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• Plain-tailed Wren Pheugopedius euophrys

  

  This large wren uses humid Andean montane forest, often around bamboo patches.

• Galapagos Martin Progne modesta

  This martin is about 15 cm long. Males are almost entirely black with a blue sheen, while females are duller brown. It catches flying insects in the Galapagos and nests near cliffs and mangroves.

• Spotted Owl Strix occidentalis

  The Spotted Owl is a large owl of western North American forests. It silently hunts small mammals at night.

• Water Rail Rallus aquaticus

  A secretive rail that breeds in wetlands in Britain and Ireland. Birds arriving from continental Europe add to the winter population.

• Wing-banded Antbird Myrmornis torquata

  This ground-foraging antbird was documented in a French Guiana breeding study. The paper notes a throat-color difference between the sexes and records birds searching leaf litter in humid mature forest.

• Sanderling Calidris alba

  A small shorebird that runs along the water’s edge, probing wet sand for tiny prey with a short black bill and black legs.

• White-eyed Buzzard Butastur teesa

  The White-eyed Buzzard is a raptor with conspicuously pale eyes and throat. It is recorded in the Kaiga survey area in India and eats insects as well as small vertebrates.

• Cream-backed Woodpecker Campephilus leucopogon

  The Cream-backed Woodpecker inhabits open woodland and savanna in South America. It is marked by a black body, red head and pale triangular patch on the back.

• Fork-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo Surniculus dicruroides

  The Fork-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo is about 25 cm long and resembles a drongo. It occurs on the Indian Subcontinent, including Sri Lanka.

• Kikuyu White-eye Zosterops kikuyuensis

  This white-eye occurs on mountains in central Kenya. Its recorded habitats include highland forest and forest edge, bamboo stands, wooded gardens, eucalyptus and conifer woods.

• Golden Monarch Carterornis chrysomela

  The Golden Monarch inhabits forests on New Guinea and surrounding islands. Males have an orange-yellow head, black throat with a white teardrop mark, and forage for small insects along forest edges.

• Glittering Kingfisher Caridonax fulgidus

  The Glittering Kingfisher, also called the white-rumped kingfisher, has a red bill and white belly and rump. It lives in forest and wooded cultivated areas in the Lesser Sundas and eats insects.

• Grey-backed Tailorbird Orthotomus derbianus

  This small warbler occurs in the Philippines. It is greyish overall and mainly searches for insects in forest tangles and low scrub.

• Marvelous Spatuletail Loddigesia mirabilis

  The Marvelous Spatuletail is a hummingbird whose male has racket-shaped ornaments at the ends of its tail feathers. It visits flowers for nectar, and males use the tail in courtship.

• Terrestrial Brownbul Phyllastrephus terrestris

  This bulbul forages through leaf litter in southern African forests. It is shy and may form small groups outside the breeding season.

• Black-headed Saltator Saltator atriceps

  This large finch-like tanager occurs from Mexico to Panama in lowlands and hills, using forest edges and open trees. Its black head and breast bib contrast with bright golden-green upperparts.

• Ashy-throated Bush Tanager Chlorospingus canigularis

  The species account describes olive-yellow upperparts and tail, a grey head and throat, and a yellow breast band. It notes that a white supercilium occurs only in subspecies signatus.

• Myrtle Warbler Setophaga coronata

  The Myrtle Warbler is a small woodland bird with noticeable yellow and white markings. It moves south in fall and also eats berries in winter.

• Painted Bush Quail Perdicula erythrorhyncha

  The Painted Bush Quail lives in grasslands of the Indian Peninsula. Males have a white eyebrow and throat, while the red bill and legs are conspicuous field marks. Small groups may forage in the morning and evening.

• Rosy-billed Pochard Netta peposaca

  The male has a conspicuous red bill, while the female is brown. Rosy-billed Pochards feed on plants and seeds in shallow water and may gather in flocks of thousands.

• Silver Gull Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae

  The Silver Gull has a white head and red-orange bill and legs. It searches for food along coasts and around urban waters in Australia.

• Pale-tailed Canastero Asthenes huancavelicae

  Pale-tailed Canastero occurs in central-southern Peru. The Apurimac form usheri has pale outer tail feathers, and the species account places it in arid valleys with scattered shrubs, cacti, and trees.

• Red-throated Thrush Turdus ruficollis

  This thrush breeds in montane areas of eastern Siberia and Mongolia, then moves to lower areas for winter. Adult males show a red throat against gray and white plumage.

• Dark-rumped Rosefinch Carpodacus edwardsii

  In the Chinese records summarized here, the Dark-rumped Rosefinch occurs in small groups among rhododendron and bamboo undergrowth. Males are redder, while females are mainly brown.