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• American Woodcock Scolopax minor

  

  This shorebird walks on the forest floor and probes the soil with its long bill for earthworms.

• Striated Laughingthrush Grammatoptila striata

  The Striated Laughingthrush is a brown, flocking bird with fine white streaks, found in forests of the Himalayan foothills.

• Mountain Pipit Anthus hoeschi

  This pipit breeds in highland grasslands of Lesotho and South Africa. Pale edges on its dark back feathers and rounded breast markings are useful clues.

• White-browed Foliage-gleaner Anabacerthia amaurotis

  This foliage-gleaner occurs in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. It has a white eyebrow and throat, rufous-brown upperparts, a bright rufous tail, and pale streaking on the upper breast. It forages low to the ground.

• Philippine Magpie-Robin Copsychus mindanensis

  The Philippine Magpie-Robin is endemic to the Philippines. It has a white belly and all-black tail and also lives in open forest, second growth, farmland, gardens, and scrub.

• Sunset Lorikeet Trichoglossus forsteni

  This large parrot inhabits Indonesian islands. It has a purple head and underparts, red chest, and green collar, and moves in groups through forest edges, woodland, and plantations. BirdLife’s assessment page uses Scarlet-breasted Lorikeet for the same scientific name.

• Yellow-throated Woodland Warbler Phylloscopus ruficapilla

  This warbler occurs in scattered forests across southern and eastern Africa. It forages actively among leaves in the mid-stratum and canopy of mature evergreen forest. It is small and slender, with a narrow bill, a relatively long tail, and a dark line through the eye.

• Cassia Crossbill Loxia sinesciuris

  It occurs in Idaho's South Hills and Albion Mountains, using older lodgepole pine forests.

• Indigo Macaw Anodorhynchus leari

  The Indigo Macaw is a large blue parrot of the dry Caatinga in Bahia, Brazil, where licuri palm nuts are its principal food.

• Blue-chested Hummingbird Polyerata amabilis

  Males have a purple-blue throat and green back, while females have a spotted chest. The bird is seen low along forest edges and in shrubby second growth.

• Red-faced Malkoha Phaenicophaeus pyrrhocephalus

  The Red-faced Malkoha is a long-tailed cuckoo with a red face and green bill, native to Sri Lanka. It uses the forest canopy and dense undergrowth.

• Banded Honeyeater Cissomela pectoralis

  This honeyeater occurs across northern Australia, visiting open forest and woodland where eucalypts and melaleucas flower. It feeds on nectar and small insects.

• Agami Heron Agamia agami

  The Agami Heron is a tropical heron with a long neck and bill and a chestnut belly. During breeding, blue crest and back plumes grow longer, and the bird hunts fish at the water's edge.

• 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.

• Gray Gull Leucophaeus modestus

  The Gray Gull changes head color by season. In Chile it feeds along the coast and breeds inland in the Atacama Desert.

• Lina's Sunbird Aethopyga linaraborae

  The male Lina’s Sunbird has a narrow throat patch, a red breast patch, a long graduated tail, and metallic blue-green markings. In July 2015, birds visited roadside trees and males displayed at one high-altitude forest site in eastern Mindanao.

• Cuban Oriole Icterus melanopsis

  It is endemic to Cuba and Isla de Pinos. It lives in forests, plantations, and human-settled places; adult males and females are alike, with black plumage and yellow patches.

• White-throated Towhee Melozone albicollis

  This towhee lives in the highlands of southern Mexico. Accounts place it in moist montane areas and high-elevation scrub, with Oaxaca highlighted as an observation region.

• Nkulengu Rail Himantornis haematopus

  The Nkulengu Rail walks through dense vegetation beside streams in lowland rainforest.

• Shore Dotterel Thinornis novaeseelandiae

  It is a coastal plover native to New Zealand’s Chatham Islands. Males have a black face and throat with white underparts.

• Chuuk Monarch Metabolus rugensis

  The Chuuk Monarch is endemic to the Chuuk Islands. Baker’s 1951 account describes a mostly white male with a black face and throat and a mostly sooty-black female. The species uses large patches of primary forest and mangroves.

• 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.

• Wire-tailed Swallow Hirundo smithii

  The Wire-tailed Swallow has fine outer tail feathers that extend like wires. It is seen alone, in pairs, or in small flocks over open areas near water.

• Purplish Jay Cyanocorax cyanomelas

  This jay is recognizable by its bluish-purple body and black facial mask. Family groups search for food in forests and along their edges.