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• Scarlet-breasted Fruiteater Pipreola frontalis

  

  This fruiteater occurs in two separated parts of the eastern Andes. Males have red on the throat and breast, while females have green upperparts and scaled underparts; birds forage in humid montane forest.

• Hispaniolan Parakeet Psittacara chloropterus

  The Hispaniolan Parakeet is a green parrot native to Hispaniola. A city survey in the Dominican Republic found that records were associated with the richness of tree species.

• Rufous-crowned Sparrow Aimophila ruficeps

  The Rufous-crowned Sparrow is marked by reddish upperparts and a gray underside. It walks beneath low shrubs and grasses on dry, rocky hillsides to forage.

• Klaas's Cuckoo Chrysococcyx klaas

  Klaas's Cuckoo lives in forests and woodlands of Africa and the southern Arabian Peninsula. It searches among leaves for caterpillars and lays its eggs in other birds' nests.

• Elegant Tit Pardaliparus elegans

  The Elegant Tit lives in Philippine forests and edges, searching among trees for small invertebrates.

• Line-cheeked Spinetail Cranioleuca antisiensis

  This small bird occurs in the southern Ecuadorian Andes. A nest has been studied in foothill evergreen forest there.

• Fawn-breasted Wren Cantorchilus guarayanus

  The Fawn-breasted Wren is about 13 cm long. It uses lowland forest understory, thickets, and forest edges and eats invertebrates. A Paraguay study found three nests in riparian forest.

• Rusty-crowned Babbler Sterrhoptilus capitalis

  Rusty-crowned Babbler is about 14–15 cm long. It uses forest, forest edges, and secondary growth, and gleans invertebrates in trees. Oiseaux.net lists call recordings from near PICOP on Mindanao, Philippines.

• Two-banded Warbler Myiothlypis bivittata

  This small warbler inhabits humid montane forest on the eastern Andean slopes. It has olive and yellow plumage, a rufous-olive crown and narrow dark crown stripes. The Peru account places it at 750–1,500 m.

• Cave Swiftlet Collocalia linchi

  The Cave Swiftlet is a small swiftlet found on islands including Java. Its green gloss and square-ended tail are useful field marks.

• Regent Honeyeater Anthochaera phrygia

  The Regent Honeyeater has a black head and chest set against pale yellow plumage and yellow wing markings. It moves through southeastern Australia in search of flowering eucalypt woodland.

• Chiguanco Thrush Turdus chiguanco

  This thrush has a gray-brown body, yellow bill, and yellow legs. The Peruvian account says it searches for food by hopping on the ground and eats fruit and insects.

• Fire-tailed Sunbird Aethopyga ignicauda

  The male has long tail feathers and is longer than the female. This small bird feeds on nectar, small insects, and spiders.

• Sumba Brown Flycatcher Muscicapa segregata

  This flycatcher occurs on Sumba, Indonesia. In a comparison of 12 specimens, the breast was brown with slight streaking, while the vent was nearly white and showed almost no pattern. A 1995 record noted four birds in primary-forest understory.

• Crowned Chat-Tyrant Silvicultrix frontalis

  This small Andean bird occurs in forest and scrub. The central Peru-to-Bolivia population has been proposed as a separate species.

• Melanesian Flycatcher Myiagra caledonica

  This flycatcher occurs in New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu. Adult males are glossy black; females combine grey and rufous-orange plumage.

• Long-tailed Widowbird Euplectes progne

  This bird lives in moist grassland. The breeding male has a long tail, while females and males outside the breeding season are brown and streaked.

• Black-banded Plover Charadrius thoracicus

  This plover is restricted to Madagascar. A bold black band crosses its breast, and it searches for food on coastal mud and around saline lagoons.

• Black-throated Laughingthrush Pterorhinus chinensis

  The Black-throated Laughingthrush lives in forests from southern China through Indochina. It usually moves in pairs or small groups and searches for food in the lower parts of trees and shrubs.

• African Snipe Gallinago nigripennis

  The African Snipe probes soft, wet mud with its long bill. Its striped plumage helps it blend into wetlands and flooded grassland, where it feeds on invertebrates and other small prey.

• Beck's Petrel Pseudobulweria becki

  Beck's Petrel is a small seabird with contrasting dark-brown and white plumage. It has been recorded at sea, but its breeding grounds have not been found.

• Grey Crow Corvus tristis

  This crow has bare pink facial skin and pale blue eyes. It is often seen in noisy groups in forests around New Guinea.

• Brown-headed Paradise Kingfisher Tanysiptera danae

  The Brown-headed Paradise Kingfisher lives in moist forest in southeastern New Guinea. Adult males have a brown head and back, pink underparts, and long tail feathers.

• Green Shrike-Babbler Pteruthius xanthochlorus

  This small bird occurs in mountain regions from the Himalayas to southern China. Males have a gray head and olive upperparts, while females have a paler gray crown. The account records it in mixed mountain forest and oak-rhododendron woodland; some populations move in elevation.