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• Buff-faced Scrubwren Aethomyias perspicillatus

  

  A field guide to the Mimika region of Papua records this species under its older name, Sericornis perspicillatus. The account describes olive upperparts and a pale buff-orange face, and records it in shrubs and the midstory at montane forest edges.

• Barred Forest Falcon Micrastur ruficollis

  This forest falcon is recorded in Argentina. The Argentine account describes it moving through dense foliage and taking birds and reptiles.

• Apo Myna Goodfellowia miranda

  The Apo Myna is a mountain bird of Mindanao, notable for its crest and bare yellow skin around the eyes.

• Bridled Titmouse Baeolophus wollweberi

  The Bridled Titmouse lives in forests of the southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico. It joins mixed flocks and searches for food among tree branches.

• Limestone Leaf-warbler Phylloscopus calciatilis

  This leaf-warbler was described from limestone karst mountains in Vietnam and Laos. The paper records it in evergreen and semi-evergreen broadleaf forest.

• Pale-billed Antpitta Grallaria carrikeri

  This antpitta occurs on the eastern Andean slope of northern Peru. It uses the understory of high-elevation cloud forest, especially places with abundant bamboo.

• Pirre Warbler Basileuterus ignotus

  The Pirre Warbler is a small warbler recorded in the Pirre mountains of eastern Panama. Museum and current species accounts place it in humid high-elevation forest.

• Noronha Vireo Vireo gracilirostris

  The Noronha Vireo is a small bird confined to the main island of Fernando de Noronha off Brazil. A paper including field observations from 1973 recorded it in wooded and scrubby areas, but not in the cleared center.

• White-faced Heron Egretta novaehollandiae

  The blue-grey body and white face are distinctive. It walks through mudflats, shallows and wet grass after rain, taking fish, crabs, insects and other prey.

• 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.

• Western Crowned Pigeon Goura cristata

  The Western Crowned Pigeon is a large forest pigeon of New Guinea and nearby Indonesian islands. Its blue-grey body and fan-shaped crest stand out, and it feeds on the ground.

• Sooty Munia Lonchura melaena

  This is a small mannikin described here from its New Britain population. It has a black head and breast and eats grass seeds and sugarcane seed heads.

• Broad-billed Sandpiper Calidris falcinellus

  A small sandpiper with a split pale eyebrow. It breeds from northern Europe to Siberia, with the two subspecies wintering in areas including the Middle East, southern and Southeast Asia and Australia.

• Common Eider Somateria mollissima

  A large sea duck of northern rocky coasts that dives for mussels and other shellfish.

• Cuban Oriole Icterus melanopsis

  It is endemic to Cuba and Isla de Pinos. It lives in forests, plantations, and human-settled places; adult males and females are alike, with black plumage and yellow patches.

• Golden pheasant Chrysolophus pictus

  A pheasant whose colourful male displays its feathers to court females.

• Pale-crested Woodpecker Celeus lugubris

  The Pale-crested Woodpecker lives in dry forest and open woodland of south-central South America. Its pale crest stands out, and males and females differ in their red facial markings.

• Western Rosella Platycercus icterotis

  The Western Rosella is the smallest rosella and is marked by a yellow or cream cheek patch. It occurs in southwestern Australia.

• Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill Bycanistes subcylindricus

  A black-and-white forest hornbill with a large bill, it feeds on fruit and changes its movements with the season

• Riverside Tyrant Knipolegus orenocensis

  This flycatcher forages in young vegetation created by rivers. Males are black; females have gray upperparts and pale, streaked underparts.

• White-throated Swallow Hirundo albigularis

  This swallow lives in Africa south of the equator and catches insects in flight. Some birds that breed in South Africa are thought to move north after breeding.

• Yellow Cardinal Gubernatrix cristata

  The Yellow Cardinal is a yellow-and-black songbird, with different facial markings in males and females.

• Black-collared Bulbul Neolestes torquatus

  The Black-collared Bulbul has a dark band that forms a collar and lives in pairs in tall grassland with scattered trees.

• Cerulean Cuckooshrike Coracina temminckii

  This cuckooshrike is endemic to Sulawesi, where it inhabits mature hill and mountain forest. Adults are bluish, but juveniles and regional forms differ in color.