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• Ashy Starling Lamprotornis unicolor

  

  A long-tailed starling of inland Tanzania, found in acacia woodland and gardens. Its ash-grey plumage can show an oily green sheen, with a dark mask around the eye.

• Black-headed Bulbul Brachypodius melanocephalos

  The common color morph has a glossy black head with olive and yellow body plumage. Small groups feed on fruit in forests and forest edges from northeastern India through Southeast Asia.

• Arabian Woodpecker Dendrocoptes dorae

  The Arabian Woodpecker is a small woodpecker of western Saudi Arabia's highlands. It opens holes in tree trunks to take insect prey.

• Brown-capped Whitestart Myioborus brunniceps

  The Brown-capped Whitestart is an Andean bird with a rufous crown and yellow underparts. It ranges from Bolivia to northwestern Argentina.

• Black-crowned White-eye Zosterops atrifrons

  This small white-eye occurs in Indonesia. It has a green body, bold white eye-ring, black forehead, and yellow throat and undertail; it is seen in groups along forest edges and in cultivated areas.

• Gouldian finch Erythrura gouldiae

  A small bird with a green back, purple breast and yellow belly.

• Brown-cheeked Fulvetta Alcippe poioicephala

  The Brown-cheeked Fulvetta is a small bird of the understory in moist forest and scrub. It eats insects and nectar, and has a grey crown and dark cheeks.

• Rufous-breasted Spinetail Synallaxis erythrothorax

  The Rufous-breasted Spinetail uses secondary forest and second-growth scrub, gleaning invertebrates from vegetation. A historical museum account describes plumage of specimens from southern Mexico and Central America.

• Great Shortwing Heinrichia calligyna

  This flycatcher relative lives in montane forest on Sulawesi and uses dense growth near the forest floor. By day, it searches leaf litter and undergrowth for small prey.

• Golden-shouldered Parrot Psephotellus chrysopterygius

  The Golden-shouldered Parrot lives in open woodland with grassy ground in northern Australia. It feeds on grass seeds on the ground and nests in old termite mounds.

• Akiapolaau Hemignathus wilsoni

  This endemic Hawaiian honeycreeper lives in montane forest on Hawaiʻi Island. It uses a long curved upper bill and a short lower bill to search branches for insects and larvae.

• Maroon-faced Parakeet Pyrrhura leucotis

  This parakeet lives in humid lowland forest in eastern Brazil. It has a white ear patch, chestnut face, and dark-red belly and tail underside, and forages from treetops to the ground.

• Gould's Jewelfront Heliodoxa aurescens

  This 11–12 cm hummingbird lives in lowland forests of western Amazonia. It drinks nectar and catches insects in flight.

• Madagascar Cuckoo Cuculus rochii

  At about 26–28 cm long, this cuckoo breeds in Madagascar. It searches for invertebrates in forest, forest edge, and scrub habitats, then migrates.

• Mimic Honeyeater Microptilotis analogus

  A New Guinea honeyeater with a yellow ear patch and mostly unmarked underparts.

• Luzon Boobook Ninox philippensis

  The Luzon Boobook is a small owl of lowland and foothill forests on Luzon. Its yellow eyes and long facial whiskers stand out.

• Damara Tern Sternula balaenarum

  The Damara Tern breeds along the coast of southwestern Africa and moves north along the West African coast seasonally. It may plunge-dive for small fish.

• Maroon-bellied Sunbird Leptocoma brasiliana

  The Maroon-bellied Sunbird is a small flower-visiting bird found from South Asia through Southeast Asia. Males and females have markedly different colors.

• Bobolink Dolichonyx oryzivorus

  Bobolinks breed in North American grasslands and migrate to South America for winter. In breeding plumage, males are marked by a white back and a yellow rear crown.

• Worthen's Sparrow Spizella wortheni

  This small sparrow is restricted to dry upland grasslands in northeastern Mexico. It keeps low among short shrubs and feeds mostly on seeds in winter.

• Rufous-sided Crake Laterallus melanophaius

  The Rufous-sided Crake is a small rail of South American wetlands. It is brown above, rufous on the sides of the head, breast, and flanks, with a white throat and belly and barred flanks.

• Fluttering Shearwater Puffinus gavia

  The Fluttering Shearwater is a small shearwater with dark brown upperparts, white throat and belly, and a partial dark collar.

• White-tailed Jay Cyanocorax mystacalis

  The White-tailed Jay is a large jay with striking white, blue, and black plumage. It searches forests and scrub in pairs or family groups from northwestern Peru into Ecuador.

• Blue-breasted Kingfisher Halcyon malimbica

  The Blue-breasted Kingfisher is a large blue kingfisher. In reserves in the Republic of the Congo it is described as a forest-interior bird, more often heard than seen.