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• Jamaican Vireo Vireo modestus

  

  The Jamaican Vireo is a small, rounded bird with gray-green to olive plumage, a white iris, white wing bars, pale yellow underparts, and bluish-gray legs. It hides in dense vegetation, eats insects and small fruit, and occurs at forest edges and roadsides across elevations in Jamaica.

• Double-barred Finch Taeniopygia bichenovii

  The Double-barred Finch is a small Australian finch that eats seeds and insects in dry grassy woodland and scrub. It is also recorded near water and on farmland.

• Black Bittern Botaurus flavicollis

  The Black Bittern is a dark bittern with a yellow patch on the neck. It roosts in tree-lined wetlands and mangroves, feeding on fish and amphibians.

• Long-billed Starthroat Heliomaster longirostris

  The Long-billed Starthroat is marked by a long, straight bill and white markings on the cheek and tail tips. The Bolivian account describes it searching vegetation at different heights and darting after flying insects.

• Yellow-vented Warbler Phylloscopus cantator

  The Yellow-vented Warbler uses mountain bamboo and evergreen broadleaf forest during the breeding season and moves southeast in winter. The nominate subspecies described in the source is yellow with a white belly.

• Mongolian Short-toed Lark Calandrella dukhunensis

  The Mongolian Short-toed Lark is a small lark that breeds in dry sandy steppe in eastern Mongolia. It has brown upperparts and warm rufous-buff on the sides of the breast.

• Malherbe's Parakeet Cyanoramphus malherbi

  This small green parakeet has blue on the wings, a yellow crown, and an orange band above the eyes. Its native range is restricted to beech-forest valleys on New Zealand’s South Island.

• Rufous-browed Hemispingus Poospiza rufosuperciliaris

  This small tanager inhabits high elevations in Peru's eastern Andes. Its broad rufous eyebrow contrasts with the gray plumage, and it occurs in humid montane forest and scrub.

• Red-throated Crag-Martin Ptyonoprogne rufigula

  The Red-throated Crag-Martin is a small swallow found widely in western and eastern Africa. It is dull brown, uses rocky and arid habitats, and attaches mud nests to cliffs or buildings.

• Correndera Pipit Anthus correndera

  The Correndera Pipit has a dark-streaked back and pale belly. It searches for insects in wet grassland near lakes and ponds.

• Tawny-collared Nightjar Antrostomus salvini

  A nightjar of the lowlands of northeastern Mexico, inhabiting dry scrub and open areas with scattered bushes.

• White-eyed Buzzard Butastur teesa

  The White-eyed Buzzard is a raptor with conspicuously pale eyes and throat. It is recorded in the Kaiga survey area in India and eats insects as well as small vertebrates.

• Pale-eyed Blackbird Agelasticus xanthophthalmus

  This bird has glossy black plumage and a pale eye. An adult was recorded at Cocha Cashu, Peru, in 1982; the species account lists wet grasslands and grassy margins of oxbow lakes as habitat.

• Australian Fairy Tern Sternula nereis

  A small tern that nests on sandy beaches and dives into shallow water to catch fish.

• Saffron-crested Tyrant-Manakin Neopelma chrysocephalum

  It occurs in scrub and open woodland on sandy soils from the Guianas to the northern Amazon. It is usually solitary and searches low vegetation for small fruits and insects.

• Red-throated Ant Tanager Habia fuscicauda

  This bird occurs in the understory of lowland tropical forest and woodland, often in small groups. It may join army-ant swarms. Males have a small dark mask between eye and bill, while females have a contrasting buff throat. Current eBird uses Driophlox fuscicauda; the AOU account uses Habia fuscicauda.

• Black-chinned Babbler Cyanoderma pyrrhops

  The Black-chinned Babbler has olive-buff plumage, a black throat and lores, and a red eye. It is often seen in small groups and forages near the ground.

• Trumpeter Hornbill Bycanistes bucinator

  A large hornbill of forests from Kenya and Angola to eastern southern Africa. It feeds mainly on fruit and nests in tree cavities, which the female seals during breeding.

• Thrush-like Antpitta Myrmothera campanisona

  This ground antbird lives near the forest floor. In eastern Ecuador, adults were observed incubating two eggs in a nest built low among grasses.

• Burrowing owl Athene cunicularia

  A small, long-legged owl that uses burrows in the ground for nesting and shelter.

• Mindanao Miniature-babbler Micromacronus sordidus

  This small bird lives on Mindanao in the Philippines. The Mindanao population, formerly treated as a subspecies of a close relative, is grayer above and pale yellow-gray to greenish olive below.

• Meves's Starling Lamprotornis mevesii

  With blue-green and purple gloss and a long tail, this starling uses open places with trees, often in groups, and also feeds on the ground.

• Palawan Peacock Pheasant Polyplectron napoleonis

  The Palawan Peacock Pheasant lives in the rainforests of Palawan Island in the Philippines. Males have iridescent blue plumage, while females are brown and blend into the forest floor.

• Okinawa Rail Hypotaenidia okinawae

  The Okinawa Rail is a forest bird of northern Okinawa, with a striking red bill and legs.