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• Little Cuckoo Coccycua minuta

  

  The Little Cuckoo is a small reddish-brown cuckoo spread across Amazonia. It is often found in vine-filled thickets along water, forest edges, and cleared forest.

• Long-billed White-eye Rukia longirostra

  This white-eye is distinctive for its long, slender bill that curves downward. It is restricted to Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia.

• Black-winged Monarch Monarcha frater

  This monarch uses forests in New Guinea and far northeastern Australia. In the nominate New Guinea subspecies, the area around the eye is gray. Migration is reported only for the Australian subspecies.

• Brown-winged Kingfisher Pelargopsis amauroptera

  Adults have orange-brown underparts and a blue back. In southwestern Bangladesh's mangroves, the bird watches waterways from low perches and dives for prey.

• Brown Prinia Prinia polychroa

  The Brown Prinia uses dry grassland and scrubby growth at forest edges. It searches for insects and larvae close to the ground.

• Green-throated Mango Anthracothorax viridigula

  The Green-throated Mango ranges from northeastern Venezuela through the Guianas to northern Brazil. It is a hummingbird whose male has a green throat while the female has reddish upperparts.

• Black-capped Bulbul Rubigula melanictera

  The Black-capped Bulbul is endemic to Sri Lanka. The Ceylon Bird Club page uses the older combination Pycnonotus melanicterus; Clements uses the current spelling Rubigula melanictera.

• Bright-rumped Yellow Finch Sicalis uropigyalis

  This finch occurs in high-Andean steppe and prepuna in northwestern Argentina. The male has a yellow head and underparts with a gray face.

• Santa Marta Brush Finch Atlapetes melanocephalus

  Endemic to Colombia's Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, this brushfinch has a black head, silver-gray cheek patch, slate-gray upperparts, yellow underparts, and olive flanks. It uses montane forest thickets and feeds on seeds.

• Crescent-chested Warbler Oreothlypis superciliosa

  This small warbler is common in Mexico's mountain pine forests and sometimes moves to lower elevations in winter.

• Bornean Partridge Arborophila hyperythra

  The Bornean Partridge is a pheasant-family bird of hill and montane forest on Borneo. It uses bamboo and thickets on the forest floor and eats both plant and animal matter.

• Spur-winged Goose Plectropterus gambensis

  This large waterbird lives around wetlands and eats mainly plant matter.

• Sooty Tern Onychoprion fuscatus

  A tern that ranges widely over tropical oceans. It breeds on small islands and catches fish near the water surface while flying.

• Streak-capped Spinetail Cranioleuca hellmayri

  It has a long pointed tail, a rufous crown with pale streaks, and a whitish eyebrow and throat. It occurs in Colombia's mountain forests and searches for small invertebrates at forest edges and in mixed flocks.

• Principe Thrush Turdus xanthorhynchus

  The Príncipe Thrush is recorded on Príncipe Island, São Tomé and Príncipe. Its account describes a white, streaked throat; field records include both primary forest and mature secondary forest.

• Akiapolaau Hemignathus wilsoni

  This endemic Hawaiian honeycreeper lives in montane forest on Hawaiʻi Island. It uses a long curved upper bill and a short lower bill to search branches for insects and larvae.

• McConnell's Flycatcher Mionectes macconnelli

  This small flycatcher inhabits Amazonian forest. A 1978 paper, using the former genus name Pipromorpha, recorded it singing by creeks and taking insects from foliage near Manaus.

• Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus

  Red-winged Blackbirds differ greatly in plumage between the sexes. They nest in wetlands during breeding; the North American account describes a diet of mainly insects in summer and seeds in fall and winter.

• Snowy-cheeked Laughingthrush Ianthocincla sukatschewi

  This laughingthrush occurs around the Min Shan, from southern Gansu into northern Sichuan, China. BirdLife reports records at 2,000–3,500 m.

• Jouanin's Petrel Bulweria fallax

  Jouanin's Petrel is a sooty-brown seabird of the northwestern Indian Ocean. It visits breeding sites at night and nests on the coastal cliffs of Socotra Island.

• White-fronted Black Chat Pentholaea albifrons

  The pool's older generic combination Pentholaea albifrons is updated here to Oenanthe albifrons. The appearance account is for the nominate race, while Senegal is within the range of a different form, frontalis.

• Black-bibbed Cicadabird Coracina mindanensis

  The Black-bibbed Cicadabird occurs in the Philippines and uses the canopy and middle storey of moist lowland secondary forest and montane forest. The male plumage description here is limited to the Mindanao subspecies mindanense.

• Fischer's Starling Lamprotornis fischeri

  This starling lives in wooded savanna and dry open thornveld in East Africa. It forages on the ground for insects and berries, in pairs or small flocks.

• Hume's Short-toed Lark Calandrella acutirostris

  Hume's Short-toed Lark breeds on dry, gravelly high ground and winters mainly in the northern and central Indian subcontinent. One bird recorded at Eilat in 1986 was described as rounder-headed and shorter-tailed than the related Short-toed Lark.