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• White-winged Lark Alauda leucoptera

  

  The White-winged Lark is a lark whose white wing patches stand out in flight. It uses dry steppe and fields, and may gather in flocks outside the breeding season.

• Sulawesi Serpent Eagle Spilornis rufipectus

  This raptor ranges across Sulawesi and nearby islands. Males have a rufous chest and curled crest, and the species feeds mainly on snakes and lizards.

• Alpine Thrush Zoothera mollissima

  The Alpine Thrush is about 25–27 cm long. It breeds on rocky ground above the tree line and moves to lower elevations outside the breeding season.

• Blue-and-gold Tanager Bangsia arcaei

  This blue-and-yellow tanager lives in Costa Rican mountain forests. Adults have dark blue upperparts and bright yellow underparts, and use the canopy as well as shrubs at forest edges.

• Cape Weaver Ploceus capensis

  Breeding males are bright yellow and weave hanging nests on branches or reeds near water. After a female accepts a nest, she lines it with grass and leaves.

• Mouse-colored Antshrike Thamnophilus murinus

  An antshrike that often forages with mixed-species flocks in the middle levels of Amazonian evergreen forest.

• Yellow-vented Eremomela Eremomela flavicrissalis

  The Yellow-vented Eremomela ranges from southern Ethiopia into parts of eastern Africa. It has gray-brown upperparts, pale gray sides to the head and whitish underparts, and searches for small insects in bushy savanna and semi-desert scrub.

• White-headed Marsh Tyrant Arundinicola leucocephala

  The White-headed Marsh Tyrant perches on aquatic plants and reeds, and the sexes have different plumage. Records are also confirmed in Argentina.

• Pompadour Green Pigeon Treron pompadora

  The Pompadour Green Pigeon is endemic to Sri Lanka. It eats fruit and seeds in rainforest and other wet woodland.

• Silver-rumped Spinetail Rhaphidura leucopygialis

  The Silver-rumped Spinetail is a small swift of Southeast Asian forests and their surroundings. Its dark body and silvery-white rump stand out, and it catches insects in flight.

• White-winged Scoter Melanitta deglandi

  The White-winged Scoter is a large sea duck with bold white patches in its wings. It searches for shellfish near coasts in winter and breeds around northern lakes.

• Moorland Francolin Scleroptila psilolaema

  This francolin occurs on mountaintops in the Ethiopian highlands, in Afroalpine and sub-Afroalpine environments.

• Chestnut-cheeked Starling Agropsar philippensis

  The Chestnut-cheeked Starling breeds in Japan and Sakhalin and moves south for the winter. Males have chestnut cheek patches, and the species eats insects and fruit.

• Simple Greenbul Chlorocichla simplex

  The Simple Greenbul is marked by its white throat and two white crescents around the eye. In Upper Guinea it is found in regrowth and thickets.

• White-wedged Piculet Picumnus albosquamatus

  This small piculet has grey upperparts and evenly scalloped underparts. At a nest studied in southeastern Brazil, both adults fed the chicks.

• White-striped Warbler Myiothlypis leucophrys

  A Brazilian endemic warbler, recorded mainly in the Cerrado and also in transitional areas and parts of the Atlantic Forest.

• Slender-billed White-eye Zosterops tenuirostris

  This small bird lives only on Norfolk Island. It probes bark crevices with its long, slender bill to find insects and also feeds on nectar.

• Brown Firefinch Lagonosticta nitidula

  This very small finch can be hard to see in dense thickets. Southern African records are associated with riverine vegetation.

• Brown-cheeked Laughingthrush Trochalopteron henrici

  It is gray-brown with dark chestnut cheeks, a broad white moustachial stripe, and a chestnut area near the tail. The account places its main range in southern and eastern Tibet; Arunachal Pradesh is represented by one record.

• Chiriqui Foliage-gleaner Automolus exsertus

  The Chiriqui Foliage-gleaner occurs on the Pacific slope from southwestern Costa Rica to western Panama. It skulks in humid forest undergrowth and has a rich buff throat, broad eyebrow, and dark rusty tail.

• Semicollared Flycatcher Ficedula semitorquata

  A flycatcher whose wing markings differ between males and females.

• Rock Parrot Neophema petrophila

  The Rock Parrot is a small parrot of coastal and offshore-island habitats along southern Australia. It searches for seeds and fruit in coastal grassland and scrub.

• Blue Chaffinch Fringilla teydea

  The Blue Chaffinch uses its short, strong bill to eat seeds. Around Teide it forages from Canary pine woods to high-elevation retama scrub.

• Bronze-winged Parrot Pionus chalcopterus

  The Bronze-winged Parrot is a medium-sized parrot with blue and green plumage. It lives in mountain forests and other wooded areas of northwestern South America, flying in groups to find fruit and seeds.