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• Sao Tome Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone atrochalybeia

  

  The Sao Tome Paradise Flycatcher is found only on São Tomé. It uses forest understory and midstory, including shaded lowland cocoa plantations, and has been recorded catching insects over rivers.

• Radde's Warbler Phylloscopus schwarzi

  This stocky leaf warbler has a pale eyebrow. It breeds in southeastern Siberia and winters in southern China and Southeast Asia.

• White-chested Swift Cypseloides lemosi

  The White-chested Swift is a small swift with a black body and a white triangular breast patch. Its full range remains poorly understood.

• Amur Falcon Falco amurensis

  This small falcon breeds in East Asia and migrates to southern Africa. Plumage differs among adult males, females, and juveniles.

• White-crowned Hornbill Berenicornis comatus

  The White-crowned Hornbill has a conspicuous white crest and long tail. Adult males have white necks and underparts, while females are black; both forage in tropical forest canopies.

• Long-tailed Reed Finch Donacospiza albifrons

  This finch is patchily distributed across south-central South America in open habitats. Its plumage varies with age, feather wear, and geography, so the regional color pattern is described as a tendency rather than a rule.

• Ochre-lored Flatbill Tolmomyias flaviventris

  This small flycatcher has an olive back, yellow wing-bars, and yellow throat and belly. It ranges from Central America into northern South America.

• Pompadour Cotinga Xipholena punicea

  This cotinga lives high in forests of the Amazon Basin. Males are deep purple-red, while females are gray with white wing edges, giving the sexes very different plumage.

• Madagascar Cuckooshrike Coracina cinerea

  An endemic cuckooshrike of Madagascar. It uses dry forest, humid evergreen forest and gallery forest, and may join mixed-species flocks in the canopy.

• White-faced Heron Egretta novaehollandiae

  The blue-grey body and white face are distinctive. It walks through mudflats, shallows and wet grass after rain, taking fish, crabs, insects and other prey.

• 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.

• White-headed Wren Campylorhynchus albobrunneus

  The White-headed Wren is about 18 cm long. Records come from Panama and Colombia, where it searches foliage for small invertebrates in forest edges and secondary growth.

• Ross's Goose Anser rossii

  A small goose that breeds in the Canadian Arctic and migrates to parts of the southern United States for winter. Adults are white with black wingtips, a shorter neck, and a smaller bill than a Snow Goose.

• Rufous-throated Antbird Gymnopithys rufigula

  An antbird of northeastern South American lowland forest, including the Guianas and northeastern Brazil. It follows army-ant swarms to catch insects fleeing from the ants.

• White-faced Plover Charadrius dealbatus

  It is a plover with extensive white on the face that breeds in East Asia and winters along Southeast Asian coasts.

• Beesley's Lark Chersomanes beesleyi

  This lark is restricted to a small area of northern Tanzania. Checklists have changed its rank; this account follows the current split treatment as Chersomanes beesleyi.

• Flavescent Bulbul Pycnonotus flavescens

  The Flavescent Bulbul is a 21–22 cm bulbul. Its species account lists forest and semi-open habitat at 800–2,100 m.

• Lesser Blue-eared Starling Lamprotornis chloropterus

  The Lesser Blue-eared Starling has glossy blue-green plumage and violet-blue areas on the flanks and belly. It searches in trees and on the ground for fruit, seeds, and insects.

• Chestnut-sided Shrike-Vireo Vireolanius melitophrys

  A shrike-vireo of forests and scrub in Mexico and Guatemala. Males and females differ in the chestnut markings on the head and breast.

• Crimson-fronted Parakeet Psittacara finschi

  The Crimson-fronted Parakeet is a Central American parakeet with a green body and red forehead. It eats fruit and flowers, travels in flocks, and gathers at communal roosts in the evening.

• Mountain Avocetbill Opisthoprora euryptera

  The Mountain Avocetbill occurs in the eastern Andes of Peru, Colombia, and Ecuador. It has green upperparts, a copper-toned head, and a bill whose tip turns upward.

• Red-rumped Woodpecker Veniliornis kirkii

  The Red-rumped Woodpecker is marked by a red rump. A Peru species account reports a red crown in males and no red crown in females.

• Peruvian Meadowlark Leistes bellicosus

  This meadowlark occurs in western South America from Colombia and Ecuador through Peru to northern Chile. Males have a dark body, white eyebrow, and red throat and breast, and forage on the ground in open country.

• Yucatan Nightjar Antrostomus badius

  The Yucatan Nightjar lives in forests and at forest edges on the Yucatán Peninsula. Its camouflaged plumage helps it remain difficult to see as it hunts from perches.