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• Elliot's Pheasant Syrmaticus ellioti

  

  Elliot's Pheasant is a pheasant endemic to southeastern China. The male has a long tail marked with silvery bars.

• Sao Tome Weaver Ploceus sanctithomae

  This weaver is endemic to São Tomé Island. The sexes differ in plumage, and pairs or flocks forage in trees by searching leaves, holes, and epiphytes.

• Brown Fulvetta Alcippe brunneicauda

  The Brown Fulvetta has a plain brown head, warm brown back, and rufous rump. It searches lower forest branches for insects and fruit.

• Russet Nightingale-Thrush Catharus occidentalis

  A thrush of montane forests in Mexico. Its reported body length is 15–18 cm; it forages on the ground by day and takes food including invertebrates.

• 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.

• White-throated Hawk Buteo albigula

  The White-throated Hawk has brown-and-white plumage with chestnut on the neck and chest. In Argentina it is recorded in Andean-Patagonian forest and the northwest.

• Southern Bentbill Oncostoma olivaceum

  This small flycatcher has yellowish-olive upperparts and yellow underparts. It occurs along lowland forest edges and in secondary forest in eastern Panama and northern Colombia.

• Scaly Kingfisher Actenoides princeps

  A kingfisher of Sulawesi’s humid montane forests, it is striking for its blue-violet head and scaly-marked brown body.

• Eurasian Skylark Alauda arvensis

  Its streaky brown plumage blends into open fields, while breeding males sing during high flights.

• Fiji Parrotfinch Erythrura pealii

  The Fiji Parrotfinch has a green body with a red head, rump, and tail. It comes to open grassland to feed mainly on grass seeds.

• Yellow-faced Myna Mino dumontii

  The Yellow-faced Myna is a starling of New Guinea's forest canopy. Its yellow face and white rump are easy to notice.

• Moss-backed Sparrow Arremon dorbignii

  The Moss-backed Sparrow ranges from the eastern Bolivian Andes foothills to northwestern Argentina. It uses the understory of second-growth and mature forest, usually alone or with its mate and sometimes in mixed flocks.

• Green Warbler-Finch Certhidea olivacea

  The Green Warbler-Finch is endemic to the Galápagos and has the thinnest bill among Darwin's finches. It probes leaves and moss for small arthropods.

• Herald Petrel Pterodroma heraldica

  A seabird that breeds on tropical Pacific islands and occurs in a range of plumage colors.

• Black-backed Forktail Enicurus immaculatus

  This stream-dwelling bird has black-and-white plumage and a long forked tail. It occurs beside forested streams, alone or in pairs.

• Coral-billed Ground Cuckoo Carpococcyx renauldi

  A ground-dwelling cuckoo with a red bill and long tail, living in the forest undergrowth of Southeast Asia.

• Horus Swift Apus horus

  The Horus Swift has a patchy sub-Saharan African range and catches insects in flight. Its nesting sites include eastern and southern Africa and northern Senegal.

• Southern Nutcracker Nucifraga hemispila

  The Southern Nutcracker is a corvid of Himalayan forests. It has chestnut plumage with white spots on the head and neck. Gould’s 1831 species account places it in thick woods and lists insects, worms, and fruit as food.

• Maned Owl Jubula lettii

  An owl with long head feathers that form a mane. It lives in forests of West and Central Africa and is nocturnal, but details of its diet and other habits are poorly known.

• Chestnut Rail Eulabeornis castaneoventris

  The Chestnut Rail is a large, ground-dwelling rail of mangroves that eats crabs. Different plumage forms have been reported in northern Australia.

• Horned Sungem Heliactin bilophus

  The Horned Sungem ranges from Suriname through Brazil to eastern Bolivia. Males have bright blue and red crown ornaments, and the species feeds on flower nectar.

• Black-hooded Antwren Formicivora erythronotos

  This small antwren lives in coastal forest in southeastern Brazil. Males and females have different plumage.

• Blue Lorikeet Vini peruviana

  Adult Blue Lorikeets are dark blue-purple with white on the face and upper breast. They feed on nectar and soft fruit and move in small groups between flowering coconut palms.

• Long-tailed Cinclodes Cinclodes pabsti

  This furnariid is endemic to the southern Brazilian highlands. A 2008–2011 breeding study recorded nests in cavities in road cuts.