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• Samoan Flycatcher Myiagra albiventris

  

  The Samoan Flycatcher is restricted to Samoa. It is found in open forest, forest edges, village gardens, and mangrove edges, where it makes short sallies to catch insects in the air.

• Gray-breasted Martin Progne chalybea

  The Gray-breasted Martin is a social swallow often found near towns and water. It catches insects in flight and nests in building crevices or tree cavities.

• St. Lucia Warbler Setophaga delicata

  The St. Lucia Warbler has a yellow face and underparts, blue-gray upperparts, and white wing bars. It searches leaves and branches for insects on Saint Lucia.

• Bar-bellied Woodcreeper Hylexetastes stresemanni

  This large woodcreeper occurs in humid Amazonian lowland forest. It has a large head, a short, large bill, and a short tail.

• Inland Thornbill Acanthiza apicalis

  Male and female Inland Thornbills look similar. They have olive-brown to gray-brown upperparts, cream-white underparts, dark throat and breast streaks, and red eyes. They range from dense eucalypt forest to arid mulga woodland and glean insects from branches and leaves.

• Australian Fairy Tern Sternula nereis

  A small tern that nests on sandy beaches and dives into shallow water to catch fish.

• Rondonia Warbling Antbird Hypocnemis ochrogyna

  This antbird occurs in the Brazilian states of Rondônia and Mato Grosso and eastern Bolivia. Males have black-and-white streaks, while females have browner heads and backs.

• Spotted Redshank Tringa erythropus

  The Spotted Redshank is a slim wader with a long bill. Adults are black with white spots in summer and grey above with white underparts in winter.

• Visayan Bulbul Hypsipetes guimarasensis

  A bulbul of the Visayan Islands in the central Philippines. It uses dense forest and eats fruit.

• Black Munia Lonchura stygia

  The Black Munia is a small finch of the southern New Guinea lowlands. Males are almost entirely black, and the species feeds on grass seeds in wetlands and tall grass.

• 'A'o Puffinus auricularis

  Animal Diversity Web's broad treatment of Puffinus auricularis includes Newell's shearwater in Hawaii and Townsend's shearwater off Mexico. Some taxonomies split them; ʻAʻo is the Hawaiian name for the Newell's population.

• Raffles's Malkoha Rhinortha chlorophaea

  Males are rufous while females are gray and rufous, giving the species a strong difference in appearance by sex. It searches dense vegetation for food.

• Greater Necklaced Laughingthrush Pterorhinus pectoralis

  The Greater Necklaced Laughingthrush has brown upperparts, pale underparts, and a dark necklace-like band. In its native range it lives in damp forests in small flocks.

• Bare-throated Bellbird Procnias nudicollis

  The Bare-throated Bellbird is striking for the male's white plumage and bare green throat. Males give loud, metallic-sounding calls, and the species feeds on fruit.

• Band-tailed Nighthawk Nyctiprogne leucopyga

  The Band-tailed Nighthawk is a brown, nocturnal bird with a white band on its tail. In Loreto, northern Peru, it catches insects while flying over rivers and lakes at night.

• Nilgiri Pipit Anthus nilghiriensis

  The Nilgiri Pipit is a grassland bird restricted to the southern Western Ghats of India. It has warm buff-brown plumage, a white eyebrow, and dense dark streaks on the back.

• Red-footed Falcon Falco vespertinus

  A small falcon whose males and females have different plumage. It breeds in eastern Europe and Central Asia, then migrates to southern Africa, where it may roost in flocks.

• Rodrigues Fody Foudia flavicans

  A small bird endemic to Rodrigues. Both sexes are usually brown on the back, wings and tail, and search branches and leaf undersides for insects.

• Gray-breasted Parakeet Pyrrhura griseipectus

  This parakeet has a green body, a white ear patch, and gray markings across the breast. It is described feeding in the canopy of northeastern Brazil's forests.

• Rusty Flowerpiercer Diglossa sittoides

  This Andean bird feeds on nectar. Its hooked bill is used to pierce flowers and reach the nectar, as described in the regional guide.

• Sri Lanka Hanging Parrot Loriculus beryllinus

  This small parrot is found only in Sri Lanka. It is bright green with a red bill and rump; males also have a red crown. It is seen alone or in pairs in forest canopies and other wooded places.

• Inagua Woodstar Nesophlox lyrura

  This hummingbird is restricted to Great and Little Inagua in the Bahamas. Males have an iridescent rose-purple forehead and throat and a deeply forked tail.

• Lazuli Kingfisher Todiramphus lazuli

  The Lazuli Kingfisher lives in Indonesia's southern Moluccas. Males are blue and white, while females also have blue-purple on the breast and belly.

• Clarion Wren Troglodytes tanneri

  This wren is restricted to Clarion Island, Mexico. It lives in open habitats and nests in cavities among volcanic rock or sand, as well as holes in human-made structures.