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• Purple-backed Thornbill Ramphomicron microrhynchum

  

  This small hummingbird uses the canopy and subcanopy of Andean forests. Male and female plumage and tail shape differ.

• Caatinga Cacholote Pseudoseisura cristata

  The Caatinga Cacholote lives in the dry northeast of Brazil. It is bright reddish brown, with a prominent crest and yellow iris. Pairs forage on the ground for insects and plant matter in Caatinga woodland and scrub.

• Roll's Hill Partridge Arborophila rolli

  This pheasant-family bird lives in forests of northwestern Sumatra. It has a brown, dark-marked back, a reddish-brown breast, a white belly, and bold black-and-white bars on its flanks.

• Double-barred Finch Taeniopygia bichenovii

  The Double-barred Finch is a small Australian finch that eats seeds and insects in dry grassy woodland and scrub. It is also recorded near water and on farmland.

• Slaty Brush Finch Atlapetes schistaceus

  Its gray body, rufous crown, and black-and-white facial stripes are distinctive. It forages in humid scrub and forest-edge undergrowth on the eastern slope of the Central Andes, including Peru.

• Yellow-browed Tody-Flycatcher Todirostrum chrysocrotaphum

  The Yellow-browed Tody-Flycatcher is a tiny flycatcher, about 9–10 cm long. It has a yellow stripe behind the eye, a black head, olive upperparts, and black wings.

• Marigold Lorikeet Trichoglossus capistratus

  The Marigold Lorikeet is about 26 cm long. It occurs on Timor and nearby islands of the Lesser Sundas and may move in search of flowering trees.

• Pink-bellied Imperial Pigeon Ducula poliocephala

  A large pigeon endemic to the Philippines, living in the canopy of primary and older secondary forest on the islands.

• Cryptic Honeyeater Microptilotis imitatrix

  This honeyeater occurs in the Wet Tropics of north-eastern Queensland, Australia. In a comparative study, the form called imitatrix looked darker and more olive-green than the other Graceful Honeyeater form.

• Spectacled Petrel Procellaria conspicillata

  The Spectacled Petrel is dark, with white markings around its eyes, and ranges over the South Atlantic. Its only known breeding site is Inaccessible Island in the Tristan da Cunha group.

• Pampas Meadowlark Leistes defilippii

  The Pampas Meadowlark is a grassland bird with a short bill and tail and vivid red plumage. A study in Argentina's southern Pampas found that its use of grasslands changes between breeding and non-breeding seasons.

• Christmas White-eye Zosterops natalis

  The Christmas White-eye is a small bird with olive and grey plumage and a white ring around the eye. It eats fruit, nectar, and insects, and nests in the wet season.

• White-bellied Blue-Flycatcher Cyornis pallidipes

  The White-bellied Blue-Flycatcher lives in forest undergrowth in the Western Ghats. Males are blue and white; females show brown, grey, rufous, and white.

• Brown-breasted Kingfisher Halcyon gularis

  This kingfisher occurs in the Philippines. Its brown breast and blue wings stand out, and it takes small animals in open country and along forest edges.

• Chestnut Seedeater Sporophila cinnamomea

  This migratory bird lives in the grasslands of southern South America. Its breeding range includes Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and southern Brazil; after breeding it moves north to central Brazil and other areas.

• Blue Noddy Anous ceruleus

  The Blue Noddy is a small tern with bluish-gray plumage. It breeds on Pacific islands and forages in waters near land.

• Long-billed Cuckoo Chalcites megarhynchus

  The Long-billed Cuckoo lives in lowland forest and has a long bill with a drooping tip. Adult males have a black head, while females show fine reddish-brown barring.

• Little Green Woodpecker Campethera maculosa

  The pool's Little Green Woodpecker is treated in current eBird taxonomy as the Little Green group within Green-backed Woodpecker. Western birds have green backs, red on the head, and barred underparts.

• Fischer's Sparrow-Lark Eremopterix leucopareia

  This lark inhabits dry plains of eastern Africa. The male has white cheeks and black markings; the account lists semi-desert and stony plains as habitat.

• Fan-tailed Widowbird Euplectes axillaris

  Breeding males are black, with red shoulders and a long tail. Outside the breeding season, males and females are browner, and the birds feed on grass seeds and other foods.

• Negros Scops Owl Otus nigrorum

  This small owl lives in forests on Negros and Panay in the Philippines. Its dark brown plumage, upright ear tufts, and orange-red eye rims are distinctive.

• Pale-breasted Thrush Turdus leucomelas

  The Pale-breasted Thrush is a brownish bird with a grayish crown, streaked throat, and yellowish bill. It occurs across much of lowland South America.

• Yapacana Antbird Aprositornis disjuncta

  A grey antbird with a conspicuous white patch between the shoulders. It searches for small prey in dense lowland forest undergrowth.

• Camiguin Bulbul Hypsipetes catarmanensis

  This bulbul is found only on Camiguin Island in the Philippines. It is brown with a relatively large bill and eats fruit and insects.