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• Black Monarch Symposiachrus axillaris

  

  A long-tailed, mostly black flycatcher of New Guinea's lowland and mountain forests. Its diet is still poorly recorded.

• Sahul Brush Cuckoo Cacomantis variolosus

  The Sahul Brush Cuckoo often waits quietly on a branch for hairy caterpillars and other insects. It lays eggs in other birds’ nests, leaving the hosts to raise its young.

• Grey Nightjar Caprimulgus jotaka

  A nocturnal bird with intricate silver-grey and brown plumage.

• White-bibbed Swallow Hirundo nigrita

  The White-bibbed Swallow has glossy blue-violet plumage and a white throat patch. It catches insects while flying low over rivers.

• Red-backed Thrush Geokichla erythronota

  The adult male is a thrush with a chestnut back and striking black-and-white markings on the face and breast. On Buton Island it searches for food in shaded lower forest and on the ground.

• Chapin's Apalis Apalis chapini

  This apalis was surveyed in Mdando Forest in Tanzania's Southern Highlands. A recent field survey recorded birds moving through the canopy in pairs or small parties.

• Sooty Gull Ichthyaetus hemprichii

  The Sooty Gull lives along coasts around the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. Breeding adults have dark, sooty gray-brown plumage and search the shore for fish and other food.

• Green-winged Teal Anas carolinensis

  The Green-winged Teal is a small North American duck, notable for the green stripe on the male's head. It feeds near the water's surface and moves between breeding and wintering areas with the seasons.

• Timneh Parrot Psittacus timneh

  A grey parrot of West African forests and adjoining habitats. It eats fruit and seeds and nests in high tree cavities.

• 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.

• Cape May Warbler Setophaga tigrina

  The Cape May Warbler is a small bird that breeds in boreal forests of Canada and the northern United States. It uses varied woods and shrublands during migration and winter.

• White-headed Starling Sturnia erythropygia

  This starling is endemic to India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands. It uses forest edges and open places, where it feeds on fruit and other foods.

• Violet-eared Waxbill Uraeginthus granatinus

  The Violet-eared Waxbill inhabits thickets, woodland, and savanna in southern Africa. Males have a blue forehead and violet cheeks against a chestnut body, and the species feeds mainly on seeds.

• Orange-tufted Sunbird Cinnyris bouvieri

  The Orange-tufted Sunbird is an African nectar-feeding bird. A study in Cameroon’s Bamenda Highlands recorded it selecting flowers of a lobelia. A bird photographed in the Republic of the Congo was also reported as this species, but that identification was tentative.

• Christmas Imperial Pigeon Ducula whartoni

  The Christmas Island Imperial Pigeon is a large pigeon found only on Christmas Island. Flocks feed on ripe fruit in the rainforest canopy.

• Thrush-like Wren Campylorhynchus turdinus

  Plumage brightness varies across the Bolivian account: a paler subspecies occurs through most of the country, while another is recorded in several northern areas.

• Harlequin Antbird Rhegmatorhina berlepschi

  This antbird occurs in forested parts of southern Amazonia. In places where it meets the related Rhegmatorhina hoffmannsi, studies report geographic variation in throat and chest color.

• Chestnut-breasted Mountain Finch Poospizopsis caesar

  This finch-like tanager occurs in the southern Peruvian Andes. It forages in semi-humid scrub, and its white throat and eyebrow contrast with a chestnut breast.

• Rufous-backed Honeyeater Ptiloprora guisei

  During the Bishop Museum expedition to Mount Dayman in Papua New Guinea, it was recorded frequently above 1,400 m and used several forest strata.

• White-breasted Cuckooshrike Coracina pectoralis

  This cuckooshrike lives in woodland and forest across sub-Saharan Africa. The pool name Coracina pectoralis is listed as Ceblepyris pectoralis in the current species account.

• Pale-throated Greenbul Atimastillas flavigula

  This long-tailed, olive-green bulbul is found in forests, dense woodland, and scrub, often in pairs or small groups. Its range extends from central into eastern Africa.

• Thick-billed Miner Geositta crassirostris

  This miner lives in dry western Peruvian slopes and coastal lomas. It has gray-brown upperparts, a stout bill, and a pale eyebrow, and searches the ground among rocks.

• Wood Snipe Gallinago nemoricola

  A little-known snipe that breeds in Himalayan alpine regions. A study in an alpine meadow in Sichuan, China, found breeding birds foraging where soil fauna were more abundant.

• Egyptian vulture Neophron percnopterus

  A vulture known for a white body, yellow face and occasional use of stones as tools.