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• Siberian Grouse Falcipennis falcipennis

  

  The Siberian Grouse is a resident forest grouse of the Russian Far East, where conifers grow in mixed stands.

• Mindoro Racket-tail Prioniturus mindorensis

  The Mindoro Racket-tail is a green parrot from Mindoro Island in the Philippines. The 1890 original description records a violet crown and nape and yellow-green face on an adult male.

• Olive-capped Warbler Setophaga pityophila

  This warbler inhabits pine woodland in western Cuba. Its yellow-green forehead and dark breast streaks are useful field marks, and it often uses the upper canopy. A Cuban study recorded it in lower strata only during breeding.

• Miombo scrub-robin Erythropygia barbata

  A bird of broadleaf miombo woodland, with a brown back and a rufous chest.

• Ecuadorian Rail Rallus aequatorialis

  This rail is recorded from southern Colombia through Ecuador and coastal Peru. It hides in dense grass and reeds and is found alone or in well-separated pairs.

• Lovely Sunbird Aethopyga shelleyi

  This sunbird lives in forests on Palawan and nearby islands. Males show iridescent purple and crimson, while females have more subdued olive coloring.

• Peruvian Diving Petrel Pelecanoides garnotii

  This small seabird has a dark back and white underside and dives for food along the Humboldt Current coast.

• Black-headed Tailorbird Orthotomus nigriceps

  This tailorbird occurs in the southern Philippines. A study of specimens from three islands found that adult males and females both have black throats and upper breasts, with plumage differences among islands.

• Little Swift Apus affinis

  The Little Swift catches food in the air. In southern Africa it also nests in colonies on bridges and buildings.

• Jack Snipe Lymnocryptes minimus

  A small snipe that hides in wet grassland and visits Britain for the winter, from autumn into spring.

• Noisy Friarbird Philemon corniculatus

  The Noisy Friarbird lives in forests and woodlands of eastern Australia. Its head is black and bare, with a rounded knob at the base of the bill.

• Streaky-headed Seedeater Crithagra gularis

  The Streaky-headed Seedeater lives in woodland and scrub in southern Africa. Fine streaks on the crown and a white eyebrow help identify it, and it eats flowers, buds, seeds, and fruit.

• Australasian Bittern Botaurus poiciloptilus

  The Australasian Bittern is a large heron relative that hides among dense reeds and rushes. When alarmed, it points its neck and bill upward and freezes among the plants.

• California Scrub Jay Aphelocoma californica

  The California Scrub-Jay is a blue, white, and gray-brown jay. It lives in dry shrubland, oak woodland, and some urban areas along the Pacific coast, and caches acorns for later.

• White-tailed Emerald Microchera chionura

  The White-tailed Emerald is a small hummingbird of Pacific-slope foothills from Costa Rica to western Panama. Males contrast green plumage with white, while females show a white throat.

• Pink-headed Fruit Dove Ptilinopus porphyreus

  The male has a vivid pink-purple head and throat, and the dove feeds on fruit high in forest trees. It is native to mountain forests in Indonesia.

• Song Wren Cyphorhinus phaeocephalus

  The Song Wren inhabits humid lowland forest from Central America into northwestern South America and searches the leaf litter for food. It may be seen in family groups.

• Greenish Warbler Phylloscopus trochiloides

  The Greenish Warbler has a green back, pale underparts, and a conspicuous white eyebrow and wingbar. It searches for insects in forests and along their edges, then migrates after breeding.

• Mascarene Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone bourbonnensis

  The Mascarene Paradise Flycatcher is a forest bird found only on Réunion and Mauritius in the Mascarene Islands. It feeds in the lower canopy and catches insects in flight.

• Pacific Screech-Owl Megascops cooperi

  The Pacific Screech-Owl is a medium-sized owl of the Pacific Slope lowland edge. Short ear tufts, yellow eyes, and pale gray plumage help identify it.

• Masked Lapwing Vanellus miles

  This open-country plover is notable for its yellow facial wattles and a spur on each wing.

• Scaled Fruiteater Ampelioides tschudii

  Its back has black-edged scales, its crown is black, and its eyes are yellow. In Andean montane forest it forages at several heights.

• Coopmans's Tyrannulet Zimmerius minimus

  Coopmans’s tyrannulet is a small bird recorded from Colombia’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and eastern Venezuela. It has yellow markings; the original type specimen had a 43 mm wing and 37 mm tail.

• Long-billed Pipit Anthus similis

  The Long-billed Pipit is brown above and pale buff below. In Namibia it is usually seen alone or in pairs among gullies and rocky slopes.