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• Spot-breasted Scimitar Babbler Erythrogenys mcclellandi

  

  This bird ranges from eastern Bhutan to Myanmar. It has a brown body, white throat and belly, and dark spots on the upper breast. It searches for food in low forest cover.

• Yungas Manakin Chiroxiphia boliviana

  The Yungas Manakin is recorded in humid Andean montane forest in southeastern Peru. Males are mostly black with a sky-blue back and ruby crown; females are olive green.

• Black-throated Antshrike Frederickena viridis

  A lowland antshrike of Venezuela, the Guianas, and Brazil. It favors dense undergrowth in evergreen forest.

• Gray Duck Anas superciliosa

  This dabbling duck has cream and black facial stripes and a green patch on the wing.

• Blue-crowned Racket-tail Prioniturus discurus

  The Blue-crowned Racket-tail has green plumage and a blue crown and uses forests, mangroves, and cultivated areas in the Philippines.

• Crested Coua Coua cristata

  The Madagascar cuckoo-relative has gray-green plumage, a crest, and blue bare skin around the eyes. It moves between the ground and trees.

• Red-tailed Minla Minla ignotincta

  The Red-tailed Minla lives in forest canopies, often joining small or mixed flocks. Its red tail is distinctive, and the sexes differ in plumage.

• House Swift Apus nipalensis

  The House Swift is a swift with a dark body, a white throat patch, and a broad white rump band. It catches insects in flight and forages over forests and towns.

• Miombo Tit Melaniparus griseiventris

  The Miombo Tit is a black, white, and grey member of the tit family. In Zimbabwean miombo woodland it forages on large trees and sometimes joins other small birds.

• Common Black Hawk Buteogallus anthracinus

  The Common Black Hawk is a dark raptor that waits for prey in wooded wetlands and along streams. It is rare in the southwestern United States and more common from Mexico southward.

• Beryl-spangled Tanager Tangara nigroviridis

  This tanager has dark plumage covered in iridescent blue-green spots. It occurs in Andean cloud forest from Venezuela to Bolivia.

• Great Shearwater Ardenna gravis

  The Great Shearwater breeds on South Atlantic islands and moves to the North Atlantic during boreal summer.

• Long-billed Forest-warbler Artisornis moreaui

  This small forest bird has a long black bill. It searches leaves for small invertebrates in the mountains of eastern Tanzania.

• White-breasted Wood Wren Henicorhina leucosticta

  A small wren that forages in the understory of humid forests.

• Japanese quail Coturnix japonica

  A stocky, short-tailed bird that breeds in grassland.

• Palawan Hornbill Anthracoceros marchei

  The Palawan Hornbill is endemic to the Palawan island group. It mainly eats fruit, as well as recorded insects and lizards.

• Black Caracara Daptrius ater

  Adults are almost entirely black, with a white rump, bright bare facial skin, and bright legs. They use forest edges and rivers and travel in pairs or groups, sometimes near human activity.

• White-eyed Gull Ichthyaetus leucophthalmus

  An adult in breeding plumage has a black hood and white crescents around the eyes, but the irises are dark brown. This gull is endemic to the Red Sea.

• Cameroon Mountain Greenbul Arizelocichla montana

  This greenbul was recorded in a survey of the Tchabal Mbabo massif in Cameroon. It is uniformly yellow-olive and occurs in montane forest, secondary forest, and scrub.

• Scarlet macaw Ara macao

  A parrot with vivid red, yellow and blue plumage and a large hooked bill.

• Yap Monarch Monarcha godeffroyi

  The Yap Monarch is a monarch flycatcher endemic to Yap in Micronesia. It uses lowland forest, mangroves, and coastal scrub, moving slowly as it searches leaves and branches for food.

• Buff-breasted Babbler Pellorneum tickelli

  This small babbler keeps near dense cover and the ground. A study in northern Thailand found nests along creeks, where both sexes incubated eggs and cared for nestlings.

• Green-barred Woodpecker Colaptes melanochloros

  Its green-yellow upperparts and pale underparts are barred in black. Males have a red mark below the eye; in females it is black.

• Zenaida Dove Zenaida aurita

  Zenaida Doves use low-elevation fields, forests, dense vegetation, and some suburban or urban habitats.