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• Spot-throated Hummingbird Thaumasius taczanowskii

  

  This roughly 12 cm hummingbird lives on the western slope of the northern Andes. Green upperparts, gray underparts, and dark throat and upper-breast speckles help identify it.

• Gray-capped Flycatcher Myiozetetes granadensis

  The Gray-capped Flycatcher has a bushy gray crown and bright yellow underparts. It forages at forest edges and in semi-open habitat and is widespread in Amazonia.

• Moluccan King Parrot Alisterus amboinensis

  This parrot lives in forests on Indonesian islands, including the Moluccas. The six subspecies differ in plumage.

• Malayan Black-capped Babbler Pellorneum nigrocapitatum

  This ground-dwelling bird occurs in southern Thailand, the Malay Peninsula, and Sumatra, in moist forest and dense vegetation.

• Pale-billed Woodpecker Campephilus guatemalensis

  The Pale-billed Woodpecker is a large woodpecker with a red head and pale bill. It drums on trees while searching for insects and lives from Mexico to western Panama.

• Grey Gerygone Gerygone igata

  A small bird endemic to New Zealand that gleans insects while hovering at the outer canopy.

• Fernando Po Speirops Zosterops brunneus

  This bird occurs on Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea. It is chocolate brown overall, darker near the face and paler on the flanks and vent, with a blue-gray bill and legs; it is found almost exclusively in the island's high alpine zone.

• Bornean Partridge Arborophila hyperythra

  The Bornean Partridge is a pheasant-family bird of hill and montane forest on Borneo. It uses bamboo and thickets on the forest floor and eats both plant and animal matter.

• Brown Hornbill Anorrhinus tickelli

  Tickell’s Brown Hornbill lives in forests of southern Myanmar and western Thailand, usually in groups of about five to seven, feeding on fruit and small animals.

• Collared Towhee Pipilo ocai

  This large sparrow-family bird lives in the highlands of central and southern Mexico. It is marked by a rufous crown, black face and breast band, white throat, and olive back. It searches through leaf litter and low vegetation.

• Snethlage's Antpitta Hylopezus paraensis

  This antpitta occurs in the southern Brazilian Amazon. A 2012 revision treated it as a lineage distinguished from relatives by vocal and genetic evidence.

• Nyanza Swift Apus niansae

  A swift with dark wings and a pale throat that catches insects over eastern African highlands, cliffs, and towns.

• Middle American Screech Owl Megascops guatemalae

  This screech-owl ranges from Mexico to northern Nicaragua. Greyish and reddish morphs occur, and it uses humid as well as drier forests and woodland from low to mid elevations.

• Azure-naped Jay Cyanocorax heilprini

  The Azure-naped Jay is a large jay of lowland northern South America. Its blue-grey body contrasts with a pale sky-blue nape and white-tipped tail feathers.

• White Bellbird Procnias albus

  The male is white, while the female is mainly green. This large bellbird uses high-elevation forest, eats fruit, and males call from exposed perches above the canopy.

• Tree Pipit Anthus trivialis

  The Tree Pipit is a small, streaked brown bird. In the breeding season, a male rises high from a tree, sings, and then descends slowly in a display flight.

• Pink-billed Lark Spizocorys conirostris

  This small lark inhabits dry grasslands of southern Africa. It has a compact body, a thick pink bill, and a strongly marked face. It searches for seeds on the ground and is nomadic in parts of its range.

• Blue-black Kingfisher Todiramphus nigrocyaneus

  This kingfisher lives in lowland forest on New Guinea and nearby islands. Along forested waters, it looks for fish and crabs.

• Red-fronted Coot Fulica rufifrons

  The Red-fronted Coot is a waterbird with a blackish head and neck, a grey body, and white undertail feathers. A red frontal shield sits above its yellow bill.

• Rufescent Tiger Heron Tigrisoma lineatum

  The Rufescent Tiger-Heron has a long rufous neck and a streaked throat, and waits for prey by the water. Adult and juvenile plumages differ greatly.

• Forbes's Plover Charadrius forbesi

  Forbes's Plover occurs in open grasslands and other open habitats in parts of western and central Africa. It searches the ground for insects and small invertebrates to eat.

• Rüppell's Weaver Ploceus galbula

  Rüppell's Weaver lives in dry parts of the Horn of Africa and the southern Arabian Peninsula and often searches for food in groups.

• Unicolored Blackbird Agelasticus cyanopus

  This bird lives in lowland wetlands and wet grasslands of South America. Adult males are black, while females have brown upperparts and yellowish underparts.

• Herald Petrel Pterodroma heraldica

  A seabird that breeds on tropical Pacific islands and occurs in a range of plumage colors.