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• Lavender Waxbill Estrilda caerulescens

  

  The Lavender Waxbill is a small finch native to West Africa. It has also been introduced to the Hawaiian Islands. Cornell's current page uses the genus Glaucestrilda; this entry retains the pool's name.

• White-winged Coot Fulica leucoptera

  Its dark body contrasts with white wing tips and white undertail feathers. It swims in lakes and wetlands with abundant aquatic plants, sometimes in moderate-sized groups.

• Red-shouldered Hawk Buteo lineatus

  The Red-shouldered Hawk hunts from trees in forests and wetlands. Adult plumage varies by region, and juveniles have a different pattern.

• Pink-billed Lark Spizocorys conirostris

  This small lark inhabits dry grasslands of southern Africa. It has a compact body, a thick pink bill, and a strongly marked face. It searches for seeds on the ground and is nomadic in parts of its range.

• Hoary Puffleg Haplophaedia lugens

  The Hoary Puffleg is a hummingbird of humid forests on the eastern Andes. It seeks nectar in the lower forest and along its edges.

• 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.

• Bay-capped Wren-Spinetail Spartonoica maluroides

  The Bay-capped Wren-Spinetail lives in salt marshes of southeastern South America. In a measured sample, males tended to have a longer rufous cap and a more robust bill than females.

• Temminck's Tragopan Tragopan temminckii

  Temminck’s Tragopan is a pheasant of mountain forests. Males show a blue face and spotted russet plumage, and display during courtship.

• Masked Shining Parrot Prosopeia personata

  The Masked Shining Parrot lives on Viti Levu in Fiji. Adults are marked by a black face and yellow to orange coloring across the breast and belly.

• Bismarck Crow Corvus insularis

  The Bismarck Crow is endemic to the Bismarck Archipelago off northeastern New Guinea. It has glossy black plumage and pale blue eyes and searches for varied food on the ground.

• Black-headed Brush Finch Arremon atricapillus

  The Black-headed Brush Finch occurs in eastern Panama and the Colombian Andes. A comparative study found a mostly solid black head, a larger bill and higher, faster song than in the related A. assimilis. It is recorded in evergreen, secondary and elfin forest.

• Yellow-throated Woodpecker Piculus flavigula

  This woodpecker inhabits Amazonian forest, including northern Peru. It may join mixed-species flocks in the canopy and subcanopy.

• Palawan Scops Owl Otus fuliginosus

  The Palawan Scops Owl is a small owl of lowland forest on Palawan. It has a dark brown back and warmer, paler underparts marked with black, and it is nocturnal.

• Hispaniolan Pewee Contopus hispaniolensis

  This small tyrant flycatcher lives in forests on Hispaniola. Its upperparts are dark grayish-olive and its throat is gray. It may sally from a perch to catch flying insects and return to the perch.

• Rhinomyias brunneatus

  This flycatcher searches for insects in forest undergrowth and along edges. It has brown upperparts, a pale eye-ring, a white throat, a pale brown breast and pink legs. Its breeding range is in southern China, with wintering areas in Southeast Asia. The pool uses Rhinomyias; the consulted account uses Cyornis brunneatus.

• Alpine Swift Tachymarptis melba

  The Alpine Swift is a large swift with a pale belly. In a tracking study, one individual was reported to remain almost continuously in flight for more than 200 days.

• Maxwell's Black Weaver Ploceus albinucha

  Glossy black plumage and pale eyes stand out on this weaver. In adults, white feather bases on the nape show as a pale patch.

• Purple-naped Sunbird Hypogramma hypogrammicum

  The Purple-naped Sunbird lives in forests across Southeast Asia. The male is green overall with bright green streaking below. It feeds low in the vegetation on insects and spiders, as well as nectar, fruit, and seeds.

• Giant Babax Pterorhinus waddelli

  The Giant Babax lives in the highlands of the Tibetan Plateau. It eats insects and berries during the breeding season; outside that season, reports also list crop seeds and plant rhizomes.

• Gray Duck Anas superciliosa

  This dabbling duck has cream and black facial stripes and a green patch on the wing.

• Jamaican Blackbird Nesopsar nigerrimus

  This bird is endemic to Jamaica. Its black plumage has a blue gloss on the head and back. In montane forest with many epiphytes, it uses its long bill to search for food.

• Carruthers's Cisticola Cisticola carruthersi

  Males have a rich rusty head and nape, a dark softly mottled back with blackish edges, gray underparts, and a dark tail with white tips and bars. A 2006 survey recorded it as one of the most abundant species in three western Kenyan papyrus swamps.

• Dusky thrush Turdus eunomus

  In Japan it arrives in woodland in autumn and also uses fields, riverbanks and lawns in winter. It runs over the ground and repeatedly pauses.

• Bannerman's Shearwater Puffinus bannermani

  Bannerman's Shearwater is endemic to the Ogasawara Islands. Breeding colonies have been confirmed in forests on Minamiiwoto and Higashijima.