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• Grey Tit Melaniparus afer

  

  The Grey Tit lives in dry scrub and rocky places in southern Africa. It moves through branches and bark crevices while searching mainly for insects.

• Dwarf Cuckoo Coccycua pumila

  This small cuckoo has a gray crown, brown back, reddish throat and chest, and cream belly. It feeds mainly on caterpillars.

• 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.

• Little Wattlebird Anthochaera chrysoptera

  The Little Wattlebird is an Australian bird found in dry scrub, banksia heath, and even urban parks. White streaks on the underside and a reddish-brown wing patch are useful marks.

• Pacific Reef Heron Egretta sacra

  A heron that feeds along rocky shores and estuaries. It occurs in dark gray and white plumage forms and lives along coasts.

• Socotra Scops Owl Otus socotranus

  This small, pale-gray owl lives on Socotra in arid places with trees, including palms. It is more often detected by its voice than seen.

• Bonaparte's Gull Chroicocephalus philadelphia

  This small North American gull breeds in northern forests in summer and winters farther south along coasts, lakes, and rivers.

• Yellow-bellied Sunbird Cinnyris venustus

  The source's main name for Cinnyris venustus is Variable Sunbird. The candidate English name Yellow-bellied Sunbird is also used for other birds, so this entry is identified by its scientific name. The source lists five subspecies and distinct male and female plumages.

• Variable Oriole Icterus pyrrhopterus

  The Variable Oriole occurs from eastern and southeastern Brazil through Bolivia, Paraguay, and Uruguay to northern Argentina. It uses woodland, scrub, and gardens.

• Oaxaca Sparrow Aimophila notosticta

  A sparrow of interior Oaxaca in southern Mexico. Its black bill and black facial markings around a broken white eyering are distinctive.

• Slaty-breasted Rail Lewinia striata

  It is marked by a long red bill, a gray breast, and fine white bars. It hides in thick wetland and grassland vegetation, appearing briefly at its edges.

• Caspian Plover Charadrius asiaticus

  The Caspian Plover breeds in Central Asia and winters inland in Africa. It moves between these regions seasonally.

• Magpie-lark Grallina cyanoleuca

  This Australian bird has bold black-and-white markings. Pairs search the ground for food and build mud nests.

• Bermuda Petrel Pterodroma cahow

  An open-ocean petrel with brownish-grey upperparts and white underparts. It breeds in burrows on offshore Bermuda islets.

• Grey-rumped Swallow Pseudhirundo griseopyga

  The Grey-rumped Swallow is an African swallow with a greyish rump. It catches insects while flying over open country.

• 'Alala Corvus hawaiiensis

  The ‘Alalā, or Hawaiian Crow, is a medium-sized dark crow that formerly occurred naturally in dry and semi-dry forests on Hawai‘i Island.

• Ringed Kingfisher Megaceryle torquata

  The ringed kingfisher has a large bill and catches fish by rivers and lakes. It ranges through Central and South America and reaches southern Texas.

• Hume's Short-toed Lark Calandrella acutirostris

  Hume's Short-toed Lark breeds on dry, gravelly high ground and winters mainly in the northern and central Indian subcontinent. One bird recorded at Eilat in 1986 was described as rounder-headed and shorter-tailed than the related Short-toed Lark.

• Black-necked Red Cotinga Phoenicircus nigricollis

  Males are large cotingas with vivid red and black plumage. In northern Peruvian Amazon records, the birds forage at different heights in terra firme forest where fruit is available.

• Ayres's Hawk-Eagle Hieraaetus ayresii

  Ayres's Hawk-Eagle is a small, stocky eagle with a crest it can raise and lower. It mainly catches birds in flight and hunts over wooded savanna and forest patches in sub-Saharan Africa.

• Nightingale Wren Microcerculus philomela

  This wren lives on the forest floor in wet evergreen forests from southeastern Mexico to Costa Rica. It is hard to see in dense cover, but its song can reveal its presence.

• Usambara Thrush Turdus roehli

  The Usambara Thrush occurs in the Usambara and North Pare Mountains of northeastern Tanzania. Its reported habitat includes forest with a closed canopy, a more open lower layer, and many tall shrubs.

• Western Hemispingus Sphenopsis ochracea

  The Western Hemispingus is recorded from montane forest on the western slope of the Andes in Ecuador and Colombia. A 2022 taxonomic paper noted that only ten study skins were known and ecological information was sparse.

• Black-billed Weaver Ploceus melanogaster

  The Black-billed Weaver lives in dense undergrowth in African montane forest. Male yellow markings vary between its geographically separated forms: the Cameroon form has a yellow breast collar, while the eastern form has yellow on the face.