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• White-capped Dipper Cinclus leucocephalus

  

  This bird lives along mountain streams in the Andes. Its pale head and throat contrast with a dark back and belly, and it feeds on small animals near water.

• Pringle's Puffback Dryoscopus pringlii

  

  A small bushshrike of eastern Africa, recorded in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and Tanzania. It uses dry savanna and thicket.

• Cuban Tody Todus multicolor

  

  IWEco describes this tody as endemic to Cuba. It has vivid plumage and a long bill, and digs tunnel nests in rotten wood or soil banks.

• Black-hooded Sierra Finch Phrygilus atriceps

  

  The Black-hooded Sierra Finch occurs in the central Andes. Males have a black hood and orange-rufous body, and forage on the ground in dry, sparse scrub.

• Cryptic Antthrush Chamaeza meruloides

  

  This antthrush walks on the floor of montane forest in southeastern Brazil. Its reddish tail has a black band near the tip and pale tips. It may climb over fallen logs and roots.

• Grassland Sparrow Ammodramus humeralis

  

  The Grassland Sparrow searches for food on the ground in open habitats in Brazil. A study near Campinas found nests at the bases of grass clumps, with two or three eggs.

• Golden-crowned Warbler Basileuterus culicivorus

  The Golden-crowned Warbler is a small bird with a yellow crown stripe and yellow underparts. It searches among leaves in the lower forest and eats insects and fruit.

• Mistletoebird Dicaeum hirundinaceum

  The Mistletoebird is widespread across Australia. Males have striking black, red, and white markings, and the birds use high tree canopies where mistletoe grows.

• Bull-headed Shrike Lanius bucephalus

  A shrike whose adult male has a black face mask and orange head, while females and young birds are browner.

• Sedge Warbler Acrocephalus schoenobaenus

  A small bird with a broad cream stripe above the eye and dark streaks on its back. It is a summer visitor to Britain and winters in Africa south of the Sahara.

• Brown-banded Puffbird Notharchus ordii

  It is black and white, with a dark brown-black band between the white throat and belly. It is patchily distributed in Amazonian lowlands and is described as generally rare in forest on poor soils such as sandy patches.

• Lichtenstein's Sandgrouse Pterocles lichtensteinii

  A sandgrouse of dry country, with plumage that blends into rocks and gravel. It may shelter in shade during the day.

• Silver pheasant Lophura nycthemera

  A pheasant whose male has white-and-black patterned feathers on its back and long tail.

• Grey Penduline Tit Anthoscopus caroli

  The Grey Penduline Tit has a black-and-white face and head, with dark gray-brown upper wings and tail. In northeastern Namibia it occurs in broadleaf woodland and sometimes gardens, where it eats insects and probes flowers for nectar.

• Moustached Treeswift Hemiprocne mystacea

  Males are grey with long white eyebrow and moustache-like stripes, chestnut ear patches, and white underparts. They launch from high perches to catch flying insects.

• North Moluccan Pitta Erythropitta rufiventris

  This pitta occurs on islands of the North Moluccas. In the nominate form rufiventris, a blue breast band and red underparts are prominent.

• Yellowish Pipit Anthus chii

  The Yellowish Pipit has a large but patchy range from Panama to Argentina. It is ground-dwelling, with a streaked back and breast, and uses open, flat places. It may sing while in flight.

• Peruvian Booby Sula variegata

  The Peruvian Booby hunts fish in cool waters off western South America. It breeds on coastal cliffs and slopes on small islands.

• Chirruping Wedgebill Psophodes cristatus

  This bird lives in inland Australia. Its head is pale brownish-gray with fine streaks, the back is gray-brown, and the pale cream underparts have diffuse gray streaking. Tracked pairs stayed close during and after breeding.

• Rufous-crowned Antpitta Pittasoma rufopileatum

  The Rufous-crowned Antpitta is reported from humid foothill forest on the Pacific slope of Colombia and into northwestern Ecuador. It has a rufous head and a dark band through the eye, and is described hopping on the ground to search for insects.

• Falkland Steamer Duck Tachyeres brachypterus

  The Falkland Steamer Duck is a marine duck endemic to the Falkland Islands, with short wings and a heavy build. It feeds along rocky coasts and may gather in pairs or small groups in sheltered bays.

• Marbled Frogmouth Podargus ocellatus

  This nocturnal forest bird has several regional forms. The distribution entry here is limited to the marmoratus subspecies in northeastern Australia.

• Glaucous-winged Gull Larus glaucescens

  The Glaucous-winged Gull is a large gull of Pacific shorelines. Adult wingtips are pale gray like the rest of the upperwing, and the bird searches coastlines for fish and crabs.

• Dusky-tailed Canastero Pseudasthenes humicola

  A canastero found in Chile. The nominate subspecies has a brown back and pale eyebrow; a central Chile study recorded nesting in thorny scrub and cactus areas.