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• Citrine White-eye Zosterops semperi

  

  A local bird guide lists this white-eye in the Federated States of Micronesia and Palau. It also reports an observation in open grassland on Pohnpei.

• Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica

  A tern with a thick black bill that takes prey from the air, ground, and water surface rather than plunge-diving.

• Sierra Nevada Antpitta Grallaria spatiator

  Known from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in northern Colombia, this antpitta has been found in dense forest understory at 2,200-2,900 m, with abundant mosses and epiphytes.

• Maccoa Duck Oxyura maccoa

  The Maccoa Duck is a diving duck with disjunct populations in eastern and southern Africa. The breeding male has a blue bill and chestnut body; the female is brown with a pale eye stripe.

• Russet-backed Oropendola Psarocolius angustifrons

  This large bird forages in loose flocks in forests and agricultural land. Plumage and bill color differ between Peruvian lowland and Andean forms.

• Welcome Swallow Hirundo neoxena

  A blue-black back, rusty throat and long forked tail help identify it. It catches insects in flight and builds mud-and-grass nests on structures such as bridges or buildings.

• Winter Wren Troglodytes hiemalis

  The Winter Wren is a tiny, rounded brown bird that often holds its tail upright. It hops among fallen logs and roots while searching for insects.

• Aberdare Cisticola Cisticola aberdare

  This small cisticola lives in Kenya’s highland grassland and moorland. It builds a ball-shaped nest among grass tussocks.

• Southern Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris chalybeus

  Males have a narrow red breast band and pale gray belly; females are gray-brown. At Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, records describe it as common in coastal thicket, feeding mainly on insects while also taking nectar.

• Golden-browed Warbler Basileuterus belli

  This warbler ranges from Mexico into northern Central America and lives in humid montane forest. It also occurs in pine and pine-oak forest and along edges.

• Rusty-necked Piculet Picumnus fuscus

  This small woodpecker inhabits riverine lowland forest in northeastern Bolivia and west-central Brazil. Males have reddish-orange tips on the crown feathers.

• Himalayan White-browed Rosefinch Carpodacus thura

  The Himalayan White-browed Rosefinch uses scrubby and semi-open habitats around the Himalaya. Males are lilac-pink, while females are brown and streaked, so the sexes look different.

• Finsch's Bulbul Iole finschii

  Finsch's Bulbul has mainly olive-toned plumage. It uses the middle and upper forest and is seen in pairs or small groups searching for food.

• Koklass Pheasant Pucrasia macrolopha

  The Koklass Pheasant is a large forest bird with a silvery male and a streaked brown female.

• Palawan Hornbill Anthracoceros marchei

  The Palawan Hornbill is endemic to the Palawan island group. It mainly eats fruit, as well as recorded insects and lizards.

• Cassin's Malimbe Malimbus cassini

  This weaver occurs in forests from the Gulf of Guinea toward the Congo Basin. In north-eastern Gabon, small groups were seen in the canopy of wet and flooded forest, sometimes feeding with other bird species.

• Northern Pied Babbler Turdoides hypoleuca

  A babbler found in central Kenya and eastern and northeastern Tanzania. It forages on the ground near cover and moves in family parties or larger groups.

• Himalayan Thrush Zoothera salimalii

  This thrush has been recorded in mountain forests from the eastern Himalaya to Yunnan, China. It is treated as a species distinct from the related Alpine Thrush in the 2016 study.

• White-throated Caracara Phalcoboenus albogularis

  This caracara lives in Andean-Patagonian forests. Its white throat and belly contrast with a dark brown body; it may search for food while soaring alone.

• Pied Imperial Pigeon Ducula bicolor

  The Pied Imperial Pigeon is a large, mostly white pigeon with black wing and tail tips. It gathers in island flocks and feeds mainly on fruit.

• Cinereous Harrier Circus cinereus

  This harrier has a white rump and long wings. It searches for prey over South American marshes and grasslands; a breeding-season study in southern Chile recorded males passing prey to females in the air.

• Peruvian Tyrannulet Zimmerius viridiflavus

  This small tyrant flycatcher lives in Peru's montane forests. Its yellow face, eyebrow, and washed-yellow underparts stand out as it forages high in the forest.

• New Britain Dwarf Kingfisher Ceyx sacerdotis

  A very small kingfisher of New Britain and Umboi in Papua New Guinea. It is usually seen alone near streams and rivers.

• Eastern Clapper Lark Corypha fasciolata

  This lark uses open grassland in southern Africa. Rufous tones are usual across much of its range, while birds in northern Namibia and northern Botswana are paler.