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• Puno Antpitta Grallaria sinaensis

  

  The Puno Antpitta is recorded in the highlands of Peru’s Puno Department and at a few sites in western La Paz, Bolivia. It searches for insects close to the ground in dense vegetation.

• Bismarck Kingfisher Ceyx websteri

  This rarely recorded kingfisher lives along lowland rivers and forest streams in the Bismarck Archipelago.

• Bates's Nightjar Caprimulgus batesi

  Bates's Nightjar is a forest bird of western and central Africa. Its dark mottled plumage blends into its surroundings, and it hunts insects in dim light.

• Black-faced Cotinga Conioptilon mcilhennyi

  A cotinga of southwestern Amazonian floodplain forest. Its dingy-white body contrasts with black wings, tail, mask, and throat.

• Morden's Owlet Otus ireneae

  Morden's Owlet is a small owl restricted to East African coastal forests. A study in Arabuko-Sokoke Forest found it foraging at night and using Cynometra woodland with large old trees.

• McGregor's Cuckooshrike Coracina mcgregori

  It lives in montane forest above 1,000 m on Mindanao and appears in small or mixed-species groups in the canopy. It has a black throat and white wing patch.

• Bismarck Crow Corvus insularis

  The Bismarck Crow is endemic to the Bismarck Archipelago off northeastern New Guinea. It has glossy black plumage and pale blue eyes and searches for varied food on the ground.

• Brown Bush-hen Zapornia akool

  A rail of wet grass and marsh edges, with brown upperparts and a gray face and breast. It searches for food in damp cover.

• Bank Myna Acridotheres ginginianus

  The Bank Myna is a starling with a dark tufted cap and orange around the eyes, bill and legs. A study in northern Bangladesh found breeding colonies along riverbanks and similar sites.

• Orange Weaver Ploceus aurantius

  The Orange Weaver has an orange throat and bright yellow plumage in the male, while the female is duller greenish-yellow. It nests colonially around wetlands.

• Wilson's Snipe Gallinago delicata

  A snipe of North American wetlands. It probes wet soil with its long bill for insect larvae, worms, and other small prey.

• Montserrat Oriole Icterus oberi

  The Montserrat Oriole is endemic to the Caribbean island of Montserrat and breeds in its hill forests.

• Indian Pond Heron Ardeola grayii

  A heron that searches for food in shallow water, with distinct breeding and nonbreeding plumages.

• African Pied Wagtail Motacilla aguimp

  Adults are black and white with large white wing patches. They run along the ground to catch insects and wag their tails.

• Western House Martin Delichon urbicum

  This swallow breeds across Europe and western Asia and winters south of the Sahara. It has blue-black upperparts, a white rump and underside, and a forked tail. It catches insects in flight and builds mud nests under eaves or on cliffs.

• Cameroon Blue-headed Sunbird Cyanomitra oritis

  This small sunbird lives in highland forests, where it uses flower nectar and dense woodland cover.

• White-rimmed Brush Finch Atlapetes leucopis

  This bird lives in humid mountain forest in Colombia and Ecuador. Adults have a chestnut crown and a conspicuous white eye-ring extending behind the eye.

• Northern Long-tailed Woodcreeper Deconychura longicauda

  This woodcreeper occurs in the Guianas and in Brazil north of the Amazon. In dry-ground and periodically flooded lowland forest, it climbs trunks from the base while searching for insects.

• Benguela Long-billed Lark Certhilauda benguelensis

  This lark inhabits dry, stony grassland from Angola to northwestern Namibia. It searches the ground for small invertebrates and seeds.

• Fork-tailed Woodnymph Thalurania furcata

  This hummingbird is recorded in Argentina's humid scrub and forests. The local account describes a fork-tailed, vivid male and a greener-backed, gray-bellied female.

• Sulphur-bellied Warbler Phylloscopus griseolus

  This small leaf warbler breeds in alpine scrub and moves from the mountains to lower elevations in winter.

• Piping Plover Charadrius melodus

  This small shorebird has sandy grey-brown upperparts and a white underside. It breeds on beaches and river or lake shores and picks small invertebrates from the ground.

• Swainson's Thrush Catharus ustulatus

  A forest thrush marked by spots on its breast. It breeds in North America and migrates to Central and South America for winter.

• 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.