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• Lesser Prairie Chicken Tympanuchus pallidicinctus

  

  This ground-dwelling bird has barred brown-and-white plumage and lives in grasslands of the southern United States. In spring, males gather at display grounds to court females.

• Blue-rumped Parrot Psittinus cyanurus

  The Blue-rumped Parrot lives in forests of the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo. Males and females differ in head and back colors.

• Worm-eating Warbler Helmitheros vermivorum

  This small songbird has a long, pointed bill and striped head. It searches for caterpillars and other insects in dense forest understory.

• Palawan Flycatcher Ficedula platenae

  A tiny flycatcher endemic to Palawan and nearby islands. It occurs in lowland primary forest and some secondary growth.

• Aztec Rail Rallus tenuirostris

  The Aztec Rail is a rail of Mexico’s highland freshwater marshes. A 2014 taxonomic proposal describes that population as bright rufous below, with diffuse barring on the flanks.

• Red-chested Sunbird Cinnyris erythrocercus

  This sunbird occurs in East-Central Africa. Dave Richards's 2013 Wildlife of East Africa guide uses the former genus name Nectarinia erythrocerca and describes waterside habitat and different male and female plumage.

• Providence Petrel Pterodroma solandri

  The Providence Petrel ranges over open water from the southwest Pacific to the North Pacific and Bering Sea. It breeds only on Lord Howe Island and Phillip Island in the Norfolk Island group.

• Olive-backed Tailorbird Orthotomus sepium

  Males have a dull gray body and rusty face; females have a less rusty head and whitish throat. It searches for small invertebrates in lowland scrub and mangroves.

• African Black Swift Apus barbatus

  The African Black Swift catches insects in flight. The nominate subspecies in South Africa is described as partly migratory.

• Subantarctic Snipe Coenocorypha aucklandica

  The Subantarctic Snipe lives on islands south of mainland New Zealand. Its brown and blackish back feathers have buff edges, and it hides among dense vegetation during the day.

• Yellow-browed Honeyeater Melidectes rufocrissalis

  It has a long tail and a long, down-curved bill. It uses lower and middle levels of New Guinea's montane forest and gardens, feeding on insects, nectar, and fruit.

• Golden-rumped Euphonia Euphonia cyanocephala

  The male has a blue head and back with a golden rump. The Peru species account associates the bird with semi-deciduous and humid montane forest, including places with mistletoes.

• Javan Green Magpie Cissa thalassina

  The Javan Green Magpie is a corvid whose adult green plumage contrasts with the blue feathers of newly hatched young. It eats insects and lizards in Java's mountain forests.

• White-vented Violetear Colibri serrirostris

  This hummingbird lives in dry forest and dry savanna in South America. It has a violet-blue patch behind the eye and feeds on nectar.

• Partridge Pigeon Geophaps smithii

  This ground-dwelling pigeon is recognized by facial skin and a white stripe along the body. In northern Australia the facial skin is red in one region and yellow in another; it feeds on seeds on the ground.

• Spotted Wren Campylorhynchus gularis

  The Spotted Wren is a brown wren marked with spots. It searches for animal and plant food in dry scrub and woodland in Mexico.

• Shining Flycatcher Myiagra alecto

  This monarch flycatcher ranges from the Moluccas through New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago to northern and eastern Australia. Males are glossy blue-black; females have chestnut upperparts and white underparts.

• Bare-shanked Screech Owl Megascops clarkii

  The facial disc is cinnamon to tawny brown and the eyes are pale yellow. Its brown upperparts are heavily marked with black, the shoulders show a white band, and the lower tarsi and toes are bare. It is nocturnal, roosting by day in dense foliage or among epiphytes. It hunts large insects and small rodents at dusk and at night, usually along forest edges and clearings. Family-sized groups may roost close together.

• Yellow-lored Tody-Flycatcher Todirostrum poliocephalum

  This small tyrant flycatcher occurs in lowlands of southeastern Brazil. It is found in shrubs at forest edges, clearings, gardens, and parks.

• Mountain Bulbul Ixos mcclellandii

  It has a ragged crest and lime-green wings and tail. It moves through forest canopies in small parties and sometimes joins mixed-species flocks.

• Hartlaub's Gull Chroicocephalus hartlaubii

  Hartlaub's Gull is a small coastal gull of southern Africa. Its head and bill colors change as it matures.

• Red Fody Foudia madagascariensis

  This small Malagasy bird's male turns vermilion during the breeding season. It hangs a ball-shaped nest woven from leaves high in a tree.

• Golden Nightjar Caprimulgus eximius

  The Golden Nightjar's sandy-golden plumage blends into the Sahel's dry ground. It rests on the ground by day and searches for insects at dusk.

• Orange-winged Pytilia Pytilia afra

  The Orange-winged Pytilia is a waxbill with conspicuous orange-yellow wings. It feeds on grass seeds and insects on the ground; the female’s wing color is duller than the male’s.