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• Black-eared Warbler Basileuterus melanotis

  

  This small warbler occurs in the highlands of Costa Rica and western Panama. It has olive upperparts, pale buff underparts, and dark markings around the eye.

• Cape Verde Swift Apus alexandri

  The Cape Verde Swift is endemic to the Cape Verde Islands and breeds in crevices on cliffs and ravines.

• White-naped Honeyeater Melithreptus lunatus

  A honeyeater of eastern and southeastern Australia. Its olive back, black crown and white nape band are distinctive.

• Bassian Thrush Zoothera lunulata

  The Bassian Thrush lives in forests of Australia and Tasmania and searches beneath leaf litter on the forest floor. Pale spots and dark crescent-like markings pattern its plumage; it eats insects, worms, and fruit.

• Long-billed Sunbird Cinnyris notatus

  A sunbird of Madagascar's forests. Males are larger and darker than females and use a long, strong bill to feed on nectar; they also take spiders and insects from flowers.

• Rüppell's Black Chat Myrmecocichla melaena

  Rüppell's Black Chat is entirely black, with a large white wing patch that becomes conspicuous in flight. It lives in rocky northern Abyssinian highlands and feeds on invertebrates on the ground.

• Ringed Antpipit Corythopis torquatus

  This South American forest flycatcher has a grey-brown crown, tawny shoulders, a white throat and belly, and a broad black breast band. It feeds on insects and other small prey.

• White-naped Monarch Carterornis pileatus

  It occurs on Halmahera and Buru in moist lowland forest. Salvadori's description of a male from Halmahera records a black forehead, back, wings and tail against a white crown, pale eye-area patches, white cheeks, chest and belly. A field report recorded small groups in logged forest and forest edges.

• Scaly-feathered Weaver Sporopipes squamifrons

  The Scaly-feathered Weaver is a small bird with bold black-and-white head markings. It forages in groups on seeds in dry open woodland and grass patches of southern Africa.

• Kittlitz's Plover Charadrius pecuarius

  Kittlitz's plover walks along African coasts and inland sand or mud, searching for small prey.

• Mount Victoria Babax Pterorhinus woodi

  A babbler recorded from northeastern India and western Myanmar. Its 1902 original description is of one specimen from Kanpetlet, and the authors were cautious about distinguishing it without comparative specimens.

• Long-toed Stint Calidris subminuta

  The Long-toed Stint is a small shorebird with long toes. It breeds in northern Asia and migrates south for winter, using shallow wetlands and similar habitats.

• Antarctic Petrel Thalassoica antarctica

  This seabird forages in waters around Antarctica. Its dark wings have broad white trailing edges, and it gathers at sea and rests on icebergs.

• Xinjiang Ground-Jay Podoces biddulphi

  The Xinjiang Ground-Jay is a ground-dwelling corvid of arid Xinjiang. It has a pale body and long tail and searches for food on foot.

• Black-billed Kingfisher Pelargopsis melanorhyncha

  The Black-billed Kingfisher has a cream-colored head and underparts, dark greenish-brown wings, and a large bill. It hunts for crabs along rivers and coasts.

• Diamond Firetail Stagonopleura guttata

  This small bird lives in grassland and scrub in southeastern Australia. It feeds on the ground on grass seeds and insects, and has a gray back, white underside, and red rump.

• Sapphire-vented Puffleg Eriocnemis luciani

  The Sapphire-vented Puffleg is a hummingbird with white feathered leg puffs and a long, forked blue-purple tail. It lives in Andean cloud forest and may visit hummingbird feeders where they are available.

• 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.

• Somali Short-toed Lark Alaudala somalica

  This lark lives in open, dry grassland in East Africa. It has dark streaks on its reddish-brown upperparts and streaking on the breast.

• Bourke's Parrot Neopsephotus bourkii

  Bourke's Parrot is a small parrot of dry scrub in inland Australia. It feeds on seeds on the ground.

• Crimson-fronted Cardinal Paroaria baeri

  This cardinal occurs along Brazil's Araguaia River and tributaries. It forms small flocks along lake margins and slow-flowing rivers.

• Asian House Martin Delichon dasypus

  This swift-flying martin catches insects in the air. It is recorded as a migrant in Singapore.

• Sokoke Pipit Anthus sokokensis

  The Sokoke Pipit is a shy bird of coastal forests in Kenya and Tanzania, with Arabuko-Sokoke Forest as its stronghold.

• Nubian Nightjar Caprimulgus nubicus

  The Nubian Nightjar was studied in salt marsh and open country in southern Israel. Its foraging times changed with moonlight, and moths were its main prey.