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• Gray Francolin Ortygornis pondicerianus

  

  The Gray Francolin is a ground-dwelling bird native from Iran through South Asia. It has mottled brown plumage and eats seeds and insects.

• Philippine Bush-hen Amaurornis olivacea

  The species account gives a body length of 24–31 cm, freshwater wetland habitat, and an omnivorous diet. Its listed sound recordings come from several parts of the Philippines.

• Red-breasted Sapsucker Sphyrapicus ruber

  This woodpecker has a scarlet head and a black-and-white checkerboard back. It drills rows of shallow sap wells in trees and occurs in forests of the Sierra Nevada and Pacific Coast.

• White-rumped Seedeater Crithagra leucopygia

  The White-rumped Seedeater is a finch about 12 cm long. It uses dry savanna as well as fields, pastures, and rural gardens.

• Andean Goose Chloephaga melanoptera

  The Andean Goose has a white body set off by black wings and tail. It grazes near high-Andean wetlands on grasses and aquatic plants, moving to lower elevations in winter.

• Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata

  The Red-eyed Dove has red eyes and a pink breast. It is resident in southern Africa, where it lives from riverine forest to suburban areas.

• Chestnut-backed Antshrike Thamnophilus palliatus

  The Chestnut-backed Antshrike is recorded from southeastern Peru through Bolivia and Brazil. It occurs at forest edges and in secondary growth.

• Reunion Cuckooshrike Coracina newtoni

  The Reunion Cuckooshrike is endemic to Réunion. Males and females differ in plumage, and the national park account places it in the La Roche Écrite area.

• Sulphur-bellied Bulbul Iole palawanensis

  This bulbul is endemic to Palawan. Adults have an olive body, fine white crown streaks and a yellow belly; the guide records insects and fruit among its foods.

• Golden-tailed Parrotlet Touit surdus

  This small parrot lives in lowland and secondary forests of eastern Brazil. It searches for fruit in the canopy and is seen in pairs or small groups.

• Stripe-headed Brush-Finch Arremon torquatus

  The Stripe-headed Brush-Finch (Arremon torquatus) is a brush-finch of the southern Andes and forest understory. It has a black head with a pale central stripe and eyebrow, a white throat and a black breast band. The former Stripe-headed complex was divided into several lineages; this account is restricted to A. torquatus sensu stricto.

• Chestnut-bellied Cuckoo Coccyzus pluvialis

  The Chestnut-bellied Cuckoo is a large Jamaican cuckoo with a chestnut belly and long, white-spotted tail. It runs along branches while searching for food.

• Scaled Spinetail Cranioleuca muelleri

  The Scaled Spinetail is restricted to Brazil’s lower Amazon. Its rufous crown and tail contrast with a scaly-looking pale underside. It searches for arthropods in flooded forest undergrowth and mid-storey, while breeding details remain poorly known.

• Stripe-throated Wren Cantorchilus leucopogon

  The Stripe-throated Wren has a striped throat and reddish-brown tail. The account distinguishes a darker Pacific form from a paler, greyer Caribbean form.

• Kosrae White-eye Zosterops cinereus

  This grey white-eye lives on Kosrae. Adults lack the olive-brown back and flanks of the related Pohnpei bird and have a thin white eye-ring. Small flocks forage in forest, mangroves and other terrestrial habitats.

• Belding's Yellowthroat Geothlypis beldingi

  This warbler has a fragmented range on Mexico’s Baja California peninsula. BirdLife describes freshwater marshes with reeds and cattails as its main habitat.

• Böhm's Spinetail Neafrapus boehmi

  This small swift has a very short tail and flies fast above African savannas and open woodland.

• Gilbert's Honeyeater Melithreptus chloropsis

  This honeyeater inhabits the wetter forests of southwestern Western Australia. Adults have pale bare skin around the eye and feed on nectar and insects.

• Sao Tome Thrush Turdus olivaceofuscus

  The São Tomé Thrush lives in forests on São Tomé. It searches among leaf litter, where beetles, snails, worms, and fruit have been recorded in its diet.

• Olive-backed Sunbird Cinnyris jugularis

  The Olive-backed Sunbird is a small bird that uses its slender, curved bill to feed from flowers. In Queensland it also occurs in gardens and along forest edges, and males and females differ in throat color.

• White-tailed Alethe Alethe diademata

  The White-tailed Alethe occurs in the Upper Guinea forests of West Africa. Its reddish crown and broad white tips on the outer tail feathers are distinctive. A Ghana study treated it as a sedentary forest specialist that forages for insects on the ground.

• Yellowish Flycatcher Empidonax flavescens

  The Yellowish Flycatcher is marked by its yellowish belly and a pale eye-ring that broadens behind the eye. In Costa Rica, it uses the canopy and edges of moist mountain forest.

• Pohnpei Broadbill Myiagra pluto

  Myiagra pluto is confined to Pohnpei Island in Micronesia. It also occurs at forest edges and village gardens, catching insects from low perches.

• Black-billed Weaver Ploceus melanogaster

  The Black-billed Weaver lives in dense undergrowth in African montane forest. Male yellow markings vary between its geographically separated forms: the Cameroon form has a yellow breast collar, while the eastern form has yellow on the face.