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• Brown-headed Greenlet Hylophilus brunneiceps

  

  The Brown-headed Greenlet has a brown head and olive-green back. In northern Brazil it occurs in flooded forest and white-sand woodland, where it searches leaf undersides for insects and caterpillars. Its range also extends into eastern Colombia and southern Venezuela.

• Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia

  This sparrow has a russet-and-grey back and bold streaks on its white chest. It occurs across much of North America, though plumage varies by region.

• 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.

• Moluccan Goshawk Tachyspiza henicogramma

  The Moluccan Goshawk is a forest raptor of the Moluccas. Adults have dark gray upperparts and rufous underparts; juveniles have a different, browner pattern.

• Black-eared Miner Manorina melanotis

  This stocky honeyeater has a dark face and orange-yellow bill and legs. During breeding, helpers, mostly males, may join a pair to raise the chicks.

• Chestnut-throated Flycatcher Myiagra castaneigularis

  The Chestnut-throated Flycatcher was described from Vanua Levu, Fiji. Its 1876 original account records forest observations, insect feeding, and differences in throat and back color between males and females.

• Andean Swallow Orochelidon andecola

  An Andean swallow that searches for food over high grasslands. Its dark blue back, gray rump, and pale underside are useful marks.

• White-fronted Whitestart Myioborus albifrons

  This active little bird has yellow underparts and white around the eyes. It joins mixed-species flocks in high-elevation cloud forest and searches for insects.

• Dark-bellied Cinclodes Cinclodes patagonicus

  This cinclodes occurs in Chile and Argentina. Its brown body has fine barring, a white eyebrow and throat, and a cinnamon wing bar that is easier to see in flight. It searches for small aquatic prey around rivers, wetlands, and mountain valleys.

• Forster's Tern Sterna forsteri

  A North American tern of wetlands and coasts whose head pattern changes between breeding and nonbreeding plumage.

• Spot-backed Antbird Hylophylax naevius

  This antbird lives in Amazon Basin forests. Males have black streaks on a white breast, while females have buff spots across the breast and belly. It forages in low forest cover.

• American Woodcock Scolopax minor

  This shorebird walks on the forest floor and probes the soil with its long bill for earthworms.

• Styan's Bulbul Pycnonotus taivanus

  This Taiwanese endemic bulbul occurs in eastern Taiwan and the Hengchun Peninsula. Its black head, pale cheeks, and orange or yellow mark at the bill base are distinctive.

• Chestnut-breasted Nigrita Nigrita bicolor

  The Chestnut-breasted Nigrita is a small bird of lowland forest, mangroves, and secondary growth in tropical Africa.

• Hutton's Shearwater Puffinus huttoni

  A seabird that breeds in the Kaikōura mountains of New Zealand's South Island. It feeds at sea and moves to Australia in winter.

• Blue-faced Malkoha Phaenicophaeus viridirostris

  A long-tailed cuckoo of southern India and Sri Lanka, found from lowlands to foothills and often in thorn scrub or second growth.

• Moustached Laughingthrush Ianthocincla cineracea

  The Moustached Laughingthrush inhabits high-elevation forest and humid montane scrub in the eastern Himalayan region. It has a black crown and nape, a broad white eyebrow, and a black moustache-like cheek stripe.

• Swallow-tailed Cotinga Phibalura flavirostris

  This cotinga has a patchy range in eastern South America. Its black head, yellow throat, and long forked tail stand out.

• Pygmy Nightjar Nyctipolus hirundinaceus

  The Pygmy Nightjar is endemic to eastern Brazil. A study reports that it uses stony or gravelly ground in the Caatinga and rocky outcrops in Atlantic Forest sites for roosting and nesting. Plumage varies among subspecies.

• Paddyfield Pipit Anthus rufulus

  A pipit of open country in South and Southeast Asia, seen in fields, grassland, and wetlands.

• Eurasian hobby Falco subbuteo

  A long-winged falcon that flies swiftly to catch small birds and dragonflies in the air.

• White-headed Buffalo Weaver Dinemellia dinemelli

  The White-headed Buffalo Weaver is a stocky bird with a white head and brown back that forages on the ground near acacia trees.

• Caica Parrot Pyrilia caica

  Adults have a dark head and a broad yellowish collar. Juveniles do not yet have the adult’s black facial mask.

• Plushcap Catamblyrhynchus diadema

  This small bird lives in the upper subtropical and temperate Andes. It is gray above, rufous below, and has a yellow forecrown. It often follows mixed-species flocks near bamboo.