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• Hispaniolan Parakeet Psittacara chloropterus

  

  The Hispaniolan Parakeet is a green parrot native to Hispaniola. A city survey in the Dominican Republic found that records were associated with the richness of tree species.

• Ash-colored Tapaculo Myornis senilis

  This tapaculo lives in Andean montane forest. It is mostly gray, feeds near the ground, and appears to be associated with bamboo stands.

• Rufous-eared Brush Finch Atlapetes rufigenis

  The Rufous-eared Brush-Finch is endemic to Peru. It forages in Andean scrub and Polylepis forest; its rufous head and black-and-white facial markings are distinctive.

• Black-bellied Plover Pluvialis squatarola

  A large plover that breeds in the Arctic and feeds on coastal mudflats during migration and winter. Breeding-plumaged males show a sharp black-and-white pattern.

• Fuscous Honeyeater Ptilotula fusca

  This olive-brown honeyeater has a yellow patch on the side of its neck and uses dry eucalypt forest and woodland in eastern Australia. Some birds move to lower elevations in winter.

• Santa Marta Antbird Drymophila hellmayri

  The Santa Marta Antbird is restricted to Colombia's Santa Marta Mountains. Its eBird species account places it in bamboo and says it is often detected first by voice.

• Pale-bellied Hermit Phaethornis anthophilus

  This hummingbird is recorded from Panama, Colombia, and Venezuela. It also uses dry woodland, semi-deciduous forest, and shrubby edges.

• Snow-capped Manakin Lepidothrix nattereri

  The Snow-capped Manakin lives in lowland humid forest in Brazil and Bolivia. Males are marked by white on the crown, nape, and rump.

• Swallow-tailed Cotinga Phibalura flavirostris

  This cotinga has a patchy range in eastern South America. Its black head, yellow throat, and long forked tail stand out.

• Black-faced Monarch Monarcha melanopsis

  This tree-dwelling bird lives in forests and woodlands along eastern Australia and catches insects among foliage or in flight.

• Salim Ali's Swift Apus salimalii

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

• Taita Apalis Apalis fuscigularis

  This apalis occurs in forest fragments in the Taita Hills of southeastern Kenya. It has sooty-gray upperparts, a black throat and breast, and gleans small invertebrates from low vegetation.

• Spotted Nightjar Eurostopodus argus

  The Spotted Nightjar is an Australian nightjar that rests on the ground by day and becomes active at dusk and night.

• Gray-breasted Wood-Wren Henicorhina leucophrys

  The Gray-breasted Wood-Wren forages in the understory of Andean montane forest. Its white eyebrow and gray throat and breast are useful field marks.

• Tiny Hawk Microspizias superciliosus

  This small hawk inhabits humid lowland forest from Central America into South America. Fine barring and a long banded tail mark its shape; it hunts small birds, including hummingbirds.

• Cardinal Quelea Quelea cardinalis

  An early twentieth-century African bird account records Cardinal Queleas breeding in eastern African grass and scrub. It describes the adult male's throat as bright scarlet and the rear crown as mottled with black.

• Jacobin Cuckoo Clamator jacobinus

  Adults show a strong contrast between black upperparts and wings and a white underside. The cuckoo ranges from sub-Saharan Africa to the Indian subcontinent.

• Jungle Babbler Argya striata

  The Jungle Babbler is a social bird of the Indian subcontinent, often found foraging in cultivated areas and gardens.

• Great Black-headed Gull Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus

  Great Black-headed Gulls breed from the Black Sea region east to Mongolia and move south for winter. In Hong Kong, they have been recorded on an estuary mudflat during winter and passage periods.

• Cachar Wedge-billed Babbler Stachyris roberti

  A babbler of evergreen forests in northeast India and neighboring areas. Its dark brown plumage is spotted white, and it has a strong wedge-shaped bill.

• Ural owl Strix uralensis

  A forest owl with mixed white and brown plumage, found in Eurasia including Japan.

• Silvereye Zosterops lateralis

  A small bird seen in Australia and other regions, with a conspicuous white eye-ring. It eats insects, fruit and nectar.

• White-winged Lark Alauda leucoptera

  The White-winged Lark is a lark whose white wing patches stand out in flight. It uses dry steppe and fields, and may gather in flocks outside the breeding season.

• Ruwenzori Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris stuhlmanni

  The current name is Cinnyris stuhlmanni, but a 1949 Ruwenzori account uses the older name Nectarinia afer stuhlmanni and describes males there. Current data place it in Burundi, DR Congo, Rwanda and Uganda.