wet forest in southwestern Sri Lanka and hunts or calls in daylight. It mainly eats insects such as beetles, and also takes mice, small birds, and reptiles.

• Yellow Tyrannulet Capsiempis flaveola

  This small flycatcher occurs in Central and South America. Its upperparts are olive and its underside yellow, with faint yellow wingbars. It is recorded at forest edges, in secondary woodland, and along gallery forests.

• Red-flanked bluetail Tarsiger cyanurus

  A bird of shaded forest undergrowth that also visits lowlands in autumn and winter.

• Silver-rumped Spinetail Rhaphidura leucopygialis

  The Silver-rumped Spinetail is a small swift of Southeast Asian forests and their surroundings. Its dark body and silvery-white rump stand out, and it catches insects in flight.

• Moustached Babbler Malacopteron magnirostre

  The Moustached Babbler forages in small groups in the middle levels of Southeast Asian forest. It is brown above and whitish below, with a dark moustachial stripe.

• Streaked Weaver Ploceus manyar

  A weaver of the Indian subcontinent and parts of Southeast Asia, the Streaked Weaver may gather in flocks in grassy habitats.

• 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.

• Long-tailed Sibia Heterophasia picaoides

  The Long-tailed Sibia has a very long white-tipped tail and a white wing patch. It lives in forests from the Himalayas to Southeast Asia and feeds on insects, fruits, and other foods in the canopy.

• African Pygmy Goose Nettapus auritus

  The African Pygmy Goose is a perching duck despite its name. A male has a white face, green markings, and a bright yellow bill.

• Hooded Berryeater Carpornis cucullata

  The Hooded Berryeater lives in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest. Males have a black hood extending onto the chest and upper back, above vivid yellow underparts. A southern study recorded fruit feeding throughout the year.

• Mascarene Martin Phedina borbonica

  The Mascarene Martin is a small swallow about 15 cm long. It uses forests, mangroves and wetlands, catching insects in flight.

• Rusty Blackbird Euphagus carolinus

  The rusty blackbird shows rusty feather edges and pale eyes in winter. It breeds in northern forests and winters in the eastern United States.

• Green-backed Camaroptera Camaroptera brachyura

  The Green-backed Camaroptera is a small, rounded bird of thickets, with red eyes. The eastern coastal group is green-backed, while birds elsewhere are gray-backed; some authorities treat the groups as separate species.

• Black-faced Solitaire Myadestes melanops

  This thrush has a slate-grey body, black face and chin, and a broad orange bill. It lives in mountain forests of Costa Rica and western Panama.

• Subantarctic Shearwater Puffinus elegans

  The Subantarctic Shearwater is a small seabird that breeds on remote islands in the Southern Ocean. It nests in soil burrows, but New Zealand Birds Online says much of its biology remains poorly known.

• Kikuyu White-eye Zosterops kikuyuensis

  This white-eye occurs on mountains in central Kenya. Its recorded habitats include highland forest and forest edge, bamboo stands, wooded gardens, eucalyptus and conifer woods.

• Velvet-fronted Euphonia Euphonia concinna

  This small finch-like tanager occurs in the Colombian Andes. It feeds in the mid-levels and canopy of forest, taking fruit and small insects.

• Double-banded Plover Charadrius bicinctus

  This small plover occurs on New Zealand's beaches, estuaries and riverbeds. Its chestnut breast band changes with season, and many inland breeders move to the coast after breeding.

• Wrinkled Hornbill Rhabdotorrhinus corrugatus

  A lowland-forest hornbill known for the male's red wrinkled casque; it often feeds on fruit in the canopy.

• Yellow-crested Manakin Heterocercus flavivertex

  This manakin occurs in the lowlands of northern South America. At one study site in northern Venezuela it was observed in seasonally flooded forest and white-sand scrub woodland.

• Black-hooded Sierra Finch Phrygilus atriceps

  The Black-hooded Sierra Finch occurs in the central Andes. Males have a black hood and orange-rufous body, and forage on the ground in dry, sparse scrub.

• Silky-tailed Nightjar Antrostomus sericocaudatus

  The Silky-tailed Nightjar is a forest nightjar. In Misiones, Argentina, the nominate subspecies occurs in Atlantic Forest.

• Bell Miner Manorina melanophrys

  The Bell Miner is a colonial honeyeater of eucalyptus forests in eastern Australia. It feeds on lerps on leaves and on nectar.

• Bay-breasted Warbler Setophaga castanea

  This warbler has rich red-brown and creamy buff in summer, then becomes mostly green and white in fall. It searches lower branches of conifers on its breeding grounds.