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• Capped White-eye Zosterops fuscicapilla

  

  This white-eye is recorded in New Guinea, in forest and cultivated areas at about 1,200–2,100 m. This entry is limited to New Guinea Island records.

• Blue-throated Brown Sunbird Cyanomitra cyanolaema

  A sunbird ranging from western and central Africa into eastern Africa. Males have metallic blue-green on the forehead, chin and throat.

• Christmas Island Swiftlet Collocalia natalis

  Endemic to Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean, this small swiftlet catches insects while flying over forest and settlements.

• Turquoise Dacnis Dacnis hartlaubi

  The Turquoise Dacnis is endemic to Colombia’s Andes. Adult males are blue-green and black, while females are mostly brown above; its diet is still poorly known.

• La Sagra's Flycatcher Myiarchus sagrae

  This flycatcher is native to the western Caribbean islands. It has pale underparts and a thin bill. Records in Florida are treated as vagrants.

• Cocoa Thrush Turdus fumigatus

  The Cocoa Thrush is dark rufous-brown above and paler rufous-brown below. It forages on or near the ground and uses forests and plantations.

• Kelp Goose Chloephaga hybrida

  Male Kelp Geese are white, while females are dark with bold white bars. They live on rocky marine shores and feed mainly on seaweed.

• Predicted Antwren Herpsilochmus praedictus

  The Predicted Antwren occurs mainly between the Purus and Madeira rivers in the western Brazilian Amazon; its western limit is provisional.

• Indochinese Bush Lark Plocealauda erythrocephala

  A lark of open, dry country in Indochina. Its short tail and dark streaks on the chest help distinguish it.

• Buff-vented Bulbul Iole crypta

  The Buff-vented Bulbul is Iole crypta. A field record from Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia, places it at a lowland primary-forest edge, attracted to ripe Bridelia tomentosa fruit.

• Grand Rhabdornis Rhabdornis grandis

  This rhabdornis lives in middle- and higher-elevation forests on Luzon. It has a gray crown, a dark facial mask, and reddish streaks on its pale underparts.

• Santa Marta Parakeet Pyrrhura viridicata

  This parakeet has a dark green body and an orange-red belly. In the wild it flies between forest patches in small flocks and eats fruit and seeds.

• Black-bellied Hummingbird Eupherusa nigriventris

  The Black-bellied Hummingbird inhabits mountain forest on Costa Rica's Caribbean side. Males often forage in the canopy and differ from females in underpart color.

• Olivaceous Piculet Picumnus olivaceus

  The Olivaceous Piculet is a small piculet. The Peru account describes the subspecies there as yellow-olive, with yellow on the male's forehead.

• Yellow-rumped Cacique Cacicus cela

  A social bird widely distributed from Central to South America. It has glossy black plumage with yellow patches on the wings and rump.

• Crested Spinetail Cranioleuca subcristata

  The Crested Spinetail is an ovenbird of forests in northern South America. It has a brownish face, a white eyebrow, and a slight crest, and it feeds mainly on arthropods.

• Sri Lanka Junglefowl Gallus lafayettii

  A junglefowl endemic to Sri Lanka that forages on the ground in forest and scrub. Males and females differ markedly in plumage.

• Ross's Gull Rhodostethia rosea

  A small gull that breeds in wet Arctic tundra; breeding adults show a pale pink wash and a black collar.

• Giant Scops Owl Otus gurneyi

  A large scops owl that lives in forests in the Philippines.

• Torresian Kingfisher Todiramphus sordidus

  The Torresian Kingfisher is a large kingfisher of coastal northern and eastern Australia and southern New Guinea. It uses mudflats and mangroves, where it searches for crabs and other prey.

• Sagebrush Sparrow Artemisiospiza nevadensis

  This sparrow breeds in open sage-dominated shrubsteppe in western North America. During migration and winter it also uses dry scrub with creosote or saltbush.

• Sakalava Weaver Ploceus sakalava

  The Sakalava Weaver occurs in northern, western, and southern Madagascar. It is a roughly 15 cm granivore that forms groups and forages on the ground and in trees. It uses open disturbed areas, village and crop edges, sparse savanna, and dry spiny scrub.

• Band-bellied Crake Zapornia paykullii

  This secretive migrant uses marshes with dense vegetation. It breeds in northern East Asia and winters in Southeast Asia. Black-and-white bars extend from its flanks across the lower belly.

• Chestnut-hooded Laughingthrush Pterorhinus treacheri

  The Chestnut-hooded Laughingthrush is endemic to Borneo, with a patchy distribution. The account describes three subspecies across the island's mountain regions.