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• Brown-hooded Kingfisher Halcyon albiventris

  

  The Brown-hooded Kingfisher has a blue back and red bill and hunts insects from low branches.

• Bamenda Apalis Apalis bamendae

  This small bird occurs in Cameroon. Its species account notes a dark gray head and chestnut throat, while a government biodiversity report records one bird in the canopy of disturbed forest at Bali-Ngemba.

• Green Thorntail Discosura conversii

  This small hummingbird occurs from Central America into western South America. Males are iridescent green with elongated pointed tail feathers; females have shorter tails and a white moustachial stripe.

• Golden Greenbul Calyptocichla serinus

  A forest bird of West and Central Africa. Records from Upper Guinea place it singly or in pairs in the canopy of well-developed forest; it eats fruit.

• Blue Dacnis Dacnis cayana

  A tanager found from Amazonian lowlands into foothills. Males are blue and black; females are green with blue on the head.

• Tumbes Sparrow Rhynchospiza stolzmanni

  This sparrow has a finely streaked brown back, a striped head, and a gray underside. It forages on the ground in scrub. Most records cited here are from north-western Peru, with the species also occurring in Ecuador.

• Fan-tailed Warbler Basileuterus lachrymosus

  This warbler lives in the understory of woods in Mexico and Central America. It moves near the ground and flicks or fans its long tail to show the white tips.

• Snow Mountain Quail Synoicus monorthonyx

  This quail lives in alpine grasslands of the Snow Mountains and along scrub edges. It is a ground-dwelling bird that eats seeds and other plant matter.

• Blue-billed Duck Oxyura australis

  The Blue-billed Duck is a compact diving duck adapted to life on water. Males stand out with bright blue bills and chestnut plumage.

• Slaty-backed gull Larus schistisagus

  A large gull that breeds mainly in Hokkaido within Japan.

• Spot-crowned Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes affinis

  A woodcreeper of montane forests from Mexico through Central America. It is recognized by its spotted crown, slender curved bill, and habit of climbing trunks to search for food.

• Long-billed Thrush Zoothera monticola

  The Long-billed Thrush is a mountain forest thrush with a long, curved bill. It searches damp forest floors and stream margins for earthworms and other prey.

• White-throated Canary Crithagra albogularis

  The White-throated Canary is a pale canary with little streaking, a white throat, and a greenish-yellow rump. It feeds on seeds and other foods in shrubland, semi-desert, and related habitats of southwestern Africa.

• Sclater's Tyrannulet Phyllomyias sclateri

  This roughly 12 cm tyrannulet lives in montane forests on the eastern side of the southern Andes. It forages in the middle and upper forest strata and sometimes joins mixed-species flocks.

• Chestnut-capped Blackbird Chrysomus ruficapillus

  The Chestnut-capped Blackbird lives in South American wetlands. The male has a black body with a rufous-brown head, neck, and chest; the female is olive-brown with black streaks.

• White-throated Babbler Argya gularis

  It inhabits dry scrub in central and southern Myanmar, feeding in small groups mainly on the ground.

• Mottled Petrel Pterodroma inexpectata

  Mottled Petrels breed on islands in southern New Zealand and move to the North Pacific afterward. They feed close to the sea surface.

• Indian Blue Robin Luscinia brunnea

  This robin occurs in Himalayan forest. Males have blue upperparts and orange underparts; females are brown above with paler underparts.

• 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.

• Bank Myna Acridotheres ginginianus

  The Bank Myna is a starling with a dark tufted cap and orange around the eyes, bill and legs. A study in northern Bangladesh found breeding colonies along riverbanks and similar sites.

• Eastern Clapper Lark Corypha fasciolata

  This lark uses open grassland in southern Africa. Rufous tones are usual across much of its range, while birds in northern Namibia and northern Botswana are paler.

• Black-throated Magpie-Jay Cyanocorax colliei

  This large magpie-jay is native to Mexico. It uses tropical deciduous and secondary forest and shrubland, and is omnivorous.

• Black-bellied Firefinch Lagonosticta rara

  The male is deep red and black, while the female is red and olive brown. It searches for small seeds on the ground and uses savanna, grassland, and cultivated areas.

• Indian Swiftlet Aerodramus unicolor

  It is a small swiftlet of the Western Ghats of south-western India and Sri Lanka. It catches insects and other invertebrates in flight and builds dark nests of feathers and saliva in caves.