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• Taita Falcon Falco fasciinucha

  

  A small, compact falcon with white cheeks and rufous underparts. It hunts small birds around wooded mountains and deep valleys with cliffs.

• 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.

• Red-lored Amazon Amazona autumnalis

  The Red-lored Amazon is mostly green, with a red forehead and bluish crown. Its native range extends from eastern Mexico to northwestern South America.

• Jamaican Euphonia Euphonia jamaica

  Males are bluish grey with a yellow band across the mid-belly; females and young birds are olive and grey. It eats fruit and buds.

• Spectacled Whitestart Myioborus melanocephalus

  The center of its crown is black, and it has yellow spectacles and underparts. It lives in humid montane forest on the eastern Andes, from south and east of the Marañón in northern Peru to central Bolivia.

• Southern Hill Myna Gracula indica

  Adults have glossy black plumage, a white wing patch, yellow skin wattles behind the eyes, and an orange-to-red bill. They feed mainly on fruit and nectar and are usually seen in pairs or small groups.

• Crimson Finch Neochmia phaeton

  The Crimson Finch ranges from northern Australia to southern New Guinea. Much breeding takes place during the wet season, and nests are built among palm-like fronds or sometimes on artificial structures.

• Plain-backed Sunbird Anthreptes reichenowi

  BirdLife International describes two separated population areas: coastal Kenya and eastern Tanzania, and another spanning Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Eswatini, and South Africa.

• Sombre Pigeon Cryptophaps poecilorrhoa

  The Sombre Pigeon inhabits hill and mountain forests on Sulawesi, moving quietly in the interior understory alone or in pairs.

• Russet-naped Wren Campylorhynchus humilis

  The Russet-naped Wren inhabits dry lowlands on Mexico's Pacific slope. It uses scrub and open woodland, where it feeds on invertebrates near the ground.

• Dusky Antbird Cercomacroides tyrannina

  This antbird occurs from Central America into northern South America. Males are dark gray with white tips on the wings and tail; females are olive-brown above and rufous below. Pairs forage for insects along lowland forest edges and in secondary growth.

• Chestnut-backed Tanager Stilpnia preciosa

  This tanager lives in forests and forest edges of southeastern South America, feeding on fruit and canopy insects. It sometimes joins mixed-species flocks.

• Sumba Myzomela Myzomela dammermani

  The Sumba Myzomela is a small bird of Sumba Island, Indonesia, where it forages from the forest mid-storey to the canopy.

• Black-bibbed Cicadabird Coracina mindanensis

  The Black-bibbed Cicadabird occurs in the Philippines and uses the canopy and middle storey of moist lowland secondary forest and montane forest. The male plumage description here is limited to the Mindanao subspecies mindanense.

• Slaty Vireo Vireo brevipennis

  This vireo occurs in Mexico. It has slate-gray plumage and a long tail, with green edges on the wing and tail feathers. In 1998, a nesting pair was observed in dry subtropical woodland in Oaxaca.

• Cabanis's Greenbul Phyllastrephus cabanisi

  Cabanis's Greenbul is about 16–19 cm long. The account lists primary and secondary forest, gallery forest, riverine scrub, and ravine vegetation among its habitats. It also lists a sound record from Kakamega Forest Reserve in Kenya.

• Tepui Foliage-gleaner Syndactyla roraimae

  This ovenbird lives in forests around the tepuis. Adults are unstreaked, with a pale throat and eyebrow contrasting with the darker body. It probes arboreal bromeliads and bamboo node sheaths and gleans branches and vines.

• Snares Island Snipe Coenocorypha huegeli

  The Snares Island Snipe has a stocky body and relatively short bill and legs. It probes the ground and mud for invertebrates.

• Indian Spotted Eagle Clanga hastata

  The Indian Spotted Eagle is a raptor of lowland South Asia. It nests in trees or groves within cultivated areas and gardens; in one study in northwest India, most prey delivered to nests were rodents.

• Seychelles Magpie-Robin Copsychus sechellarum

  On Cousin Island, it forages on small animals exposed as Hawksbill Turtles dig their nests. It has also been seen feeding on turtle eggs.

• Green-breasted Mango Anthracothorax prevostii

  The Green-breasted Mango is a relatively large hummingbird of tropical American lowlands, found around forest edges and clearings.

• Rufous-tailed Tyrant Knipolegus poecilurus

  It is active by day in mountain forest and scrub, flying from perches to catch invertebrates in the air. Bolivian records include a historical specimen without a precise locality and a few sightings.

• Azure-rumped Parrot Tanygnathus sumatranus

  A parrot of Sulawesi and nearby Indonesian islands. It has a green body and blue rump; males have a red bill, while females have a pale bill.

• Waved Woodpecker Celeus undatus

  The Waved Woodpecker has chestnut and black bars. It searches for ants and termites in the treetops and excavates a nest cavity in a tree.