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• Pintado Petrel Daption capense

  

  The Pintado Petrel is a black-and-white mottled seabird of the Southern Ocean. It breeds near Antarctica and shifts its feeding range with the seasons.

• Rufous-tailed Palm Thrush Cichladusa ruficauda

  The Rufous-tailed Palm Thrush is about 18 cm long. It uses palm-dominated woodland, riverine forest, and gardens, where it forages on the ground for invertebrates.

• Ashy Minivet Pericrocotus divaricatus

  The Ashy Minivet breeds in East Asia and winters in Southeast Asia and nearby regions. In Hong Kong, spring passage is recorded more often than autumn passage.

• Black-bellied Starling Notopholia corusca

  The Black-bellied Starling is a slim, dark starling with a black belly and little gloss. It is common in coastal East African woodland; a male's eye can turn red briefly during the breeding season.

• Gray's Lark Ammomanopsis grayi

  This lark lives around the Namib Desert and prefers gravel plains to dunes. Its pale plumage blends with the ground.

• Cape Crow Corvus capensis

  The Cape Crow is a glossy black crow. It usually lives as a territorial pair and searches the ground for food in grasslands and dry savannas.

• Red-faced Crimsonwing Cryptospiza reichenovii

  A forest-dwelling finch of Africa. Males have a red back, green throat, and grey-green body.

• Band-rumped Swift Chaetura spinicaudus

  The Band-rumped Swift occurs from Central America to northern South America. In Guyana’s Iwokrama it flies over forest, open areas and water.

• Yellow-browed Honeyeater Melidectes rufocrissalis

  It has a long tail and a long, down-curved bill. It uses lower and middle levels of New Guinea's montane forest and gardens, feeding on insects, nectar, and fruit.

• Yellow-crowned Bishop Euplectes afer

  The Yellow-crowned Bishop is a small bird of grasslands and wetlands in sub-Saharan Africa. It mainly eats seeds, and breeding males puff out yellow back feathers and call.

• Andaman Nightjar Caprimulgus andamanicus

  A nightjar resident on the Andaman Islands. It has a bold black central crown streak, a white throat, and dark bars on the tail.

• Banded Green Sunbird Anthreptes rubritorques

  This sunbird lives in Tanzania's mountain forests. Males have a red breast band, and birds search for nectar and small insects high in trees.

• Scaly-naped Amazon Amazona mercenarius

  The Scaly-naped Amazon lives in Andean forests. This account separates the appearance and range of subspecies A. m. mercenarius from behavior reported for the species as a whole.

• Goldie's Lorikeet Glossoptilus goldiei

  Goldie's Lorikeet is a New Guinea parrot with a red crown, blue nape, and green body. It gathers at flowering trees and moves in flocks.

• Scaled Pigeon Patagioenas speciosa

  The Scaled Pigeon has a scaly pattern across much of its plumage. In Bolivia it is recorded mainly in humid and semi-humid forest below 1,000 m, often in the canopy.

• Gray-breasted Wood-Wren Henicorhina leucophrys

  The Gray-breasted Wood-Wren forages in the understory of Andean montane forest. Its white eyebrow and gray throat and breast are useful field marks.

• White-rumped Swallow Tachycineta leucorrhoa

  The White-rumped Swallow is a South American swallow with glossy blue-green upperparts and a white rump and belly. It catches insects over water and grassland and also nests in building cavities.

• Sunda Scops Owl Otus lempiji

  A small owl with noticeable ear tufts and a pale brown collar. It is recorded as resident in Singapore.

• New Guinea Flightless Rail Megacrex inepta

  The New Guinea Flightless Rail lives in wetlands and thickets on New Guinea. It has a gray forehead, a rusty-brown crown and nape, and a green bill.

• Marsh Antwren Formicivora acutirostris

  This antwren lives in flooded coastal wetlands of southern Brazil. Males have a gray-black underside, while females have black-and-white mottling underneath; the bird uses marsh vegetation.

• Gansu Leaf-warbler Phylloscopus kansuensis

  This small leaf-warbler breeds in western China. Its breeding forest and pale facial and crown stripes help describe it.

• Wilson's Phalarope Phalaropus tricolor

  A shorebird that breeds in North American wetlands and gathers at western salt lakes during migration before travelling to South America. In breeding plumage females are brighter than males, and males raise the young after females leave.

• Ferruginous Hawk Buteo regalis

  The Ferruginous Hawk hunts small mammals over open country such as grasslands and deserts. It is a large North American hawk.

• American Three-toed Woodpecker Picoides dorsalis

  The American Three-toed Woodpecker has three toes. It chips sideways at bark on dead or dying trees to find beetle larvae beneath it.