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• Black-bellied Seedcracker Pyrenestes ostrinus

  

  This finch has black and dark red plumage, and individuals differ in bill size. Adults eat seeds, while parents feed nestlings a soft diet made mostly of insects.

• Madagascar Starling Hartlaubius auratus

  Adult males have a dark-brown head and throat, a white chest and belly, and white-edged wings. A historical account describes groups feeding on the ground in open areas near streams in Madagascar.

• Yungas Sparrow Rhynchospiza dabbenei

  This large sparrow occurs in the Austral Yungas of northwestern Argentina. It uses high-elevation montane scrub, separated from the lowland Chaco scrub used by the related Chaco Sparrow.

• Plain-colored Tanager Tangara inornata

  A small tanager that moves through the canopy and forest edges. In Costa Rica it occurs in Caribbean lowlands, including along streams.

• Henderson Petrel Pterodroma atrata

  This seabird breeds on Henderson Island in the South Pacific. It is grey-brown and paler below; a study placed nests on the island's interior plateau and tracked a breeding bird far out to sea.

• Collared Palm Thrush Cichladusa arquata

  This bird lives in palm-rich woodland and scrub in eastern and southern Africa. Its pale throat and breast contrast with a narrow black band at the front of the neck.

• Guira Cuckoo Guira guira

  A cuckoo of open South American habitats that forages on the ground with others and may share a communal nest.

• Vaux's Swift Chaetura vauxi

  This is a small, dark swift with narrow wings. It catches small insects and spiders while flying above mature coniferous forests.

• New Caledonian Crow Corvus moneduloides

  A crow of Grande Terre in New Caledonia that uses tools to extract food from dead wood.

• Buffy Fish Owl Ketupa ketupu

  The Buffy Fish Owl lives in wooded areas near water and mainly eats fish and other aquatic animals. Its yellow eyes, white spot between the brows, and prominent ear tufts stand out.

• Lesser Moorhen Paragallinula angulata

  The Lesser Moorhen is a waterbird whose sexes differ in plumage. It is active by day, eats plant seeds and other food in wetlands, and occurs in part of the Afrotropical region.

• Copper-rumped Hummingbird Saucerottia tobaci

  A hummingbird recorded in gardens and forest edges in Trinidad and Tobago. It feeds on flower nectar and also catches small prey near flowers.

• Rufous-margined Antwren Herpsilochmus rufimarginatus

  This small antwren occurs in forests of eastern and southeastern Brazil, eastern Paraguay, and northeastern Argentina. It searches forest vegetation for insects and other small invertebrates.

• White-naped Lory Lorius albidinucha

  This lory occurs on New Ireland and nearby islands of Papua New Guinea's Bismarck Archipelago. It feeds on fruit and flowers of wild oil palms in deciduous forest.

• Red-faced Spinetail Cranioleuca erythrops

  This spinetail has a rufous face and long stepped tail; in Costa Rica it occurs in humid forest at middle elevations.

• Strong-billed Honeyeater Melithreptus validirostris

  Endemic to Tasmania and the Bass Strait Islands, this honeyeater has a white crescent across the back of its black head and olive-gray upperparts. It moves up and down tree trunks, using its strong bill to pull bark away while searching for insects.

• Bonaparte's Parakeet Pyrrhura lucianii

  Bonaparte's Parakeet is mostly green, with dark red on the forehead, around the eyes, and on the abdomen. It inhabits lowland humid and semi-humid forest and nests in abandoned woodpecker holes. Older classifications included it within the Pyrrhura picta complex.

• Reunion Grey White-eye Zosterops borbonicus

  The Reunion Grey White-eye is endemic to Réunion. Highland populations contain grey and brown plumage morphs, and the species also uses gardens, cultivated areas, and savannas created by people.

• Swallow-tailed Gull Creagrus furcatus

  An unusual gull that catches small fish and squid over the sea at night. Breeding adults show a red eye-ring, and head color changes outside the breeding plumage.

• Pink-footed Goose Anser brachyrhynchus

  A goose seen in large flocks in Britain during winter. Its pink feet and pink band on the bill are distinctive.

• Yellow-backed Oriole Icterus chrysater

  This oriole has a golden-yellow back and underparts set off by a black face and wings. It occurs in parts of Central America and northern South America, where it searches bark and epiphytes for food and also takes fruit and nectar.

• Hartert's Camaroptera Camaroptera harterti

  A small northwestern Angolan bird with gray-brown upperparts and green wings and tail. It uses humid forest undergrowth and thickets for small invertebrates.

• Green-tailed Sunbird Aethopyga nipalensis

  This sunbird has a long, curved bill and a long tail and lives in montane forest. Its diet is reported to include nectar and small arthropods.

• Northern Yellow Warbler Setophaga aestiva

  Setophaga aestiva is the migratory northern form of the Yellow Warbler. It breeds in North America and moves to Central and South America for winter; the resident mangrove form is now treated separately.