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• Olive Manakin Xenopipo uniformis

  

  It occurs in Venezuela’s tepui highlands and nearby uplands at the Brazil–Guyana border. Its plumage is uniformly olive, with slightly paler, greyer underparts.

• Fulvous Wren Cinnycerthia fulva

  The Fulvous Wren occurs in the eastern Andes of southeastern Peru and Bolivia. It is olive-rufous, with a pale eyebrow and throat and dark bars on the wings and tail.

• Salim Ali's Swift Apus salimalii

  This swift breeds on the eastern Tibetan Plateau and in adjacent western Sichuan. Its wintering range remains unknown.

• Yellow-ringed White-eye Zosterops wallacei

  This white-eye is recorded on Sumba Island, Indonesia, in forest, forest edge, scrub, and cultivated land.

• Brown Noddy Anous stolidus

  A tern that breeds in colonies on small islands in tropical and subtropical seas. Adults are dark brown, with a white forehead fading to grey at the nape, and take fish and squid near the ocean surface.

• Stephan's Emerald Dove Chalcophaps stephani

  This dove searches for food while walking across shaded, damp forest floors. When alarmed, it may pause, fly a short distance, and land close to the ground.

• Tawny-breasted Wren-Babbler Spelaeornis longicaudatus

  This small bird has a restricted range in northeast India. It lives mostly on the forest floor among mossy rocks and crevices.

• Grey-chinned Minivet Pericrocotus solaris

  The Grey-chinned Minivet differs in its red or yellow plumage by sex. In Hong Kong it is recorded almost exclusively in closed-canopy woodland, and some birds appear to move to lower areas in winter.

• Blyth's Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone affinis

  It launches from high branches to catch insects in the air. Females and first-winter birds have conspicuous chestnut backs and tails.

• Magellanic Snipe Gallinago magellanica

  This snipe has a slender olive bill and patterned brown plumage. In Chile it is recorded from Atacama to Cape Horn, using wet grassland and waterside vegetation.

• Nēnē (Hawaiian Goose) Branta sandvicensis

  A goose from the Hawaiian Islands that spends much time on land and eats a varied plant diet.

• Black-crowned Sparrow-Lark Eremopterix nigriceps

  The Black-crowned Sparrow-Lark lives in dry, open country from Africa into the Arabian Peninsula and searches for seeds on the ground.

• Fearful Owl Asio solomonensis

  The Fearful Owl is a medium-sized owl without ear-tufts. White markings form an X across its face, and it has yellow eyes and streaked brown plumage.

• Guira Cuckoo Guira guira

  A cuckoo of open South American habitats that forages on the ground with others and may share a communal nest.

• Red-capped Forest-warbler Artisornis metopias

  This small bird occurs in montane areas of Tanzania and Mozambique. Its head and neck are rufous, and it feeds mostly on insects.

• Rufescent Tiger Heron Tigrisoma lineatum

  The Rufescent Tiger-Heron has a long rufous neck and a streaked throat, and waits for prey by the water. Adult and juvenile plumages differ greatly.

• Northern Pied Babbler Turdoides hypoleuca

  A babbler found in central Kenya and eastern and northeastern Tanzania. It forages on the ground near cover and moves in family parties or larger groups.

• Yellow-throated Nightingale-Thrush Catharus dryas

  The Yellow-throated Nightingale-Thrush lives in Central American cloud forests. Its dark face and throat, yellow-orange eye-ring, and spotted pale underparts are useful identification marks.

• Black-bellied Seedcracker Pyrenestes ostrinus

  This finch has black and dark red plumage, and individuals differ in bill size. Adults eat seeds, while parents feed nestlings a soft diet made mostly of insects.

• Himalayan Monal Lophophorus impejanus

  A pheasant of high Asian mountain forests whose male and female plumages differ markedly; it digs for food with its bill.

• Rüppell's Starling Lamprotornis purpuroptera

  This starling inhabits grassland and scrub in eastern Africa. Adults have glossy blue-green and purple plumage with a long tail, and feed on fruit, insects, and other available food.

• Gray-breasted Martin Progne chalybea

  The Gray-breasted Martin is a social swallow often found near towns and water. It catches insects in flight and nests in building crevices or tree cavities.

• White-cheeked Cotinga Zaratornis stresemanni

  The White-cheeked Cotinga has a black cap, white cheeks, dark spots and streaks, and a rusty central belly. It occurs on Peru's western Andean slope and forages in Polylepis woodland.

• Northern cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis

  A bird of North American woodland edges and thickets. Males are bright red and females mainly brown with red accents; both have crests.