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• Arabian Scops Owl Otus pamelae

  

  The Arabian Scops Owl is a resident owl of the southern Arabian Peninsula that hunts invertebrates at night.

• Green Kingfisher Chloroceryle americana

  The Green Kingfisher is a small kingfisher that hunts fish near streams and canals.

• Black-headed Brush Finch Arremon atricapillus

  The Black-headed Brush Finch occurs in eastern Panama and the Colombian Andes. A comparative study found a mostly solid black head, a larger bill and higher, faster song than in the related A. assimilis. It is recorded in evergreen, secondary and elfin forest.

• Bertram's Weaver Ploceus bertrandi

  This weaver lives around highland forest edges, and males and females differ in the black pattern on the crown.

• Black-tailed Crake Zapornia bicolor

  The Black-tailed Crake lives around wetlands and water from the eastern Himalayas to southwestern China and Indochina. It has a gray head, reddish-brown back, and black tail.

• Palani Laughingthrush Montecincla fairbanki

  The Palani Laughingthrush is a small bird of the hills of southwest India. It has an olive-brown back, a white eyebrow, and a rusty belly, and searches low scrub for insects and fruit. It was formerly treated as conspecific with the Ashambu Laughingthrush; this entry follows the current separate species concept.

• Silver-crowned Friarbird Philemon argenticeps

  A honeyeater of northern Australia. Adults have a silvery-white crown, black bare facial skin and casque, and males are slightly larger than females.

• Buller's Shearwater Ardenna bulleri

  Buller's Shearwater breeds on the Poor Knights Islands of New Zealand and migrates to the North Pacific outside the breeding season. At sea it feeds on krill and small fish, among other prey.

• Spotted Palm Thrush Cichladusa guttata

  About the size of a House Sparrow, it searches for food in leaf litter and thickets by day. It eats insects and plant parts and builds its nest in palm trees.

• Southern Nutcracker Nucifraga hemispila

  The Southern Nutcracker is a corvid of Himalayan forests. It has chestnut plumage with white spots on the head and neck. Gould’s 1831 species account places it in thick woods and lists insects, worms, and fruit as food.

• Cape Canary Serinus canicollis

  The Cape Canary is a small finch of open habitats and gardens in southern Africa. It eats seeds and nests in shrubs and other vegetation during the breeding season.

• Yellow-throated Apalis Apalis flavigularis

  This forest-associated bird is endemic to southern Malawi, where it is recorded on the Mulanje, Malosa, and Zomba massifs. A study on Mulanje found it using forest edges with understorey shrubs.

• Cerulean Warbler Setophaga cerulea

  The male is conspicuously blue with a throat band, while the female is blue-green. It breeds in eastern North American forests and winters in the Andes.

• Urrao Antpitta Grallaria urraoensis

  This antpitta is known from the northern Western Andes of Colombia. It stays close to the ground in mountain forest, moving through dense bamboo and moss while searching the leaf litter for prey.

• Black-throated Coucal Centropus leucogaster

  The Black-throated Coucal is a large coucal with a black head and breast and a white belly. It hides in lowland forest edge and wetland thickets in western and central Africa.

• Wood Snipe Gallinago nemoricola

  A little-known snipe that breeds in Himalayan alpine regions. A study in an alpine meadow in Sichuan, China, found breeding birds foraging where soil fauna were more abundant.

• Fiji Parrotfinch Erythrura pealii

  The Fiji Parrotfinch has a green body with a red head, rump, and tail. It comes to open grassland to feed mainly on grass seeds.

• Marsh Tit Poecile palustris

  The Marsh Tit is a small bird with a glossy black cap and dark bib. In the UK it can be confused with the similar Willow Tit.

• Yellow-crowned Parakeet Cyanoramphus auriceps

  The Yellow-crowned Parakeet is a green parrot that spends much of its time high in the forest canopy. Its yellow crown and crimson forehead band help identify it.

• Philippine Cuckoo-Dove Macropygia tenuirostris

  A long-tailed dove found on islands in the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and Taiwan.

• Chilean Hawk Astur chilensis

  The Chilean Hawk is a raptor of forests in Chile and adjacent Andean areas. In northern Patagonia, one pair nested in the upper branches of Nothofagus trees over five breeding seasons.

• Bonin White-eye Apalopteron familiare

  The Bonin White-eye is a small bird endemic to the Ogasawara Islands and now lives on Hahajima and nearby small islands. Historical records also describe a population with yellow, green, and black markings.

• Reichenbach's Sunbird Anabathmis reichenbachii

  Reichenbach's Sunbird has an iridescent blue-green face, neck and breast above an olive-brown mantle. A field record placed it at a forest edge and small lakes near Kinshasa, DRC.

• 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.