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• Brown Twinspot Clytospiza monteiri

  

  The male has a red throat stripe and a chestnut breast dotted with white. This small bird stays near grass and shrubs and hops along the ground searching for seeds and small insects.

• Ashy-throated Bush Tanager Chlorospingus canigularis

  The species account describes olive-yellow upperparts and tail, a grey head and throat, and a yellow breast band. It notes that a white supercilium occurs only in subspecies signatus.

• Guatemalan Tyrannulet Zimmerius vilissimus

  A small tyrannulet ranging from southern Mexico to northwestern Colombia. It forages in the canopy and along forest edges, including second-growth woodland.

• Josephine's Lorikeet Charmosyna josefinae

  A red lorikeet with pale lilac streaks, it feeds on nectar and pollen in the mountain forests of western and central New Guinea.

• Andaman Wood Pigeon Columba palumboides

  This large pigeon lives in forests of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. It has a pale grey head and neck, dark back and wings, red bare skin around the eye and a pale yellow bill with a red base. It eats figs and other fruits.

• White-eared Honeyeater Nesoptilotis leucotis

  This honeyeater occurs in eastern and southern mainland Australia. It is common in dry eucalypt forest and woodland, where it searches mainly for insects beneath bark and in crevices.

• Wedge-tailed Shearwater Ardenna pacifica

  The Wedge-tailed Shearwater is a large seabird of warm Indian and Pacific waters. It has light and dark morphs; dark birds are brown overall.

• Screaming Cowbird Molothrus rufoaxillaris

  A 19th-century Argentine bird account records it in Argentina and Uruguay. It describes glossy black-and-purple plumage and small winter groups.

• Crested Ibon Lophozosterops dohertyi

  This white-eye-family bird occurs in forests of Indonesia’s Lesser Sunda Islands. It is about 12 cm long and feeds on fruit.

• Malagasy Pond Heron Ardeola idae

  In breeding plumage it is entirely white, with long plumes from the head down the nape. Birds from Madagascar migrate to mainland Africa after breeding.

• White-capped Redstart Chaimarrornis leucocephalus

  This streamside flycatcher breeds in Central Asia, the Himalayas and much of China. Its white crown and nape, black chest and reddish-brown belly and tail are distinctive. In winter it moves to lower elevations.

• Abyssinian Longclaw Macronyx flavicollis

  The Abyssinian Longclaw often stays on the ground in Ethiopia's highland grasslands. Its orange throat and black breast necklace stand out.

• Half-collared Kingfisher Alcedo semitorquata

  The Half-collared Kingfisher is small, with a blue back, pale orange underparts and a white throat.

• White-winged Shrike-Tanager Lanio versicolor

  In Peru, the White-winged Shrike-Tanager is reported south of the Amazon and lower Marañón rivers. Males have black heads, wings, and tails with a broad white wing patch; the rest of the body is yellow. Females are mostly olive-brown with a yellowish center to the belly.

• White-winged Cotinga Xipholena atropurpurea

  The White-winged Cotinga is a fruit-eating bird of Brazil's Atlantic Forest. The male stands out with a black body and white wings.

• Black-legged Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla

  A gull that searches for fish at sea and gathers to breed on UK cliffs in spring and summer.

• White-winged Cuckooshrike Coracina ostenta

  It lives in forests of the Western Visayas in the Philippines and forms small groups in the canopy or at forest edges. A large white wing patch is its field mark.

• Square-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo Surniculus lugubris

  The Square-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo is a slender cuckoo resembling a drongo, with a long, square-ended tail. It catches insects in the forest canopy and lays its eggs in other birds' nests.

• Chestnut-colored Woodpecker Celeus castaneus

  This woodpecker has mostly chestnut-brown plumage and a sturdy bill for working into wood. Males have a red stripe along the side of the face; females do not. Ants and termites are major foods.

• Celestial Monarch Hypothymis coelestis

  The male's blue plumage and drooping crest stand out on this Philippine monarch flycatcher. BirdLife's 2001 account describes it in forest canopy and midstory, at forest edges, and in second growth.

• Cape Clapper Lark Corypha apiata

  In southwestern and western South Africa, the older broad treatment of Corypha apiata recorded a grayer population. A wing-clapping display flight is also reported.

• Red-billed Buffalo Weaver Bubalornis niger

  A bird of African savannas and dry woodland, it forages on the ground and breeds in large groups.

• Rufescent Screech Owl Megascops ingens

  The Rufescent Screech Owl is a small nocturnal owl of humid Andean forests. The Bolivia account describes it alone or in pairs in dense middle-level foliage.

• Izu Thrush Turdus celaenops

  The Izu Thrush is a thrush found on the Izu Islands and other Japanese islands. Males stand out with a black head and breast and orange belly and flanks.