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• Humblot's Flycatcher Humblotia flavirostris

  

  This flycatcher is endemic to Grand Comoro. It is about 14 cm long, with grey-brown upperparts, pale dark-streaked underparts, and a yellow-orange bill and feet.

• Chestnut-breasted Coronet Boissonneaua matthewsii

  The Chestnut-breasted Coronet is a mountain hummingbird with a green head and back and chestnut underparts. It feeds from the forest understory into the canopy.

• Blue Mountain Elaenia Elaenia fallax

  This tyrant flycatcher lives in Jamaica’s humid mountain forests. It has olive-brown upperparts and white wing-bars, and eats insects and fruit. Current references treat it separately from the former Greater Antillean Elaenia.

• Red-breasted Pygmy Parrot Micropsitta bruijnii

  The Red-breasted Pygmy Parrot is a small parrot ranging from eastern Indonesia through New Guinea to the Solomon Islands. The male of the nominate subspecies is mainly green, with red-orange and blue on the head.

• Buff-spotted Woodpecker Pardipicus nivosus

  This African woodpecker uses forests and secondary growth and searches trees for ants, termites, and other invertebrates.

• Vanuatu White-eye Zosterops flavifrons

  This small white-eye is 11–13 cm long. The account lists forest, second growth, and farmland, with an omnivorous diet. Sound recordings include Loru on Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu.

• Green pheasant Phasianus versicolor

  A long-tailed bird of open woods, grassland and farmland in Japan. Males and females differ markedly in colour.

• Prevost's Ground Sparrow Melozone biarcuata

  This ground-dwelling sparrow uses forest edges and coffee plantations in Central America. The male has a white face, dark forehead, and rufous crown.

• Chimney Swift Chaetura pelagica

  Chimney Swifts catch insects in flight and cling to the inside walls of chimneys or tree cavities when they rest.

• Palau Owl Otus podarginus

  This owl has rufous, barred plumage and a yellow bill. It occurs across the Palau islands in mangroves, rainforest, and around villages.

• Black-rumped Magpie Pica bottanensis

  The Black-rumped Magpie ranges from the eastern Himalaya to southeastern Tibet and western China. It has a black head and back, white sides and belly, and a very long tail.

• Rudd's Lark Heteromirafra ruddi

  This lark occurs locally in the highland grasslands of eastern South Africa. Its large head, short thin tail and upright posture help identify it.

• Mountain Kingfisher Syma megarhyncha

  The Mountain Kingfisher is a large kingfisher of New Guinea's mountain forests. It has a longer bill than its close relative, although the black marking on the upper bill is absent in the Huon Peninsula subspecies.

• Russet-crowned Crake Rufirallus viridis

  A small South American crake with a russet crown and cinnamon underparts.

• Baglafecht Weaver Ploceus baglafecht

  The Baglafecht Weaver is seen in pairs, small groups, or alone in the Kenyan highlands described by the Mpala field guide. It hangs a foliage-hidden nest from a branch or frond.

• Forbes's Blackbird Anumara forbesi

  Forbes’s Blackbird is a dark bird found in two separate parts of Brazil. It has a long tail and short wings, and the red inside its mouth can show when it sings.

• 'A'o Puffinus auricularis

  Animal Diversity Web's broad treatment of Puffinus auricularis includes Newell's shearwater in Hawaii and Townsend's shearwater off Mexico. Some taxonomies split them; ʻAʻo is the Hawaiian name for the Newell's population.

• Grey-crowned Crocias Laniellus langbianis

  The Grey-crowned Crocias is confined to a small area around Vietnam's Da Lat Plateau. It has a gray crown and long tail and searches the middle and upper forest layers for small invertebrates.

• Philippine Hawk-Cuckoo Hierococcyx pectoralis

  The Philippine Hawk-Cuckoo is a Philippine endemic with a rufous breast and white belly. It eats insects, especially caterpillars, and is a brood parasite.

• 'Oma'o Myadestes obscurus

  The ‘Ōma‘o is a Hawaiian solitaire endemic to Hawaiʻi Island. Its subdued plumage is olive-brown and gray; it often perches quietly and is detected by song. It eats fruit, flowers, and invertebrates.

• Rufous-fronted Tailorbird Orthotomus frontalis

  This small tailorbird lives in lowland forests of the southern Philippines, including forest edges, clearings and some secondary growth. It searches low vegetation for insects, and one pouch-like nest made from sewn leaves has been described.

• Black Noddy Anous minutus

  The Black Noddy is a seabird with sooty dark plumage and a white cap. It gathers on islands to breed, and courting pairs repeatedly nod to one another.

• Trumpeter Swan Cygnus buccinator

  A large white swan of North America. It feeds on aquatic plants in shallow water and breeds along wetlands and lakes.

• Plain Parakeet Brotogeris tirica

  The Plain Parakeet is a small green parrot that eats fruit, flowers, and nectar and moves in pairs or flocks. It is native to the Atlantic Forest of eastern Brazil and also visits gardens where fruit is available.