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• Tiny Sunbird Cinnyris minullus

  

  A small sunbird of African forests and their edges. The male has green and blue-purple iridescence with a red breast band; the female is olive-brown above with a pale eyebrow.

• Mindanao Ibon Lophozosterops goodfellowi

  This forest bird occurs on Mindanao in the Philippines. Sources use different generic combinations, including Heleia, Lophozosterops, and Apoia.

• White-fronted Woodpecker Melanerpes cactorum

  The male has a white forehead and yellow throat. This woodpecker lives in southern South American habitats such as dry forest and savanna; a study documented sap feeding in Argentina's Chaco.

• Ethiopian Cisticola Cisticola lugubris

  This cisticola occurs in the highlands of Ethiopia and Eritrea, from marsh edges to montane heath and bracken.

• 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.

• Chestnut-breasted Chlorophonia Chlorophonia pyrrhophrys

  This Andean bird lives in humid montane forest and is often high in the canopy. Males stand out for a dark blue crown and green forehead and upper breast.

• Indian Chat Oenanthe fusca

  The Indian Chat is a rufous-brown bird found mainly in northern and central India, often around rocky places and old buildings. It searches for insects near the ground.

• Olive Finch Arremon castaneiceps

  This finch forages in the understory of humid montane forest on Peru’s eastern Andes. Its olive-green body and rufous crown stand out, while the sides of the head, throat, and breast are gray.

• Germain's Swiftlet Aerodramus germani

  Germain's Swiftlet is a swiftlet whose taxonomic treatment varies among sources. A southern Thailand foraging study treated it as Aerodramus inexpectatus germani and reported foraging over water, forest and open paddy.

• African Cuckoo-Hawk Aviceda cuculoides

  A raptor of woodland and forest across sub-Saharan Africa. It has a gray crest and broad rufous bars below, and searches for prey from one perch to another.

• White-plumed Honeyeater Ptilotula penicillata

  This honeyeater lives in woodland and forest on mainland Australia. A white neck plume is its key mark, and it feeds in tree crowns and shrubs.

• White-thighed Swallow Atticora tibialis

  The White-thighed Swallow flies near the canopy above humid Amazonian forest. The appearance and range described here are those documented for subspecies griseiventris.

• Citrine Warbler Myiothlypis luteoviridis

  The Citrine Warbler is a wood-warbler of the Andes, ranging from Venezuela and Colombia south to Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. It searches for insects in high-elevation forest and woodland.

• Cream-winged Cinclodes Cinclodes albiventris

  This cinclodes occurs in the high Andes. It has a brown back, pale eyebrow, spotted breast and pale wing stripe, and walks on the ground to forage in grassland and by water.

• 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.

• Stripe-backed Antbird Myrmorchilus strigilatus

  This antbird occurs in Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina. It lives in the lower growth of scrub and woodland, and the sexes differ in eyebrow color.

• Bornean Bulbul Rubigula montis

  The Bornean Bulbul inhabits hill and foothill forest on Borneo. It has an olive-yellow back, bright yellow throat and underparts, and a black head with an upright crest. It also occurs in degraded or regenerating forest and often perches in open areas.

• Red-throated Twinspot Hypargos niveoguttatus

  The Red-throated Twinspot is a small estrildid finch of thickets and riparian forest edges. The male has a red head and a black, white-spotted belly.

• Chatham Petrel Pterodroma axillaris

  The Chatham Petrel breeds in the Chatham Islands, moves over the sea to feed, and nests in burrows in the ground.

• Hispaniolan Lizard Cuckoo Coccyzus longirostris

  A cuckoo of Hispaniola and nearby islands, it uses its long tail as it searches among branches for lizards and large insects.

• Black-headed Sibia Heterophasia desgodinsi

  This mountain forest bird occurs from southwestern and central-southern China through Myanmar, northern Thailand and parts of Indochina. It is arboreal and searches for food in trees.

• Black-breasted Weaver Ploceus benghalensis

  The Black-breasted Weaver lives in freshwater wetlands with grass and reedbeds. It is active on the ground by day and feeds mainly on seeds.

• Red-browed Amazon Amazona rhodocorytha

  Adult Red-browed Amazons are green, with a red forehead and crown and blue on the throat and upper cheeks. In the wild, they eat fruits and seeds high in the trees of humid forests in eastern Brazil.

• Great Pampa-Finch Embernagra platensis

  This large finch lives in shrubby grasslands and marshes in southern South America. It has a long tail and a strong orange-yellow bill; back and vent colors vary among forms.