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• Ochre-naped Ground Tyrant Muscisaxicola flavinucha

  

  It spends the austral summer in northwestern Patagonia and is reported in Peru from March to October. Adults have an ochre patch on the back of the head; Peruvian records are at 3,800–4,900 m.

• Finsch's Wheatear Oenanthe finschii

  In Kazakhstan, Finsch's Wheatear is a breeding migrant. It inhabits shrub-covered sandy hills and rocky or clay slopes, nesting among stones or in ground holes.

• Brown-backed Needletail Hirundapus giganteus

  The Brown-backed Needletail is a large swift with powerful flight and broad wings. Its subspecies have different ranges.

• Sakalava Weaver Ploceus sakalava

  The Sakalava Weaver occurs in northern, western, and southern Madagascar. It is a roughly 15 cm granivore that forms groups and forages on the ground and in trees. It uses open disturbed areas, village and crop edges, sparse savanna, and dry spiny scrub.

• Amethyst Sunbird Chalcomitra amethystina

  This sunbird occurs in sub-Saharan Africa. It uses its long curved bill to drink nectar from flowers.

• Greater Necklaced Laughingthrush Pterorhinus pectoralis

  The Greater Necklaced Laughingthrush has brown upperparts, pale underparts, and a dark necklace-like band. In its native range it lives in damp forests in small flocks.

• Snow Goose Anser caerulescens

  A goose with white and blue color forms. North American flocks gather in fields and wetlands during migration and winter.

• Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor

  A small bird with a blue-green back and white underside that catches insects in flight.

• Velvet-fronted Grackle Lampropsar tanagrinus

  This icterid occurs in the Amazon basin. tanagrinus.

• Banded Prinia Prinia bairdii

  The Banded Prinia skulks in undergrowth at forest edges and clearings, usually in pairs. It has barred underparts; eastern mountain birds may have a dark throat while other birds have a barred throat.

• Speckled Nightingale-Thrush Catharus maculatus

  An Andean nightingale-thrush of South America. A 2017 study supported treating C. maculatus as a species separate from Central American C. dryas.

• Black-winged Petrel Pterodroma nigripennis

  The Black-winged Petrel breeds on islands in the southwest Pacific and moves north and east across the Pacific outside the breeding period.

• Teardrop White-eye Rukia ruki

  The Teardrop White-eye is recorded on four islands in the Faichuk group of Chuuk Lagoon, Federated States of Micronesia. It has been observed in old native forest and secondary forest, where it gleans insects from foliage.

• Long-tailed rosefinch Carpodacus sibiricus

  A thicket-loving bird with a long tail and pale wing-bars.

• Peg-billed Finch Acanthidops bairdi

  This finch lives in volcanic highlands of Costa Rica and western Panama. Its long upturned bill is distinctive, and it feeds on insects, seeds, and fruit in mountain forest and bamboo.

• Yellow-browed Honeyeater Melidectes rufocrissalis

  It has a long tail and a long, down-curved bill. It uses lower and middle levels of New Guinea's montane forest and gardens, feeding on insects, nectar, and fruit.

• Hermit Warbler Setophaga occidentalis

  This small warbler breeds in western North America and winters in Central America. Its yellow face stands out as it searches for insects high in conifers.

• Burchell's Starling Lamprotornis australis

  Burchell's Starling has glossy blue-green plumage and a purple rump. It lives in open woodland and savanna, searching mainly for insects on the ground.

• White-eyed Parakeet Psittacara leucophthalmus

  The White-eyed Parakeet is a medium-sized parrot that is mainly green. Red markings on the neck vary widely and may be barely visible. In South America, it feeds on fruit and other foods in flocks.

• Madagascar Green Pigeon Treron australis

  The Madagascar Green Pigeon is an arboreal pigeon found in forests of Madagascar. It feeds on fruit.

• Sulawesi Lilac Kingfisher Cittura cyanotis

  The Sulawesi Lilac Kingfisher occurs on Sulawesi and Lembeh Island. It waits for prey from low branches in forest and catches invertebrates on the ground.

• Cape Bulbul Pycnonotus capensis

  The Cape Bulbul is endemic to South Africa and is recognizable by its white eye-rings and bright yellow feathers under the tail.

• Dark-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus melacoryphus

  The Dark-billed Cuckoo has a long tail and a thick, curved bill. In the Galápagos it occurs from lowland sites to humid highlands and feeds mainly on insects.

• Forster's Tern Sterna forsteri

  A North American tern of wetlands and coasts whose head pattern changes between breeding and nonbreeding plumage.