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• Flores Hanging-parrot Loriculus flosculus

  

  The Flores Hanging Parrot is a small green parrot. Males have a red mark on the throat, and the species eats fruit and nectar.

• Black-polled Yellowthroat Geothlypis speciosa

  Males have a black face mask and yellow underparts; females have an olive face without the mask. A wetland survey documented the remaining populations in central Mexico.

• Dusky-blue Flycatcher Muscicapa comitata

  The Dusky-blue Flycatcher (Bradornis comitatus) occurs in the Afrotropical region. It uses forest edges, secondary growth and farmland, and catches invertebrates in the air.

• Brown Wood Rail Aramides wolfi

  The Brown Wood Rail is a chicken-sized rail with a yellow bill and pink legs. It keeps to streams and marshy areas in humid forest, where paired birds may call together.

• Whitehead's Spiderhunter Arachnothera juliae

  A flower-visiting spiderhunter of the highlands of Borneo.

• Flesh-footed Shearwater Ardenna carneipes

  The Flesh-footed Shearwater is a seabird with a dark body and pale bill and feet. It breeds in island burrows and moves across wide ocean areas seasonally.

• Green Longtail Urolais epichlorus

  This small bird has yellowish-green plumage and a long tail. It is recorded in Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, and Bioko Island offshore. It lives in montane and eucalypt forests and mostly eats insects and caterpillars.

• Salim Ali's Swift Apus salimalii

  This swift breeds on the eastern Tibetan Plateau and in adjacent western Sichuan. Its wintering range remains unknown.

• Asian Dowitcher Limnodromus semipalmatus

  The Asian Dowitcher probes wetland mud with its long bill and moves between breeding and wintering areas.

• New Caledonian Friarbird Philemon diemenensis

  This large honeyeater is found only in New Caledonia. It eats flower nectar, fruit, and insects, and also uses open places where flowers grow.

• Crimson-winged Finch Rhodopechys sanguineus

  This finch occurs in mountain regions from Türkiye through the Caucasus, Iran and northern Afghanistan to north-western India. It lives on rocky slopes and eats seeds.

• Capped Heron Pilherodius pileatus

  The Capped Heron is an uncommon but widespread heron of South American lowlands, barely extending into eastern Panama. It is usually seen alone around wetlands, forested ponds, and rivers.

• Banggai Crow Corvus unicolor

  This black crow stands out for its pale eye and short tail. It lives in groups in the canopy of montane forest on Peleng Island, Indonesia.

• Golden-crowned Emerald Cynanthus auriceps

  This small hummingbird lives in western Mexico. Males are green with a deeply forked tail; females are paler below and have a shallower tail fork. A western Mexico study that included this species described an open-cup nest made from plant material and spider web.

• Coroneted Fruit Dove Ptilinopus coronulatus

  This small pigeon is mainly green with a violet-pink crown patch. It eats fruit in lowland forests of New Guinea and nearby islands.

• Speckle-breasted Wren Pheugopedius sclateri

  This wren has plain rufous-brown upperparts and a gray, black-barred tail. It forages low and midway in forests in Ecuador and Peru.

• Iberian Chiffchaff Phylloscopus ibericus

  The Iberian Chiffchaff is a small leaf warbler, 11 to 12 cm long. It breeds in western Europe and migrates to Africa for winter.

• Ochre-collared Monarch Arses insularis

  This monarch flycatcher occurs in northern New Guinea and on Yapen Island, from lowlands into the mountains. Males contrast black and white with an ochre collar; females are more subdued and brown-toned.

• Sao Tome Scops Owl Otus hartlaubi

  This small owl is endemic to São Tomé. Its rufous-brown plumage, white brows and chin, and dark belly streaks are distinctive.

• Spot-breasted Lapwing Vanellus melanocephalus

  The Spot-breasted Lapwing lives in damp grassland and marshes in the Ethiopian highlands. Black spots on the breast and yellow wattles are notable features.

• Black-chested Fruiteater Pipreola lubomirskii

  This fruiteater occurs in Andean forest from southern Colombia through Ecuador to northern Peru. It eats mainly fruit and forages in the lower and middle forest levels.

• Black-and-white Tody-Flycatcher Poecilotriccus capitalis

  At about 9.5 cm, this is a tiny flycatcher of the Amazonian understory. Peru accounts report populations in northern lowland Amazonia and a separate central Peruvian area.

• Pechora Pipit Anthus gustavi

  The Pechora Pipit is marked by bold white stripes on its back and fine streaks on the chest. It hides in dense grass and flushes only at close range.

• Cameroon Olive Greenbul Phyllastrephus poensis

  A greenbul of the Cameroon Highlands. A field account near Bamenda describes it searching for insects and fruit among mosses, lichens, and peeling bark.