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• Orange Oriole Icterus auratus

  

  The Orange Oriole occurs on the Yucatán Peninsula and in northern Belize. It uses waterside forest edges and open woodland; males show orange and black plumage with white wing bars.

• Zapata Sparrow Torreornis inexpectata

  This sparrow has separated populations in Cuba. The nominate form at Zapata Swamp lives in sawgrass marsh; adults have a chestnut crown and white throat, and its diet changes with the seasons.

• Australian Crake Porzana fluminea

  A crake that feeds on seeds and small invertebrates among the vegetation at wetland edges.

• Crowned Lapwing Vanellus coronatus

  The Crowned Lapwing lives in open grasslands of eastern and southern Africa. Adults have a white ring around the black head and search the ground for ants, termites, and other insects.

• Hooded Monarch Symposiachrus manadensis

  The Hooded Monarch occurs on New Guinea. A regional account from Mimika describes it in lowland forest and records different plumage in adults and immatures.

• Soft-plumaged Petrel Pterodroma mollis

  This ocean-going petrel has dark gray and white plumage and breeds on subantarctic islands. New Zealand's only known breeding population is on the Antipodes Islands.

• Southern Crag-Martin Ptyonoprogne fuligula

  The Southern Crag-Martin nests on cliffs and buildings in southern Africa. It catches small insects in flight and is distributed across the region.

• Pinyon Jay Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus

  A blue jay that travels in large flocks, it gathers and caches pinyon pine seeds.

• Green-backed Kingfisher Actenoides monachus

  The Green-backed Kingfisher is a large forest kingfisher of northern Sulawesi and nearby islands. It is marked by a blue head, white throat, green back, and rufous breast.

• Mongolian Lark Melanocorypha mongolica

  This lark breeds in Mongolia and northern China, and moves as far as central China in winter.

• Cinnamon-vented Piha Lipaugus lanioides

  A cotinga endemic to southeastern Brazil, inhabiting humid montane Atlantic Forest, mainly at about 500–1,000 m.

• White Hawk Pseudastur albicollis

  Most of its body is white, while the upper wings and tail are black. By day it searches for prey from a forest-edge perch or while circling above the canopy.

• Superciliated Wren Cantorchilus superciliaris

  The Superciliated Wren is about 15 cm long. It has a rufous back and tail with black bars on the tail and flight feathers. A white eyebrow, head sides, throat, and breast contrast with the rufous lower underparts. It forages in semideciduous-forest understory and midstory and dry scrub in northwestern Peru, up to about 1,000 m.

• Dark-sided Thrush Zoothera marginata

  This thrush occurs around the Himalayas. It has a dark-brown head and reddish-brown wings. A report from Majuli Island, Assam, describes feeding in damp leaf litter and a record of a small frog in its diet.

• Scarlet-breasted Dacnis Dacnis berlepschi

  The Scarlet-breasted Dacnis is recorded in humid lowland forest in southwestern Colombia. It searches for fruit and insects in the canopy.

• Yellow-mantled Whydah Euplectes macroura

  The Yellow-mantled Widowbird lives near wet grassland and swamps in Africa. It searches for seeds on the ground. Breeding-plumaged males display on the ground or on low vegetation; their black bodies carry yellow shoulder patches whose extent varies among subspecies.

• 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.

• Guianan Streaked Antwren Myrmotherula surinamensis

  This small antwren inhabits riverside vine tangles and seasonally flooded forest. It gleans insects from leaves and is listed in a Smithsonian field checklist for Guyana.

• Miombo Wren-Warbler Calamonastes undosus

  This small bird occurs in savannas and miombo woodland in central and eastern Africa. It has a dark gray head, barred underparts, and orange eyes.

• Southern Antpipit Corythopis delalandi

  A small forest bird of central and southeastern South America, it searches for food on the ground and in the lower forest layers. A regional study documented its distribution and habitat in the Yungas of Bolivia and Argentina.

• Whistling Fruit Dove Ptilinopus layardi

  The Whistling Fruit Dove is a fruit-eating pigeon found on Kadavu and nearby Ono Island in southern Fiji. Few breeding records have been published.

• White-chinned Swift Cypseloides cryptus

  This swift has blackish plumage and a pale gray chin. It catches insects on the wing above forests and gorges in Central and South America.

• Chiloe Wigeon Mareca sibilatrix

  Males have a green, iridescent head while females are duller; they gather with other ducks in shallow water and rest on grassy banks.

• Schlegel's Francolin Campocolinus schlegelii

  A small gamebird of Central African savanna woodland. Males show a rusty orange head and dark facial markings; the species eats leaves, seeds, grain, and caterpillars.