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• Rufous-throated Solitaire Myadestes genibarbis

  

  The Rufous-throated Solitaire is a year-round resident of Caribbean mountain forests. It is mostly gray, with a rufous throat and white outer tail feathers; plumage varies among islands.

• White-tailed Alethe Alethe diademata

  The White-tailed Alethe occurs in the Upper Guinea forests of West Africa. Its reddish crown and broad white tips on the outer tail feathers are distinctive. A Ghana study treated it as a sedentary forest specialist that forages for insects on the ground.

• Chinchipe Spinetail Synallaxis chinchipensis

  This furnariid is known from the Río Chinchipe area of northwestern Peru. A 2020 specimen comparison supported treating it as a distinct species rather than a subspecies of a close relative.

• Gray-cheeked Parakeet Brotogeris pyrrhoptera

  This small parakeet occurs in southeastern Ecuador and northwestern Peru. It uses dry woodland and is also recorded on farmland where large trees remain.

• Canyon Towhee Melozone fusca

  A large warm-brown sparrow of dry scrub and yards in the Desert Southwest, it often searches through leaf litter on the ground.

• Yellow-throated Honeyeater Nesoptilotis flavicollis

  This honeyeater occurs on Tasmania and the Bass Strait islands. It uses forest, scrub, and towns. In a study of one nest, both adults fed the young.

• Bamboo Antshrike Cymbilaimus sanctaemariae

  The Bamboo Antshrike is a bamboo specialist of southwestern Amazonia. Males are barred black and white, while females have orange-buff underparts.

• White-vented Violetear Colibri serrirostris

  This hummingbird lives in dry forest and dry savanna in South America. It has a violet-blue patch behind the eye and feeds on nectar.

• Lesser Swallow-tailed Swift Panyptila cayennensis

  This swift has a dark body, white throat and chest, and a deeply forked tail. It searches for food above forest.

• Short-winged Cisticola Cisticola brachypterus

  It is a small cisticola of African savannas and grasslands. During breeding, males sing from exposed perches and also perform aerial courtship displays.

• White Hawk Pseudastur albicollis

  Most of its body is white, while the upper wings and tail are black. By day it searches for prey from a forest-edge perch or while circling above the canopy.

• Chestnut Weaver Ploceus rubiginosus

  The Chestnut Weaver's breeding male stands out for its chestnut body and black face. Males weave nests from grasses and hang them from branches.

• Scaled Ground Cuckoo Neomorphus squamiger

  This rare, terrestrial cuckoo inhabits rainforest between the Xingu and Tapajós rivers in Brazil. Its behavior is still poorly known.

• 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.

• Audouin's Gull Ichthyaetus audouinii

  A gull associated with the Mediterranean, Audouin's Gull has a pale gray body and red bill as an adult and feeds mainly on fish.

• Asian Barred Owlet Glaucidium cuculoides

  The Asian Barred Owlet is a small owl with white bars across a brown to olive body. It is also active by day.

• 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.

• Woodlark Lullula arborea

  The Woodlark is a lark of wooded heath, with an eyebrow stripe that meets behind the head. In Britain it may form small flocks in winter.

• Greater Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris afer

  This sunbird is recorded in wooded and tall-scrub habitats in southern Africa. A 1997 atlas describes the male as having a broader red breast band and a heavier bill than the smaller related species.

• African Rail Rallus caerulescens

  The African Rail has a long red bill and red legs; males have fine white barring on the belly.

• Subantarctic Shearwater Puffinus elegans

  The Subantarctic Shearwater is a small seabird that breeds on remote islands in the Southern Ocean. It nests in soil burrows, but New Zealand Birds Online says much of its biology remains poorly known.

• Grey-headed Bullfinch Pyrrhula erythaca

  This bullfinch lives in montane coniferous and mixed forests. Adult males have an orange breast patch, while females are browner overall.

• Common hill myna Gracula religiosa

  A glossy black bird with conspicuous yellow skin flaps on its head.

• Plumbeous Warbler Setophaga plumbea

  This warbler occurs on Guadeloupe and Dominica. Adults are gray overall with a white eyebrow and wing bars; immatures are greener above and yellow below.