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• White-tailed Cotinga Xipholena lamellipennis

  

  This cotinga occurs in lower Amazonian Brazil south of the Amazon River. The male is purplish black, with white on most of the tail and wings. The species is poorly known and is reported as apparently nowhere common.

• Long-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus climacurus

  A long-tailed nightjar with different male and female plumage. It uses African habitats from arid semi-desert to savanna and lowland forest clearings, catching insects in flight.

• Upland Pipit Anthus sylvanus

  The Upland Pipit is a large pipit with heavy dark streaks. It is found on grass-covered rocky slopes and in high-altitude meadows.

• Red-headed Falcon Falco chicquera

  This falcon is marked by a chestnut-red head and cheek stripe. The account here covers the nominate subspecies in South Asia.

• Black Bishop Euplectes gierowii

  A bird with separated populations in western, central and eastern Africa. Breeding males are conspicuous for a black head and rump with an orange-yellow back.

• Brown-hooded Parrot Pyrilia haematotis

  The Brown-hooded Parrot is a medium-sized parrot that feeds on fruit in the canopy of humid tropical forest. Costa Rican observations describe pairs and small flocks.

• White-lined Tanager Tachyphonus rufus

  Males are black, with white lines under the wings visible in flight; females are rufous brown. In Brazil the species also occurs at forest edges, in scrub, secondary growth and gardens, where pairs forage low in the vegetation.

• Horned Parakeet Eunymphicus cornutus

  The Horned Parakeet is endemic to New Caledonia, where pairs and small groups move through forest canopy.

• Black Manakin Xenopipo atronitens

  This manakin uses low forest on nutrient-poor soils. Males are glossy black and females dark olive; the account reports it in Peru and also in Colombia, Brazil and Bolivia.

• White-sided Hillstar Oreotrochilus leucopleurus

  The White-sided Hillstar is a hummingbird of rocky Andean habitats. Males have a blue throat and white underside, females a grey underside; both feed on nectar and insects.

• Chattering Kingfisher Todiramphus tutus

  The Chattering Kingfisher is a South Pacific kingfisher with a blue-green back and bold white eyebrows. It catches insects in the air or among branches.

• Bicolored Wren Campylorhynchus griseus

  This large wren has a striking white eyebrow and rufous-brown back. It uses dry scrub and cactus habitat, and family groups call to one another.

• Malabar Starling Sturnia blythii

  This starling occurs in India's Western Ghats. It also uses open woodland, farmland with scattered trees, and places near settlements. A 2022 study followed one nest as the parents provisioned their chicks.

• Javan Plover Charadrius javanicus

  It is a small plover recorded in Indonesia and Timor-Leste, with an incomplete white hindneck collar and pale, long legs.

• Gillett's Lark Calendulauda gilletti

  This lark occurs in eastern Ethiopia, Somalia, and Kenya. It has brown streaking and a rufous crown and searches for prey on the ground in semi-arid savanna. The source's treatment includes the former Degodi Lark.

• Blue-billed Curassow Crax alberti

  The Blue-billed Curassow is a large forest bird of Colombia. It feeds mainly on the ground, and its remaining wild habitat is limited to a few small forest remnants.

• Crested Argus Rheinardia ocellata

  The Crested Argus is a pheasant whose male has exceptionally long tail feathers. It lives in remaining evergreen forests along the Annamite Mountains of Vietnam and Laos.

• Salinas Monjita Neoxolmis salinarum

  A localized tyrant flycatcher of saline steppe around Argentina's Salinas Grandes and Ambargasta flats. It has a white underside and eyebrow, and the published nesting evidence is one nest placed in a low shrub.

• Southern Pochard Netta erythrophthalma

  The Southern Pochard lives around Andean wetlands and flowing waters, often in pairs or small groups.

• Brown Wood Rail Aramides wolfi

  The Brown Wood Rail is a chicken-sized rail with a yellow bill and pink legs. It keeps to streams and marshy areas in humid forest, where paired birds may call together.

• Yellow-breasted Fruit Dove Ptilinopus occipitalis

  The Yellow-breasted Fruit Dove lives in forests of the Philippines. It has green upperparts, a gray head, yellow breast, and maroon marks on the belly and behind the eye.

• Azure Tit Cyanistes cyanus

  It has a white head, a dark line through the eye, and blue, grey and white plumage. A European account describes it as favoring bushes near fresh water.

• Goliath Heron Ardea goliath

  A large heron that waits for fish in shallow water. Its grey body contrasts with its chestnut head, neck, and belly.

• Negros Scops Owl Otus nigrorum

  This small owl lives in forests on Negros and Panay in the Philippines. Its dark brown plumage, upright ear tufts, and orange-red eye rims are distinctive.