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• Rufous-necked Wood Rail Aramides axillaris

  

  The rufous-necked wood rail has rich rufous plumage, olive-brown upperparts, and a gray patch on the upper back. In northwestern Peru it is fairly common in mangroves.

• Rufous-booted Racket-tail Ocreatus addae

  This hummingbird occurs on the eastern Andes from central and southern Peru to Bolivia. Males have green upperparts, long outer tail streamers with racket-shaped tips, and rufous leg puffs.

• 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.

• White-striped Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes leucogaster

  A Mexican woodcreeper. The Sonora subspecies was described with grayer wing coverts; the species account lists pine and tropical deciduous forests among its habitats.

• 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.

• Visayan Pygmy Babbler Dasycrotapha pygmaea

  A small bird of Leyte and Samar in the Philippines. It feeds at middle heights in forest and sometimes joins mixed-species flocks.

• American Herring Gull Larus smithsonianus

  The North American American Herring Gull is large; adults have a gray back and wings, a white head and body, and pale legs. Young birds take several years to acquire adult plumage.

• Whooper swan Cygnus cygnus

  A swan widely distributed in northern Eurasia. Adults have white plumage and bills with yellow bases and black tips.

• Puerto Rican Oriole Icterus portoricensis

  The Puerto Rican Oriole is an oriole endemic to the island of Puerto Rico.

• Whistling Cisticola Cisticola lateralis

  At Bui National Park, this cisticola was recorded in tall grass beside riparian forest and in mature woodland. A 2007 paper also distinguishes it from a related cisticola by its crown and wing coloring.

• Olive-bellied Sunbird Cinnyris chloropygius

  A small sunbird with a broad range in western and central Africa. The sexes look very different, and birds often feed at low flowers.

• Grace's Warbler Setophaga graciae

  This warbler inhabits mature pine forests from western North America into Central America. It searches for insects in the upper parts of trees.

• Rufous-headed Woodpecker Celeus spectabilis

  This woodpecker often uses bamboo stands in western Amazonian lowland forest. One observation records it feeding in a non-bamboo tree.

• Blyth's Rosefinch Carpodacus grandis

  Blyth's Rosefinch is a large rosefinch of high-elevation conifer forest and areas near the treeline. Males and females differ in plumage.

• Yellow-wattled Bulbul Poliolophus urostictus

  This Philippine bulbul forages for fruit along forest edges and in young woodland.

• Swainson's Francolin Pternistis swainsonii

  Swainson's Francolin is a southern African bird that uses grasslands, woodland edges, farmland, and watersides. It searches on the ground for seeds and insects.

• Crested Malimbe Malimbus malimbicus

  The Crested Malimbe has a red head and glossy black body and lives in forests of western and central Africa.

• Large Grey Babbler Argya malcolmi

  The Large Grey Babbler is a big babbler with a long tail. It forages on the ground by day for small invertebrates.

• Black-breasted Thrush Turdus dissimilis

  The Black-breasted Thrush lives in forests of the eastern Himalaya. An adult male has a black head and upper breast with orange-red flanks. It moves from higher breeding forests to lower ground in winter.

• Yellow-bibbed Fruit Dove Ptilinopus solomonensis

  A violet crown and yellow breast band make this fruit dove distinctive. It feeds on fruit in trees and lives in forests across islands from the New Guinea region to the Solomon Islands.

• Himalayan Buzzard Buteo refectus

  The Himalayan Buzzard is polymorphic, with substantial variation in plumage. Some birds are resident in the Himalaya, while records document southward movement in winter to north-east India and the Indian Peninsula.

• Alagoas Tyrannulet Phylloscartes ceciliae

  A small flycatcher of the Atlantic Forest in northeastern Brazil. A foraging study often recorded birds in the canopy making sallies to take prey from foliage or the air.