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• Spot-fronted Swift Cypseloides cherriei

  

  The Spot-fronted Swift occurs in Costa Rica and scattered areas of northern South America. It has a short, square tail and a distinctive pale pattern around the eyes.

• Solitary Snipe Gallinago solitaria

  The Solitary Snipe occurs in mountain wetlands and along streams in valleys. It searches damp ground for small invertebrates.

• Spotted Honeyeater Xanthotis polygrammus

  This honeyeater occurs on both the Indonesian and Papua New Guinean sides of New Guinea. It has white spots on the head and back and searches foliage, flowers, and fruit.

• Apapane Himatione sanguinea

  The Apapane is a Hawaiian honeycreeper that uses nectar as a major food source and also takes insects. It visits ʻōhiʻa blossoms and moves through the canopy as it feeds.

• Indochinese Green Magpie Cissa hypoleuca

  The Indochinese Green Magpie is a jay that lives in evergreen forests from southern China into Southeast Asia.

• Pale-tailed Barbthroat Threnetes leucurus

  This hummingbird lives in the understory of Amazonian forest. It has dark green plumage, a buff neck band, and a pale stripe on the cheek. Tail color varies among subspecies.

• Bar-tailed Cuckoo-Dove Macropygia nigrirostris

  This brown dove has a long tail and a stout black bill. It is usually seen alone or in pairs at forest edges, but may gather at fruiting trees.

• Timberline Wren Thryorchilus browni

  This wren inhabits the mountains from southern Costa Rica into Panama, using high-elevation bamboo thickets and forest edges.

• Smoky Warbler Phylloscopus fuligiventer

  An identification guide describes this warbler among rocks and boulders near the upper rhododendron zone, with streamside vegetation used in winter.

• Chestnut-bellied Monarch Monarcha castaneiventris

  This entry covers records from Santa Isabel and Guadalcanal. The nominate form has a chestnut belly, and field notes record nesting in a tree fork.

• Brown Wood Owl Strix leptogrammica

  The Brown Wood Owl described here is a large owl of Hong Kong's forests. It is mainly active at night and forages among the canopy.

• Pacific Flatbill Rhynchocyclus pacificus

  This tyrant flycatcher occurs along the Pacific side of western Colombia and northwestern Ecuador. It forages in humid forest understory.

• Black-browed Mountain Greenbul Arizelocichla fusciceps

  The Black-browed Mountain Greenbul lives in montane forest in southeastern Africa. Its species account describes dense highland forest and fruit in its diet; a Tanzania photo page records birds in Poroto Ridge forest.

• Gray-backed Tern Onychoprion lunatus

  The Gray-backed Tern breeds on tropical Pacific islands and often stays at sea outside the breeding season. Its full range is not well known.

• Red-collared Widowbird Euplectes ardens

  This widowbird inhabits grasslands and other open areas south of the Sahara. The breeding male is striking, with a black body, red collar, and elongated tail feathers.

• Eastern Whip-poor-will Antrostomus vociferus

  The Eastern Whip-poor-will is a nocturnal bird whose mottled gray-brown plumage blends into the forest floor. It hunts flying insects at dusk and night in open woods.

• Yellow-winged Pytilia Pytilia hypogrammica

  The Yellow-winged Pytilia is a small bird whose male has a red face and throat with a grey crown and back. It mainly eats grass seeds and also takes 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.

• Bolivian Warbling Finch Poospiza boliviana

  This finch occurs in the west-central Bolivian Andes. A research paper gives an elevational range of about 1,600–3,000 m and describes its plumage as gray, white, and rufous.

• 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.

• Cerulean Kingfisher Alcedo coerulescens

  The Cerulean Kingfisher is a small bird with a blue back and white underside. It hunts from waterside branches and posts and eats small fish and aquatic insects.

• Zebra Woodpecker Meiglyptes tristis

  This small woodpecker has dense black-and-pale bars. Its current native range is limited to Java.

• Creamy-bellied Antwren Herpsilochmus motacilloides

  This small antwren lives in humid montane forest on the eastern Andean slope. Males have a black cap and broad white eyebrow, and the species is reported at 900–2,100 m.

• Stripe-headed Rhabdornis Rhabdornis mystacalis

  This bird lives in Philippine forest and woodland. The male has white streaks on the head and back, a white throat and central underparts, and black-striped flanks.