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• Grey-crowned Prinia Prinia cinereocapilla

  

  The Grey-crowned Prinia is a small bird marked by its grey crown. A study in western Nepal reported it in grassland and scrub habitats.

• Eared Pygmy Tyrant Myiornis auricularis

  This tiny tyrant flycatcher is reported from Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina. It has a black patch behind the eye on a grey head and feeds mostly on insects.

• Pink-headed Imperial Pigeon Ducula rosacea

  The Pink-headed Imperial Pigeon is an island pigeon with pale pink on its head and upper neck. It feeds on fruit in forests of the Lesser Sunda Islands.

• Alpine Swift Tachymarptis melba

  The Alpine Swift is a large swift with a pale belly. In a tracking study, one individual was reported to remain almost continuously in flight for more than 200 days.

• Canada goose Branta canadensis

  A goose native to North America, with a long black neck and head and a white patch across the cheeks and chin.

• Chestnut-headed Hill Partridge Arborophila cambodiana

  A partridge of southwestern Cambodia. The Cardamom Mountains population includes a locally described subspecies.

• Small Minivet Pericrocotus cinnamomeus

  A small bird that moves through woodland in flocks; males show orange and females yellow.

• Waller's Starling Onychognathus walleri

  Males are blue-black with reddish-brown flight feathers and red eyes, while females have gray heads and breasts. They forage for fruit and animal food in the canopy of montane forest.

• Long-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus climacurus

  A long-tailed nightjar with different male and female plumage. It uses African habitats from arid semi-desert to savanna and lowland forest clearings, catching insects in flight.

• Mindoro Bulbul Hypsipetes mindorensis

  Mindoro Bulbul is endemic to Mindoro in the Philippines. Its 1890 description records dark olive-brown upperparts and a rufous-tinged breast.

• Philippine Pygmy Woodpecker Yungipicus maculatus

  A small woodpecker of Philippine forests. This entry covers the three subspecies aligned with the candidate taxon and excludes the Sulu population.

• Bahama Warbler Setophaga flavescens

  This warbler occurs on Grand Bahama and Abaco in the Bahamas. A 2018 survey on Grand Bahama recorded birds searching pine trunks and palm leaves for small invertebrates.

• Fernando Po Speirops Zosterops brunneus

  This bird occurs on Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea. It is chocolate brown overall, darker near the face and paler on the flanks and vent, with a blue-gray bill and legs; it is found almost exclusively in the island's high alpine zone.

• Grey Waxbill Estrilda perreini

  This small waxbill lives around African forest and woodland edges. It has a gray body, red rump and black eye-line, and forages under cover for grass seeds and other foods.

• Wilson's Snipe Gallinago delicata

  A snipe of North American wetlands. It probes wet soil with its long bill for insect larvae, worms, and other small prey.

• Chestnut-hooded Laughingthrush Pterorhinus treacheri

  The Chestnut-hooded Laughingthrush is endemic to Borneo, with a patchy distribution. The account describes three subspecies across the island's mountain regions.

• Straight-billed Earthcreeper Ochetorhynchus ruficaudus

  This earthcreeper inhabits dry highlands of southwestern Bolivia. Accounts describe its long, nearly straight bill and ground-foraging on sparsely vegetated, rocky slopes.

• Moorland Chat Pinarochroa sordida

  The plumage and behaviour below come from a 1949 account of the Ruwenzori Mountains only. It describes birds above the bamboo zone, with dark brown upperparts, a faint wingbar and white outer tail feathers.

• Salvadori's Fig Parrot Psittaculirostris salvadorii

  This small parrot lives in lowland forest in northwestern New Guinea. Males and females have different cheek and chest markings, and it eats figs, other fruits, and nectar.

• Plumbeous Euphonia Euphonia plumbea

  Male Plumbeous Euphonias have blue upperparts and yellow underparts. They occur in savanna with scattered trees and along woodland edges, where they eat small fruit.

• Red-browed Amazon Amazona rhodocorytha

  Adult Red-browed Amazons are green, with a red forehead and crown and blue on the throat and upper cheeks. In the wild, they eat fruits and seeds high in the trees of humid forests in eastern Brazil.

• Violet-tailed Sylph Aglaiocercus coelestis

  This hummingbird lives on the western Andean slope of Colombia and Ecuador. Males have long violet-blue tails; females are smaller and lack the long tail.

• White-crowned Cuckoo Caliechthrus leucolophus

  The White-crowned Cuckoo is a New Guinea bird with a glossy black body and a broad silvery-white crown band. It uses the forest canopy and feeds mainly on large insects and fruit.

• Elfin Myzomela Myzomela adolphinae

  A tiny honeyeater of New Guinea's mid-montane forest canopy and village edges. Males show red on the head and rump against a dark back and wings; females have red only at the chin.