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• Canary Islands Chiffchaff Phylloscopus canariensis

  

  This small leaf warbler is endemic to the Canary Islands. It uses habitats from forests to high mountain scrub, as well as farms and gardens, and is usually sedentary.

• Stripe-breasted Tit Melaniparus fasciiventer

  A large tit of the Albertine Rift's montane forests. Males have a black head and central belly, with a conspicuous white band across the lower breast and flanks.

• Wood Snipe Gallinago nemoricola

  A little-known snipe that breeds in Himalayan alpine regions. A study in an alpine meadow in Sichuan, China, found breeding birds foraging where soil fauna were more abundant.

• Spot-tailed Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza trinotata

  The Spot-tailed Sparrowhawk is a small hawk found on Sulawesi and nearby Indonesian islands. Large white spots on the tail are a useful feature of the immature bird described in the source.

• Red-naped Sapsucker Sphyrapicus nuchalis

  The Red-naped Sapsucker is a North American woodpecker that drills rows of holes in trees to feed on sap.

• Greater Roadrunner Geococcyx californianus

  A bird that runs through dry scrub and uses its long tail to steer while chasing lizards.

• Von Schrenck's Bittern Botaurus eurhythmus

  Von Schrenck’s Bittern is a small heron of reed beds, broad marshes, and rice fields. Males and females have different plumage.

• Lemon-bellied White-eye Zosterops chloris

  This white-eye is centered on Sulawesi and the Lesser Sundas in Indonesia. It has yellow underparts and a white eye-ring. A university reference lists open coastal forest, forest edges, plantations, and urban areas; a survey in south-east Sulawesi also recorded it at mangrove and riparian forest edges.

• Grey-naped Antpitta Grallaria griseonucha

  This antpitta lives in the Venezuelan Andes and uses the lower levels of humid montane forest.

• Restless Flycatcher Myiagra inquieta

  The Restless Flycatcher catches insects over open woodland and farmland. When hawking prey, it can appear to hover with its head pointing down.

• Bismarck Kingfisher Ceyx websteri

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

• Oriole Warbler Hypergerus atriceps

  This breeding resident ranges from Senegal to central Africa. A 2018 paper reports observations at several Liberian locations from 2013 to 2018 and confirms that it is resident there.

• Honduran Emerald Amazilia luciae

  This hummingbird is endemic to Honduras, where it lives in dry interior valleys with scrub and thorn forest. It feeds on flower nectar as well as insects and spiders.

• Red-whiskered bulbul Pycnonotus jocosus

  A bulbul native to southern Asia. It was introduced to eastern Australia, where it occurs in parks and gardens.

• Black-bellied Tanager Ramphocelus melanogaster

  This tanager is endemic to Peru's Mayo and Upper Huallaga valleys. It forages in semi-open country, forest edges, and secondary scrub; males show red plumage with a dark central belly.

• Abert’s Towhee Melozone aberti

  Abert’s Towhee lives year-round in brush along waterways in the Sonoran Desert. Its sandy body and rusty undertail help identify it.

• Golden-fronted Whitestart Myioborus ornatus

  The Golden-fronted Whitestart has a restricted range in the Colombian Andes and far western Venezuela. It moves through different forest levels and flashes white on its tail.

• Himalayan Snowcock Tetraogallus himalayensis

  A large pheasant-family bird of high mountains from Central Asia to the Himalaya.

• Upland Pipit Anthus sylvanus

  The Upland Pipit is a large pipit with heavy dark streaks. It is found on grass-covered rocky slopes and in high-altitude meadows.

• Whooper swan Cygnus cygnus

  A swan widely distributed in northern Eurasia. Adults have white plumage and bills with yellow bases and black tips.

• White-winged Tern Chlidonias leucopterus

  In breeding plumage, its black body and silvery-white wings stand out. It breeds in eastern Europe and western Asia.

• Canyon Canastero Asthenes pudibunda

  The Canyon Canastero lives in the Andes of Peru and Chile and searches dry montane scrub and rocky ground for arthropods. Its plumage is brown and rufous; the orange chin patch can be hard to see.

• Everett's Thrush Zoothera everetti

  A Bornean mountain thrush of mossy forest and track edges, with olive-brown upperparts, a reddish tail and pale orange, scaly-looking underparts.

• Streaky Seedeater Crithagra striolata

  The Streaky Seedeater is a stocky finch with heavy streaking over pale ochre to whitish underparts. It mainly picks small seeds from the ground or vegetation.