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• Inti Tanager Heliothraupis oneilli

  

  Heliothraupis oneilli was described from the lower Yungas of Peru and Bolivia. The study reports different recorded settings in the breeding season and dry season.

• Shining Bronze Cuckoo Chalcites lucidus

  In New Zealand, the Shining Bronze Cuckoo is a small migrant that arrives in spring and stays into autumn. Its back has a green sheen and its white underside is barred. It lays eggs in smaller birds' nests and leaves the care of its young to them.

• Woodland Kingfisher Halcyon senegalensis

  The Woodland Kingfisher is an African kingfisher with blue upperparts and wings and a white underside. A southern African regional guide records it as a summer resident.

• Okinawa Woodpecker Dendrocopos noguchii

  This woodpecker lives only in forests of northern Okinawa Island. It searches trunks and branches for food, eating nuts and insects.

• White-crowned Tapaculo Scytalopus atratus

  This small bird lives in humid montane forest on the eastern Andes of Peru. It forages near the ground and can be difficult to see.

• Predicted Antwren Herpsilochmus praedictus

  The Predicted Antwren occurs mainly between the Purus and Madeira rivers in the western Brazilian Amazon; its western limit is provisional.

• Narrow-tailed Starling Poeoptera lugubris

  Male Narrow-tailed Starlings are glossy blue-black, while females are grey with chestnut flight feathers. They feed mainly on fruit and flock in the canopy.

• Writhed Hornbill Rhabdotorrhinus leucocephalus

  The Writhed Hornbill is a Philippine hornbill whose males and females differ in head and neck color. It feeds on fruit high in the canopy of lowland forest.

• Comb Duck Sarkidiornis melanotos

  The male Comb Duck develops a large knob at the base of its bill. It feeds mainly on aquatic plants and seeds and nests in tree hollows near water.

• Grey-headed Babbler Stachyris poliocephala

  The Grey-headed Babbler lives in forests from southern Thailand through the Malay Peninsula to Sumatra and Borneo. It has a dark grey head with white lines and a chestnut body.

• Southern Pied Babbler Turdoides bicolor

  The Southern Pied Babbler lives in groups in dry savanna and has sharply contrasting black-and-white plumage.

• 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.

• Red-shouldered Hawk Buteo lineatus

  The Red-shouldered Hawk hunts from trees in forests and wetlands. Adult plumage varies by region, and juveniles have a different pattern.

• Ruddy Foliage-gleaner Clibanornis rubiginosus

  This ovenbird occurs in Amazonia and along the Andean foothills. Rufous-brown plumage, a rufous tail, and a gray ear patch help distinguish it.

• Rufous-naped Greenlet Hylophilus semibrunneus

  This small greenlet occurs in forests of Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela. Its nape is rusty brown and its back is greenish.

• Flappet Lark Amirafra rufocinnamomea

  Its narrow tail has dark-brown central feathers and rufous outer feathers. It lives in grassland and grassy openings in African woodland and savanna, searching the ground for small invertebrates and seeds.

• Madanga Madanga ruficollis

  This mountain bird is known only from Buru Island, Indonesia. During a 2006 survey, birds at 1,750 m clung to tree bark and fed in a nuthatch-like manner. Its habitat was described as montane forest with abundant epiphytes and stunted trees.

• Crested Caracara Caracara plancus

  The Crested Caracara is a falcon with a striking black cap, white neck, and yellow-orange face. It can also be seen walking on the ground in open country in the southern United States.

• Olive Finch Arremon castaneiceps

  This finch forages in the understory of humid montane forest on Peru’s eastern Andes. Its olive-green body and rufous crown stand out, while the sides of the head, throat, and breast are gray.

• Socorro Parakeet Psittacara brevipes

  This parakeet occurs on Socorro Island off Mexico. It was recorded in the island forest, and a field study documented feeding on native fruits and seeds.

• Yellow Thornbill Acanthiza nana

  A small bird of eastern Australia, often in open woodland and shrubland. Its yellowish underside and white cheek streaks stand out as it forages among leaves.

• 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.

• Rufous-bellied Triller Lalage aurea

  This triller is endemic to the North Moluccas. It feeds on insects in lowland and mangrove forest.

• White-backed Swallow Cheramoeca leucosterna

  This swallow inhabits arid and semi-arid parts of southern and central Australia. It breeds in open country where sandy banks or earth cliffs are available.